Telluride Film Fest Brings Oscar Buzz to Movies “Downsizing,” “Shape of Water” Actors Matt Damon, Sally Hawkins

The first big film festival, Telluride, has opened. There’s already Oscar buzz and great reviews for Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing” with Matt Damon, and Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” with Sally Hawkins. “Dunkirk” was getting lonely sitting by itself on Oscar lists. Here’s the Telluride rundown. The big festival, Toronto, starts in one week.

• ARTHUR MILLER: WRITER (d. Rebecca Miller, U.S., 2017)
• BATTLE OF THE SEXES (d. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, U.S., 2017)
• DARKEST HOUR (d. Joe Wright, U.K., 2017)
• DOWNSIZING (d. Alexander Payne, U.S., 2017)
• EATING ANIMALS (d. Christopher Quinn, U.S., 2017)
• FACES PLACES (d. Agnes Varda, JR, France, 2017)
• A FANTASTIC WOMAN (d. Sebastián Lelio, Chile-U.S.-Germany-Spain, 2017)
• FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (d. Paul McGuigan, U.K., 2017)
• FIRST REFORMED (d. Paul Schrader, U.S., 2017)
• FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER (d. Angelina Jolie, U.S.-Cambodia, 2017)
• FOXTROT (d. Samuel Maoz, Israel, 2017)
• HOSTAGES (d. Rezo Gigineishvili, Georgia-Russia-Poland, 2017)
• HOSTILES (d. Scott Cooper, U.S., 2017)
• HUMAN FLOW (d. Ai Weiwei, U.S.-Germany, 2017)
• THE INSULT (d. Ziad Doueiri, France-Lebanon, 2017)
• LADY BIRD (d. Greta Gerwig, U.S., 2017)
• LAND OF THE FREE (d. Camilla Magid, Denmark-Finland, 2017)
• LEAN ON PETE (d. Andrew Haigh, U.K.-U.S., 2017)
• LOVELESS (d. Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia-France-Belgium-Germany, 2017)
• LOVE, CECIL (d. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, U.S., 2017)
• LOVING VINCENT (d. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, U.K.-Poland, 2017)
• A MAN OF INTEGRITY (d. Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 2017)
• THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (d. Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 2017)
• THE RIDER (d. Chloé Zhao, U.S., 2017)
• THE SHAPE OF WATER (d. Guillermo del Toro, U.S., 2017)
• TESNOTA (d. Kantemir Balagov, Russia, 2017)
• THE VENERABLE W. (d. Barbet Schroeder, France-Switzerland, 2017)
• THE VIETNAM WAR (d. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, U.S., 2017)
• WORMWOOD (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2017)
• WONDERSTRUCK (d. Todd Haynes, U.S., 2017)