Awards Hopefuls Look Ahead To Fall Festival Season - Deadline
Although last year’s award season saw three best picture nominees come from the early-year festival circuit, it’s a hard-fought battle when a film can maintain momentum for almost a full 12 months. Because few films have emerged from sometime-bellwethers like January’s Sundance Film Festival and May’s Cannes Film Festival , more eyes will be on the fall to look for awards contenders. Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron will serve as jury president for the fest, which saw the world premiere of last year’s best picture winner Birdman. Venice is sandwiched between two rival festivals on this continent, the Telluride Film Festival (Sept. While Telluride has always been an intimate affair with high-gloss Oscar sheen, TIFF decided last year that films that played at the Colorado fest could not play in TIFF’s popular opening weekend. The rivalry has diminished somewhat for this year, but TIFF has informed distributors that the festival won’t show films in their top three venues in the first four days if they’ve played at another fest. Source: deadline.com
