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WATCH: 39th Mill Valley Film Festival Lines Up a Bevy of Likely Academy Award Contenders

Check out the trailers for some of the films that will be vying for Oscars in February 2017.

The 39th Mill Valley Film Festival is set to kick off on October 6, and as we get closer to its arrival, festival organizers have steadily trickled out another lineup of films we'll likely be rooting for when the 89th Academy Awards are handed out at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on February 26, 2017.

In addition to Jeff Nichols' "Loving," the tale of an interracial couple that fought for the right to marry, a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1967, MVFF39 will feature a number of movies that are already generating Oscar buzz, long before they hit the big screen. They include:

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