The Hollywood Reporter's executive editor of awards coverage offers his biggest takeaways from another Labor Day weekend in the Rockies.
posed for photos in the streets with ecstatic local schoolkids. The cops ticketed a publicist for parking a golf cart illegally. And the Oscar race came into clearer focus.'Lost in the Jungle' Review: 'Free Solo' Directors Capably Tackle a Remarkable Tale of Survival in the Amazon for Nat Geo’s best-selling 2020 novel of the same name, which centers on the Shakespeare family and its tragic loss that allegedly inspired the play, garnered rave reviews , including particularly strong notices for leading lady, who plays William’s wife Agnes.
Some are already proclaiming it to be the best picture Oscar frontrunner. I certainly think it. I would just caution that numerous Academy members quietly expressed to me their feeling that the film has tonal issues — some called it “trauma porn” — and that it has been so hyped by critics that other Academy members will inevitably feel disappointed when they catch up with it. We’ll see.and actress/producer Stone in a dark comedy about people who “do their own research,” reactions have been nearly as enthusiastic. It played, for me, like a high-endepisode — I mean that as a major compliment — and it also has been likened to a prior off-the-wall Lanthimos/Stone collab,, meanwhile, is not what a lot of people expected it to be — a jukebox musical in the vein of. It remains to be seen if/how that will impact the film’s box office appeal, but reviews have been solid, and White and, Berger films that were of a large scale and about matters of social import .is neither of those things — it’s about a gambling addict in present-day Macao who grows increasingly desperate as his luck runs out — and the no-holds-barred performance of its lead actor,Of films that came directly from world premiering in Venice to make their North American debut in the Rockies, did anything pop?. And it was striking to me how differently people reacted to those two films in Telluride versus in Venice., it centers on an Italian president during the last six months of his term. I suspect that Italy will eventually submit it for the best international feature Oscar, as it previously did two other Sorrentino films, 2013’s) who experiences an existential crisis that forces him and his “team” to question their life choices. It was written off on the Lido, but rebounded in a major way — along with its Rotten Tomatoes score — in Telluride, where Baumbach was fêted with a career tribute,cemented his status as a frontrunner for the best supporting actor Oscar, and Clooney, who was absent due to illness, was, which played through the roof in Venice — it got a 14-minute standing ovation — and then came to Telluride as a surprise late-night screening, and engendered a more muted response. It’s certainly well made, with a knockout score by the greatthat the Academy’s music branch will surely nominate. But, even given how much people love del Toro, I think that the film’s bloated story and runtime will make it hard for it to crack the top Oscar categories., and which won Cannes’ Grand Prix . Festival attendees ate it up, to the extent that I think it deserves to be grouped with Coogler’sis about a filmmaker who neglected his family in order to focus on his career — a character played by the veteran Swedish thespianalso devotes a significant amount of attention to the filmmaker’s children, played by Reinsve andNeon also had two other films — both political thrillers — that were celebrated at Cannes and then proved popular in Telluride, as well., which underscores how the brutality of Iran’s current regime haunts the republic’s citizens, won Cannes’ Palme d’Or over, and was widely admired here as well. . And most excitingly, the Canadians will host the world premieres of a bunch of potential awards contenders, includingThere are 194 days, or six months and 13 days, between now and the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 15, 2026. A lot can still happen. Stay tuned.David Jonsson on Mentoring Young Filmmakers With BAFTA: “We Can’t Expect Them to Make It to the Table — Odds Are There Aren’t Enough Seats”‘Dead Man’s Wire’ Review: Bill Skarsgard Does His Strongest Work to Date in Gus Van Sant’s Stylish and Gripping ’70s ThrowbackThis Labor Day Deal Gets You Hisense’s Sleek 4K CanvasTV at Black Friday-Like Pricing — And Free Deluxe Unpacking Service. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. // This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the GoogleThe Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2025 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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