COVID-19 has canceled or diminished the annual run of fall film festivals, from Venice to Toronto, that typically tee up most Oscar nominees. What will that mean for awards season?
Christopher Nolan’s latest puzzle box of a movie, “Tenet,” has become of the most-anticipated releases in years, in part because of continual delays due to COVID-19.That leaves space this year for more indie films — a space that Searchlight Pictures has leaped into with Chloé Zhao’s drama “Nomadland,” which will premiere at Venice and play at Toronto and the New York Film Festival and screen at the Rose Bowl on Sept. 11 as a special Telluride From Los Angeles drive-in experience.
Zhao has been holed up for the last month on the Disney lot, finishing post-production on both “Nomadland” and “The Eternals,” a Marvel Studios superhero movie slated for next year. The Beijing-born filmmaker has just two other movies on her résumé: indie efforts “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” and “The Rider,”.
“Chloé's on the cusp,” says Searchlight’s executive vice president of marketing, Michelle Hooper, “and these festivals will be a good way to get her on the world’s collective radar.”Frances McDormand in Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” which premieres Friday at the Venice Film Festival., who won an Oscar for Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk” and this month might win her fourth Emmy, having been nominated for her lead turn on the HBO limited series “Watchmen.
“It’s very exciting and affirming,” King says by phone. The movie finished shooting in February, with King returning to film two final scenes in late spring, then push through post-production. “It’s set in 1964, but these men are talking about what it’s like to be Black in America right now.”Toronto will also premiere “Bruised,” Halle Berry’s directorial debut, a sports movie in which she plays an MMA fighter.
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