Oscar Movies to watch for in 2018
Yeah I know I am doing this really early but I got to to do this just in case we lose free internet. Also post in the comments of what movies I am missing (that are Sundance hit films of 2018) and I will add them, if we still have free internet that is.
Rows 1-32: Best Picture to Writing material
Rows 33-40: Animation
Rows 41-60: Visual & Aural
Rows 1-32: Best Picture to Writing material
Rows 33-40: Animation
Rows 41-60: Visual & Aural
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- 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.Steve McQueen the first black director to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the voice of a new generation is back to directed his next movie which is based on a British TV show about four widows after discovering that their husbands were killed and were robbers, start to continue the rest of the work that their husbands left for them is right for Picture, Adapted Screenplay and acting from Viola Davis. Let's hope it can be a good successor to 12 Years a Slave that is.
- 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.Barry Jenkins of the surprising Best Picture winner Moonlight is onto making his next movie about a pregnant woman racing against time to prove that her husband is innocent is worthy of Best picture, directing, screenplay and maybe acting if the actors and actress can make it as good.
- 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.Damien Chazelle of La La Land makes his new movie that will be his first movie not involving music (unless they will have the song Fly Me to the Moon or a joke involving Louie Armstrong in there) that will be about how Neil Armstrong got on to the moon and became a legend as the first man on the moon has high hopes to be nominated for Best picture, screenplay, direction and maybe acting and it's effects in SPACCE! If it will get great reviews as La La Land that is.
- 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.Adam McKay makes his successor of The Big Short by making a bio film of the most conversational vice-president in American history know as Dick Cheney. Has got my eyes for picture, acting from Christian Bale as Cheney, Amy Adams as Mrs. Cheney and Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush and also maybe screenplay from Adam himself. If he can make it as good as The Big Short.
- DirectorSteven Caple Jr.StarsMichael B. JordanSylvester StalloneTessa ThompsonUnder the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, newly crowned heavyweight champion Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago.
- DirectorSebastián LelioStarsJulianne MooreJohn TurturroCaren PistoriusA free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsSteve CarellFalk HentschelMatt O'LearyA victim of a brutal attack finds a unique and beautiful therapeutic outlet to help him through his recovery process.Robert Zemeckis directs a based on a true story movie of a man named Mark Hogancamp after suffering from a brutally beating makes a town in his back yard and pretends he is in that world he has created to help him recover is mostly worthy for Best Actor for Steve Carell's performance as Mark Hogancamp.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRyan CooglerStarsChadwick BosemanMichael B. JordanLupita Nyong'oT'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.One of the three Marvel Cinematic Universe films coming this year and the one I have high hopes along with Avengers 3. Is getting a 100% ratting on Rotten Tomatoes so far it may have some chances to be nominated for not only Best Costume Design, Production Design and Make-Up and Hairstyling. But also Best Picture, Director and maybe Adapted Screenplay as well, if it stays at 100 or 98.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloElena Sofia RicciRiccardo ScamarcioA film about the life of Silvio Berlusconi.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorWash WestmorelandStarsKeira KnightleyFiona ShawDominic WestColette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.Keira Knightley stars as famous author Gabrielle Colette that is becoming a Sundance hit could get her an Academy Award nomination with nominations for Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland.
- DirectorDebra GranikStarsThomasin McKenzieBen FosterJeffery RifflardA father and his seventeen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.
- DirectorTamara JenkinsStarsKathryn HahnPaul GiamattiGabrielle ReidAn author is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting her relationship with her husband on edge.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsRami MalekLucy BoyntonGwilym LeeThe story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).
- 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.Joel Edgerton directs his second movie of a son of a preacher going to a camp for gay teens while doing something new there is right for picture to acting if this will be his Lady Bird and Get Out that is.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsRory KinnearMaxine PeakeNeil BellThe story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
- DirectorJohn KrasinskiStarsEmily BluntJohn KrasinskiMillicent SimmondsA family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.Michael Bay produces John Krasinski's new film that is a original horror movie about a family trying to survive by not making a noise that can get these unknown monsters to get them. Is getting early good reviews with a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes that it could get Oscar attention for original screenplay if it stays at 100% or gets a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.
- DirectorBo BurnhamStarsElsie FisherJosh HamiltonEmily RobinsonAn introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.Another Sundance Film Festival, but this may get the nominations for Best Picture and Original Screenplay unless the acting catch's everyone's eye (including mine).
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorSara ColangeloStarsMaggie GyllenhaalGael García BernalAto Blankson-WoodA kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students who she believes is a child prodigy.
- DirectorBradley CooperStarsLady GagaBradley CooperSam ElliottA musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
- 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.
- DirectorKaryn KusamaStarsNicole KidmanToby KebbellTatiana MaslanyA police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.
- DirectorMarielle HellerStarsMelissa McCarthyRichard E. GrantDolly WellsWhen Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
- DirectorPaul SchraderStarsEthan HawkeAmanda SeyfriedCedric The EntertainerA minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.
- DirectorPeter FarrellyStarsViggo MortensenMahershala AliLinda CardelliniA working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
- DirectorNick ParkStarsEddie RedmayneTom HiddlestonMaisie WilliamsSet at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.Nick Park returns to film with a movie of British cavemen is so going to get attention for Best Animated Feature since it's a Aardman and Nick Park film if it will be a good film that is.
- DirectorBrad BirdStarsCraig T. NelsonHolly HunterSarah VowellThe Incredibles family takes on a new mission which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world.After long years, The Incredibles is finally get a sequel it derives for the Best Animated Feature race of 2018. If the film will get voters and critics' attention to have it nominated for Best Animated Feature.
- DirectorPhil JohnstonRich MooreStarsJohn C. ReillySarah SilvermanGal GadotSix years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph," Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.At last the sequel of Wreck-It Ralph is coming! If this film will be a good sequel this could go for being nominated for the Best Animated Feature of 2018 and take it from Incredibles 2 like how Zootopia did with Finding Dory.
- DirectorBob PersichettiPeter RamseyRodney RothmanStarsShameik MooreJake JohnsonHailee SteinfeldTeen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsBryan CranstonKoyu RankinEdward NortonSet in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.Wes Anderson makes his second animated film about a Japanese boy and some stray dogs going on a journey in a waste land in Japan might get the attention for Best Animated Feature if it will be as good as Fantastic Mr. Fox that is.
- DirectorAlexandre EspigaresStarsRaphaël PersonnazVirginie EfiraDominique PinonBased on the timeless novel by Jack London. A loyal wolfdog's curiosity leads him on the adventure of a lifetime while serving a series of three distinctly different masters.As of so far the only non-mainstream animated films to get my attention for the next Oscar season are White Fang and Mirai of the Future. See how this film is directed by Alexandre Espigares the Academy Award winning director of Mr. Hulbot let's hope this will be a good film and a good way for a dirctor debut.
- DirectorMamoru HosodaStarsRebecca HallDaniel Dae KimJohn ChoA young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.As of so far the only non-mainstream animated films to get my attention for the next Oscar season are White Fang and Mirai of the Future. Looking at this film and it's plot it could get some Oscar attention if it comes to America in time and has enough people in the Oscar voting system to watch and chose it while it can also get some good reviews that is.
- DirectorMilorad KrsticStarsIván KamarásCsaba MártonGabriella HámoriFour expert thieves attempt to steal every famous artwork that is haunting their mutual psychotherapist. A detective attempts to find out who the "Collector" is.
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsStorm ReidOprah WinfreyReese WitherspoonAfter the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
- DirectorAnthony RussoJoe RussoStarsRobert Downey Jr.Chris HemsworthMark RuffaloThe Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.This year, Marvel is bring us the biggest and most hyped Marvel and summer movie of 2018 where all the heroes of Marvel are force to join and team up to finally battle the evil Thanos. The trailer has showed us that this will be the most epic, awesome and tearjerker Marvel movie of all time as the first part of the final Avengers movie has got the attention for the nomination for Best Visual Effects if the film promises us on what we are going to get this April in this Avenger movie.
- DirectorRon HowardStarsAlden EhrenreichWoody HarrelsonEmilia ClarkeDuring an adventure in the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebel Alliance.Row Howard teams up with Lucasfilm once again to make the long-a-waited Han Solo origin movie we have been waiting for. Let's hope it can be better than Rouge One and the prequel trilogy despite it's shady production that we have being hearing of.
- DirectorShane BlackStarsBoyd HolbrookTrevante RhodesJacob TremblayWhen a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
- DirectorDavid YatesStarsEddie RedmayneKatherine WaterstonDan FoglerGellert Grindelwald plans to raise an army of wizards to rule over non-magical beings. In response, Newt Scamander's former professor, Albus Dumbledore, seeks his help to stop him.Seeing how the first Fantastic Beasts won Best Costume Design and looking at the art of this trailer. This film may do the same and be nominated for Best Costume and Production Design like the first film, if it will be as good as the first or better than the first that is.
- DirectorChristian RiversStarsHera HilmarRobert SheehanHugo WeavingIn a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy.Peter Jackson returns to film to produce and write a friend's director debut about after the end of the world, towns now live on wheels looks right to be nominated for it's visual effects and production design if it can be award worthy.
- DirectorJames WanStarsJason MomoaAmber HeardWillem DafoeArthur Curry, the human-born heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, goes on a quest to prevent a war between the worlds of ocean and land.While this is the only DC Comics film to come out in 2018. Let's hope it will be good to get some picks for it's production design, costume design, sound and maybe make-up.
- DirectorRob MarshallStarsEmily BluntLin-Manuel MirandaBen WhishawA few decades after her original visit, Mary Poppins, the magical nanny, returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.A sequel to the Disney classic Mary Poppins is coming this Christmas. But seen how it's a Rob Marshall film it will mostly get attention for costume design, production design and a original song if they will be one on par with Chim Chim Cher-ee and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious that is.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTye SheridanOlivia CookeBen MendelsohnWhen the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.Steven Spielberg's best epic movie in a while is so worthy for it's awesome visual effects and sound. Let's hope it can get one or two of those nominations.
- DirectorBrett HaleyStarsNick OffermanKiersey ClemonsBlythe DannerA father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.
- DirectorJesse PeretzStarsChris O'DowdRose ByrneEthan HawkeAnnie (the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan) has an unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.
- DirectorAlex GarlandStarsNatalie PortmanJennifer Jason LeighTessa ThompsonA biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.The director of Ex Machina comes to adapt a famous sci-fi novel of a group of people going into a new dimension that has a dark side to it is right for Best Visual Effects if it can be good as Ex Machina.
- DirectorDavid LeitchStarsRyan ReynoldsJosh BrolinMorena BaccarinFoul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (a.k.a. Deadpool) assembles a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg Cable.As of now the only films that have the attention to be nominated for Best Make Up and Hair Styling are Backseat, Black Panther and the second Deadpool movie which looks fun and awesome. Let's hope it can get good reviews and attention in order to be in the shortlist for Best Make Up and Hair Styling.
- 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.
- DirectorLasse HallströmJoe JohnstonStarsMackenzie FoyKeira KnightleyMorgan FreemanA young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.
- 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.
- DirectorCharles Stone IIIStarsKyrie IrvingLil Rel HoweryShaquille O'NealAn anti-ageist comedy about a man's dream to win the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem.Despite this movie been okay, the film is likely going to be in the short list for Best Make Up and Hair Styling seeing how the Academy loves comedies with old man make up.
- DirectorChristopher McQuarrieStarsTom CruiseHenry CavillVing RhamesEthan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.People online and everywhere else are saying that this is the best Mission: Impossible movie ever, that it may get some Oscar attention. My best bets is it will mostly have a shot at being nominated for the Best Popular Film category while also for Best sound and maybe cinematography.
- DirectorKarey KirkpatrickJason ReisigStarsChanning TatumJames CordenZendayaHigh up on a mountain peak surrounded by clouds, a secret Yeti society lives in peace and harmony. One day, a Yeti witnesses an airplane crash; Inside lies "Smallfoot", a legendary creature that will rock the society to its core.
- DirectorTravis KnightStarsHailee SteinfeldJorge Lendeborg Jr.John CenaOn the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. On the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, Charlie Watson discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken.