24 movies coming out soon that are major Oscar contenders by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 5, 2018, 9:40 AM Advertisement
 With the Toronto International Film Festival kicking off on Thursday, believe it or not it’s time for the award season buzz to begin. All the big names in Hollywood are headed up to our neighbors in the north for the next 11 days to kick off the buzz for their films that will hopefully snowball into nominations on Oscar night early next year. The latest projects from the biggest directors in the game like Damien Chazelle (“First Man”) and Barry Jenkins (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) will be there, while Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will try to prove they can do more than what they are known for (Cooper directs Gaga in “A Star Is Born”). Here we’ve highlighted 24 movies playing at the fest that you should check out when they come to a theater near you. SEE ALSO: The 13 best movies of the summer, according to critics "22 July" (In Theaters — October 10)  Director Paul Greengrass, known for his realistic style in depicting true events like "Captain Phillips" and "United 93," focuses on Norway's deadliest terrorist attack, in which 77 people were murdered while attending a youth camp in 2011. The Netflix movie looks at the aftermath of the event.
"A Star Is Born" (In Theaters — October 5)  The latest remake of this rags to riches story is the directorial debut of Bradley Cooper and has quickly become an early Oscar front runner thanks to the performance by Lady Gaga. In the story Cooper plays an aging musician who gives a young star (Gaga) her big break.
"American Dharma" (Release TBD)  Errol Morris' latest documentary portrait focuses on Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News and White House chief strategist for the first seven months of Donald Trump's presidency. Morris is no stranger to highlighting controversial figures. His 2003 documentary on Robert McNamara, "The Fog of War," earned him an Oscar and he also did a film on former US secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld ("The Unknown Known").
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