As Adam pointed out in Oscar Beat yesterday, four out of the last five Best Picture winners screened at both the Toronto International Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival. If that trend continues, we can really narrow down the Best Picture contenders now because the Telluride main program lineup was just announced.
This year’s Toronto and Telluride crossovers (not including the documentaries and foreign language selections) are the Jack O’Connell-starrer ’71, Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Madame Bovary with Mia Wasikowska, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Rosewater starring Gael García Bernal and Wild with Reese Witherspoon. Hit the jump for more on what’s to come at the 2014 Telluride Film Festival.
Here’s the full Main Program lineup for the event:
The 50 Year Argument (d. Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi, U.K.-U.S., 2014)
'71 (d. Yann Demange, U.K., 2014)
99 Homes (d. Ramin Bahrani, U.S., 2014)
Birdman (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, U.S., 2014)
Dancing Arabs (d. Eran Riklis, Israel-Germany-France, 2014)
The Decent One (d. Vanessa Lapa, Australia-Israel-Germany, 2014)
Diplomcy (d. Volker Schlöndorff, France-Germany, 2014)
Foxcatcher (d. Bennett Miller, U.S., 2014)
The Gate (d. Régis Wargnier, France-Belgium-Cambodia, 2014)
The Homesman (d. Tommy Lee Jones, U.S., 2014)
The Imitation Game (d. Morten Tyldum, U.K.-U.S., 2014)
Leviathan (d. Andrey Zvgagintsev, Russia, 2014)
The Look of Silence (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark-Indonesia-Norway-Finalnd-U.S., 2014)
Madame Bovary (d. Sophie Barthes, U.K.-Belgium, 2014)
Merchants of Doubt (d. Robert Kenner, U.S., 2014)
Mommy (d. Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2014)
Mr. Turner (d. Mike Leigh, U.K., 2014)
The Price of Fame (d. Xavier Beauvois, France, 2014)
Red Army (d. Gabe Polsky, U.S.-Russia, 2014)
Rosewater (d. Jon Stewart, U.S., 2014)
The Salt of the Earth (d. Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Brazil-Italy-France, 2014)
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (d. Nick Broomfield, U.K.-U.S, 2014)
Two Days, One Night (d. Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium-Italy-France, 2014)
Wild (d. Jean-Marc Valleé, U.S., 2014)
Wild Tales (d. Damián Szifrón, Argentina-Spain, 2014)
On top of all this, the festival will also include some sneak preview screenings. Those titles will be announced over the course of the four-day event, which runs from Friday, August 29th to Monday, September 1st.
