Meet This Year's Potential Best Picture Contenders
The decorations at your local mall may say "Christmas," but the movie release schedule suggests a different time of year: Awards Season. The next five weeks will introduce some heavy hitters—including new films from David O. Russell, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Haynes, and Alejandro González Iñárritu—into what is already shaping up to be a crowded field of contenders. Actually, history suggests that the next best picture winner may already be playing in a theater near you. No December release has won the top Oscar in over a decade.
With that in mind, browse our quick guide to the 25 films that still appear to be in the running for best picture consideration, including titles released earlier this year as well as those arriving over the next month.
Of all the crowd-pleasing, big-budget fare contending for best picture nominations, this one seems the safest choice: a box office hit featuring an accomplished star (Matt Damon) and director (Ridley Scott) who have been previously nominated for multiple Oscars. It also doesn't hurt that it shares a genre and basic concept with Gravity, which earned a best picture nod just two years ago, though it isn't quite as critically acclaimed as that film. Is it a bad sign that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association just categorized The Martian as a comedy for Golden Globe purposes? Perhaps.
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