Rushfield: Postcards from TIFF 📬

Whose festival is this anyway?

FEST FOOT FORWARD Steven Spielberg hit the TIFF red carpet for The Fabelmans. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Ringside in Toronto, the Oscar race is officially off and running.

The big question — the big Oscar question — coming into the festival was how the The Fablemans would play, coming into the festival unseen, with Steven Spielberg always the big question mark in any Oscar season. 

And after Saturday night's premiere, we have a verdict: