Awesome movies that you’ll be hearing about… pretty soon
The Award season in Hollywood is always tricky. There is always some actor/director/movie that is left out or quite the contrary. Getting too much hype without having the goods to back it up. Last year Amy Adams was snubbed in getting an Academy Award nomination for the portrayal in Arrival, and who knows… maybe the history will repeat itself?
But, while we wait for the nominations to start pouring in… let me remind you about the movies you’ll be hearing quite a lot. And I do mean a lot. Weather it’s the impact they’ll on the potential voters, the media, the general public or they are reaaly good and they’ll be fighting for the Golden Globes and the Oscars…
Trust me… You’ll be hearing about these movies in the upcoming months.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Director: Martin McDonagh
Stars: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell…
Fun fact about the movie: Martin McDonagh wrote the screenplay with Frances McDormand as the lead role in mind.
Oscar contender: Best leading actress, best leading actor role and best original screenplay.
I, Tonya
Director: Craig Gillespie
Stars: Margot Robbie, Bobby Cannavale, Sebastian Stan…
Fun fact about the movie: Margot Robbie trained with choreographer Sarah Kawahara for the role.
Oscar contender: Best leading actress, and best picture.
The Post
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Meryl Streep, Alison Brie, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson…
Fun fact about the movie: This is the first major film collaboration of actress Meryl Streep and director Steven Spielberg. Streep’s only other collaboration with Spielberg was on A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) when Streep did a voice over role in the film.
Oscar contender: Best actress in a leading role, best actor in a leading role, best original screenplay, best director, best cinematography, best costume design.
Phantom Thread
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Camilla Rutherford…
Fun fact about the movie: Paul Thomas Anderson’s fourth consecutive period film (his fifth in total) since There Will Be Blood (2007).
Oscar contender: Best actor in a leading role, best original screenplay, best director, best cinematography, best costume design and best set design.
Downsizing
Director: Alexander Payne
Stars: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau…
Fun fact about the movie: During filming in Lofoten, Norway the crew rented a flotell, Edda Fides, to house the 160 people working on the film.
Oscar contender: Best original screenplay, best actor in a leading role, best actor in a supporting role, best set design, and best special effects.
Molly’s Game
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner…
Fun fact about the movie: Molly Bloom told the director Aaron Sorkin that she wanted Jessica Chastain to play her.
Oscar contender: Best adapted screenplay, best actress in a leading role.
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Director: Paul McGuigan
Stars: Jamie Bell, Annette Bening, Stephen Graham…
Fun fact about the movie: Before Annette Bening depicted Gloria Grahame in this film, she had used Grahame’s performance in The Big Heat (1953) as an inspiration for her own depiction of a femme fatale in The Grifters (1990).
Oscar contender: Best actress in a leading role, best actress in a supporting role.
Call Me by Your Name
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg…
Fun fact about the movie: Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet did not have to do a chemistry test for this film. Director Luca Guadagnino does not make chemistry test for his films and thought the two actors were going to be cool between one another.
Oscar contender: Best leading actor and best supporting actor.
The Disaster Artist
Director: James Franco
Stars: Zoey Deutch, Alison Brie, James Franco…
Fun fact about the movie: Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero gave their approval to the casting of Dave Franco as Greg Sestero.
Oscar contender: Best adapted screenplay, best actor in a leading role.
The Shape of Water
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon…
Fun fact about the movie: Octavia Spencer said she “would have walked the Earth to work with” director Guillermo del Toro. She was so taken with the set and the many props that she asked Toro how many she was allowed to keep.
Oscar contender: Best actress in a leading role, best actress in a supporting role, best make-up, best set design, best costume design and best director.
Mudbound
Director: Dee Rees
Stars: Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke…
Fun fact about the movie: Second film with Garrett Hedlund and Carey Mulligan playing alongside each other, the first was Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).
Oscar contender: Best picture, best leading actor and leading actress, best adapted screenplay.
Darkest Hour
Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Lily James, Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn…
Fun fact about the movie: Gary Oldman is the fifth “Harry Potter” actor to portray Winston Churchill after Michael Gambon (Albus Dumbledore) in Churchill’s Secret (2016), Timothy Spall (Peter Pettigrew) in The King’s Speech (2010), Brendan Gleeson (Mad Eye Moody) in Into the Storm (2009), and Robert Hardy in War and Remembrance (1988) and Bomber Harris (1989).
Oscar contender: Best leading actor, best picture, best make-up and best director.
Dunkirk
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance…
Fun fact about the movie: Christopher Nolan, along with his wife Emma Thomas and a friend, made the crossing from England to Dunkirk on a boat, the way the civilians would have done during the Dunkirk Evacuation. Nolan said it took nineteen hours because of the conditions of the sea.
Oscar contender: Best director, best picture, best original screenplay, best cinematography.
Stronger
Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson…
Fun fact about the movie: Filmed at the same time as Patriots Day (2016), the other Boston Marathon bombing-related movie. Jeff Bauman is a supporting character in it portrayed by Dan Whelton.
Oscar contender: Best actor in a leading role, best actress in a leading role, best adapted screenplay, best picture.
Marshall
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson…
Fun fact about the movie: This will be the fourth biographical figure played by Chadwick Boseman. He has also starred as James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Floyd Little.
Oscar contender: Best picture, best actor in a leading role, best costume design.
Only the Brave
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Stars: Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges…
Fun fact about the movie: This is the first time Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges have worked together since True Grit (2010).
Oscar contender: Best actor in a leading and supporting roles, best direction.
Battle of the Sexes
Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Stars: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough…
Fun fact about the movie: In 1973, Billie Jean King was 29 and Bobby Riggs was 55. At the time of filming, Emma Stone was 28 and Steve Carell was 54.
Oscar contender: Best actress in a leading role, best actor in a leading role.
The Florida Project
Director: Sean Baker
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Valeria Cotto…
Fun fact about the movie: Willem Dafoe spent a week living in the filming area before production in order to immerse himself in the life of the characters & master the nuances of the regional dialect.
Oscar contender: Best actor in a leading role.
Lady Bird
Director: Greta Gerwig
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, Kathryn Newton…
Fun fact about the movie: Greta Gerwig said in an interview that she would have preferred the film to be “just close-ups of Saoirse Ronan face” because of her immense beauty….
Oscar contender: Best actress in a leading role, best original screenplay.
Blade Runner 2049
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas…
Fun fact about the movie: David Bowie was Denis Villeneuve’s first choice for the role of Niander Wallace, but passed away before the start of the shooting.
Oscar contender: Best director, best special effects, best set design, best sound and best adapted screenplay.
Last Flag Flying
Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Carell…
Fun fact about the movie: The film is a spiritual sequel to The Last Detail (1973).
Oscar contender: Best actor in a leading role, best actor in a supporting role, best director, best original screenplay, best picture.
All the Money in the World
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Spacey, Michelle Williams…
Fun fact about the movie: Director Ridley Scott worked with actor Balthazar Getty, who is the son of John Paul Getty III, on White Squall (1996). With All the Money in the World (2017) Scott is now telling the story of Balthazar Getty’s father, who was kidnapped in Italy in 1973.
Oscar contender: Best picture, best costume design, best actress in a leading role, best director.
Hostiles
Director: Scott Cooper
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Christian Bale, Ben Foster…
Fun fact about the movie: Scott Cooper became interested in casting Rosamund Pike after seeing her in the music video Massive Attack: Voodoo in My Blood (2016).
Oscar contender: Best actor in a leading role, best direction, best picture.
Murder on the Orient Express
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Daisy Ridley, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer…
Fun fact about the movie: In real life there was one actual murder on The Orient Express. Maria Farcasanu was robbed and murdered by Karl Strasser, who pushed her out of the moving train, one year after Agatha Christie’s book was published. Also, in 1950, Simon Karpe disappeared from the train under suspicious circumstances involving espionage; some elements inspired Ian Fleming’s From Russia with Love.
Oscar contender: Best director, best picture, best actor in a leading and supporting role, best actress in leading and supporting role, best set design, best costume design and make-up.
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