The 2018 Oscars may be six months away, but the starting gun has been fired on the film awards race with the opening of this year's Venice Film Festival.
Venice is the first launch pad for Oscar-worthy films - La La Land, Arrival, Spotlight, Birdman and Gravity all had their world premieres there.
This year's festival is opening with the premiere of Alexander Payne's Downsizing, starring Matt Damon.
Variety predicted that it should go on to be "a leading awards contender".
The film, in which Damon plays a man who literally gets shrunk, has been met with gushing reviews from most critics in the Italian city.
The "playful, spectacular, mischievous, and audacious" film is likely to be "a major draw at the box office", wrote Variety's Owen Gleiberman.
He described it as "a ticklish and resonant crowd-pleaser for grown-ups" and "a kind of live-action Pixar movie on acid".
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