A few 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 are about to commence, let’s take a look at an updated watchlist, a list that starts with the ten nominees for Best Picture and continues with some of the best of the rest.
This is the Variety ranking of top Academy Award contenders:
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Poor Things
- The Holdovers
- Barbie
- Anatomy of a Fall
- American Fiction
- Maestro
- The Zone of Interest
- Past Lives
- May December
- Origin
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Ferrari
- Air
- The Iron Claw
- The Color Purple
- The Taste of Things
- Saltburn
- American Symphony
- All of Us Strangers
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
- Napoleon
- Memory
- Society of the Snow
- Rustin
- Priscilla
- BlackBerry
- The Bikeriders
- Freud’s Last Session
Snubbed: TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Theater Camp, You People, You Hurt My Feelings, D&D: Honor Among Thieves, The Killer, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Blue Beetle, The Covenant.