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
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