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And if you follow any celebrity on Instagram, you already know awards season is here. The dress is the parties, the selfies with the famous people all that.

But the Oscars aren't till February.

So far away, which is plenty of time for people to start picking favorites for all the big trophies.

And then Tom, for there to be backlashes to the favorites.

And then backlashes to those backlashes to the favorites.

Speaking of the Oscars, Shereen, then you get invited to the Oscars last year?

I sure did.

Will you nominate for something?

No, not yet. Not yet, but that is in the plan for the future.

No, I was supposed to help some NPR colleagues cover the ceremony. So it wasn't sexy, like taking shots with Guillermo del Torro or Benicio del Torro, for our matter, who I love.

Anyway, I got really sick. I couldn't go. It's a sad story. My dress is still hanging up in the closet collecting dust.

It's supposed to be an opportunity for you to flex, but I guess this is not really-

I'm flexing right here in the studio. Can you see my guns?

Maybe you get the dust off the dress this year.

I hope so.

Like we said, the Academy Awards are in five months, but film critics have already seen a lot of the movies that will probably end up being nominated.

One of the places they converge is north of the border at the Toronto International Film Festival, which recently wrapped.

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