Notes On The Season: Telluride Fest Parties Like It’s 2019; Emmy Voters Pick And Choose; How Showtime Hopes Donald Trump Will Deliver The Gold

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A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit.If you need a clue that the movie awards season is gearing up to return to normal, look no further than last night’s gathering of the Telluride Film Festival faithful on the London Hotel Rooftop overlooking the Sunset Strip.

The fest always throws a west coast reception in mid-June to kick things off and whet Hollywood appetites for their annual Labor Day weekend fest which as part of the normal Fall trifecta that also includes Venice and Toronto is the official start of Oscar season and a place to be if you want to be recognized as an early contender for all those movie awards to come in the next seven months, down from eight last year but still up from the usual pre-Covid