TIFF'S BIG WINNER = OSCAR BAIT

Frances McDormand's acclaimed new

movie Nomadland is beginning to look like an Oscars front-runner after landing the Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award on Sunday.

The Chloe Zhao-directed picture, which picked up the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion honour for best movie earlier this month in Italy, beat out Regina King 's One Night in Miami, to score the coveted prize, which is often a good indicator of the Academy Awards' best picture winner.

Nomadland follows a 60-something woman, who loses everything and embarks on a journey, living in a van.

McDormand, shown, is also a front-runner for the best actress Oscar — she scored the award for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in 2018, and also for Fargo in 1997.