Fall film festivals are often the first glimpse into the films that will be racing to the Dolby theater in February for the Academy Awards. This year, critics have been hesitant to name any one film as an absolute winner for Best Picture, but two historical films, "Theory of Everything" and "The Imitation Game" are leading the way as the Toronto International Film Festival closes today.

"I don't know. We will see what happens. You gently try to keep working, one foot in front of the other," said Eddie Redmayne when asked by The National Post how he felt about the Oscar buzz he's been getting for his performance as Stephen Hawking. "Theory of Everything," starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, is a biopic that focuses on the budding relationship between Stephen Hawking and his eventual wife. Indiewire predicts that the film has a good chance of receiving Oscar nominations due to backing from Universal's Focus Features and the strong performances from Redmayne and Jones. The film will get its theatrical release on November 7th.

Stronger than the predictions for "Theory of Everything" however might be another biopic, but this one is about Alan Turing. "The Imitation Game," starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. The film has just won the People's Choice audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is a prize that is often awarded to films that go on to either win the Best Picture Oscar or at least get a nomination. According to Deadline, "well over 100 nominations and 40 Oscars have come to films that have won this distinction so early in the season." Add in Harvey Weinstein as the distributor and its almost a certainty for at least one Oscar nomination. "The Imitation Game" will hit US theaters on November 21st.

Although it is certainly very early in the Oscar race to make any real predictions, one could probably suspect both British biopics to be heavily lobbied for by their distributors. Nevertheless, they're not out of the woods yet as there's still three months to go before the official Oscars cutoff date.