95th Annual Academy Awards

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Well, that was a wild and unforgettable night. Time to move on to the next year's Oscars (if they're still around by then)...


Here are some noteworthy movies coming this year with potential Oscar buzz:


Babylon
“Babylon” delves into the early years of Hollywood’s Golden Age, set in the 1920s during the movie industry’s transition from silent films to talkies.
Director: Damien Chazelle
Cast: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Olivia Wilde, Tobey Maguire, Samara Weaving, Katherine Waterston, Jean Smart


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
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jesse Plemons, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow


She Said
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Director: Maria Schrader
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Tom Pelphrey, Samantha Morton, Andre Braugher


The Fabelmans
A semi-autobiography based on Spielberg's own childhood growing up in post-war Arizona, from age seven to eighteen.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Julia Butters, David Lynch


Women Talking
A group of women in an isolated Mennonite religious colony in Bolivia as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a string of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
Director: Sarah Polley
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Frances McDormand, Ben Whishaw


Emancipation
A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Will Smith, Ben Foster, Steven Ogg, Mustafa Shakir, Charmaine Bingwa


Blonde
A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.
Director: Andrew Dominik
Cast: Ana de Armas, Julianne Nicholson, Rebecca Wisocky, Bobby Cannavale


Poor Things
The film will be a Victorian tale of love, discovery and scientific daring, Poor Things tells the incredible story of Belle Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by an eccentric but brilliant scientist.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Abbott, Margaret Qualley, Ramy Youssef


Disappointment Blvd
A decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.
Director: Ari Aster
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Amy Ryan, Michael Gandolfini, Nathan Lane


White Noise
Follows a year in the life of Jack Gladney, a professor who has made his name by pioneering the field of Hitler studies.
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Jodie Turner-Smith, Adam Driver, Alessandro Nivola, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Don Cheadle


The Banshees of Inisherin
A pair of lifelong friends on a remote Irish island find themselves at an awkward time in their relationship when one of them no longer wants to be friends.
Director: Martin McDonagh
Cast: Barry Keoghan, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon


Untitled David O. Russell film
A doctor and a lawyer form an unlikely partnership.
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Rami Malek, Zoe Saldana, Robert De Niro, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Andrea Riseborough


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
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Michael Fassbender, Frankie Adams, Rhys Darby


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
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Samira Wiley, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Brian Tyree Henry


Cha Cha Real Smooth
A young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host strikes up a friendship with a mother and her autistic daughter.
Director: Cooper Raiff
Cast: Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson, Evan Assante


Rustin
Gay, civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 March on Washington.
Director: George C. Wolfe
Cast: Colman Domingo, Jeffrey Wright, Audra McDonald, Bill Irwin


Decision to Leave
A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
Director: Park Chan-wook
Cast: Tang Wei, Go Kyung-Pyo, Park Hae-il


The Son
Peter as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.
Director: Florian Zeller
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Dern


Pinocchio
A darker version of the classic children's fairy tale of a wooden puppet that transforms into a real living boy.
Director: Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson
Cast: Cate Blanchett, John Turturro, Ewan McGregor, Finn Wolfhard


I Wanna Dance With Somebody
The joyous, emotional and heart-breaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical super stardom
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Cast: Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Tamara Tunie, Clarke Peters, Ashton Sanders

 

I just realized Emancipation is also coming out this year with Will Smith and the David O. Russell film also has Chris Rock.

 

TNT and TBS Will No Longer Air SAG Awards – The Hollywood Reporter

 

Will Smith's 'Emancipation' Delayed After Oscars Slap - Variety

 

I would love to be wrong, but I don't think Everything Everywhere All At Once has a shot at some Oscar nominations especially when fall hits. It just seems like the par for the course for these smaller indie movies that got released early in the year. It's definitely the front runner in the Indie Spirit awards though.