By Josh Tarpley
Labor Day has long been the unofficial start of awards season. The Venice Film Festival has already seen a massive debut, TIFF will start on September 7, and now we have the final piece to our awards festival trifecta: Telluride. The Telluride Film Festival will happen this weekend (September 1-4) and they have announced their full lineup.
Click beyond the jump to see what our main Oscar players will be this year.
“Downsizing” (Alexander Payne)
“Wonderstruck” (Todd Haynes)
Tribute: Ed Lachman
“Hostiles” (Scott Cooper)
Tribute: Christian Bale
“The Shape of Water” (Guillermo del Toro)
“Battle of the Sexes” (Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton)
“Darkest Hour” (Joe Wright)
“Loving Vincent” (Dorota Korbiela, Hugh Welchman)
“Lady Bird” (Greta Gerwig)
“A Fantastic Woman” (Sebastian Lelio)
“A Man of Integrity” (Mohammad Rasoulof)
“Arthur Miller: Writer” (Rebecca Miller)
“The Rider” (Chloe Zhao)
“Faces/Places” (Agnes Varda, JR)
“That Summer” (Goran Hugo Olsson)
“First They Killed My Father” (Angelina Jolie)
“Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” (Paul McGuigan)
“The Other Side of Hope” (Aki Kaurismaki)
“Wormwood” (Errol Morris)
“The Venerable W.”
“Such is Life”
“Eating Animals” (Christopher Dillon Quinn)
“Love, Cecil” (Lisa Immordino Vreeland)
“Tesnota”/”Closeness” (Kantemir Balagov)
“Land of the Free”
“Before We Vanish” (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
“Lean on Pete” (Andrew Haigh)
“First Reformed” (Paul Schrader)
“Loveless” (Andrey Zyvaginetsev)
“Foxtrot” (Samuel Maoz)
“The Insult” (Ziad Douieri)
“Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum” (Sophie Bassaler)
“Filmworker” (Tony Zierra)
“Hitler’s Hollywood” (Rüdiger Suchsland)
“Jamaica Man” (Michael Weatherly)
New films from Joe Wright, Angelina Jolie, Scott Cooper, Todd Haynes, Guillermo del Toro and the directorial debut from Greta Gerwig? We have officially left the Summer movie season and all sights are set on the Fall.
Which Telluride film are you most looking forward to seeing? Do you think we have any surprise Oscar contenders in the mix? Let us know in the comments below!
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