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Another award season in the books, now it's time to look ahead for next year's Oscar race.
Here's some noteworthy movies coming this year...
West Side Story
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Ansel Elgort, Rita Moreno, Corey Stoll, Rachel Zegler
The Last Duel
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Adam Driver, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jodie Comer
Dune
Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel, about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Rebecca Ferguson, Timothée Chalamet, Jason Momoa, Dave Bautista
Hillbilly Elegy
A man recalls his life growing up in the Midwest with Appalachian values.
Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Amy Adams, Haley Bennett, Gabriel Basso, Glenn Close
Mank
Follows screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz's tumultuous development of Orson Welles' iconic masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941).
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Lily Collins, Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Tom Burke
King Richard
A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.
Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Stars: Will Smith, Jon Bernthal, Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney
In The Heights
A feature version of the Broadway musical, in which a bodega owner has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic after inheriting his grandmother's fortune.
Director: Jon M. Chu
Stars: Anthony Ramos, Stephanie Beatriz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jimmy Smits
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
When Ma Rainey, the "Queen of the Blues," makes a record in a studio in Chicago, 1927, tensions boil between her, her white agent and producer, and bandmates.
Director: George C. Wolfe
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Taylour Paige, Colman Domingo
Blonde
A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.
Director: Andrew Dominik
Stars: Ana de Armas, Julianne Nicholson, Rebecca Wisocky, Bobby Cannavale
Ammonite
1840s England, an infamous fossil hunter and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Director: Francis Lee
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Kate Winslet, Fiona Shaw, Gemma Jones
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Stars: J.C. MacKenzie, Jeremy Strong, Sacha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Minari
Korean family moves to Arkansas to start a farm in the 1980s.
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Stars: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Yuh-Jung Youn, Will Patton
Killers of the Flower Moon
Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro
News of the World
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
Director: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Tom Hanks, Neil Sandilands, Stephanie Hill, Chukwudi Iwuji
The French Dispatch
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch" magazine.
Director: Wes Anderson
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Elisabeth Moss, Bill Murray
Greyhound
During World War II, a US Navy skipper must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by Nazi U-boat wolf packs.
Director: Aaron Schneider
Stars: Tom Hanks, Elisabeth Shue, Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan
Macbeth
A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
Director: Joel Coen
Stars: Denzel Washington, Brendan Gleeson, Frances McDormand, Corey Hawkins
Soul
A musician who has lost his passion for music is transported out of his body and must find his way back with the help of an infant soul learning about herself.
Directors: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Quest Love, Daveed Diggs
Tenet
An action epic revolving around international espionage, time travel and evolution.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
The Woman in the Window
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors, only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Amy Adams, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore
Last Night in Soho
A young girl, passionate in fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to fall apart with shady consequences.
Director: Edgar Wright
Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Terence Stamp, Matt Smith
Da 5 Bloods
A group of veterans from the Vietnam War return to the jungle to find their lost innocence.
Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Paul Walter Hauser, Giancarlo Esposito, Jonathan Majors
Respect
The life story of legendary R&B singer, Aretha Franklin.
Director: Liesl Tommy
Stars: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Tate Donovan, Marlon Wayans
Nomadland
A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Director: Chloé Zhao
Stars: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Charlene Swankie, Linda May
Green Knight
A fantasy re-telling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Director: David Lowery
Stars: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris
After Yang
The film follows a father and daughter as they try to save the life of their robotic family member.
Director: Kogonada
Stars: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min, Haley Lu Richardson
The Many Saints of Newark
A look at the formative years of New Jersey gangster, Tony Soprano.
Director: Alan Taylor
Stars: Michael Gandolfini, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Billy Magnussen
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker seek redemption after their religious empire and marriage crumbles.
Director: Michael Showalter
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Vincent D'Onofrio, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones
Zola
A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.
Director: Janicza Bravo
Stars: Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun, Taylour Paige, Jason Mitchell
Red, White and Water
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.
Director: Lila Neugebauer
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Samira Wiley, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Brian Tyree Henry
The Father
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Director: Florian Zeller
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell
Shirley
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Director: Josephine Decker
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Logan Lerman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young
Next Goal Wins
Adaptation of the 2014 British soccer documentary which follows Dutch coach Thomas Rongen who attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.
Director: Taika Waititi
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Michael Fassbender, Frankie Adams, Rhys Darby
If there's anything I left off, please post it below....
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