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starry venice kicks off awards season fight as the lido buzz begins
with an a-list roll-call and big films in competition, will the italian fest once again sound the starter pistol for awards season? |
The Venice Film Festival — which gets underway today — has in recent decades fired the starting gun on the ‘traditional’ awards season.
This year’s festival is stacked with A-list talent. It’s perhaps starrier than ever, with a roll-call including Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney and Michael Keaton among many others.
In terms of awards hopefuls, Warner Bros’ Joker: Folie À Deux, Pedro Almodovar’s English-language debut The Room Next Door, Angelina Jolie starrer Maria and Luca Guadagnino’s Queer are among those jostling for lift-off at the event, which is firmly established as a key Academy launch-pad.
But while the Venice, Toronto and Telluride triangle is still the place to be for many of the major studio awards hopefuls, we may be experiencing a subtle shift in their status as surefire awards bellweathers. After launching eight of the nine Best Picture winners between 2013-2021, none of the past three winners launched at a fall festival. >>>Trend Or A Blip?
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Wed - Venice Film Festival begins
Thu - CNN interview with Kamala Harris & Tim Walz; Rings of Power S2 debuts
Mon - Labor Day |
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Star Turn - Angelina Jolie arrived in Venice where Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín is set to continue his string of Venice biopic premieres with Maria, about the legendary opera singer Maria Callas, as played by Jolie. |
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