91st Academy Awards contenders (2018-19 season)
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- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsSteve CarellMaura TierneyJack Dylan GrazerBased on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.Best Picture
Best Director (Felix Van Groeningen)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor (Steve Carell)
Best Supporting Actor (Timothée Chalamet) - DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina AutreyA year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.Best Picture
Best Director (Alfonso Cuaron)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Art Direction - DirectorBarry JenkinsStarsKiKi LayneStephan JamesRegina KingA young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit.Best Picture
Best Director (Barry Jenkins)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actress (Kiki Layne)
Best Supporting Actor (Ed Skrein)
Best Supporting Actress (Regina King)
Best Film Editing - DirectorAdam McKayStarsChristian BaleAmy AdamsSteve CarellThe story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that are still felt today.Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Supporting Actress (Amy Adams)
Best Film Editing - DirectorJosie RourkeStarsSaoirse RonanMargot RobbieJack LowdenMary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actress (Saorise Ronan)
Best Supporting Actress (Margot Robbie)
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design
Best Hair & Makeup - DirectorJoel EdgertonStarsLucas HedgesNicole KidmanJoel EdgertonThe son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor (Lucas Hedges)
Best Supporting Actor (Joel Edgarton) - DirectorSteve McQueenStarsViola DavisMichelle RodriguezElizabeth DebickiFour women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.Best Picture
Best Director (Steve McQueen)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actress (Viola Davis)
Best Film Editing - DirectorDamien ChazelleStarsRyan GoslingClaire FoyJason ClarkeA look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.Best Picture
Best Director (Damian Chazelle)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor (Ryan Gosling)
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Art Direction
Best Original Score - DirectorMimi LederStarsFelicity JonesArmie HammerJustin TherouxThe true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.Best Picture
Best Actress (Felicity Jones) - DirectorJacques AudiardStarsJohn C. ReillyJoaquin PhoenixJake GyllenhaalEli and Charlie Sisters, an infamous duo of gunslinging assassins, chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally in 1850s Oregon.Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor (John C. Riley)
Best Supporting Actor (Joaquin Phoenix)
Best Cienmtography
Best Art Direction
Best Original Score - DirectorXavier DolanStarsKit HaringtonNatalie PortmanJacob TremblayA decade after the death of an American television star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he shared with him, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.Best Original Screenplay
- DirectorJosh TrankStarsTom HardyLinda CardelliniMatt DillonAfter a 10 year stint, former bootlegger and notorious criminal Al Capone starts to show signs of dementia, forcing him to face the demons of his violent past.Best Original Screenplay
Best Actor (Tom Hardy) - DirectorPaul DanoStarsEd OxenbouldJake GyllenhaalCarey MulliganA teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Supportign Actress (Carey Mulligan) - DirectorRupert WyattStarsJohn GoodmanAshton SandersJonathan MajorsSet in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extraterrestrial force, 'Captive State' explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay
Best Art Direction
Best Visual Effects - DirectorMichael MayerStarsAnnette BeningCorey StollGlenn FleshlerIn the early twentieth century, an aging actress and her lover visit the estate of her elderly brother.Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actress (Annette Benning)
Best Supporting Actor (Corey Stoll)
Best Supporting Actress (Saorise Ronan)
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design - DirectorAndrew HecklerStarsGarrett HedlundAndrea RiseboroughForest WhitakerWhen a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past.Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay
Best Actor (Garrett Hedlund)
Best Supporting Actor (Forest Whitaker) - DirectorSpike LeeStarsJohn David WashingtonAdam DriverLaura HarrierRon Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Supportign ACtor (Adam Driver) - DirectorMatthew HeinemanStarsRosamund PikeAlexandra MoenTom HollanderOne of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontline of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.Best Actress (Rosamund Pike)
- DirectorJason ReitmanStarsHugh JackmanVera FarmigaJ.K. SimmonsIn 1987, U.S. Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor (Hugh Jackman) - DirectorRoland JofféStarsForest WhitakerEric BanaJeff GumAfter the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.Best Actor (Forest Whitaker)
Best Supporting Actor (Eric Bana) - DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsOlivia ColmanEmma StoneRachel WeiszIn early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay
Best Actress (Emma Stone)
Best Supporting Actress (Olivia Colman)
Best Cinematography
Best Production Design
Best Costume Design
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Original Score - DirectorMarielle HellerStarsMelissa McCarthyRichard E. GrantDolly WellsWhen Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.Best Actress (Melissa McCarthy)
- DirectorDavid Robert MitchellStarsAndrew GarfieldRiley KeoughTopher GraceSam, a disenchanted young man, finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre.Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography - DirectorDavid LoweryStarsRobert RedfordCasey AffleckSissy SpacekBased on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor (Robert Redford) - DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPenélope CruzJavier BardemRicardo DarínLaura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister's wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay
Best Actress (Penelope Cruz) - DirectorSebastián LelioStarsJulianne MooreJohn TurturroCaren PistoriusA free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.Best Actress (Julian Moore)
- DirectorBjörn RungeStarsGlenn CloseJonathan PryceMax IronsA wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.Best Actress (Glen Close)
- DirectorJulian SchnabelStarsWillem DafoeRupert FriendOscar IsaacA look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.Best Actor (Willem Defoe)
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design - DirectorTamara JenkinsStarsKathryn HahnPaul GiamattiGabrielle ReidAn author is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting her relationship with her husband on edge.Best Original Screenplay
Best Actress (Kathryn Hann) - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroAl PacinoJoe PesciAn illustration of Frank Sheeran's life, from W.W.II veteran to hit-man for the Bufalino crime family and his alleged assassination of his close friend Jimmy Hoffa.Best Picture
Best Director (Martin Effin' Scorsese)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor (Robert de Niro)
Best Supporting Actor (Ali Pacino)
Best FIlm Editing
* COULD BE PUSHED BACK TO 2019
** WON'T BE RELEVANT IF "MUDBOUND" IS SNUBBED THIS YEAR, PROVING NETFLIX IS STILL NOT ACCEPTED BY THE ACADEMY