The Oscar Meter at Deadline is working overtime as the race for the 96th Academy Awards is shifting into higher gear as summer turns to fall this weekend.
The official start of the very long six month+ awards season is now behind us as we made it through the Fall Festival Trifecta of Venice/Telluride/Toronto that has always launched the season, and we are one week away from the start of two more important autumn fests with New York Film Festival getting underway on September 29th and London Film Festival beginning a week later.
Those fests, unlike the Trifecta, aren’t big on World Premieres, but rather will help put the crop of already premiered contenders at 2023 festivals that also include last January’s Sundance, and May’s Cannes further into laser focus as to their actual chances of ultimately landing Oscar nominations.
New York though is offering a World Premiere of Amazon/MGM’s sci fi drama Foe with past Oscar nominees Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, and London has the always welcome animated Aardman entry, this time a sequel – Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget.
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