Naomi Watts had the busiest month pointwise but Eastern Promises turned out to be entirely Viggo Mortensen's show. Her Oscar prospects are snuffed out. Funny Games, pictured left, another Watts headliner directed by the incomparable Haneke (Caché) was delayed until 2008...points for the past month
+ 5 Naomi Watts Eastern Promises had its premiere at Toronto and won the Audience Award (+ 3) plus the film opened and took in some dollars @ the box office (+2)
+5 Jodie Foster TIFF premiere (+2) opened The Brave One (+1) and received maximum points for box office (+2)
+4 Evan Rachel Wood opened Across the Universe (+1) plus box office (+1) plus Toronto Premiere (+2)
+3 Keira Knightley opened Silk (+1) and it also had its Toronto premiere (+2)
+2 Reese Witherspoon (Rendition), Cate Blanchett (Golden Age), Summer Bishil (Nothing is Private), Sigourney Weaver (Girl in Park) Jennifer Connelly (Reservation Road), Uma Thurman (In Bloom), Helen Hunt (Then She Found Me) points for premieres at Toronto
+1 Jennifer Lopez El Cantante crossed a box office marker
+1 Tang Wei & Joan Chen (Lust, Caution) and Charlize Theron & Susan Sarandon (In the Valley of Elah), Their movies actually opened
[Best Actress Predix -All Oscar charts will be updated 10/14 when the NYFF wraps]
