The 2019 contenders, listed by studio and release date.

Won’t Fox/Disney be lumping their FYC campaigns together this year?

I guess we can add Radioactive to the list since it's closing TIFF.

Not really sure what Amazon's strategy is since they also have The Aeronauts and Seberg formerly Against All Enemies as Best Actress contenders. They all seem baity to me; although, I think Radioactive seems the baitiest. 

Updated with TIFF titles.


All of those look solid, but I think I'll wait for an official announcement. I almost left all of them listed as N/A because even with The Laundromat the only thing I found to go off of was IMDb and that can be edited by anyone. We'll probably get the actual dates pretty soon, so it's no problem. 

Yeah, I was actually counting on The Last Thing He Wanted and The King to pop up at TIFF, tbh. Both have been in post since August 2018 according to IMDb and Netflix managed to land 4 nominations for Dee Rees's last film, so that one especially should've been a no-brainer. Will keep an eye on both of them, especially if The King is supposed to premiere this October.

I'm pretty sure Annapurna and UA have a partnership going on. Both Booksmart and Bernadette are officially listed on sources like BOM as United Artists releases, but they're referred to elsewhere as part of Annapurna's roster. IMDb lists both as distributors for Kajillionaire (which didn't make the initial TIFF batch, apparently).

Added all of them.

It's so weird, IMDb says Radioactive has been completed since May 2018. Have they been sitting on it that long?

Same with Lucy in the Sky, which is listed as being completed since September 2018 but apparently underwent reshoots after that and wasn't announced for either festival today, and Benh Zeitlin's follow-up to Beasts of the Southern Wild titled Wendy, which apparently wrapped in February 2018 but which we've heard absolutely nothing about thus far.

Fox Searchlight picks up Armando Iannucci's 'David Copperfield'; will release it in 2020.

Not sure why they're pushing it back when their current slate doesn't look particularly strong between Jojo Rabbit's potentially divisive premise, Lucy in the Sky's middling test reactions and A Hidden Life being a 3-hour Malick joint, but sure.

The Death of Stalin deserved to steamroll 2017.

This year is so weird: it feels like FSL has nothing, A24 has tons of movies that usually fight for the same spot (the artsy, tiny movie) so they might all cancel each other, Sony has 3 movies that could potentially hit hard the BP race, same goes for Netflix...

I do worry about A24 too. Last year they barely promoted anything which seemed weird for a studio that had a great job of promotion before that even winning Best Picture over a huge favorite. Now they have four contenders this year, and they all have things going for and against them, but I agree that they might all cancel each other out especially if A24 doesn't put in much effort like they did last year. 

Best Bets per studio... at least right now...


20th Century Fox

Sep. 20 - Ad Astra

Nov. 15 - Ford v. Ferrari



A24

Jun. 07 - The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Jul. 12 - The Farewell

Oct. 18 - The Lighthouse




Amazon

Nov. 15 - The Report

Dec. 06 - The Aeronauts




Annapurna/United Artists




Disney

Dec. 20 - Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker


Focus

Nov. 01 - Harriet




Fox Searchlight


IFC


Lionsgate


Neon

Dec. 27 - Clemency



Netflix

Nov. 01 - The Laundromat

N/A - Dolemite is My Name

N/A - Ema

N/A - The Irishman

N/A - The King

N/A - Marriage Story

N/A - The Two Popes



Paramount

May 31 - Rocketman




Roadside Attractions

Sep. 27 - Judy



Sony

Jul. 26 - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Nov. 22 - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Dec. 25 - Little Women



Sony Pictures Classics

Oct. 04 - Pain and Glory




Universal

Dec. 20 - Cats

Dec. 25 - 1917



Warner Bros.

Sep. 13 - The Goldfinch

Oct. 04 - Joker

Dec. 25 - Just Mercy

could a mod pin this please?

Deadline reports that HBO is nearing a $16.5M deal for worldwide rights to Bad Education, which means it's off the race.

Gonna be interesting to see what WB does now that they have another contender.