Meet This Year's Best Picture Contenders
If your leftover Halloween candy pile is down to a few stray pieces of Laffy Taffy* and Tootsie Rolls, it can mean only one thing: It's time for film awards season!
Which films will contend for the Oscars' biggest prize in March? To find out, we have surveyed industry experts, calculated the Metascores, and examined the top performing films at this year's major film festivals to come up with a list of 15 potential best picture contenders from 2022, plus more than a dozen bonus wildcards. In a welcome change, this year's best picture slate could include multiple films that you've heard of—in fact, it could include some of the year's most successful films at the box office. So let the guessing game begin ...
* Please take our Laffy Taffy.
What is it? A massively expensive sci-fi epic that is the first of four planned sequels to the 2009 hit Avatar, better known as the highest-grossing movie in history.
Why is it a contender? The original Avatar was (in addition to being a technical marvel and a pop culture sensation) a best picture nominee, and Water returns writer-director James Cameron and stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña.
What are its chances? If it comes close to matching the quality of the first film (Metascore: 83), pretty good—as long as Academy voters can handle wearing those 3D glasses for over three hours. (It's a loooong movie.) And don't think that the decade-plus gap between films will somehow prevent Water from becoming another box office sensation: A re-release of the original Avatar in theaters in September managed to gross over $75 million in just over a week.
When can I see it? December 16 in theaters everywhere.
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