Cannes: Who Emerged as Oscar Contenders — hollywoodreporter.com

This story first appeared in the June 6 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Thanks to the Cannes Film Festival, director Bennett Miller, British actor Timothy Spall and four-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore should clear their fall calendars to work the awards circuit. Not that the Academy necessarily looks to the Cannes jury for guidance. If this year's Palme d'Or winner, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep -- a 3½-hour Chekhovian-flavored drama about Turkish class conflict -- surfaces come Oscar time, it will be as a foreign-language entry only.

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