Meet This Year's Oscar Best Picture Contenders
Though the next batch of Academy Award nominees won't be unveiled until January 22, 2019, there's already plenty of Oscar buzz for films that have reached theaters in the past few months as well as a few more due to open in the coming weeks.
While the top two or three favorites have been well established since the major fall festivals (TIFF, Venice) ended in September, the remainder of the best picture field appears to be up for grabs. Which are this year's likeliest contenders for the top Oscar? In the gallery above, check out all of this year's top prospects (in alphabetical order).
Now in theaters (released Oct. 12). For his follow-up to the momentarily (and incorrectly) best-picture-winning musical La La Land, Damien Chazelle reunites with the star of that film, Ryan Gosling, for a period biopic about astronaut Neil Armstrong and NASA's Apollo lunar program. Is another best picture nomination in Chazelle's future? Almost certainly, according to Oscar pundits: The film received excellent reviews and its subject matter seems to be right in the Academy's wheelhouse. (The similarly themed The Right Stuff was nominated for best picture in 1984.) In fact, the film could be among this year's most-nominated releases. But First Man's underwhelming box office performance so far suggests it may not be the universally appealing crowd-pleaser once envisioned, which means that actually winning the best picture trophy may still be out of Chazelle's reach.
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