Oscar Season 2025-2026: Recapping TELLURIDE; Forecasting the Toronto International Film Festival; De-coding the TIFF People's Choice Award

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On this episode of ACADEMY ANONYMOUS:

• A Frontrunner is Born with Chloé Zhao's HAMNET premiere at the Telluride Film Festival
• Jessie Buckley becomes the Best Actress favorite, can Paul Mescal join her in Best Actor?
• Can Jeremy Allen White win for SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE?
• A brief look at the importance of TIFF’S People’s Choice Award for Oscar glory and Best Picture dreams
• De-coding recent films listed for the People’s Choice Award and how they reveal which of this year’s film could walk away with the prize!
• A24 hoping ETERNITY with Elisabeth Olsen, Callum Turner and Miles Teller can turn into another WE LIVE IN TIME
• GOOD FORTUNE with Keanu Reeves! ROOFMAN with Channing Tatum! Crowd-pleasers hoping to become fall blockbusters, sure. But can they actually become Oscar players? The answer may surprise you.
• Sony Classics delivering films with wide audience appeal, prepare to pitch both THE CHORAL and NUREMBERG to Oscar voters in the fall. Is any their secret weapon this season? Or are they perhaps angling to acquire a red-hot THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE out of the Venice Film Festival?
• RENTAL FAMILY has People’s Choice Award written on every prognosticator’s lips! But how come we’re not buying it? Is Searchlight pitting all their Oscar hopes on a Hail Mary? Check out the red flags we’re seeing before it premieres.
• Don’t look now, but Rian Johnson’s trilogy-capper WAKE UP DEAD MAN may finally deliver Netflix the People’s Choice Award! Why this final installment could win the prize for the entire series!
• THE LOST BUS reads like a slam-dunk Oscar contender on paper. So why is Apple bulldozing its chances with their release plan? Is this BLITZ all over again? Can a People Choice Award save them from imminent Academy Awards oversight?
• Plan B and Amazon not giving Tessa Thompson and HEDDA the red carpet Oscar treatment they deserve. Is there any hope the film can draw enough attention from audiences to get both to reconsider their priorities with F1 and AFTER THE HUNT?
• SACRIFICE from Romain Gavras walks the route of TRIANGLE OF SADNESS - with a lot on its mind and headline-worthy ensemble. So, why did Venice, Telluride and Cannes give it the cold shoulder? 
• Sidney Sweeney and an overdue Ben Foster try to ride the sports biopic to Oscar nominations with CHRISTY - but is there any room left on that bus after THE SMASHING MACHINE? 
• Black Bear the “distributor” tries its hand at molding an Oscar contender, but does the Sidney Sweeney controversy already have them running behind?
• Ian McKellen and Angelina Jolie chart big-screen comebacks and possibly Oscar buzz by teaming up with esteemed directors Steven Soderbergh and Alice Winocour. Will their new films THE CHRISTOPHERS and COUTURE bring them back into contention?
• Is Saoirse Ronan quietly plotting to take Best Actress by storm with the dark comedy BAD APPLES. You can never sleep on the great ones!
• And of course which early Oscar contenders will win the coveted People’s Choice Awards - HAMENT, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, or even JAY KELLY?