The Oscar Race After the Festivals Has Hitler and the Joker, But No Front-Runner
The first round of fall festivals has concluded, and here’s where the Oscars race stands:• Adam Sandler and Jennifer Lopez are actual awards contenders.• A movie about a comic-book character won the jury prize from one of the most prestigious international film festivals.• A comedy about Nazis featuring a lovably goofy Adolf Hitler won an audience award that is supposed to lead to an automatic Best Picture nomination.• And there is no Best Picture front-runner, unless you want to count the July release that has gotten flak for making fun of Bruce Lee and incorporating the Manson family into a Hollywood story.Also Read: Tiff 2019: Every Movie Sold So Far, From 'Dads' to 'True History of the Kelly Gang' (Updating)Welcome to awards season 2019, where the Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals didn’t crystallize this year’s awards forecast, where Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time ...