Of course it’s too early to make Oscar predictions; the nominees are months away from being announced. Some of what may be the best films of the year haven’t even come out yet. But that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it anyway and make guesses based on almost nothing. At the very least, here is a list of movies that deserve a watch, as they might be in the Oscar conversation soon.
This is the AwardsCircuit.com
ranking of top possible Academy Award contenders:
- The Post
- Downsizing
- Darkest Hour
- Mudbound
- Dunkirk
- Phantom Thread
- Blade Runner 2049
- Last Flag Flying
- Battle of the Sexes
- Call Me By Your Name
- Detroit
- Suburbicon
- The Shape of Water
- Wonderstruck
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Coco
- Mother!
- The Greatest Showman
- Wonder Wheel
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- The Beguiled
- The Florida Project
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Molly’s Game
- Victoria and Abdul
- Wind River
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- Logan
- Mary Magdalene
- Murder on the Orient Express
Snubbed: The Current War, Lady Bird, Get Out, Frantz, Split, A Cure for Wellness, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Meyerowitz Stories, I, Tonya, Good Time, The Square, Brad’s Status, BPM, A Ghost Story, Cars 3, Wakefield, The Glass Castle, From the Land of the Moon, Jane, It Comes at Night, Okja, The Little Hours, The Lovers, The Foreigner, Hostiles, Thor:Ragnarok, The Big Sick, The Disaster Artist, Betting on Zero, Take Me, The Lost City of Z, Berlin Syndrome, Crown Heights, Lucky, Baby Driver, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Wonder Woman, Graduation, Win It All, The Trip to Spain, War Machine, Beauty and the Beast (2017), Life (2017), Boss Baby.