{"id":150106,"date":"2026-07-30T20:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/150106\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:51:31","slug":"the-possible-oscar-contenders-from-the-venice-and-toronto-film-festival-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/150106\/","title":{"rendered":"The Possible Oscar Contenders From the Venice and Toronto Film Festival Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been six years since a movie that debuted at a fall film festival won the best-picture Oscar. Instead, the past few seasons have seen big studio movies like One Battle After Another<\/a> or Oppenheimer<\/a> make it to the Oscar stage without visiting any of the major festivals, while the movies that have emerged from the festival circuit have come from events earlier in the year\u2014like Anora<\/a>\u2019s trip to Cannes or Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/a>\u2019s SXSW debut.<\/p>\n

For a long time, it\u2019s been a firmly held industry belief that releasing your film too early in the year means mounting an Oscar campaign<\/a> that will be too long, too arduous, and too expensive to pay off. Now that that theory has been dispelled, do fall festivals still hold the same weight in awards season that they used to?<\/p>\n

\"Rosalind<\/p>\n

Rosalind Eleazar in Misty Green.<\/p>\n

Merrick Morton\/A24<\/p>\n

In short: yes. This week on Little Gold Men<\/a>, the team makes the case for why fall film festivals still matter, especially for smaller movies that need strong word of mouth to survive the season. A splashy premiere at Venice, Telluride, or Toronto can create the buzz needed to mount a successful Oscar campaign: Take, for example, Hamnet, which debuted at Telluride last year and won the top prize, the People\u2019s Choice Award<\/a>, at TIFF.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though Hamnet had a lot of prestige\u2026it needed that push to the general audience because people were like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if I wanna see it. It sounds so sad,\u2019\u201d says John Ross. \u201cBut then it gets something like the People\u2019s Choice Award, and it feels like, okay, I have to see it.\u201d Hamnet wound up getting nominated for eight Oscars and winning one, for best actress.<\/p>\n

Now that the lineups for Venice and TIFF have been unveiled\u2014the lineup for fall\u2019s third heavy-hitter festival, Telluride, is traditionally not released until right before the festival starts\u2014the Little Gold Men team also takes a guess at which films might be this year\u2019s most promising debuts. We start with two of Venice\u2019s most anticipated premieres, a pair of based-on-a-true story movies: Danny Boyle\u2019s Ink, which stars Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch<\/a>, and Lance Oppenheim\u2019s Primetime, about the investigative news show To Catch a Predator, starring Robert Pattinson as host Chris Hansen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been six years since a movie that debuted at a fall film festival won the best-picture Oscar.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48448,48449,48450,48,19255,47645],"class_list":["post-150106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-little-gold-men","tag-oscars","tag-telluride-film-festival","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-film-festival","tag-venice-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}