Possible Oscar Winners At Toronto - page 2

10-09-2008 13:16

For the men Benicio Del Toro's performance in Che is still gathering support despite the film being almost four hours long. But leading the race is Viggo Mortensen who is hoping to follow up his Best Actor nod last year for Eastern Promises and has three movies out between now and January.

he has two on show in Toronto this week with Western Appaloosa, directed by Ed Harris, and Good a Holocaust drama but he will follow these up with The Road later this year, which is expected to be his best bet for a nomination.

In terms of a possible Best picture Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler is currently being called ' the best American movie of 2008' by the press after it scooped the Golden Lion at a lackluster Venice Film Festival and all the talk surrounds it's leading man Mickey Rourke and how he may just resurrect his career with this performance with an Oscar win.

Also exciting the Toronto crowds was Slumdog Millionaire which follows Jamal Malik, an eighteen year old orphan from the slums of Mumbai who is on the verge of winning twenty million rupees on India's How Wants to be a Millionaire?

But when the show breaks for the night police arrest him on suspicion of cheating: how could a street kid know so much?

Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost.

Also gaining support is Blindness from director Fernando Meirelles which has been altered since failing to win over the critics at Cannes earlier this summer.

Over the next couple of day The Brothers Bloom, Che, Good, Achilles and the Tortoise await the Toronto crowds. Toronto Film Festival runs until the 13th September.

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw