Toronto Thins the Best Picture Herd

Filed under: Toronto Film Festival, Oscar News, Cinematical, Festivals

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There are two things we can say for certain after the Toronto film festival unveiled a number of this year’s potential award candidates. Tom Hooper’s ‘The King’s Speech’](The King's Speech (2010) - Movie | Moviefone) will be up for a great many nominations and Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’](Hereafter (2010) - Movie | Moviefone) will be lucky to get even one. More than just one man’s opinion is driving the narrative that Eastwood’s film may be the first to not garner even a breath of serious consideration since ‘Blood Work’. (Even the ridiculous ‘Gran Torino’ was expected to get Eastwood-the-actor a nomination.) Keeping with the theme though, it’s the in-between amongst these two films that have given us a clearer look at what is in store for the great Best Picture of 2010. So let us look at 15 of them, shall we?

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