Three months ago I posted a list of 30 potential Best Picture Oscar contenders, plus a list of snubbed films that deserved consideration. Since then, I’ve updated the list with reviews as I’ve seen the movies, including any personal favorites that hadn’t previously made the list. As the Academy Awards draw closer, let’s take a look at an updated watchlist, a list that has taken into consideration those undervalued films that have risen up the ranks and those overhyped movies that have taken a tumble.
This is the AwardsCircuit.com ranking of top possible Academy Award contenders:
- La La Land
- Moonlight
- Silence
- Fences
- Manchester by the Sea
- Lion
- Arrival
- Loving
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Sully
- Hell or High Water
- 20th Century Woman
- Hidden Figures
- Jackie
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Patriots Day
- Passengers
- The Jungle Book
- Live By Night
- Rogue One
- Miss Sloane
- Rules Don’t Apply
- Toni Erdmann
- The Birth of a Nation
- Nocturnal Animals
- 13th
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
- The Lobster
- Denial
- Collateral Beauty
Snubbed: Gold, Bleed For This, Deepwater Horizon, Certain Women, American Honey, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, A Man Called Ove, The Handmaiden, The Dresser, Captain Fantastic, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Swiss Army Man, Kubo and the Two Strings, Finding Dory, Captain America: Civil War, Paterson, The Nice Guys, Complete Unknown, Elvis & Nixon, Indignation, The Neon Demon, Disorder, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Anthropoid, The Shallows, ARQ, Christine, Last Days in the Desert, Tale of Tales, Star Trek Beyond, Tallulah, Hail Caesar, Deadpool, The Fundamentals of Caring, The BFG, Equals, Come What May, The Invitation, Sausage Party, The Edge of Seventeen, Life Animated, My King, Green Room, Hello My Name is Doris.
Bumped off: The Girl on the Train, Allied, Love & Friendship, Moana, Zootopia, American Pastoral, The Light Between Oceans, All Eyez on Me, The Founder.