2018 Fall Festivals: Where We Are in the Oscar Race
2017
The Shape of Water – Venice (WP – competition winner) / TIFF / Telluride / Best Picture Oscar winner
Lady Bird – TIFF / Telluride / NYFF
Darkest Hour – TIFF / Telluride
Call Me By Your Name – Sundance / Berlin / TIFF / NYFF
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Venice (competition) / TIFF
Dunkirk – TIFF
Get Out – Sundance
Phantom Thread – No Festival
The Post – No Festival
2016
Moonlight – Telluride (WP) / TIFF / NYFF / Best Picture Oscar winner
Arrival – Venice (competition) / Telluride / TIFF
Fences – No Festival
Hacksaw Ridge – Venice (OOC)
Hell or High Water – Un Certain Regard in Cannes
Hidden Figures – No Festival
La La Land – Venice (competition) / Telluride / TIFF
Lion – TIFF
Manchester by the Sea – Sundance / Telluride / TIFF / NYFF
2015
Spotlight – Venice (WP/OOC) / TIFF / Telluride / Best Picture Oscar winner
The Big Short – AFI Fest
Bridge of Spies – NYFF
Brooklyn – Sundance / TIFF
Mad Max: Fury Road – OOC in Cannes
The Martian – TIFF
The Revenant – No Festival
Room – Telluride (WP) / TIFF (Audience Award winner)
Best Picture nominees which did not screen at Telluride:
2017: Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, Phantom Thread, The Post
2016: Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, Lion
2015: The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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