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. The roll-call includes Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci, Willem Dafoe, Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, Daniel Craig, Angelina Jolie, Kevin Costner, Sigourney Weaver, Nicole Kidman, Isabelle Huppert, and many more.
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.
This isn’t the year’s first glimpse at awards hopefuls, however. In reality, Cannes has become the first major stop in the awards season.
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