Oscar Movies to watch for in 2017
Before and after we watch the 89th Academy Awards. Let's get ready for some upcoming films that might be good to be for the 90th Academy Awards. Post in the comments on what movies am I missing.
Rows 1-38: Films that are mostly worthy of Best Picture to Acting and Screenplay
Rows 39-47: Films that are mostly worthy of Best Animated Feature
Rows 48-65: Films that are mostly worthy of their visuals and aurals
Rows 1-38: Films that are mostly worthy of Best Picture to Acting and Screenplay
Rows 39-47: Films that are mostly worthy of Best Animated Feature
Rows 48-65: Films that are mostly worthy of their visuals and aurals
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- DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsFrances McDormandWoody HarrelsonSam RockwellA mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
- DirectorJordan PeeleStarsDaniel KaluuyaAllison WilliamsBradley WhitfordA young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.This film has received a rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes which means my bets are that it will be an Oscar contender for its original screenplay.
- DirectorJonathan DaytonValerie FarisStarsEmma StoneSteve CarellAndrea RiseboroughThe true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.Danny Boyle teams up with the director team who made Little Miss Sunshine on a movie about one of the biggest tennis matches of the 1970's may get Emma Stone and Steve Carell some nominations for their performances and maybe get nominated for it's screenplay.
- DirectorColin TrevorrowStarsNaomi WattsJaeden MartellJacob TremblayWith instructions from her genius son's carefully crafted notebook, a single mother sets out to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsNicole KidmanKirsten DunstElle FanningThe unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsMichael FassbenderRebecca FergusonCharlotte GainsbourgDetective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.
- DirectorAlexander PayneStarsMatt DamonChristoph WaltzHong ChauA social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.Oscar legend Alexander Payne returns to his director chair to make a social satire of a man trying to shrink himself to make his life better may get Matt Damon another Oscar nomination and of course a Best Director nomination for Alexander Payne.
- DirectorPeter LandesmanStarsLiam NeesonDiane LaneMarton CsokasThe story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1972.
- DirectorDavid Gordon GreenStarsJake GyllenhaalTatiana MaslanyMiranda RichardsonStronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope after surviving the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsVicky KriepsDaniel Day-LewisLesley ManvilleSet in 1950s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.Paul Thomas Anderson the Stanley Kubrick of the 21st Century is back to make a new promising film with Daniel Day Lewis as the lead in their second film together might get some nominations for original screenplay, direction and of course Daniel Day Lewis the man if it can be a good film with critics.
- DirectorGeorge ClooneyStarsMatt DamonJulianne MooreOscar IsaacAs a 1950s suburban community self-destructs, a home invasion has sinister consequences for one seemingly normal family.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsEwan McGregorEwen BremnerJonny Lee MillerAfter 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.
- DirectorMichael GraceyStarsHugh JackmanMichelle WilliamsZac EfronCelebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.Hugh Jackman stars and produces a musical movie about the foundation of one of the greatest circus company named Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has got my eyes for not only for Hugh Jackman for Best Actor but for it's original songs done by the team of the yet to win Best Picture film "La La Land" for Best Original Song.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsJohn BoyegaAnthony MackieAlgee SmithFact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.Kathryn Bigelow the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director is back with a new film about the biggest and dangerous riots of 1967 has got my early picks for Best Picture, screenplay and of course it's sound mixing and editing.
- DirectorCraig JohnsonStarsWoody HarrelsonSandra Lee-Oian ThomasShaun J. BrownA lonely, neurotic, and hilariously honest middle-aged man reunites with his estranged wife, and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.
- DirectorDanny StrongStarsNicholas HoultKevin SpaceyVictor GarberThe life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye".
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsBarry G. BernsonHerb CaillouetBill CampSteven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsOakes FegleyJulianne MooreMichelle WilliamsTells the tale of two children separated by fifty years. In 1927, Rose searches for the actress whose life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977, Ben runs away from home to find his father.Todd Hayes of Carol and I'm Not There makes his first kids film which is based on the story by the author of Hugo may get nominated for it's direction, screenplay and maybe acting.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsJennifer LawrenceJavier BardemEd HarrisA couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.Darren Aronofsky makes his return to film with a film about couple being invaded by strangers could get Jennifer Lawrence another nomination for Best Actress if Darren can make this film better than his last one.
- DirectorJames FrancoStarsJames FrancoDave FrancoAri GraynorWhen aspiring actor Greg Sestero meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.James Franco directs a movie of the making of the Citizen Kane of bad movies called The Room has gotten early good reviews that it could get some nominations for James Franco, his brother Dave and Sharon Stone. Let's hope it gets more good reviews so it can get the Academy's attention and be James Franco's Ed Wood where every film lover would watch and love it.
- DirectorDestin Daniel CrettonStarsBrie LarsonWoody HarrelsonNaomi WattsA young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.
- DirectorAlfonso Gomez-RejonStarsBenedict CumberbatchOliver PowellSophia AllyThe dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.
- DirectorAaron SorkinStarsJessica ChastainIdris ElbaKevin CostnerThe true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.Aaron Sorkin of hit Academy Award films like The Social Network and Moneyball makes his director debut of a famous ice skier targeted by the FBI due to she is holding a poker game in her home, is right for Best Screenplay and maybe acting if Aaron can get into directing well.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsSally HawkinsOctavia SpencerMichael ShannonAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.Guillermo del Toro returns to film with his successor to Pan's Labyrinth of a story of magic elements happen during the cold war has gotten my locks of it's screenplay and costume designs if Guillermo makes it good so the Academy will pay attention to it.
- DirectorDee ReesStarsJason MitchellCarey MulliganJason ClarkeTwo men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.This Sundance Film Festival hit has got my attention of it's story of after WWII life may get the film nominated for Picture to Screenplay.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsJustin TimberlakeJuno TempleRobert C. KirkOn Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator, his beleaguered wife and the visitor who turns their lives upside-down.
- DirectorStephen ChboskyStarsJacob TremblayOwen WilsonIzabela VidovicBased on the New York Times bestseller, this movie tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters the fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsMeryl StreepTom HanksSarah PaulsonA cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.
- DirectorTaylor SheridanStarsElizabeth OlsenJeremy RennerGraham GreeneA wildlife officer, who is haunted by a tragedy that happened because of him, teams up with an FBI agent in solving a murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation and hopes to get redemption from his past regrets.
- DirectorNoah BaumbachStarsAdam SandlerGrace Van PattenDustin HoffmanAn estranged family gathers together in New York City for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsGary OldmanLily JamesKristin Scott ThomasIn May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.Joe Wright of Atonement and Pride & Prejudiced makes a new WWII film with Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill which could earn him his second Oscar nomination with nominations for it's costume and production designs if Joe can recover after the failure of the awful Pan.
- DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsBryan CranstonLaurence FishburneSteve CarellThirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
- DirectorJason HallStarsMiles TellerBeulah KoaleJoe ColeA group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTimothée ChalametArmie HammerMichael StuhlbargIn 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
- DirectorMichael ShowalterStarsKumail NanjianiZoe KazanHolly HunterPakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsAnsel ElgortJon BernthalJon HammAfter being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.Another movie with a rare 100% ratting on Rotten Tomatoes, if it can keep this up or stay at a 98% it could be a good contender for Best Original Screenplay or maybe it's sound.
- DirectorReginald HudlinStarsChadwick BosemanJosh GadKate HudsonThe story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.Reginald Hudlin the producer of Django Unchained directs a promising bio film about Thurgood Marshall the first African American Supreme Court Justice member could get Chadwick Boseman his first Academy Award nomination (for god's sake Academy! Just give him his first nomination all ready!!) if Reginald can make it good.
- DirectorCharlie McDowellStarsRobert RedfordMary SteenburgenBrian McCarthyTwo years after the afterlife is scientifically proven, a man attempts to help a young woman break away from her dark past.
- DirectorChris McKayStarsWill ArnettMichael CeraRosario DawsonA cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick.The race for the Best Animated Feature Film of 2017 has began with The Lego Batman Movie. Let's hope the Academy will nominated this critically received film to clean the sins of having The Lego Movie just nominated only for Best Original Song.
- DirectorLee UnkrichAdrian MolinaStarsAnthony GonzalezGael García BernalBenjamin BrattAspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.A promising new Pixar movie about the day of the dead is in my early lock for Best Animated Feature if Pixar can get their grove back.
- DirectorTimothy ReckartStarsSteven YeunKeegan-Michael KeyAidy BryantA small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas.Academy Award nominated Timothy Reckart directs his feature film debut about the story of the birth of Jesus. Let's hope it will be good and tell the story right without realying on bad comedy and anyoing characters due its voice cast that was announced for this movie.
- DirectorKyle BaldaPierre CoffinEric GuillonStarsSteve CarellKristen WiigTrey ParkerGru meets his long-lost, charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother Dru, who wants to team up with him for one last criminal heist.If The Star fails to be an Oscar movie, we can always have the third and final Despicable Me film take its spot. Let's hope this will be good as the other two and not be bad as any other American animated film out there.
- DirectorNora TwomeyStarsSaara ChaudrySoma ChhayaNoorin GulamgausIn 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.Right now the only art house animated film to get my eye would be a film about a middle eastern girl trying to help her family while being a boy in public from the studio that made The Secert of Kells and Song of the Sea, unless there will be another GKIDS film that will get our attention.
- DirectorCarlos SaldanhaStarsJohn CenaKate McKinnonBobby CannavaleAfter Ferdinand, a bull with a big heart, is mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure.If both The Star and Despicable Me 3 fail to be the third lock for Best Animated Feature, then we can have this promising looking film where John Cena plays a bull. But seen how this is a Blue Sky film, we are really worried on how this film will be and become.
- DirectorDavid SorenStarsKevin HartThomas MiddleditchEd HelmsTwo overly imaginative pranksters named George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking he's a ridiculously enthusiastic, incredibly dimwitted superhero named Captain Underpants.If Despicable Me 3 or Ferdinand also fail to be the third lock for Best Animated Feature we can have this little funny movie take it's place seeing how it has an 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
- DirectorHiromasa YonebayashiStarsHana SugisakiRyunosuke KamikiYûki AmamiBased on "The Little Broomstick" by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.The first animated feature film from former Studio Ghibli animators of Studio Ponoc has got my eyes for a nomination for Best Animated Feature if it will make it on the list for the race for the Best Animated Feature nomination and if it has an American distributor in time.
- DirectorMotonori SakakibaraKunihiko YuyamaStarsMao InoueRyohei SuzukiAkio ÔtsukaA stranded little cat tries to find a way to back home.If Mary and the Witch's Flower fails to make it in the race for Best Animated Feature. We can have this little CGI animated treat also from Japan and from the director of the Pokemon anime take it's place seeing how the Academy likes new kinds of animation styles from Japan, if the Academy will still let foreign animated films get nominated.
- DirectorJohn Cameron MitchellStarsElle FanningAlex SharpNicole KidmanAn alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London borough of Croydon.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsJudi DenchAli FazalTim Pigott-SmithQueen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
- DirectorBharat NalluriStarsDan StevensMark SchrierPatrick Joseph ByrnesThe journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of "A Christmas Carol," a timeless tale that would redefine Christmas.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsTilda SwintonPaul DanoAhn Seo-hyunA young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.
- DirectorBill CondonStarsEmma WatsonDan StevensLuke EvansA selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsHarrison FordRyan GoslingAna de ArmasYoung Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.Denis Villeneuve of Academy Award films like Arrival and Sicaro directs the long awaited sequel to one of the greatest sci-fi films ever, Blade Runner! Seeing how Denis' last movies have recive Oscar nominations, my fingers are cross to hope it will be good as the original and make it in the final picks for Best Visual Effects.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsMichael FassbenderKatherine WaterstonBilly CrudupThe crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.
- DirectorRian JohnsonStarsDaisy RidleyJohn BoyegaMark HamillRey develops her abilities with the help of Luke Skywalker, as the Resistance prepares for battle against the First Order.Seeing how the last Star Wars movies were nominated for Academy Awards. Me and the Star Wars fan base are hoping and betting that this Star Wars movie will be better than Force Awakens so it can be nominated for Best Visual Effects and of course score by the great and legendary John Williams.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsFionn WhiteheadBarry KeoghanMark RylanceAllied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.Christopher Nolan returns to film with a new movie subject that is new to him, a World War II movie. My bets are it will only get nominations for Best Sound Editing and Mixing and maybe score by Hans Zimmer if this won't be weaker than Intersteallar and maybe Man of Steel.
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsKenneth BranaghPenélope CruzWillem DafoeWhen a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
- DirectorJames GunnStarsChris PrattZoe SaldanaDave BautistaThe Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his father, the ambitious celestial being Ego.The guardians are back in the sequel of the 2014 hit film and is as one of the three Marvel films to come out in 2017. Looking at the trailer for this film got me thinking that this film may be better, bigger and funnier than first one that it could be the first locks for it's make up and visual effects.
- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsChris HemsworthTom HiddlestonCate BlanchettImprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnarök, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela.
- DirectorJon WattsStarsTom HollandMichael KeatonRobert Downey Jr.Peter Parker balances his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter-ego Spider-Man, and finds himself on the trail of a new menace prowling the skies of New York City.
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsDane DeHaanCara DelevingneClive OwenA dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.Luc Besson returns to Sci-Fi with his sucsseor to The Fifth Elment might make it in the finals for the race for Best Make Up or Visual Effects if it won't be this year's Jupiter Accsending.
- DirectorMatt ReevesStarsAndy SerkisWoody HarrelsonSteve ZahnAfter the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind.Seeing how the last Planet of the Apes reboot films have gotten nominated for Best Visual Effects, it looks like this one will be nominated for its Effects like the last ones if it can get good reviews.
- DirectorPatty JenkinsStarsGal GadotChris PineRobin WrightWhen a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.The only DC Comics movie that I am looking for to be good this year. Let's hope DC Comics learns from their mistakes of Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad (even though that was the only DC Comics live action movie of 2016 I liked). Also I can see it being worthy for it's production and costume designs instead of it's effects.
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsHugh JackmanPatrick StewartDafne KeenIn a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.The race for Best Make-Up begins with Logan, the final film in the Wolverine film series that is part of the X-Men Cinematic Universe for it's makeup of old Hugh Jackman.
- DirectorPaul McGuiganStarsAnnette BeningJamie BellKenneth CranhamA romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady.Seeing how this film has music composed by J. Ralph. My thoughts are that this film will only be worthy for Best Original Song while everything else is meh.