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Here are the fall festival movie premieres that Oscar voters will be watching

Are we about to get our first look at the next Oscar best picture winner? The last five movies to take that award premiered at one of the three fall film festivals – Venice, Telluride and Toronto – now upon us. That could change this year as there are several intriguing, late-arriving titles, films from Steven Spielberg (the Pentagon Papers drama "The Post"), Paul Thomas Anderson (a ...

Are we about to get our first look at the next Oscar best picture winner?

The last five movies to take that award premiered at one of the three fall film festivals – Venice, Telluride and Toronto – now upon us.

That could change this year as there are several intriguing, late-arriving titles, films from Steven Spielberg (the Pentagon Papers drama "The Post"), Paul Thomas Anderson (a still-untitled movie about the London fashion world), Richard Linklater ("Last Flag Flying," a sequel of sorts to "The Last Detail") and Ridley Scott ("All the Money in the World," a crime drama about the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III).

Still, the movies listed below - premiering at festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto - will likely comprise much of the meat of this year's Oscar race. (Also factor in "Dunkirk," Sundance standouts "Call Me by Your Name," "The Big Sick" and "Mudbound," and Cannes favorites "Wonderstruck" and "The Florida Project.")

Here's a look at how the upcoming premieres stack up.

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