Because the last three Oscar best
picture winners — «Argo,» «The Artist» and «The King's Speech» — played both Toronto and Telluride, it's easy to understand the impulse to call the race even before the leaves have started to turn and several other high - pedigree
contenders (Martin Scorsese's «
Wolf of Wall Street,» David O. Russell's «American Hustle» and the biographical drama «Saving Mr. Banks» among them) have screened.