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.
That title may be more apt than anyone expected. If any film can be considered a best picture frontrunner at this stage, it is this true story tale of a Boston Globe investigation into the Catholic church's sex abuse scandal in the early 2000s. A fall festival hit that is only now (slowly, but very successfully) rolling out to theaters, the film comes from director Tom McCarthy (rebounding spectacularly from his lone dud, The Cobbler) and counts Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, and Rachel McAdams among its ensemble. The question isn't whether Spotlight will win an award; it is how many, and which ones.
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