22 Best Picture contenders for the 2024 Oscars
As awards season shapes up, festival favorites like Poor Things and Priscilla are among the films that could join Barbie and Oppenheimer in the race for gold
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Now that the big film festivals in Toronto, Telluride and Venice are all wrapped up, it’s time to start getting an early read on race for best picture at the 2024 Academy Awards. The caveat, of course, is that nobody really knows how this year’s awards season will play out, given the ongoing strikes by writers and actors. While this has been a difficult year for the industry, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of worthy films in the mix for this year’s Oscars.
That includes star-studded summer blockbusters like Barbie and Oppenheimer, indie darlings like Past Lives and Poor Things, and films from acclaimed directors like Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Michael Mann, and Martin Scorsese. Here’s a rundown, in alphabetical order, as we’re not playing favorites. At least, not until we get a little closer to the awards.
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Napoleon needs to be on this list. Probably Saltburn too.
I am so excited to watch Saltburn!
That film out yet?
I’m really looking forward to American Fiction. As a…non-standard writer, the synopsis is right up my alley. Too bad it’s not out here until January, which means every fucker’s gonna spoil it, or…yo ho ho.
What does “non-standard writer” mean?
Not white, not from a city.
Ah. Demographics. That makes more sense. I thought maybe you meant because the synopsis implies a fair bit of genre-mixing and absurdist comedy. My hackles raise when writers get weird about shit like “I’m a *different* kind of artist.” To me it’s just the artistic version of the “I’m not like other girls” meme. I think there’s way too much focus in the art-leaning film world on novelty or uniqueness or whatever.
Erasure is probably my favorite Percival Everett novel. Hard to see how it becomes a film, though, with how literary it is. But that cast gives me hope.
If I can find a copy, I’ll give it a crack – thanks for the recommendation. Hey, remember when this website used to cover books?
Jodie Comer? Tom Hardy? Austin Butler? Michael Shannon?In the same movie?Apparently Jodie Comer’s accent is based on recordings of the real-life person her character is based on. She sounds like Linda Manz in Days of Heaven.
One of the reasons a film like Barbie gets nominated for best picture is because 10 movies are now nominated in the best picture category. They can afford to nominate movies that don’t fit their usual type of films.
“Say, when are any of these movies coming out? Should we include that info, as well as how to watch the movies already out?”“lol fuckem”
Can’t wait for the million think pieces about how it’s more important to choose winners based on what they represent for social justice rather than how well crafted they are.
Shut up nerd
Smell ma poot slut
Not a big Carey Mulligan fan and she seems to be in a lot.
“…Adam Driver, whose casting as race car driver-turned-entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari might be a little too on the nose.”I don’t understand this statement at all.
I think it comes down to a famous guy named Driver playing a famous driver guy.
And he does indeed have a honkin’ honker:
Ah, OK. That didn’t even occur to me.
I haven’t seen Barbie yet, but is it really best picture material? Genuinely asking.
I suspect it will get nominated as the token crowd pleaser, but it won’t win. It doesn’t have the aura of “Importance” or “The Magic of Cinema” that the Academy usually looks for in a best picture.
Barbie 2: Barbie discovers that her thousands of jobs over her existence makes her the perfect actor and becomes a star in the most wholesome, wondrous place that is safe for and accepting of women on the planet – Hollywood!The ending consists of half a dozen young girls of carefully diverse ethnicities and body shapes stating, directly into the camera, how inspired they were to become actors and work in Hollywood and they only felt they could do that after seeing Barbie on-screen.
I disagree. I think it has the (disguised) gravitas necessary to be a Best Picture contender. This will be a litmus test of how smart the Academy really is.
Isn’t it Jeff Nichols? That’s the spelling in Wikipedia, IMDB, Rottentomatoes, and Focus Features dot com.