This year’s Oscar race is in crazy flux, moving and changing every day. Every year the Toronto International Film Festival pushes a new slate of high-profile Oscar hopefuls, adding more players—and media—to the season’s ongoing awards trajectory. And many movies that don’t make the grade fall by the wayside.
“Jackie,” which tells the JFK assassination aftermath from the perspective of widow Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman), was not a Tiff debut; that honor went to Venice, where it was a hit and Noah Oppenheim won for best screenplay. However, it was Tiff’s Sunday night screening where the bidding began in earnest — and with it, the possibility that Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s film would be an Oscar contender.
Fox Searchlight, which has first and last dibs on the movie, may want to rush it into the awards season, as they’ve done in the past...
“Jackie,” which tells the JFK assassination aftermath from the perspective of widow Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman), was not a Tiff debut; that honor went to Venice, where it was a hit and Noah Oppenheim won for best screenplay. However, it was Tiff’s Sunday night screening where the bidding began in earnest — and with it, the possibility that Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s film would be an Oscar contender.
Fox Searchlight, which has first and last dibs on the movie, may want to rush it into the awards season, as they’ve done in the past...
- 9/12/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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