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 Variety ranking of top Academy Award contenders:
- Oppenheimer
- American Fiction
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Poor Things
- The Holdovers
- Maestro
- Past Lives
- May December
- Origin
- The Zone of Interest
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Ferrari
- Air
- The Iron Claw
- The Color Purple
- The Taste of Things
- Saltburn
- Anatomy of a Fall
- 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.