Oscars, Already? Contenders for 2019 Best Picture Nods
It is barely past the midpoint between the 2018 Academy Awards and the 2019 Academy Awards and yet, already, there is significant buzz about which movies will garner Best Picture nominations. Most of the following movies haven't even been released but are expected, by critics, film buffs, and industry insiders alike, to get attention from the Oscar voters. Of these films, so far considered to be likely contenders for Best Picture nominations, which are you most excited about seeing -- or possibly seeing get an Oscar nomination?
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- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsSteve CarellMaura TierneyJack Dylan GrazerBased on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.Recent Oscar nominees Steve Carrell and Timothee Chalamet star in this inspiring story based on best-selling memoirs of a father and son's struggle with addiction.The film will premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival before a U.S. release in October.
- DirectorRyan CooglerStarsChadwick BosemanMichael B. JordanLupita Nyong'oT'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.The buzz is this could be the first superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture. Released in February, 2018, to wide acclaim and box office success, it was directed by Ryan Coogler ('Creed,' 'Fruitville Station') and stars Chadwick Boseman, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o, and Michael B. Jordan.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJohn David WashingtonAdam DriverLaura HarrierRon Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.Starring Adam Driver, Topher Grace, and Denzel's son, John David Washington, this is being called by many the best "Spike Lee Joint" since the iconic 'Do the Right Thing.' It is the unbelievable but true story of an African-American police officer successfully infiltrating the Klu Klux Klan in the 1970s.
- DirectorJoel EdgertonStarsLucas HedgesNicole KidmanJoel EdgertonThe son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.After the success of 'The Gift', this is actor Joel Edgerton's second feature to direct. Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges star in 'Boy Erased' about a teen forced into a church-sanctioned gay conversion therapy. Released in the U.S. in November, it opens in other countries afterward.
- DirectorMarielle HellerStarsMelissa McCarthyRichard E. GrantDolly WellsWhen Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.Starring Melissa McCarthy, this is only the second film Marielle Heller has directed. It is the true story of celebrity biographer, Lee Israel, who, when her work stopped selling well, turned to deception.
- DirectorBo BurnhamStarsElsie FisherJosh HamiltonEmily RobinsonAn introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.28 year-old director and comedian BoBurnham's first movie follows a shy girl's disastrous last week of eighth grade, as she struggles to express herself, and save herself, via YouTube. This directorial debut has scored a very impressive 90 on Metacritic.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsOlivia ColmanEmma StoneRachel WeiszIn early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.Starring Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Colman as a servant, friend to the Queen and surrogate leader, and Queen Anne, respectively, the film is directed by burgeoning Yorgos Lanthimos, who has made a string of critically acclaimed movies in the past several years. It explores power, friendship, lust, and class, and, after showing at several film festivals, will open in the U.S. in November, 2018.
- DirectorDamien ChazelleStarsRyan GoslingClaire FoyJason ClarkeA look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy star in Damien Chazelle's ('LaLaLand', 'Whiplash') depiction of the life of the first human to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong. It is expected to do well at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival before opening in many countries in October.
- DirectorPeter FarrellyStarsViggo MortensenMahershala AliLinda CardelliniA working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.A Hollywood trope is elevated by probable Oscar-nominated performances by Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, directed by a surprising turn from Peter Farrelly. The film depicts the evolution of the friendship between a sophisticated black pianist and an unrefined white driver as they bear witness to the American South in the 1960s.
- DirectorBarry JenkinsStarsKiKi LayneStephan JamesRegina KingA young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit.From Barry Jenkins, the director of Oscar-winning Best Picture 'Moonlight,' comes this critically acclaimed crime drama and romance. Based on the novel by James Baldwin, it tells the story of a young pregnant woman who fights to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina AutreyA year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.Directed by Alfonso Cuarón ('Gravity,' 'Children of Men'), this film is a window into one year of the life of a middle-class family living in Mexico City in the early 1970s. 'Roma' has increasingly becoming seen as the odds-on favorite; after screenings at several film festivals, it opens in the U.S. in December of 2018.
- DirectorBradley CooperStarsLady GagaBradley CooperSam ElliottA musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.Bradley Cooper stars, along with Lady Gaga and Dave Chapelle, in his directorial debut, a story of artistic struggle, music, love, fame, and personal demons.
- DirectorAdam McKayStarsChristian BaleAmy AdamsSteve CarellThe story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that are still felt today.Directed by Adam McKay ('The Big Short') and with an all-star cast (Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carrell, Allison Pill, and Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush), this film explores how former Vice-President of the U.S., Dick Cheney, became the most powerful person in (arguably) the world.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsViola DavisMichelle RodriguezElizabeth DebickiFour women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.Four women in contemporary Chicago take their futures into their own hands after their late husbands leave them with crushing debt due to criminal activity. Oscar winner Steve McQueen ('12 Years a Slave,' 'Shame') directs Oscar winner Viola Davis, as well as Michellle Rodriguez, Colin Farrell, Oscar winnerRobert Duvall, Liam Neeson and others.