{"id":2123162,"date":"2025-10-29T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123162"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:36:12","slug":"afi-fest-2025-was-for-the-awards-season-underdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/afi-fest-2025-was-for-the-awards-season-underdogs\/","title":{"rendered":"AFI Fest 2025 Was for the Awards Season Underdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the most exciting parts of L.A.\u2019s annual AFI Fest is its unpredictable nature \u2014 especially in the awards race.<\/p>\n

At the end of October every year, it\u2019s basically last in line among fall film festivals in major metropolitan areas that still regularly program big-ticket red-carpet premieres. Some years, those premieres are for future Best Picture nominees like \u201cThe Fabelmans<\/a>\u201d or \u201cMaestro<\/a>.\u201d And now and then, the festival even hosts the world premiere for last-minute dark horses like \u201cJuror #2\u201d or \u201cTick, Tick\u2026 Boom!\u201d<\/p>\n

But overall, as this year\u2019s lineup conveys, AFI Fest\u2019s red carpet premieres section positions it as a festival for the underdogs. Those films that one looks back on and says, \u201cRight, this did have Oscar buzz.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2025 festival kicked off on Wednesday, October 22, with \u201cSpringsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere<\/a>,\u201d arguably the red carpet premiere most likely to score Oscar success, given the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most exciting parts of L.A.\u2019s annual AFI Fest is its unpredictable nature \u2014 especially in the awards race. At the end of October every year, it\u2019s basically last in line among fall film festivals in major metropolitan areas that still regularly program big-ticket red-carpet premieres. Some years, those premieres are for future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2123162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFI-Fest-2025-Was-for-the-Awards-Season-Underdogs.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123164,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123162\/revisions\/2123164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}