The 38th Toronto Film Festival wraps Sunday, boasting screenings
of plentiful awards contenders, including the addition of at
least three pics to the mix: "August: Osage County," "Dallas
Buyers Club" and "Rush."  All earned best-pic Oscar predictions
from many pundits when they debuted here. Those three films
joined a quartet of Toronto pics that had scored similar buzz at
the Venice and Telluride festivals: "12 Years a Slave," which
picked up Toronto's top audience award, the first and second
runners-up "Philomena" and "Prisoners," and "Gravity."  So the
Canadian fest vindicated its rep as an awards launchpad. But
that is only one of a festival's goals. Arguably, its most
important mandate is to showcase complex and thoughtful movies
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Toronto debuted several of these as well, including "The Fifth
Estate" and "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." And the festival
screened pics that had earned enthusiastic reaction at earlier
festivals, including "The