Six months. Well over 100 films. Dozens of interviews, more parties, I don’t know how many awards shows, substantial dry-cleaner bills for the tuxedo alone.
And now it's over. We have a winner (the one I saw coming at the beginning of all this), and it's time to look back, and come up with 10 things I'll remember about this awards season.
In no particular order:
1. The Toronto Film Festival's gala screening of "The King's Speech"
The word out of the Telluride film festival had been positive, and an early-September Toronto screening sealed the deal: Tom Hooper's film went over like gangbusters in the huge Roy Thomson Hall, drawing applause at the end of the climactic speech and an ovation when it ended.