Telluride Film Festival Lineup Includes 'Gravity,' 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' 'Blue is the Warmest Colour' and 'Labor Day'

The Telluride Film Festival has announced its slate of films.

The lineup for the 40^th edition was recently unveiled, with many Oscar contenders scheduled for the festival. Venice Film festival's "Gravity" will makes its U.S. premiere, as will Cannes Grand Prix winner "Inside Llewyn Davis" by the Coen brothers.

Alexander Payne's Best Actor Canne winner "Nebraska" is also premiering at the festival and Palm d'Or winner "Blue is the Warmest Colour" will continue its festival run in Colorado. Asghar Farhadi's "The Past," which won Best Actress at Cannes, will also figure into the lineup alongside J.C Chandor's "All is Lost."

Several films heading to Toronto will be featured in the lineup including Jason Reitman's "Labor Day," which stars Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, and Ralph Fiennes' "The Invisble Women."

Other movies include Ritesh Batra's "The Lunchbox," the Australia-set drama "Tracks" starring Mia Wasikowska, Yuval Adler's "Bethlehem," David Mackenzie's British crime-drama "Starred Up," Pawel Pawlikowski's "Ida," Mohammad Rasoulof's "Manuscripts Don't Burn," and Sebastian Lelio's Chilean drama "Gloria," which premiered at Berlin and won Paulina Garcia the Silver Bear for actress.

The festival will also feature tributes to Robert Redford and Rasoulof as well as a joint tribute to the Coen brothers and T Bone Burnett. It will also debut the Werner Herzog theater with showings of his 1972 classic historical epic "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" and his new documentary TV series "On Death Row." 

Telluride is known for launching many awards contenders. In the past years it has shown such Oscar winners as "Argo," "The King's Speech," "The Descendants," "Slumdog Millionaire," "Juno," "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote" and "The Last King of Scotland."

The festival is also known for opting for a straightforward presentation without red carpets or awards competitions. The organizers also refuse to tout any title as a "premiere" and always keep its titles a secret until the day before it opens.

"Telluride" will run from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2.