{"id":36729,"date":"2020-09-20T03:25:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T03:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36729"},"modified":"2020-09-20T03:25:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T03:25:04","slug":"tiff-2020-kicks-off-a-strange-start-to-the-oscars-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36729","title":{"rendered":"TIFF 2020 kicks off a strange start to the Oscars race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto International Film Festival, of apparently endless sprawl, had its wings clipped this year. Instead of hundreds of thousands of titles bulging at the program&#8217;s strata, there was a svelte 50 or so. Blame the pandemic. Release planneds ought to have rejigged, some films will wait for   2021; Netflix bolted when accolade figures modernise qualification rules. Still, Toronto&#8217;s trim selection delivered focus to proceedings, and we should respect the films that induced the leap knowing they would land on unstable ground.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/rss\/edition_entertainment\/~4\/xYq2N7O53gA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/18\/entertainment\/tiff-2020-highlights\/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fedition_entertainment+%28RSS%3A+CNNi+-+Entertainment%29\">cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto International Film Festival, of apparently endless sprawl, had its wings clipped this year. Instead of hundreds of thousands of titles bulging at the program&#8217;s strata, there was a svelte 50 or so. Blame the pandemic. Release planneds ought to have rejigged, some films will wait for 2021; Netflix bolted when accolade figures modernise &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21057,4066,21056,1100,4941,21053,21054,21055],"class_list":["post-36729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-award","tag-bodies","tag-bolted","tag-films","tag-netflix","tag-tiff","tag-trim","tag-wait"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/200917174449-tiff-2020-nomadland-super-tease1600572305.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}