11 TIFF 2020 films to catch before awards season

The Toronto International Film Festival is known as the place where the year’s crop of Oscar contenders often debut—where films gather both buzz and momentum among Academy voters and moviegoers alike. This year, despite TIFF looking very different from any festival before, a crop of films still stood out as awards season hopefuls. That means you still have a few months to catch them before the virtual office Oscar pool gets underway. Here are the 11 most-talked about movies from this year’s unique Festival.[gallery ids="/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/ONE-NIGHT-credit-TIFF.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/BRUISED-credit-TIFF.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/INCON-INDIAN-credit-TIFF.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/AMERICAN-UTOPIA-credit-TIFF.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/I-AM-GRETA-credit-TIFF.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/WILDFIRE-credit-TIFF.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/NOMADLAND-credit-TIFF.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/THE-FATHER-credit-TIFF.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/PENGUIN-BLOOM-credit-TIFF-1.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/AMMONITE-credit-TIFF.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/movies/2020/09/17/CITY-HALL-credit-TIFF.jpg"][video_embed id='2038032']RELATED: 'Inconvenient Indian' director reveals why she wants to provoke a strong reaction with her new doc [/video_embed]