Sweet holy Lisan al Gaib, we’re back already for another season of the Movies Fantasy League. Year four! The year you finally win. This season, we’re dialing up the stakes: newer, more plentiful prizes! Additional chances to earn points! A bigger, glitzier, more competitive Podcasters Division! And yes, still me, guiding you through the gamified movie season as coherently and entertainingly as I possibly can.
The entry form is now open, and you’re free to start drafting your team(s), but wait! Before you do, might I interest you in some tips to help you get started? Followed by a list of every film that’s available to draft?
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What Is the Movies Fantasy League?
It’s very easy, very fun, very free. You use the MFL draft form to assemble a team of eight movies that were or will be released in 2024; you get a budget of 100 fake dollars to spend on those picks. We’ve given each movie a price based on its projected points-earning potential. You have until 11:59 a.m. PT on October 3 to select your team. After that, your movies will accumulate points based on box-office returns, critical reception, and awards and nominations. (You can find the scoring system at the MFL hub.) Each week, we’ll update the standings and you’ll get a newsletter summary. Whichever team has the highest score following the Oscars ceremony on March 2, 2025, will win. Read on to learn more and immerse yourself in the eligible movies.
Ed. note: A few films in this article were initially listed at a different price than they cost on the draft form. Those errors have been corrected.
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Strategy Talk
A brief road map to MFL glory.
Find Value
Your challenge is to select eight movies that will get you the most bang for your buck. You must fill out a full roster, so you can’t blow your whole allowance on a few pricey movies and call it a day — but when it comes to drafting, it’s easy to get enamored of the priciest options. Gladiator II looks epic as hell. Sing Sing is giving CODA vibes. Steve McQueen directed a movie about the London blitz? We’re listening. But what separates the good rosters from the great ones is the ability to find value in mid-priced or low-priced movies. Last year, every single one of the top 100 rosters included both Poor Things and American Fiction. Both movies were underpriced for various reasons (Poor Things had a wonky release date that later got changed; American Fiction didn’t emerge as a major contender until it won the People’s Choice at the Toronto Film Festival). But sharp-eyed drafters were able to pick up big value at relatively low prices, and that made all the difference.
Just Pick the Best Picture Winner!
Yes, it’s a great idea to draft the eventual Best Picture winner. Both Oppenheimer last year and Everything Everywhere All at Once in the league’s first year pushed the winning teams to the top with their Oscar-night hauls. Both of those movies had already opened by the time drafting for the Fantasy League had begun, and both had staked a credible claim on their promising Oscar futures. They were, in a sense, relatively safe bets.
This year, the field is much tougher to read. Dune: Part 2 is an obvious front-runner in pretty much every craft category (Cinematography, Sound, Editing, Costumes), but nobody’s really expecting it to win Oscar’s biggest categories. Sing Sing has gotten raves, but a movie that small is going to have to maneuver around a lot of obstacles to get real traction. And so we’re left trying to guess at whether, say, Gladiator II can recapture the magic of the original, or if Oscar voters will flip for a movie about the London blitz, an intrigue-laden papal selection, or a tempestuous love affair in Brighton Beach. Is this the year of the Joker and Harley Quinn or Elphaba and Glinda? Of Chalamet Bob Dylan? Your guess is as good as ours. Exciting!
… Or Pick Low-Priced Box-Office Powerhouses Instead!
Last year, a pair of value-priced box-office smashes helped push a ton of lineups to the top of the standings: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and Five Nights at Freddy’s. The latter benefited from the fact that I’m 40-something years old and didn’t know those video games were a thing. The former benefited from the fact that it was announced after the draft window had opened, and while I probably slightly underestimated the Swifties’ box-office power, I did correctly reason that the film would be DOA once the awards portion of the year kicked in.
Still, it’s worth a look at the mid-priced movies to see if I’m undervaluing the box-office potential of Kraven or Venom or the terrifying rictus grins of Smile 2. This year, we adjusted the points structure for box office to make it a bit more meaningful. It’s still 1 point earned for every $1 million in domestic box office, but now, rather than just two bonus-point thresholds at $50 (was 20 points) and $100 million (was 40 points), we’re doing this:
Clears $25 million: 10-point bonus
Clears $50 million: 15-point bonus
Clears $75 million: 15-point bonus
Clears $100 million: 20-point bonus
Clears $125 million: 15-point bonus
Clears $150 million: 15-point bonus
Clears $175 million: 15-point bonus
Clears $200 million: 25-point bonus
Reaches No. 1 at the domestic box office: 20 points per week spent at No. 1
The bonuses are cumulative, so a $100 million movie will have earned: 100 points from the point-per-dollar, plus 60 bonus points for clearing the first four thresholds (10+15+15+20), plus whatever bonus points it got for weeks at No. 1. This way, there are more ways to differentiate movies that do pretty well from really well to freaking awesome at the box office.
As You Monitor the Festivals, Don’t Forget Cannes
Last year, three of the biggest awards contenders — Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest, and Killers of the Flower Moon — all premiered at Cannes. Oscar voters are increasingly looking to international features to fill out their ballots, so it’s worth doing a little digging into the Cannes contenders that might show up this year, especially if they’re being distributed by the likes of Neon, A24, or Focus Features. The Palme d’Or winner, Anora, is being distributed by Neon and released in the fall, a formula that has worked out in the past for the likes of Anatomy of a Fall and Parasite. Other Cannes notables include Emilia Perez, The Substance, Bird, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, and of course Francis Ford Coppola’s possible bomb Megalopolis.
Documentaries and Animation
One of the best places to find big value among lower-priced films is with docs and cartoons. Last year, the documentaries 20 Days in Mariupol, Beyond Utopia, and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie were among the best movies to draft when it came to points earned per dollar spent. And the latter two didn’t even get nominated for the Oscar. Similarly, offbeat animated movies like Robot Dreams and Suzume delivered nice returns.
Don’t Sleep on the Team Name
You need to plan for success, and part of that plan is knowing that when your roster does indeed shoot to the top of the leaderboard, you’ll be happy with the team name you’ve selected. Last year featured plenty of puns on Barbie, Oppenheimer, Barbenheimer, Anatomy of a Fall, The Color Purple, and May December. Our fourth-place team referenced Jack Quaid’s Oppenheimer character Richard Feynman. Our tenth-place team went for the more timeless “Melvin and Howard the Duck.” Our grand-prize winner Ben Chung went with … Ben Chung. (This is what happens when you don’t plan for success — love you, Ben, hope you’re back to defend your crown!)
The films of 2024 offer much in the way of punnery. Titles like I Saw the TV Glow, Joker: Folie à Deux, and Horizon: An American Saga present vast landscapes ready to be wordplayed. There are celebrity scandals and tabloid stories involving the likes of Blake Lively, Ben Affleck, and other people who weren’t in The Town. God help us all, it’s an election year, though I would advise great caution in any coconut tree or couch-humper names; the bar is quite high. Feel free to go ham on Tim Walz dadcore names, though.
Point is: The Movies Fantasy League is here for fun, so get the most fun out of it. Draft your roster with aplomb, compete with your friends, and pick a team name like “The New Rochelle Challenger Presented By Dementus’s Gas Town” (or something that will fit into the character limit). Have a blast.
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Top Picks
Gladiator II ($40)
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal
Release date: November 15
Awards potential: Everything that applied to the first Gladiator movie in 2000 applies here: It’s a big, bombastic throwback to a revered Hollywood genre (the “sword-and-sandal epic” category that produced films such as Ben-Hur and Spartacus) from a respected director with a red-hot cast. Then you add to that already-successful formula Denzel Washington.
Pedigree: Washington’s Oscar pedigree takes a back seat to pretty much no one, and since we’re in the era of handing out third Oscars (in the last 15 years, Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Frances McDormand have all taken home No. 3), expect there to be talk about when Denzel will get his. As for the film, no other movie this year can stack up to “the first one won Best Picture,” so there’s that. Ridley Scott did not win an Oscar for Gladiator, though, and that’s the kind of overdue narrative he could run with as well.
Dune: Part Two ($35)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Austin Butler
Release date: Already released
Awards potential: Name a craft category, and this movie will be a major contender in it. Three years ago, the first Dune racked up ten nominations and six awards (though Villeneuve got the snub in Best Director). This time around, the movie is a much bigger financial hit as well.
Pedigree: Despite that Best Director snub, Villeneuve is a very Oscar-friendly director, with nominations for six of his last seven films. Acting nominations remain a long shot for such a genre-y film, but Austin Butler — recent Best Actor nominee that he is — plays the kind of Weird Villain With Big Acting Choices that does sometimes get recognized.
Moana 2 ($30)
Director: David G. Derrick Jr.
Stars: Auli‘i Cravalho (voice), Dwayne Johnson (voice)
Release date: November 27
Awards potential: This is shaping up to be a very competitive year in the Animated Feature category, which could come down to Pixar (with Inside Out 2) versus Disney in a battle of box-office-behemoth franchise sequels.
Pedigree: The first Moana was nominated for Best Animated Feature (lost to Zootopia) and Best Original Song (lost to La La Land). It’s now often considered to have deserved both, which could give Disney an angle on its Oscar campaign by not-so-subtly suggesting that voters correct their past oversight.
Sing Sing ($25)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Greg Kwedar
Stars: Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin
Film festivals: Toronto (2023), South by Southwest
Release date: August 2
Awards potential: After humbly debuting at TIFF last year, Sing Sing began quietly accumulating strong reviews, got acquired by A24, and enjoyed a buzzy run through SXSW this spring. A combination of subject-matter heft (it’s about a theater group in a prison) and emotional uplift could take this movie a long way.
Pedigree: Director Greg Kwedar doesn’t have much of one. Neither does Maclin, though his real-life experience in prison, which partly inspired the film, should be an asset for any awards campaign. Domingo, meanwhile, is coming hot off his first Oscar nomination for Rustin.
Emilia Perez ($25)
Director: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez
Film festivals: Cannes, Toronto, New York
Release date: November 13
Awards potential: This movie was the talk of the Cannes Film Festival, which is a thing that can happen when you’re a Mexican cartel crime musical with a transgender lead character. All three lead actresses shared the Best Actress prize, and Netflix jumped to acquire the film, setting it for an awards-friendly November premiere.
Pedigree: Audiard’s 2009 film, A Prophet, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Anora ($25)
Director: Sean Baker
Stars: Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn
Film festivals: Cannes, Toronto, New York
Release date: October 18
Awards potential: The recent track record for distributor Neon and Palme d’Or winners at Cannes is strong: Parasite in 2019, Triangle of Sadness in 2022, Anatomy of a Fall in 2023. All Best Picture nominees, with one winning. That translates into beaucoup fantasy points. Anora, about a chaotic love story among the exotic dancers and oligarchs of Brighton Beach, could fit right in with those films.
Pedigree: Baker’s The Florida Project won a bunch of precursors in 2017 and turned up on plenty of year-end top-ten lists, ultimately scoring a Supporting Actor nomination for Willem Dafoe. The director’s follow-up, Red Rocket, made a much smaller splash (despite being an excellent film).
Blitz ($20)
Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson
Film festivals: New York, London
Release date: November 1
Awards potential: World War II remains a potent genre for voters — just look at Oppenheimer and The Zone of Interest last year. McQueen’s film, about the Nazi bombing of London, has the potential for searing visuals, harrowing action, and, with the likes of Ronan and Dickinson in the cast, some great performances.
Pedigree: With four Oscar nominations under her belt, Saoirse Ronan has quietly become one of the most overdue-for-a-win actresses in Hollywood. She’s always going to be on the radar, especially for a movie with such weighty subject matter. McQueen, meanwhile, is a Best Picture winner for 12 Years a Slave, though he lost Best Director that year (to Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity), so he still has a claim to an underdog narrative.
Joker: Folie à Deux ($20)
Director: Todd Phillips
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga
Film festivals: Venice
Release date: October 4
Awards potential: We’d assumed that Phoenix (who won the Best Actor Oscar for the first Joker) and Lady Gaga would’ve been in contention for Most Acting, at the very least. But the film’s reception in Venice was bad, and if that’s any indication of how it’ll land in the States, that award potential could plummet.
Pedigree: The original Joker had high-profile detractors, but its general critical reception was one of pleasant surprise. It won Venice’s Golden Lion prize! Did you remember that Joker led all nominated films at the 2019–20 Oscars? Well, it did! Lady Gaga brings her own Oscar history to the table, too, but pedigree can curdle when the movie leaves everybody disappointed.
Conclave ($20)
Director: Edward Berger
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: November 8
Awards potential: There’s definite awards buzz for this thriller about papal succession from the director of All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s going to try to thread the needle between crowd-pleaser and serious art.
Pedigree: Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front took the 2022–23 awards season by surprise and ended up with nine nominations and four wins. He’s the reason all eyes are on this Vatican-set movie for grown-ups. Then there’s the matter of Ralph Fiennes, whose two Oscar nominations happened 30-ish years ago and who has since been snubbed for award-worthy performances in A Bigger Splash, In Bruges, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. At some point, the “overdue” drumbeat is going to begin for him.
Wicked ($20)
Director: Jon M. Chu
Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande
Release date: November 27
Awards potential: When it comes to musicals, voters can be effusive (seven nominations for Spielberg’s West Side Story) or stingy (The Color Purple’s lone nom last year). On paper, Wicked seems to hold huge potential in the crafts fields, especially costumes, makeup/hairstyling, sound, and visual effects. As for the major categories … well, Idina Menzel did win a Tony Award as Elphaba, the role Cynthia Erivo is playing. Precedent has been set.
Pedigree: Jon M. Chu’s previous big-screen musical, In the Heights, suffered for being one of the first big theatrical movies after the COVID shutdown and was ultimately shut out of the Oscar nominations. Erivo is a previous Best Actress nominee for 2019’s Harriet. And then there’s recent Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh in the role of the villainous Madame Morrible, perhaps poised for an afterglow Supporting Actress campaign.
Mufasa: The Lion King ($20)
Director: Barry Jenkins
Stars: Aaron Pierre (voice), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (voice)
Release date: December 20
Awards potential: A family-friendly Disney movie with incredibly high name recognition releasing over the Christmas holiday? The degree to which this movie’s sky-high box-office potential is realized will likely determine how far it can go with awards. It’s worth noting that despite the heavy use of CGI animation, it’s not considered an animated movie for awards purposes.
Pedigree: Barry Jenkins is an Oscar winner for Moonlight, which is where the bulk of the prestige for this project comes from. Lin-Manuel Miranda has also written songs for the film, so his quest to complete an EGOT could continue this year.
Nickel Boys ($20)
Director: RaMell Ross
Stars: Ethan Herisse, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Fred Hechinger
Film festivals: New York
Release date: October 25
Awards potential: Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead, the film tells the story of a Black child in 1960s Florida who gets sent to an abusive reform school. The film is opening the 2024 New York Film Festival, a position given to previous awards magnets such as The Social Network, Life of Pi, The Favourite, and The Irishman.
Pedigree: Director RaMell Ross is making his narrative-feature debut, but his 2018 film Hale County This Morning, This Evening was an Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor was a 2021 Oscar nominee for her role in King Richard.
Inside Out 2 ($15)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Kelsey Mann
Stars: Amy Poehler (voice), Maya Hawke (voice)
Release date: June 14
Awards potential: While you won’t be able to get fantasy-league points for any of Inside Out 2’s $642 million worldwide haul, that success will almost certainly help boost its awards potential. Even when Pixar’s films aren’t huge blockbusters, they still get nominated for the Animated Feature Oscar; a return to form like this could signal front-runner status.
Pedigree: The first Inside Out won the Animated Feature Oscar and was probably within two or three slots from a Best Picture nomination for 2015.
A Complete Unknown ($15)
Director: James Mangold
Stars: Timothée Chalamet
Release date: December 25
Awards potential: Biopics of famous musicians are absolute catnip for voters. Look no further than Austin Butler’s recent nomination for playing Elvis as proof. James Mangold has directed a few such performances, with Joaquin Phoenix getting nominated and Reese Witherspoon winning for Walk the Line. Recent wins by Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury and Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland prove that the performances don’t even need to be that well liked to win. This all bodes well for this Bob Dylan biopic, a movie that Searchlight clearly sees potential in, given that it pounced on a Christmas release date just six months after filming wrapped.
Pedigree: Chalamet is a former Best Actor nominee for Call Me By Your Name. Mangold has directed two actresses to Oscar wins (Witherspoon and also Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted), a handful of films with craft nominations (3:10 to Yuma, Kate & Leopold, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny), a rare screenplay nomination for a superhero movie (Logan), and an oft-forgotten-but-still-counts Best Picture nomination for Ford v. Ferrari.
Queer ($15)
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey
Film festivals: Venice, Toronto, New York
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: Guadagnino’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s novel stars Daniel Craig as an American who flees a drug bust to Mexico City, where he becomes infatuated with a discharged young Navy serviceman (Drew Starkey). The subject matter sounds right up Guadagnino’s sensory alley, and it could offer a perfect way for Craig to continue to spread his wings post-Bond.
Pedigree: An Oscar nomination for this performance would be Craig’s first.
Maria ($15)
Director: Pablo Larraín
Stars: Angelina Jolie
Film festivals: Venice, New York
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: Larrain is two for two when it comes to directing American actresses to Oscar nominations for playing real-life women (Natalie Portman in Jackie; Kristen Stewart in Spencer). His style makes for an intriguing match with Jolie’s star power in this film about legendary opera singer Maria Callas.
Pedigree: Jolie won Best Supporting Actress 25 years ago for Girl, Interrupted, but has only been nominated once since, for Changeling.
The Wild Robot ($15)
Director: Chris Sanders
Stars: Lupita Nyong’o (voice), Pedro Pascal (voice)
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: September 27
Awards potential: In a stacked year for animated features (Inside Out 2, Moana 2, a Nick Park and a Lord of the Rings?), this entry from DreamWorks Animation looks like it was built to compete. The story is about a robot lost in a storm that washes up on an island and finds its place among the animal residents there; as Bilge Ebiri wrote in his review, “Nyong’o does some of her best, most challenging work here. She’s as essential to the power of The Wild Robot as its captivating, gorgeous visuals. She helps turn this heartwarming family film into an unforgettable one.”
Pedigree: Sanders directed Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon, and The Croods, all of which got Animated Feature nominations at the Oscars.
The Brutalist ($15)
Director: Brady Corbet
Stars: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce
Film festivals: Venice, Toronto, New York
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: The big glow-up of the 2024 festival season was Corbet’s grandly presented story of a Hungarian Jewish architect in mid-century America. Corbet won Venice’s Best Director prize, while Brody’s lauded performance immediately got people wondering how high his awards ceiling could be (he could absolutely win a second Oscar for this), as well as clamoring for Pearce to get his first-ever Oscar nod. While there were questions about distribution, A24 picked up the film for what we’re hearing is a 2024 awards run. Plan accordingly.
Pedigree: Corbet, who’s directed films like Vox Lux and The Childhood of a Leader, has never been a part of the major awards conversation. But Brody would be in line for his second Oscar nomination more than 20 years after his surprise Best Actor win for The Pianist.
Challengers ($10)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, Mike Faist
Release date: April 26
Awards potential: If the Oscars had been held in May, Challengers would have gobbled up MFL points. And somewhere out there, a canny Amazon/MGM awards strategist is probably cooking up a plan to convince the Golden Globes to let this compete as a musical/comedy. (I’m kidding, I think.) The point is that the biggest challenge to Challengers as an awards player is the coming months full of other contenders. But Challengers does have an advantage in the fact that we already know people love it.
Pedigree: Luca Guadagnino has directed a Best Picture nominee in Call Me By Your Name, though he will probably be paying more attention to his other awards-seeking movie of 2024, Queer.
The Piano Lesson ($10)
Director: Malcolm Washington
Stars: John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Fisher, Danielle Deadwyler
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: Denzel Washington producing the works of August Wilson for the big screen has been a successful awards endeavor so far, after 2016’s Fences (Best Picture nominee; Supporting Actress win for Viola Davis) and 2020’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (5 nominations and 2 wins). Now he hands the directing reins off to his son Malcolm, with his other son John David in the lead role. Washington, Fisher, and Jackson all reprise their roles from the 2022 Broadway production, which earned the latter actor a Tony nomination for his performance. That might be a hint as to where the awards attention could go.
Pedigree: Jackson has somehow only been Oscar-nominated one time, 30 whole years ago for Pulp Fiction. Deadwyler, meanwhile, got a lot of ink for being seemingly edged out of Best Actress two years ago by the Andrea Riseborough word-of-mouth campaign, so this could be a “redemption” year for her.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ($10)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega
Film festivals: Venice
Release date: September 6
Awards potential: The movie’s Venice reception has a lot of people wondering if there might be more to it than just an intellectual-property cash grab. (Although it did a nice job of grabbing cash, too.) The original Beetlejuice was a winner for Best Makeup, and Burton’s films tend to do well in the craft categories. Keaton and even Ryder or Ortega could be in line for Comedy-specific nominations at the Globes or Critics’ Choice.
Pedigree: Keaton has only ever been nominated for one Oscar (in 2014’s Birdman), while Ryder’s two nominations came in the 1990s. Can they — and Burton — recapture the magic?
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 ($10)
Director: Jeff Fowler
Stars: James Marsden, Ben Schwartz (voice), Keanu Reeves (voice)
Release date: December 20
Box-office potential: The second Sonic movie made $190 million domestic, and that was for an April release. The December box office ought to be pretty friendly for easy family fare like this.
Pedigree: He’s the fastest hedgehog in the world. How much more pedigree do you need?
Nightbitch ($10)
Director: Marielle Heller
Stars: Amy Adams
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: December 6
Awards potential: The idea of Amy Adams’s six-time losing streak at the Oscars getting broken by a movie called Nightbitch is almost too delicious to be possible, and yet Searchlight releasing Marielle Heller’s horror comedy in December is an unmistakable sign of confidence in the film’s potential. Based on a 2021 Rachel Yoder novel, the film stars Adams as a stay-at-home mom who sometimes transforms into a dog.
Pedigree: Adams has been nominated for six Oscars, though none since 2018’s Vice. That same year, Heller directed Melissa McCarthy to a Best Actress nomination for Can You Ever Forgive Me?.
Venom: The Last Dance ($10)
Director: Kelly Marcel
Stars: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple
Release date: October 25
Box-office potential: The first two Venom movies topped $200 million at the domestic box office, and that second film happened while the theatrical business was still bouncing back from COVID. You can reasonably expect this movie to be a good value for box-office points.
Pedigree: Hardy and Ejiofor: both Oscar-nominated actors. Probably won’t be getting their second nods for this.
A Real Pain ($10)
Director: Jesse Eisenberg
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin
Film festivals: Sundance, New York
Release date: November 1
Awards potential: This year’s Sundance didn’t launch any top-tier awards contenders, but among the movies given an outside chance to crack a few categories is this heartfelt dramedy about a pair of American Jewish cousins taking a tour of Poland with the cremains of their grandmother. Eisenberg wrote, directed, and stars in it, but the real awards potential is Culkin, whose performance of a good-natured loose cannon reveals hidden depths.
Pedigree: Five days before A Real Pain premiered at Sundance, Culkin won his first Emmy for Succession. Sometimes these awards come in clusters.
Babygirl ($10)
Director: Halina Reijn
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson
Film festivals: Venice, Toronto
Release date: December 20
Awards potential: Nicole Kidman tends to bring the potential for greatness wherever she goes, so this story about a CEO (Kidman) embarking on a sexual affair with an intern (Dickinson) stands a chance to be hot on a cinematic as well as sexual level. Reijn’s Bodies, Bodies, Bodies wasn’t an awards movie, but it did get a lot of people’s attention. Either she’s going to level up here or Babygirl is less the awards prospect than we thought.
Pedigree: Kidman is an Oscar winner whose most recent nomination came in 2021 for Being the Ricardos. After roles in Triangle of Sadness and The Iron Claw, Dickinson feels ready to join some of the other hot young stars of his generation (Paul Mescal, Austin Butler) in the realm of Oscar nominees.
September 5 ($10)
Director: Tim Fehlbaum
Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro
Film festivals: Venice, Telluride
Release date: November 27
Awards potential: Paramount acquired this title late in the game, well after its Venice and Telluride premieres. Some awards observers see in it the potential to shake up the Oscars race like a Spotlight or Argo, but the studio is getting a very late start.
Pedigree: Fehlbaum is a Swiss director who’s earned attention for his previous films in Germany. Both Sarsgaard (Shattered Glass; Experimenter) and Magaro (Past Lives; First Cow) have been on the cusp Oscars radar before but have yet to land their first nominations.
Didi ($8)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Sean Wang
Stars: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen
Film festivals: Sundance, South by Southwest
Release date: July 26
Awards potential: This was another Sundance competition title that got great reviews and tugged on a few heartstrings with its coming-of-age story of a young Taiwanese American skater kid. It’s not as buzzy as previous heartwarming family stories that came out of Sundance, like Minari or CODA, but after picking up Best Ensemble prizes at both Sundance and SXSW, there’s potential for it to nibble around the edges of awards season and a chance it might pick up steam.
Pedigree: Sean Wang’s documentary short Nai Nai & Wài Pó was an Oscar nominee last year.
Here ($8)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright
Release date: November 1
Awards potential: This years-spanning, CGI-inflected story about a couple who experience all the major events in their lives from the same living room of the same house could connect with audiences looking for good vibes and the warm glow of nostalgia. And on some level, Hanks is always going to be in the awards conversation.
Pedigree: The last time Zemeckis, Hanks, and Wright got together, Forrest Gump ran all over the 1994 Oscars.
Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 ($8)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Kevin Costner
Stars: Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington
Film festivals: Cannes
Release date: June 28
Awards potential: Costner’s original plan to release the first two parts of his eventual quadrilogy in 2024 got scrapped after Chapter 1 came out, which allows this film to stand all on its own in the awards race. Whether that’s a good thing for a movie that is plainly just getting started when it ends is another story. But the film truly does look stunning, which could end up paying dividends in the craft categories.
Pedigree: Costner used to be a can’t-miss Oscar prospect in the days of Field of Dreams, JFK, and the film that won him Best Picture and Best Director, Dances With Wolves. That was a long time ago; the question is whether Oscar voters feel like a comeback narrative is in order.
Bird ($8)
Director: Andrea Arnold
Stars: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski
Film festivals: Cannes, Toronto
Release date: November 8
Awards potential: The reaction to Arnold’s film in Cannes was positive (if not unanimously so), which is good enough to get people excited about it. In Keoghan and Rogowski, Arnold has gathered the portrayers of 2023’s most spectacular queer creeps, which is worth noting even if they don’t give out awards specifically for that.
Pedigree: To date, Arnold’s films — Red Road, Fish Tank, American Honey — have yet to capture the mainstream’s fascination in the same way they have with critics and hard-core cinephiles. But she makes exquisite movies, and at some point, awards voters are bound to notice.
Hard Truths ($8)
Director: Mike Leigh
Stars: Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Film festivals: New York, Toronto
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: Seven of Mike Leigh’s last nine films have been nominated for one Oscar or another, making him a surprisingly consistent awards fave.
Pedigree: Leigh’s two Best Director nods came for 2004’s Vera Drake and 1996’s Secrets & Lies, the latter which scored a Best Supporting Actress nomination for … Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
The Room Next Door ($8)
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Stars: Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton
Film festivals: Venice, Toronto, New York
Release date: October 18
Awards potential: Legendary Spanish auteur Almodovar is making his English-language debut with two of the most adventurous and captivating actresses in the English language. The anticipation levels are quite high.
Pedigree: Almodovar’s All About My Mother won Best Foreign Language Film in 1999; he was a Best Director nominee for 2002’s Talk to Her; and most recently, he’s directed both Antonio Banderas (Pain & Glory) and Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) to acting nominations. This is good news for a pair of Oscar-winning actresses like Swinton and Moore.
Saturday Night ($8)
Director: Jason Reitman
Stars: Gabriel LaBelle, Cooper Hoffman
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: October 11
Awards potential: Hollywood loves to honor itself, so this movie, which seeks to find cinematic verve in the chaos surrounding Saturday Night Live’s first ever episode in 1975, seems like it could be up the alley of a lot of people who vote for awards.
Pedigree: Reitman is a two-time Best Director nominee (Juno; Up in the Air), while the cast is full of talented young performers who have popped in prestige movies lately, including LaBelle (The Fabelmans), Hoffman (Licorice Pizza), and Cory Michael Smith (May December).
Nosferatu ($8)
Director: Robert Eggers
Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult
Release date: December 25
Awards potential: If Focus Features is able to draw a significant audience out on Christmas Day to watch some good, old-fashioned gothic horror, the industry could be forced to take notice. As for now, the movie’s success is a dart throw, but Eggers and his cast (which also includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, and Lily-Rose Depp) make it all sound awfully intriguing.
Pedigree: Eggers’s The Witch was a buzzy breakthrough, while The Lighthouse picked up a surprise Oscar nomination for its cinematography. The Northman got rudely ignored by pretty much all awards entities, but maybe they didn’t get the cinematic power of riding into Valhalla on winged horseback. As for Eggers’s latest subject matter, the Nosferatu story was dramatized in the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire, earning a Best Supporting Actor nomination for one Willem Dafoe, so the source material certainly intrigued voters once upon a time.
We Live in Time ($8)
Director: John Crowley
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: October 24
Awards potential: Romantic drama has proved to be a tough genre to draw audiences or awards voters with. But if anyone can do it, it’s Garfield and Pugh, two ridiculously charming and talented performers.
Pedigree: Crowley directed one of the rare recent romantic dramas to be nominated for Best Picture: 2015’s Brooklyn. Maybe he has the magic touch.
Eden ($8)
Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Ana de Armas
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: The film is described as a survivalist thriller among a set of bourgeois European expats in the Galapagos in the 1920s. It’s based on a true story, it’s a period piece, and it’s set in a far-off place — all useful awards traits. According to Ebiri’s review, it also has verve on its side: “In the past, when he got close to something too dark and unhinged, Howard tended to pull back. He’s had some films, like In the Heart of the Sea, that needed to go a little crazier to work. With Eden, it seems, he’s finally allowed himself to lose his mind, and it might be the best decision he’s made in years.”
Pedigree: Howard’s A Beautiful Mind won Best Picture and Best Director in 2001, though his most recent Oscar-nominated film was, erm, Hillbilly Elegy in 2020.
The Outrun ($5)
Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Saskia Reeves
Film festivals: Sundance
Release date: October 4
Awards potential: Depending on what happens with Blitz, this movie — which won raves for its lead performance at Sundance — could end up being Ronan’s awards play.
Kraven the Hunter ($5)
Director: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose
Release date: December 13
Box-office potential: The many-times-delayed standalone movie for the Spiderverse villain might actually stick this release date. December isn’t un-crowded this year, but the increased holiday-season attendance numbers should keep this movie out of Madame Web territory.
Heretic ($5)
Directors: Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
Stars: Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: November 15
Awards potential: In its brief existence, A24 has gotten especially good at two things: making attention-grabbing horror films and playing the awards game. It’s just never been able to make those two streams cross, despite acclaimed performances in the former category from the likes of Toni Collette (Hereditary) and Florence Pugh (Midsommar). Still, Grant is getting a lot of pre-release buzz for his role as manipulative captor who ensnares two young Mormon missionaries. There’s a reason they’re premiering this at TIFF.
Pedigree: Despite roles in Oscar-nominated movies like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Florence Foster Jenkins, Grant has never been nominated himself. Beck and Woods were the screenwriters behind A Quiet Place.
Janet Planet ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Annie Baker
Stars: Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler
Film festivals: Telluride (2023), New York (2023)
Release date: June 21
Awards potential: This is a small and very quiet movie, but Annie Baker is a hugely celebrated playwright, and her debut film could attract a lot of critics awards and indie nominations. Also, Zoe Ziegler belongs on any list of Best Younger Actor/Actress nominees.
Thelma ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Josh Margolin
Stars: June Squibb, Richard Roundtree, Fred Hechinger
Film festivals: Sundance
Release date: June 21
Awards potential: There is a long tradition of spry old people getting awards attention for being delightful, so why not 94-year-old June Squibb, who motors her little scooter all over this genuinely funny and surprisingly un-treacly film.
Pedigree: Squibb was nominated for her performance in Nebraska in 2013.
Hit Man ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona
Film festivals: Venice (2023), Toronto (2023), New York (2023), Sundance
Release date: May 24
Awards potential: This was a hot property when it screened at the fall festivals last year, and while it premiered this spring amid 2024’s “Glen Powell Has Arrived!” moment, Netflix’s rather pedestrian release strategy has left some viewers wondering what the big deal was.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: George Miller
Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke
Film festivals: Cannes
Release date: May 24
Awards potential: Every great franchise needs a misunderstood installment, and it’s all the better when that installment was directed by the guy who made the best movie in that series. The fact that Furiosa wasn’t as good as Mad Max: Fury Road was the problem with the movie back when it released in May. But now we have to consider whether failing to reach that very high bar will mean Oscar voters will feel free to forget it come the of the year. Sometimes, voters disregard the technical accomplishments of a movie entirely if it has the general aura of failure around it. This could stand in the way of Furiosa competing in categories like Costume Design, Production Design, and Sound.
A Different Man ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Aaron Schimberg
Stars: Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson
Film festivals: Sundance, Berlin
Release date: September 20
Awards potential: All the hand-wringing surrounding the Cannes bust The Apprentice (where, yes, Stan plays Donald Trump) obscured the fact that Stan had already starred in a much better-received festival movie at Sundance. Both his and Pearson’s work were greeted with the kinds of raves that accompany performances that get brought up again by awards shows, and it’s worth noting that Stan won the Best Actor prize at the Berlin Film Festival for this role earlier this year.
Unstoppable ($5)
Director: William Goldenberg
Stars: Jharrel Jerome, Jennifer Lopez
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: Inspirational sports movies have been known to score with awards voters, and this story about a wrestler (Jerome) born with one leg who went on to win a national championship certainly qualifies. Goldenberg, a five-time Oscar-nominated film editor (he won for Argo in 2012), is making his directorial debut here.
The Order ($5)
Director: Justin Kurzel
Stars: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult
Film festivals: Venice, Toronto
Release date: December 6
Awards potential: Kurzel’s movies (The True History of the Kelly Gang; Nitram) tend to be dark and sometimes punishing, to the point where even when they’re good, they can’t crack the mainstream awards conversation. Maybe this crime thriller changes that streak.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl ($5)
Director: Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham
Stars: Ben Whitehead (voice), Peter Kay (voice)
Release date: December 25
Awards potential: Nick Park was winning Academy Awards for animation before some of you were even born, and Wallace and Gromit are his best-known creations. The last feature length Wallace & Gromit film, subtitled The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, won the Animated Feature Oscar in 2006. Netflix is dropping this on Christmas Day, a prime position to make a run at the stacked Animated Feature category.
Hand of Dante ($5)
Director: Julian Schnabel
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot
Film festivals: Venice
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: This is all contingent on whether the film gets released in 2024; as of right now, it’s showing only at Venice. But with Isaac playing a dual role of the 14th-century author Dante (he of the Divine Comedy) and a modern-day, loosely fictionalized version of In the Hand of Dante director Nick Tosches, there’s potential for this film to sneak into the awards conversation, as Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate did in 2018 when Willem Dafoe was nominated for playing Van Gogh. The supporting cast is also incredible, including Al Pacino, John Malkovich, Sabrina Impacciatore, and Martin Scorsese.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig ($5)
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Stars: Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani
Film festivals: Cannes, Toronto, New York
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: After getting a great reception at Cannes — which Rasoulof had to escape arrest in his native Iran to attend — the film will make the rounds of the fall festivals before making a bid for the International Feature Oscar as a representative of Germany (where it got much of its financing).
My Old Ass ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Megan Park
Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Maisy Stella
Film festivals: Sundance
Release date: September 13
Awards potential: If Sundance reaction is anything to go by, actress turned director Megan Park has a crowd-pleaser on her hands.
Smile 2 ($5)
Director: Parker Finn
Stars: Naomi Scott, Lukas Gage
Release date: October 18
Box-office potential: The first Smile cleared $105 million domestic in 2022, so there is money to be made with this pre-Halloween release.
Flight Risk ($5)
Director: Mel Gibson
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery
Release date: October 18
Box-office potential: Mark Wahlberg playing a mobbed-up pilot trying to take out Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace. The Mel Gibson of it all is a bummer, but this one has ’90s-thriller throwback vibes.
His Three Daughters ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon
Film festivals: Toronto (2023)
Release date: September 6
Awards potential: This was easily one of the best movies to screen at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, with a Natasha Lyonne performance that absolutely could have been packaged for awards consideration. But then Netflix bought it and months later scheduled it to be dumped in the September dead zone. Netflix-acquisition dread is real and warranted!
Will & Harper ($5)
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Stars: Will Ferrell, Harper Steele
Film festivals: Sundance, Toronto
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: This documentary — about Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele taking a road trip across the U.S. as Steele embarks on a gender transition journey of her own — got a lot of Sundance buzz back in January. Netflix has a real Documentary Feature contender on its hands.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Wes Ball
Stars: Owen Teague, Kevin Durand
Release date: May 10
Awards potential: All three films in the Rise/Dawn/War for the Planet of the Apes series were nominated for the Visual Effects Oscar.
The Apprentice ($5)
Director: Ali Abbasi
Stars: Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong
Film festivals: Cannes
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: Prior to its Cannes debut, there was a ton of morbid fascination with what director Abbasi (Holy Spider) would do with the story of Donald Trump’s rise to power under the wing of villain-of-history Roy Cohn. The reviews were mixed but also strangely muted, which has dampened the enthusiasm for an as-yet-unannounced fall release. (The film still doesn’t have American distribution, so nothing is guaranteed as of yet).
The End ($5)
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Stars: Tilda Swinton, George MacKay
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: TBA
Awards potential: Documentary filmmaker Oppenheimer got back-to-back Oscar nominations for his films The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, about the Indonesian genocide. His narrative feature debut is a self-described “Golden Age-style musical about the last human family” starring Swinton, MacKay, and Michael Shannon, which sounds, frankly, amazing. Neon as a distributor is a good sign, but a splash in Toronto would go a long way toward setting this one up for a fall release date.
Wolfs ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: John Watts
Stars: George Clooney, Brad Pitt
Film festivals: Venice
Release date: September 20
Awards potential: The Venice premiere announcement ratcheted up expectations for this glossy Apple-produced film about a pair of lone-wolf fixers who are assigned to the same job. But then Apple recently announced that the film’s planned wide theatrical release would now be only a week-long limited engagement before premiering on Apple TV+ a week later. And that announcement was accompanied by a green light for a sequel film. So honestly, you tell me if this movie is supposed to be good or not.
Deadpool & Wolverine ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Shawn Levy
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman
Release date: July 26
Awards potential: Marvel movies have a sketchy relationship with awards, but Deadpool has been, relatively speaking, a favorite of voters. The original got two Golden Globe nominations and a DGA (!) nod. And its giant piles of dollars in worldwide box office could make a lot of Hollywood types a lot friendlier to its accomplishments in categories like sound and visual effects.
The Fall Guy ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: David Leitch
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt
Film festivals: South by Southwest
Release date: May 3
Awards potential: If there were a stunt category at the Oscars (as there should be), this movie would be a front-runner.
The Substance ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Stars: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley
Film festivals: Cannes, Toronto
Release date: September 20
Awards potential: If the Cannes buzz about Demi Moore’s performance in this body-horror flick doesn’t have you excited for a comeback, what are you even doing?
Kinds of Kindness ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons
Film festivals: Cannes
Release date: June 21
Awards potential: Plemons did win the Best Actor award at Cannes for his performance(s) in this anthology of darkly comedic stories about conformity and the extremes of devotion. But this isn’t the (comparatively) easily digestible Yorgos Lanthimos of Poor Things and The Favourite, and the film seems to have alienated as many people as it has enchanted.
Twisters ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Stars: Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar Jones
Release date: July 19
Awards potential: The 1996 Twister was nominated for its sound and visual effects. With well over $300 million in worldwide box office, the success of Twisters could keep it in the conversation for similar categories this year.
Megalopolis ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel
Film festivals: Cannes
Release date: September 27
Awards potential: “Have you added the Razzies as a point-gaining category?” some of you might snark. No, we have not. But despite the harsh reception to its Cannes debut, if any movie is going to be instantly reclaimed by critics and cinephiles before the year is out, there’s no better candidate than this one.
Problemista ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Julio Torres
Stars: Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton
Film festivals: South by Southwest (2023)
Release date: March 1
Awards potential: Julio Torres’s feature directorial debut is going to be remembered and celebrated for a very long time. Whether or not it’s remembered as a movie that didn’t get its due in its own time is something that awards voters this year will have to decide for themselves.
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim ($5)
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Stars: Brian Cox (voice), Miranda Otto (voice)
Release date: December 13
Awards potential: I say again: The Animated Feature category is not fooling around this year, which makes an anime offshoot of The Lord of the Rings released in December a riskier prospect than it might have otherwise been in a less competitive year.
The Fire Inside ($5)
Director: Rachel Morrison
Stars: Ryan Destiny, Brian Tyree Henry
Film festivals: Toronto
Release date: December 25
Awards potential: This is a loooong-delayed project — principal photography began on March 11, 2020 — from Oscar-nominated cinematographer turned director Rachel Morrison. It’s a Barry Jenkins–scripted movie about an Olympic female boxer from Flint, Michigan, but the festival buzz has been surrounding Henry’s supporting performance.
I Saw the TV Glow ($5)
➼ Box office ineligible
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Stars: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine
Film festivals: Sundance, South by Southwest
Release date: May 3
Awards potential: This was one of the year’s genuine indie sensations. I’d be very surprised if it didn’t show up in the lineups of the various indie awards like the Gothams and Spirits.
Red One ($5)
Director: Jake Kasdan
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J.K. Simmons
Release date: November 15
Box-office potential: An action movie about a ripped Santa Claus (Simmons) getting kidnapped by armed terrorists and the action heroes (Johnson, Evans) who must rescue him sounds, admittedly, dumb as hell. But it’s also a PG-13 action flick featuring a piece of widely celebrated IP (yes, I’m calling Santa Claus IP) being released just before Thanksgiving. The chances this makes serious money are not remote.
Juror #2 ($5)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, J.K. Simmons, Toni Collette
Release date: November 1
Awards potential: Clint Eastwood has entered movies late into awards season before, often to major success (Million Dollar Baby; Letters from Iwo Jima). But will reported friction between WB head David Zazlav and Eastwood come into play here?
Pedigree: Eastwood is a two-time Best Picture/Best Director winner, while Oscar winner Simmons and Oscar nominee Collette bring the pedigree for the cast.
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The Bin
Popcorn emoji (🍿) denotes a film that is eligible for box-office points based on its release date.
Could Show Up at Indie Awards
Between the Temples ($3) 🍿
The Bikeriders ($3)
Daddio ($3)
Fancy Dance ($3)
Lee ($3) 🍿
Longlegs ($3)
Love Lies Bleeding ($3)
The Return ($3) 🍿
Sasquatch Sunset ($3)
Small Things Like These ($3) 🍿
The Beast ($2)
Cuckoo ($2)
Dogman ($2)
Drive-Away Dolls ($2)
Stress Positions ($2)
Tuesday ($2)
Gunning for Craft-Category Noms at Best
Civil War ($3)
IF ($3)
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire ($3)
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire ($3)
A Quiet Place - Day 1 ($3)
Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver ($3)
Trap ($3)
Borderlands ($2)
The Crow ($2)
Alien: Romulus ($2)
Documentaries That Could Contend
Piece by Piece ($3) 🍿
Elton John: Never Too Late ($3) 🍿
Daughters ($3)
Martha ($2) 🍿
Sugarcane ($2)
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story ($2)
No Other Land ($3) 🍿
I Am Celine Dion ($2)
The Black Box Diaries ($1) 🍿
Frida ($1)
Animated Features Hoping Disney or Pixar Stumble
Flow ($3) 🍿
Memoirs of a Snail ($3) 🍿
Spellbound ($3) 🍿
Transformers One ($2)
Ultraman: Rising ($1)
International Features That Could Contend
Parthenope ($3) 🍿
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl ($3) 🍿
I’m Still Here ($3) 🍿
Evil Does Not Exist ($2)
All We Imagine As Light ($2) 🍿
Universal Language ($2) 🍿
Kneecap ($1)
The Promised Land ($1)
Smaller Festival Stuff
Better Man ($3) 🍿
The Friend ($3) 🍿
The Last Showgirl ($3) 🍿
Nutcrackers ($3) 🍿
Oh, Canada ($3) 🍿
Exhibiting Forgiveness ($2) 🍿
Handling the Undead ($2)
In the Summers ($2) 🍿
The Life of Chuck ($2) 🍿
National Anthem ($2)
One Life ($2)
Relay ($2) 🍿
Without Blood ($2) 🍿
Could Make Some Money
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever ($2) 🍿
Never Let Go ($2) 🍿
Your Monster ($2) 🍿
Y2K ($2) 🍿
Bagman ($1)
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point ($1) 🍿
My Dead Friend Zoe ($1) 🍿
Pure Wild Cards
Blink Twice ($3)
Bob Marley: One Love ($3)
Abigail ($2)
Babes ($2)
Back to Black ($2)
Brothers ($2) 🍿
Greedy People ($2)
Immaculate ($2)
It Ends With Us ($2)
MaXXXine ($2)
Monkey Man ($2)
Speak No Evil ($2)
The Watchers ($2)
Young Woman and the Sea ($2)
AfrAId ($1)
The American Society of Magical Negroes ($1)
Argylle ($1)
Arthur the King ($1)
The Front Room ($1)
The Killer’s Game ($1)
Lisa Frankenstein ($1)
Madame Web ($1)
Mothers’ Instinct ($1)
Omni Loop ($1)
Poolman ($1)
Streaming Long Shots
The Deliverance ($3)
Rez Ball ($4)
Hold Your Breath ($3) 🍿
Joy ($3) 🍿
Six Triple Eight ($3) 🍿
Back in Action ($2) 🍿
Carry-On ($2) 🍿
The Idea of You ($2)
The Instigators ($2)
The Union ($2)
Uglies ($2)
Shirley ($2)
A Family Affair ($1)
If It Releases
Woman of the Hour ($2) 🍿
Emmanuelle ($2) 🍿
