Toronto film festival 2012 opens with host of aspiring Oscar winners
For its 37th year the Toronto film festival kicks off with the sci-fi movie Looper, starring Bruce Willis, and, above front, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Paul Dano, left.
The sci-fi thriller Looper kicks off the proceedings; the following 10 days look set to reveal many award winners. Venice did secure the first screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, which is already odds-on to win the best picture Oscar, but it is Toronto that will fill out the nomination slip and indicate the winners in other categories.
The Canadian festival benefits from an increasingly squeezed release schedule – so studios are keen to launch their films as late in the season as possible – as well as from the disinclination of LA players to fly further from home than necessary (Toronto re-screens Venice's key titles just days after their Europe premiere).
This year the films angling for Academy glory with a Toronto launch include End of Watch, a gritty police drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Seven Psychopaths, which reunites Martin McDonagh and Colin Farrell after the success of In Bruges, and The Place Beyond The Pines, Ryan Gosling and Derek Cinefrance's followup to Blue Valentine.
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