Toronto Giving Off Intense Oscar-Season Heat

When Oprah starts rolling up her sleeves, you know it’s getting serious.

Stars are everywhere in Toronto — click here for a Wrap slideshow.

On Saturday, filmmaker Lee Daniels sat in the bar at the Four Seasons in Toronto and held a strategy session with his team.

“What do you think? Do we have a shot? Don’t you think our film has heart?” he asked friends about “Precious,” the film he directed about an inner-city teenager and her battle to overcome abuse.

It does. And Oprah Winfrey, one of the film’s producers, was wandering around town to make sure everybody knew it.

When Oprah starts rolling up her sleeves, you know things are getting serious.

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