Fall movie season is here. Here's are five early Oscar predictions

Fall movie season also means Oscar season.It might be only just September, but the jockeying for next March's Academy Awards is well underway. Movies first started revving up their Oscar campaigns at the Cannes Film Festival in May. But now that the fall festivals, in Venice, Telluride and soon Toronto, are in full swing, so is the prognosticating about what's in the mix for awards. There is much still to come. Sandworms! (“Dune: Part III”) Old Tom Cruise! (“Digger”) Oh my! But here's an early survey of the Oscar landscape, with a few predictions mixed in. ‘The Odyssey’ won't end up the best picture favorite At this point, Christopher Nolan's epic deserves to be considered the movie to beat. His previous film, “Oppenheimer,” steamrolled its way to best picture and Nolan's first Oscar, for