This year’s Venice Film Festival finally subsided, as always, with sprays of fireworks, spritz cocktails and a fistful of Lion awards for films ranging from a long Hungarian drama about the study of trees to a horrific drama set among an emergency response team in Gaza.

It also established that Jacob Elordi , who plays the tragic monster in Guillermo del Toro’s vast, extravagant and arguably indulgent adaptation of Frankenstein , is in the fast lane to next year’s Oscars. If he wasn’t in the big league before, he certainly is now.

Australian actor Jacob Elordi attends the Frankenstein red carpet. Credit: Getty Images

First, the Australian contender. Critics were divided by the “bombastic” Frankenstein , but Elordi’s performance as the lonely monster, who pursues his vain, myop

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