‘King Richard,’ ‘Dune’ and More Enter Best Picture Race – The Hollywood Reporter

Following April’s somber Academy Awards, the stakes for the subsequent ceremony in March are extremely excessive. Whereas final 12 months’s movies had been primarily watched on small screens as COVID-19 shut down film theaters and screening rooms throughout the globe, this summer season noticed audiences returning to the cineplex. The low scores from the 2021 broadcast may enhance since high-profile studio releases like Dune and West Facet Story will seemingly be within the operating this awards season.

After striving for a win for 3 seasons and so far failing to nab the Oscar for greatest image, Netflix might lastly earn the highest prize with considered one of its main contenders from the likes of earlier Oscar winners Adam McKay and Jane Campion. The streamer can also be backing buzzy directorial debuts from Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Corridor, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeymes Samuel.

Alongside the newcomers are extremely anticipated movies from such celebrated auteurs as Paul Thomas Anderson, Kenneth Branagh, Joel Coen, Guillermo del Toro and Ridley Scott. With a assured 10 nominees for greatest image in 2022, the sector additionally may present house for a number of foreign-language options from administrators Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi, Julia Ducournau and Paolo Sorrentino.

As we embark upon Hollywood’s favourite season, THR seems to be on the high 30 movies within the race.

BEING THE RICARDOS

Amazon, Dec. 10

Author-director Aaron Sorkin, contemporary off an authentic screenplay nomination for final 12 months’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, as soon as once more seems to be at larger-than-life figures that left an indelible mark on American historical past or tradition: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, performed right here by Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem. The fictionalized account of the TV duo takes place throughout a tumultuous week of taking pictures their CBS sitcom I Love Lucy.

BELFAST

Focus Options, Nov. 12

Newcomer Jude Hill leads an ensemble that features Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Ciarán Hinds and Oscar winner Judi Dench in a portrait of a working class Northern Eire household. Set in 1969 within the early days of the Troubles — the battle between the Catholic nationalists who hoped for a united Eire and the Protestants who wished to stay within the U.Ok. — the movie is impressed by writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s childhood.

THE CARD COUNTER

Focus Options, Sept. 10

Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader, who earned his first Oscar nomination for writing 2019’s First Reformed, as soon as once more turns to the topic of a damaged man struggling to suit into society. Oscar Isaac stars because the titular character, William Inform, a former navy jail guard turned gambler who brings below his wing the grieving son of a former colleague. His efforts to flee the ghosts of his previous are in useless, nevertheless, when his younger apprentice embarks on a mission to avenge his father’s loss of life.

C’MON C’MON

A24, Nov. 19

Joaquin Phoenix performs a single and childless documentarian who’s all of the sudden thrust right into a parental function when he agrees to take care of his younger nephew (Woody Norman) as his sister (Gaby Hoffmann) navigates her ex-partner’s psychological well being disaster. Mike Mills’ black-and-white comedic drama is a meditation on the teachings adults and youngsters can study from one another.

CODA

Apple, Aug. 13

Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the one listening to member of her predominantly deaf household (she’s a Little one of Deaf Adults), serving because the hyperlink between her dad and mom (Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur)and brother and their neighborhood of Gloucester, Massachusetts. However when Ruby joins her highschool choir and is acknowledged for her singing expertise, she should resolve whether or not to pursue her goals or keep along with her household as their trusted interpreter.

CYRANO

MGM/United Artists, Dec. 24

Director Joe Wright breathes contemporary life into Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, with Peter Dinklage enjoying the flamboyant main character who harbors a debilitating crush on his childhood good friend, Roxanne (Haley Bennett), and coaches her good-looking but dim suitor Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) into wooing Roxanne together with his phrases. Wright’s retelling, based mostly on Erica Schmidt’s musical adaptation, options songs by The Nationwide.

DON’T LOOK UP

Netflix, Dec. 10

Oscar winner Adam McKay assembled an A-list dream group — amongst them Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Cate Blanchett and Chris Evans — on this darkly comedian satire about two astronomers (DiCaprio and Lawrence) who embark on a media tour to warn the general public of a comet that’s on monitor to collide with Earth and destroy the planet.

DUNE

Warner Bros., Oct. 22

Denis Villeneuve’s long-anticipated adaptation of Frank Herbert’s beloved 1965 novel — delayed greater than a 12 months by the pandemic — stars Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, the son of a nobleman who’s mysteriously drawn to the desert planet of Arrakis as warring clans (and lethal sandworms) threaten his household’s rule. The sci-fi epic co-stars Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem and Zendaya — and its early field workplace success has already paved the best way for a sequel to be launched in 2023.

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

Searchlight, Sept. 17

Jessica Chastain stars as Tammy Faye Bakker, spouse of televangelist Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield), who gained notoriety within the ’70s and ’80s for her garish make-up, her charismatic love of Christ and her husband’s public scandals involving his fraudulent enterprise practices and extramarital exploits. Primarily based on the cult documentary from Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, this campy biopic is directed by Michael Showalter and produced by Chastain.

FLEE

Neon, Dec. 3

In Denmark’s official submission for worldwide characteristic, a person, on the eve of marrying his husband, reveals his story of life as a refugee. The animated doc may make Oscar historical past by choosing up noms for greatest documentary, greatest animated characteristic and greatest image — and this Sundance hit directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen (and government produced by Oscar nominee Riz Ahmed and Video games of Thrones‘ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) has loads of buzz behind it.

THE FRENCH DISPATCH

Searchlight, Oct. 22

Wes Anderson throws all of his tips into one bag with this ode to journalism (specifically, the heady days of The New Yorker) that encompasses a solid of A-list gamers far too lengthy to checklist right here. An anthology movie assembled like {a magazine} difficulty, The French Dispatch is a feast for the eyes because it tells three tales of artwork, politics and delicacies with Anderson’s trademark idiosyncratic model.

THE HAND OF GOD

Netflix, Dec. 3

Set in Naples through the mid-’80s, the movie from Paolo Sorrentino (whose The Nice Magnificence received the 2014 Oscar for greatest worldwide characteristic) tells a beguiling, autobiographical story of a teenage boy (Filippo Scotti) whose life is irrevocably modified by a sequence of occasions in 1984, the 12 months soccer nice Diego Maradona joined the Napoli membership.

THE HARDER THEY FALL

Netflix, Oct. 22

This debut characteristic from writer-director Jeymes Samuel (who as a music producer and singer-songwriter is named The Bullitts) skewers the trimmings of the Western style and encompasses a predominantly Black solid enjoying characters impressed by real-life figures in American historical past. Jonathan Majors leads the ensemble (which incorporates Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, LaKeith Stanfield and Oscar winner Regina King) as a cowboy who seeks to avenge his dad and mom’ homicide.

A HERO

Amazon, Jan. 7

Launched on a two-day depart from jail, Rahim (Amir Jadidi) makes an attempt to repay his debt to his former brother-in-law by working towards decreasing his jail sentence and rebuilding his life together with his younger son and fiancée. However when a seemingly good deed attracts consideration to the prisoner, in the end spiraling right into a information story quickly picked aside on social media, Rahim realizes his plan is far more than he bargained for within the newest drama from Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi.

HOUSE OF GUCCI

United Artists, Nov. 24

A scandal that ripped via the style world is the topic of considered one of Ridley Scott’s two options within the Oscar race. This crime drama stars Woman Gaga because the notorious Patrizia Reggiani, who was convicted of hiring a hitman to homicide her husband, Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver). Oscar winners Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino play different members of the Gucci household, with Oscar nominee Salma Hayek enjoying Reggiani’s psychic adviser.

KING RICHARD

Warner Bros., Nov. 19

Will Smith delivers a tour de drive flip as Richard Williams, the near-legendary father of tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams. Following the Williams household as Venus embarks on her professional profession, King Richard is the story of a person who put every thing on the road for his household and would cease at nothing to raise his daughters and switch them into athletes who would dominate their sport.

THE LAST DUEL

twentieth Century Studios, Oct. 15

Twenty years after successful the perfect authentic screenplay Oscar for Good Will Searching, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reteamed to put in writing this drama, based mostly on true occasions, with assist from earlier Oscar nominee Nicole Holofcener. Damon stars as a knight whose spouse (Jodie Comer) accuses one other man of rape. Adam Driver and Affleck co-star in Ridley Scott’s medieval epic match for the #MeToo period.

LICORICE PIZZA

MGM/United Artists, Nov. 26

Cooper Hoffman (son of Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Alana Haim (one-third of the indie-pop trio Haim) star on this coming-of-age story from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. The Boogie Nights director returns to the San Fernando Valley of the Seventies for his newest drama that additionally options Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn, Benny Safdie and Tom Waits in supporting roles.

THE LOST DAUGHTER

Netflix, Dec. 17

Maggie Gyllenhaal makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel, for which Gyllenhaal received the Golden Osella prize for greatest screenplay on the Venice Movie Pageant. Olivia Colman stars as a lady who, whereas vacationing in Greece, turns into entranced by one other girl (Dakota Johnson) and is compelled to re-examine her painful recollections of motherhood.

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Searchlight, Dec. 3

Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro adapts William Lindsay Gresham’s novel (beforehand the supply materials for the 1947 movie noir of the identical title), which stars Bradley Cooper as an formidable hustler who enters the seedy underbelly of the touring carnival circuit — full with grifters, fortune tellers and femme fatales. Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins and Rooney Mara fill out the star-studded ensemble.

PARALLEL MOTHERS

Sony Photos Classics, Dec. 24

Simply earlier than giving start, two ladies — one approaching center age, the opposite a young person — kind a bond after assembly in a hospital room. Months later, the ladies discover themselves as soon as once more linked by probability — and a surprising secret. The 2 confront motherhood on this fashionable drama from Pedro Almodóvar, which stars his frequent participant Penélope Cruz (who earned the Volpi Cup for greatest actress on the Venice Movie Pageant for her efficiency).

PASSING

Netflix, Oct. 27

Rebecca Corridor’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as Irene and Clare, two childhood buddies who meet unexpectedly in New York Metropolis and reconnect regardless of their completely different social standing: Each are biracial, however Irene identifies as Black as Clare passes as white. A taut drama with parts of a psychological thriller ensues as the ladies’s dueling identities start to dominate their relationship.

THE POWER OF THE DOG

Netflix, Nov. 17

Benedict Cumberbatch provides a commanding efficiency because the brusque and mean-spirited Phil Burbank, a cattle rancher in 1925 Montana who holds nothing however contempt for his brother and his brother’s new spouse (real-life companions Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst). Jane Campion’s majestic drama slowly builds the strain that simmers below Phil’s floor, able to explode at a second’s discover, and challenges the masculine mythos of the American West.

RED ROCKET

A24, Dec. 3

The Florida Challenge and Tangerine director Sean Baker examines these dwelling on society’s margins as soon as once more. The darkish comedy follows Mikey Saber (an irresistible Simon Rex), a washed-up porn star who returns to reside together with his estranged spouse and mother-in-law. Continuously scheming to go away small-town Texas and return to Los Angeles with a possible new performer below his wing (his barely authorized girlfriend, Strawberry), the pathologically self-destructive Mikey finds his climb again to the highest riddled with obstacles.

RESPECT

MGM/United Artists, Aug. 13

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson takes on the monumental process of portraying Aretha Franklin on this musical biopic that charts her rise to fame as some of the influential and completed recording artists of the twentieth century. Co-starring Marlon Wayans and Forest Whitaker as Franklin’s domineering husband and father, respectively, the Franklin family-approved movie sees her remodel from a fledgling singer to the undisputed Queen of Soul.

SPENCER

Neon, Nov. 5

After analyzing Jacqueline Kennedy within the days after her husband’s assassination in Jackie (which earned star Natalie Portman an Oscar nom for portraying the primary girl), director Pablo Larraín factors his lens at one other tragic determine of the late twentieth century: Princess Diana of Wales, performed right here by Kristen Stewart through the course of three days because the late royal involves phrases with the approaching dissolution of her marriage.

TICK, TICK … BOOM!

Netflix, Nov. 12

Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his characteristic directorial debut with this formidable adaptation of Lease creator Jonathan Larson’s first present, which originated as a one-man “rock monologue.” Andrew Garfield performs the younger composer, on the cusp of turning 30 as he frantically makes an attempt to mount a workshop efficiency of his new authentic musical. A love letter to musical theater, the movie is a tribute to Larson and the drive it takes to attain greatness on the stage.

TITANE

Neon, Oct. 1

Julia Ducournau’s audacious second characteristic — which follows a dancer (a spellbinding Agathe Rousselle) who turns into a serial killer after being impregnated by a automobile (simply go along with it) and later passes for the long-missing son of a firefighter — first shocked audiences at Cannes with its unsettling physique horror. (Its Palme d’Or win might have been much more stunning.) Regardless of its brutal imagery (and sound), the movie is an interesting exploration of gender, violence, need and unconditional love.

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

Apple/A24, Dec. 25

For his first venture with out brother and filmmaking accomplice Ethan, Joel Coen enlists two Oscar-winning heavyweights — his spouse, Frances McDormand, and Denzel Washington — to play the scheming Lord and Woman Macbeth on this stark and haunting adaptation of The Scottish Play. Co-star Kathryn Hunter, one of many U.Ok.’s most acclaimed Shakespeare interpreters, delivers an astonishing efficiency because the three witches who entice Macbeth to observe his ambition to develop into King of Scotland.

WEST SIDE STORY

twentieth Century Studios, Dec. 25

Steven Spielberg brings the basic Broadway musical (itself a retelling of Romeo and Juliet) to a brand new technology with Ansel Elgort and newcomer Rachel Zegler because the star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria. Its earlier movie adaptation received 10 Oscars in 1962, together with greatest image. Rita Moreno, whose efficiency of Anita received her a trophy for greatest supporting actress, seems within the Tony Kushner-penned adaptation as a brand new character.

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