Bullock’s ‘Crisis’ Dated, Oscar Predictions Updated

Warner Bros. has officially dated David Gordon Green‘s political thriller Our Brand is Crisis starring Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton for a Oct. 30 release date, just ahead of tomorrow’s Toronto Film Festival lineup being announced. Coincidence? Not likely, though I could just be hopefully optimistic.

The film is an adaptation of the 2005 documentary of the same name, which follows a group of American consultants who accept the challenge of getting an unpopular Bolivian president re-elected. Bullock plays maverick political consultant, “Calamity” Jane Bodine, who comes out of retirement to lead the team, while Thornton portrays her nemesis, Pat Candy. Zoe Kazan, Anthony Mackie, Scoot McNairy, Ann Dowd and Joaquim de Almeida co-star.

As far as Oscar predictions are concerned, I previously neglected to include Bullock on my list of Best Actress contenders, a shameful enough move that she’s now debuting in my #5 slot as I shuffled the deck slightly including a move fro Carey Mulligan into the top five for her work in the upcoming Suffragette.

As I said, tomorrow morning comes the first crop of films announced for the Toronto Film Festival and we’ll finally have a much better idea which films the studios believe are major contenders for this year’s Oscars. I won’t attempt to speculate right now which films will make the cut as speculation with the Fall film festival circuit has become near impossible with Toronto, Venice, Telluride and New York fighting for premieres. It would become more of a wishlist than any kind of prognostication as I’m already set to be in Toronto for a week beginning September 10.

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