What 'Jojo Rabbit' Toronto Film Festival award means for Oscar season
The buzz from the fall film festivals - Venice, Telluride and the just-wrapped Toronto - sometimes ends the Oscar best picture race even before the for-your-consideration billboards go up along Sunset Boulevard.
When audience members clapped in unison along with the spiritual "Roll, Jordan, Roll" during the closing credits for "12 Years a Slave" at Toronto six years ago, its Oscar glory seemed a fait accompli. "Spotlight," the 2015 best picture winner, won raves at the three festivals, and the moment the real-life reporters who investigated the Catholic Church pedophilia scandal took the stage at Toronto to a thunderous ovation, there was a sense that this was a movie that could go all the way.
That kind of front-runner has yet to emerge this year, probably to the relief of every studio with designs on winning best picture. Shortly after Lady Gaga arrived in a
