TheVeniceFilm Festival which gets underway today has in recent decades fired the starting gun on the traditional awards season.
This years festival is stacked with A-list talent.
Its perhaps starrier than ever.
From left: ‘Joker: Folie à Deux.’ ‘Maria’ and ‘The Room Next Door’Warner Bros; Fremantle/Fabula; Sony Pictures Classics
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This isnt the years first glimpse at awards hopefuls, however.
Time will tell if this is a trend or a blip.
The lack of Netflix contenders on the Lido hasnt helped this years depth of awards pop in movies.
Upon release, the pair embark on a doomed romantic misadventure.
Barbera described Phoenix, who alreadywon an Oscar forJoker, as outstanding and also praised Phillips direction.
Only three of those are fall festival films, by the way, and only one from TIFF-Telluride-Venice.
A fall season launch is still the norm for Best Actor winners.
Barbera has described Daniel Craigs performance inQueeras a career best.
Both are expected to get deals out of the festival.
