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.
The combination of director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Hanks has already produced one best picture nomination, for 1998's Saving Private Ryan. They will look to repeat that feat with their fourth film together, a Cold War drama (based on a true story about a downed American U-2 pilot) with a script co-written by the Coen brothers. Spielberg's two most recent films (Lincoln and War Horse) were best picture nominees.
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