What it is: A man’s rags to riches tale of self-determination comes to life in this adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel from India. Writer-director Emerald Fennell is also a threat for a screenplay award following her Emmy-nominated success with TV series Killing Eve. After a successful nomination campaign for Cynthia Erivo in Harriet, we are betting Focus Features has a plan to get the previously nominated Mulligan back in contention. Why it could win: Carey Mulligan has been consistently serving award-worthy performances for the past few years ( Wildlife, Suffragette, Mudbound). What it is: A revenge thriller/dark comedy about a young woman who moonlights as a vigilante, feigning helpless drunkenness at bars to bring justice to would-be sexual predators, until she meets an old classmate who helps her shift focus and confront her past.

Why it could win: Director David Fincher has earned at least one Oscar nomination for each of his last four pictures, including the two-time Academy Award winner The Social Network. Following the success of his Netflix show Mindhunter and earlier films like Zodiac, many voters and critics are excited to see what Fincher - the new master of the historical thriller - has in store for this Hollywood tale of betrayal, inspiration, and intrigue.Ĭast: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Adam Brody, Jennifer Coolidge Mankiewicz, the co-screenwriter of Citizen Kane, and his battles with co-writer Orson Welles. And following huge wins for genre-defying, foreign-language underdog-turned-Best Picture-winner Parasite, the very notion of an awards movie is ever-changing.Īfter a fresh crop of films that premiered at Sundance in January, a number of new trailers from movies likely to be in the Oscar conversation, and festival circuit stops announced by others, we are starting to get excited. Read on to see our picks for Oscar contenders in 2020/2021 and why we are betting on them early.ĭon’t agree with our picks? Have at us in the comments.Ĭast: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Lily Collins With Cannes re-emerging as a launching pad for contender films (Oscar winners Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and Parasite both premiered at Cannes last year, where the latter won the Palme d’Or), the “Oscar movie” starting line continues to shift to earlier and earlier in the year. Still, we are already eyeing a list of hopefuls we think can go the distance in 2021. Best Picture winner Parasite is still in theaters, and we are several months away from the unofficial kick-off of the awards season in September. Yes, we know what you’re thinking: Just days after one of the most drama-filled awards seasons in recent memory, we are already looking ahead to next year.

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