With less than 12 weeks to go before Oscar nominations are announced, there are currently five movies locked and loaded for a Best Picture Oscar nomination. I’d be surprised if the following don’t get in …
… the remaining five are still up for debate.
I am absolutely confident in my assessment that Sian Heder’s “CODA” is one of the five current locks. Despite its summer release, the film has had plenty of legs, maintaining buzz with general audiences who have been discovering it on Apple TV, and not to mention its well received Academy screenings throughout the fall.
It would be foolish to even guess what the remaining five slots would be composed of, especially when “Licorice Pizza,” “Nightmare Alley,” “Don’t Look Up,” “West Side Story,” and “Being the Ricardos” still haven’t really been seen.
If, for some reason, none of the above end up being Oscar contenders then the bottom five nominees would potentially consist of …
6. The Tragedy of Macbeth
7. The Last Duel
8. Spencer
9. The French Dispatch
10. Passing