2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist.

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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 12, 2020 22:22:40 GMT Zeb31 likes this

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With 2019 in our rearview, let's get the ball rolling on 2020. Here are the early contenders for the year, listed by studio, and as new films come in from various festivals, I'll add 'em in.

A24:
• After Yang (Kogonada)
• C'mon C'mon (Mike Mills)
• First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
• The Green Knight (David Lowery)
• Macbeth (Joel Coen)
• Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
• On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola)
• Red, White, and Water (Lila Neugebauer)
• The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
• Zola (Janicza Bravo)

AMAZON:
• Annette (Leos Carax)
• Herself (Phyllida Lloyd)
• I’m Your Woman (Julia Hart)
• Louis Wain (Will Sharpe)
• Radioactive (Marjane Satrapi)
• Sound of Metal (Darius Marder)

BLEECKER STREET:
• The Roads Not Taken (Sally Potter)
• The Assistant (Kitty Green)

FOCUS FEATURES:
• Emma (Autumn de Wilde)
• Kajillionaire (Miranda July)
• Land (Robin Wright)
• Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright)
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
• Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)

IFC FILMS:
• The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
• True History of the Kelly Gang (Justin Kurzel)

NETFLIX:
• Blonde (Andrew Dominik)
• Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
• The Devil All the Time (Antonio Campos)
• Good Morning, Midnight (George Clooney)
• Hillbilly Elegy (Ron Howard)
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (George C. Wolfe)
• Mank (David Fincher)
• The Prom (Ryan Murphy)
• Rebecca (Ben Wheatley)

NEON:
• Ammonite (Francis Lee)
• Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Shirley (Josephine Decker)

PARAMOUNT:
• A Quiet Place: Part II (John Krasinski)
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)

SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES:
• Downhill (Nat Faxon and Jim Rash)
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter)
• The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
• Next Goal Wins (Taika Waititi)
• Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro)
• Nomadland (Chloe Zhao)
• Wendy (Benh Zeitlin)

SONY PICTURES CLASSICS:
• The Father (Florian Zeller)
• French Exit (Azazel Jacobs)

20TH CENTURY STUDIOS:
• Amsterdam (David O. Russell)
• Death on the Nile (Kenneth Branagh)
• Deep Water (Adrian Lyne)
• The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
• West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
• The Woman in the Window (Joe Wright)

UNIVERSAL:
• The Good House (Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky)
• News of the World (Paul Greengrass)

WARNER BROS.
• Dune (Denis Villeneuve)
• In the Heights (Jon M. Chu)
• The Little Things (John Lee Hancock)
• King Richard (Reinaldo Marcus Green)
• The Many Saints of Newark (Alan Taylor)
• Tenet (Christopher Nolan)
• Those Who Wish Me Dead (Taylor Sheridan)
• The Witches (Robert Zemeckis)
• Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins)

UNASSIGNED:
• Cherry (The Russo Brothers)

Last Edit: Feb 13, 2020 22:04:01 GMT by stephen

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Martin Stett Legend "Stett is weirder than New York" - Urbanpatrician Posts: 11,337 Likes: 7,480	2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 12, 2020 23:37:26 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Martin Stett on Feb 12, 2020 23:37:26 GMT I don't see our future BP winner, Ghosts of Mississippi, appearing here. Does it not have a distributor yet? Or a production?
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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 0:03:21 GMT Martin Stett likes this

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Feb 12, 2020 23:37:26 GMT Martin Stett said:

I don't see our future BP winner, Ghosts of Mississippi, appearing here. Does it not have a distributor yet? Or a production?

The... 1996 film?

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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 1:40:31 GMT

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Feb 13, 2020 0:03:21 GMT stephen said:

Feb 12, 2020 23:37:26 GMT Martin Stett said:

I don't see our future BP winner, Ghosts of Mississippi, appearing here. Does it not have a distributor yet? Or a production?

The... 1996 film?

....maybe I should get my titles right before making dumb jokes. PRISONERS OF GHOSTLAND is what I'm looking for.

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Although in a post-Green Book world, I could see Ghosts of Mississippi winning BP.

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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 1:57:46 GMT lee likes this

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Feb 13, 2020 1:40:31 GMT Martin Stett said:

Feb 13, 2020 0:03:21 GMT stephen said:

The... 1996 film?

....maybe I should get my titles right before making dumb jokes. PRISONERS OF GHOSTLAND is what I'm looking for.

SPOILER: Click to show

Although in a post-Green Book world, I could see Ghosts of Mississippi winning BP.

It may not be a Best Picture contender, but any Nicolas Cage/Sion Sono collaboration deserves a Nobel Prize.

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mhynson27 Legend Posts: 12,544 Likes: 7,890 Member is Online	2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 4:18:12 GMT stephen likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mhynson27 on Feb 13, 2020 4:18:12 GMT Word on the street is that Macbeth is 2021.
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Pavan God Tier Posts: 7,173 Likes: 3,740	2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 6:09:13 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Pavan on Feb 13, 2020 6:09:13 GMT 20th Century has a good lineup sans the Woman in the Window.

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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 6:25:42 GMT

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Feb 13, 2020 6:15:30 GMT @raygittes07 said:

Feb 13, 2020 6:09:13 GMT Pavan said:

20th Century has a good lineup sans the Woman in the Window.

I doubt that

West Side Story, Amsterdam and The Last Duel. Three potential BP nominees right there.

DeepArcher God Tier There's too much nudity in pictures these days. Posts: 7,437 Likes: 8,871	2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 6:43:28 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by DeepArcher on Feb 13, 2020 6:43:28 GMT Shit, I had no idea Blonde and The Devil All the Time were both Netflix. Neat. Neon's looking to continue to crush it this year. So, so looking forward to all three of those.
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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 7:03:29 GMT mhynson27 likes this

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Feb 13, 2020 6:33:49 GMT @raygittes07 said:

Feb 13, 2020 6:25:42 GMT Pavan said:

West Side Story, Amsterdam and The Last Duel. Three potential BP nominees right there.

The Last Duel sounds promising but can be disaster like Moses movie, West looks like a boring Oscar season type musical, Amsterdam looks blurry, the film hasn't even made how can they're so sure about that :uhoh:

Nobody's sure about anything. We're just making assumptions basing on the directors and cast involved.

pendragon Based Posts: 2,664 Likes: 3,254	2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 8:51:00 GMT stephen likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by pendragon on Feb 13, 2020 8:51:00 GMT Paramount has Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7.

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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 19:36:26 GMT via mobile

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Feb 13, 2020 7:03:29 GMT Pavan said:

Feb 13, 2020 6:33:49 GMT @raygittes07 said:

The Last Duel sounds promising but can be disaster like Moses movie, West looks like a boring Oscar season type musical, Amsterdam looks blurry, the film hasn't even made how can they're so sure about that :uhoh:

Nobody's sure about anything. We're just making assumptions basing on the directors and cast involved.

David O. Russell is a hack, doubt he'll ever win a best picture winning film.

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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 21:32:17 GMT

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Feb 13, 2020 20:58:05 GMT LaraQ said:

The Russo Brothers next film,Cherry,sounds baity as hell.Tom Holland plays an Army medic back from Iraq,dealing with an opiod addiction and ptsd who starts robbing banks.

Do we know if it has a distributor yet?

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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 13, 2020 21:38:42 GMT LaraQ likes this

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Feb 13, 2020 20:58:05 GMT LaraQ said:

The Russo Brothers next film,Cherry,sounds baity as hell.Tom Holland plays an Army medic back from Iraq,dealing with an opiod addiction and ptsd who starts robbing banks.

It's a very fine book - reads like a film as you turn each page......it's repetitive but gets deeply moving towards the end in a weird way...........could be great, could be one-note.......

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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Feb 14, 2020 12:26:42 GMT

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Feb 13, 2020 21:32:17 GMT stephen said:

Feb 13, 2020 20:58:05 GMT LaraQ said:

The Russo Brothers next film,Cherry,sounds baity as hell.Tom Holland plays an Army medic back from Iraq,dealing with an opiod addiction and ptsd who starts robbing banks.

Do we know if it has a distributor yet?

I don't think it does, but it's the Russo's, so it's not going to have a problem finding a distributor.

stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 24,639 Likes: 24,925	2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Mar 18, 2020 12:54:39 GMT therealcomicman117, speeders, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephen on Mar 18, 2020 12:54:39 GMT Well, current events are about to throw a nice wrench into this.
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Mar 18, 2020 15:30:49 GMT DeepArcher said:

Can't wait for Sonic the Hedgehog's sweep this year!

I guess we could know next year depending on how long this craziness lasts to know how much of a Netflix bias there still is.

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2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Mar 19, 2020 0:18:17 GMT morton likes this

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Mar 18, 2020 21:57:44 GMT morton said:

Mar 18, 2020 15:30:49 GMT DeepArcher said:

Can't wait for Sonic the Hedgehog's sweep this year!

I guess we could know next year depending on how long this craziness lasts to know how much of a Netflix bias there still is.

And best picture goes to... Bad Boys For Life (honestly at this point, that would be a pretty awesome winner, although completely unrealistic).

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stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 24,639 Likes: 24,925	2020 potential Oscar contenders: a masterlist. Mar 19, 2020 0:26:55 GMT morton likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephen on Mar 19, 2020 0:26:55 GMT Not gonna lie, I'd love a Bad Boys for Life Oscar campaign.
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