Oscar Race Begins As Festivals Reveal Line-Ups

Oscar winners Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne will be hoping they can match the success of earlier this year when they take their latest films to the Toronto International Film Festival.

Redmayne's film The Danish Girl, about the transgender artist Lili Elbe, will feature at the star-studded festival which does not have a jury and is non-competitive.

Toronto will also host the gala premiere for Freeheld, in which Moore and Ellen Page play domestic partners.

Redmayne and Moore won the top trophies at the Academy Awards for their respective roles in The Theory Of Everything and Still Alice.

But it is Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts' film Demolition which will open the event on 10 September.

The drama, from Wild director Jean-Marc Vallee, is about an investment banker who struggles after losing his wife.

The festival will also see world premieres for Ridley Scott's space epic The Martian, starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain, and Stephen Frears' Lance Armstrong biopic The Program, starring Ben Foster.

Gay rights drama Stonewall, starring Jeremy Irvine and Jonathan Rhys Meyers will also make its debut at the festival, along with Black Mass, a film about notorious criminal Whitey Bulger, starring Johnny Depp and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Tom Hardy may also walk the red carpet for the premiere of Legend where he plays both Ronnie and Reggie Kray.

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from 10 to 20 September.

Meanwhile, a host of British talent will also be taking to the waters of Venice in September for the city's festival.

Organisers have announced a 21-strong competition lineup that includes Drake Doremus' futuristic Equals, with Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult; Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash, with Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson and Ralph Fiennes; and Cary Fukunaga's African-set war story Beasts Of No Nation, starring Idris Elba.

Redmayne's The Danish Girl will again feature.

The 72nd Venice festival opens on 2 September with the world premiere of Baltasar Kormakur's mountain drama Everest, starring Gyllenhaal and Robin Wright.

On Tuesday it was announced that Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as the Apple co-founder, will be the centrepiece at the New York Film Festival on 3 October.