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 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 over-hyped movies that have taken a tumble.
This is the Variety ranking of top Academy Award contenders:
- Belfast
- The Power of the Dog
- Dune
- West Side Story
- Licorice Pizza
- CODA
- King Richard
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Tick, Tick …BOOM!
- No Time to Die
- Drive My Car
- Don’t Look Up
- The Lost Daughter
- Nightmare Alley
- Being the Ricardos
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Parallel Mothers
- C’mon, C’mon
- Flee
- The Harder They Fall
- A Hero
- Spencer
- House of Gucci
- Cyrano
- Red Rocket
- The French Dispatch
- The Tender Bar
- The Last Duel
- Encanto
- Passing
Snubbed: Val, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, Black Widow, Luca, Benedetta, The Green Knight, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Shang-Chi, The Guilty.