With the arrival of September American awards season begins, a long-distance race that ends six months later with the delivery of the Oscars.
And as usual, by this time we already have the Top favorites to fight for the prized Hollywood Academy Awards. At the moment they are only speculations and during the Oscar race some of these films will fall, either because their release is finally delayed to 2016 or because of the harsh criticism after their release, but at the moment these are the 30 films that sound the most. for the next edition of the Oscars.
'Beasts of No Nation'
Original title: 'Beasts of No Nation'
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
After receiving some awards and being praised by critics for directing the first season of the television series 'True Detective', Cary Joji Fukunaga returns to feature film with 'Beasts of No Nation'. The director has become one of the most promising of the moment and much is expected of this new work, from which great performances can come out, who knows if they will not appear collecting awards Idris Elba and even the unknown to date Abraham Attah.
'Black Mass'
Original title: 'Black Mass'
Director: Scott Cooper
Johnny Depp, again characterized for the title role, has given visibility to this film that could also appear among the winners of the year. But the actor of the saga 'Pirates of the Caribbean' ('Pirates of the Caribbean') is not the only highlight of this film, since Scott Cooper is behind the scenes, who has brought us very interesting proposals in recent years such as the film that won Jeff Bridges the Oscar in 2010 'Wild Heart' ('Crazy Heart') or 'Out of the Furnace', a film that sounded for some awards in 2013.
'Brooklyn'
Original title: 'Brooklyn'
Director: John crowley
'Brooklyn' is a discreet film that we would not even mention on this list if it weren't for the rave reviews it received at the last Sundance Festival. It is probably very difficult to get the nomination for best picture, but very attentive to The highlights of the film, its main performers, especially Saoirse Ronan, whom we have seen in films like 'Atonement, beyond passion' ('Atonement') or 'The Lovely Bones', and Emory Cohen, whom we practically discovered in this film after small roles in films like 'Crossroads' ('The Place Beyond the Pines') or 'The player' ('The Gambler').
'Carol'
Original title: 'Carol'
Director: Todd Haynes
From a film that shone at the Sundance Film Festival, we move on to another that did the same at the latest edition of the Cannes Film Festival, award included. As in the previous film, you have to pay close attention to its protagonists, very good reviews for the winner of two Oscars Cate Blanchett and the nominee Rooney Mara, who was awarded as best actress in the French competition. Todd Haynes' film has serious options for the best picture nomination and his actresses could appear among the nominees for best actress, Blanchett, and best supporting actress, Mara, the latter being the great rival to beat at the moment.
'The Danish girl'
Original title: 'The Danish Girl'
Director: Tom Hooper
'The Danish girl' is already one of the favorites to be present at the next gala of the Academy Awards in Hollywood. And the tape looks really good, biopic about a most curious character, the last winner of the Oscar for best actor for 'The Theory of Everything' ('The Theory of Everything') as the protagonist in a role that brings out the best of a performer and a director who received the statuette in 2011 for 'The King's Speech '(' The King's Speech ').
'Reverse'
Original title: 'Inside Out'
Director: Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen
We are probably facing the movie with more options at the moment of receiving the Oscar nomination, than not to win it, far from it. 'Inside out' except for armed robbery has in his pocket the Oscar for best animated film And now you just have to see if he is able to win the odd award such as the original script. The new Pixar movie, we can say that the best he has done, can not be less than 'Beauty and the Beast' ('Beauty and the Beast'), 'Up' or 'Toy Story 3, the only three films to date. the date they have received the Oscar nomination for best picture.
'In the heart of the sea'
Original title: 'In the Heart of the Sea'
Director: Ron Howard
Another of the films that have options this year, in his case despite being an adventure film, is Ron Howard's new 'In the heart of the sea'. Winner of two statuettes, best film and best director for 'A Beautiful Mind' ('A Beautiful Mind') and nominated again for these two awards for 'Frost against Nixon' ('Frost / Nixon'), Ron Howard must always be taken into account, although it rarely ends up appearing.
'Everest'
Original title: 'Everest'
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
One of the films that is being talked about the most, again we are facing an adventure film, is 'Everest', a film with a great cast (Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Jake Gyllenhaal, ...) that could have a presence in the awards season, for now will be in charge of the opening of the Venice Film Festival, honor that last year had 'Birdman' by Alejandro González Iñárritu, later winner of four statuettes, including best film and best direction and two years ago 'Gravity' by Alfonso Cuarón, to later sweep the Academy Awards gala Hollywood with up to seven awards, including best direction.
'Freeheld'
Original title: 'Freeheld'
Director: Peter Sollett
'Freeheld' is the film for which Julianne Moore would opt for the Oscar from now on if they had not rushed to give it to her last year for 'Always Alice' ('Still Alice'), but she still has options for a new nomination, of course that he will not win it for the second time in a row. But the film can go further and not only opt for interpretive awards, adapted screenplay or film are options, in fact the story on which it is based is the one told in a documentary short film of the same name that won the Oscar in this category in 2008.
'Oceanfront'
Original title: 'By the Sea'
Director: Angelina Jolie
After winning an interpretive Oscar, best supporting actress in 2000 for 'Inocencia interrupted' ('Girl, Interrupted') and an honorary one in 2014 for her humanitarian work, maybe this is the year that Angelina Jolie is established as director with her third film, opting for best film and even best direction, something that I did not finally achieve last year with 'Unbroken'. This time she will be both behind and in front of the cameras, in front of them accompanied by her husband Brad Pitt, who is also looking for a new opportunity in front of the Academy.
'Star Wars. Episode VII: The Force Awakens'
Original title: 'Star Wars. Episode VII: The Force Awakens'
Director: J. J. Abrams
Will a movie from the 'Star Wars' saga return to compete for the Oscar for best picture? This is the big question we ask ourselves. At the moment only the first film has achieved it, although all of the original trilogy could have achieved it, but we also remember how the next trilogy was, so we have to wait to see what this new stage with Disney holds for us. charge and this seventh episode with JJ Abrams behind the cameras. Quite a mystery.
'The Hateful Eight'
Original title: 'The Hateful Eight'
Director: Quentin Tarantino
We may be facing the year of Quentin Tarantino, His new film we know that it will end up being at the gala in one way or another, surely in an original script, but perhaps he will just convince the Academy and get his third nomination for best direction after those achieved by 'Pulp Fiction' and 'Malditos bastards' ('Inglorious Basterds'). And it seems that the one from Kentucky does not quite convince academics as a director, although he does so as a screenwriter, work for which he has received two awards from three nominations, for 'Pulp Fiction' and for 'Django unchained' ('Django Unchained').
'I Saw the Light'
Original title: 'I Saw the Lights'
Director: Mark Abraham
At the moment we know little about 'I Saw the Light' and we do not have a trailer for this film yet. But this biopic of musician and country legend Hank Williams It is one of the most anticipated films of the season and a lot is expected of it, especially Tom Hiddleston's performance.
'Joy'
Original title: 'Joy'
Director: David O Russell
As we all know The Academy is waiting for David O. Russell to release a new film to nominate it for all possible and a little more, as we saw with 'The great American scam' ('American Hustle') that received up to ten nominations, but when it comes to awarding it is another song, as we saw again with 'The great American scam' that left of emptiness of the gala equaling the record of film with the most nominations that does not win a single award. Therefore we hope that 'Joy' will be one of the most mentioned this awards season and We bet that it will be among the candidates for the golden statuette of best film.
'Youth'
Original title: 'Youth - La giovinezza'
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Two years ago he won the Oscar for the best film in a foreign language for 'La gran Belleza' ('La grande bellezza') and now we are talking about him for the main awards and it is that Paolo Sorrentino does not stop surprising us, in this time with 'Youth', a film that received very good reviews at the last edition of the Cannes Film Festival, especially highlighting the most veteran part of its cast formed by Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel.
'Legend'
Original title: 'Legend'
Director: Brian Helgeland
Tom Hardy, one of the most promising actors of the moment, twice. That's 'Legend', two great roles for an actor who can take this film straight to the OscarsIt all depends on its protagonist playing the Kray twins, gangsters who sowed terror in London during the 60s. A great performance by Tom Hardy could even make the film talk for the best picture category.
'Macbeth'
Original title: 'Macbeth'
Director: Justin Kurzel
Justin Kurzel brings us the umpteenth adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic 'Macbeth', something that would not sound too promising if it weren't for the fact that critics have highlighted the harshness of the setting, its dark atmosphere and its fidelity to the original work. This film promises to be a brutal sample of what the work of the English master can still give.
'Mars'
Original title: 'The Martian'
Director: Ridley Scott
La new Ridley Scott movie seems to have everything to be present at the next edition of the Academy Awards in Hollywood, but the great handicap of 'Mars' is the similarity of its history with 'Gravity', a mere coincidence, since this film is an adaptation of the homonymous bestseller by Andy Weir, but it can also be deducted from the fact that Alfonso Cuarón's film had the success it had only two years ago, seven Oscars including the one for best direction.
'Pawn Sacrifice'
Original title: 'Pawn Sacrifice'
Director: Edward Zwick
'Pawn Sacrifice' already sounded last year, but it was not finally released in 2014 so it has been left for this next edition. The film could receive nominations in the acting categories with Tobey Maguire and Liev Schreider in magnificent roles as Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky respectively, in a Cold War battle that was fought in front of a chessboard.
'The bridge of spies'
Original title: 'The Bridge of Spies'
Director: Steven Spielberg
If there is a director who is synonymous with an Oscar nomination, that is Steven Spielberg. And it is that since the director made his debut on the big screen in 1974 with 'Loca evasión' ('The Sugarland Express'), only three of his films have been left out of the nominations for the Hollywood Academy Awards and that the filmography of Steven Spielberg extends to almost thirty films. But despite this, his last great success at the Oscars was in 1998 with "Saving Private Ryan" ("Saving Private Ryan") when he won five awards including best direction. 'Bridge of Spies could be his next hit with academics.
'The reborn'
Original title: 'The Revenant'
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
A year after he became the great winner of the Hollywood Academy Awards and the second Mexican director to win the Oscar for best director, Alejandro González Iñárritu intends to return to the gala as one of the great favorites with his next film 'El renacido'. In addition, the film could be the one that finally gives the Oscar to Leonardo DiCaprio, who is already considered the rival to beat in the category of best actor.
'Secret in Their Eyes'
Original title: 'Secret in Their Eyes'
Director: Billy ray
We don't know what to expect from this American remake of the Oscar-winning Argentine film for Best Foreign Language Film 'The Secret in Their Eyes', but starring the Oscar winners Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman and by the nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor makes us hopeful, despite the fact that its director does not convince views of his previous films
'Hitman'
Original title: 'Hitman'
Director: Dennis Villeneuve
Academics do not usually go for action films, but 'Sicario' could be one of the few of this genre that is up for the Oscars. Good cast with Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin and a Dennis Villeneuve who could return to the gala after winning the award for best film in a foreign language five years ago for the interesting 'Incendies'.
'Snowden'
Original title: 'Snowden'
Director: Oliver Stone
Despite the fact that in recent years he has been largely forgotten after dedicating himself to filming documentaries in support of communist policies, Oliver Stone was one of the directors most loved by the Hollywood Academy in the late 80s and early 90s.. He has three Oscars to his credit, best adapted screenplay for 'Midnight Express' ('Midnight Express') and best director for 'Platoon' and for 'Born on the Fourth of July' ('Born on the Fourth of July') by up to eleven nominations. It remains to be seen what vision the director gives of the case of 'Snowden', since his political opinion is what has kept him from academics in recent years.
'Spotlight'
Original title: 'Spotlight'
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Last year Thomas McCarthy sounded for the Oscar before the premiere of 'With magic in shoes' ('The Cobbler'), films that were finally a real disaster, so we hope that this year if the director brings us an interesting film, 'Spotlight' could be the film that is expected of him. We could also see Michael Keaton nominated for an Oscar again, two years in a row for an actor who was completely forgotten.
'Steve Jobs'
Original title: 'Steve Jobs'
Director: Danny Boyle
Apple's co-founder, who was linked to cinema mainly through Pixar, deserves a worthy movie, something that was not 'jOBS', Joshua Michael Stern's joke with Ashton Kutcher as the protagonist, so Danny Boyle, winner of the Oscar for 'Slumdog millionaire' has decided to carry it out. Like Steve Jobs we have the Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender, who is likely to get his second run.
'Suffragettes'
Original title: 'Suffragette'
Director: Sarah gavron
In every Oscar run, female leading roles are rare, but there are always tapes dedicated to female performances, this year the film that vindicates women in the cinema is 'Suffragettes'. Not only do we find interesting female performances, but the film is directed by a woman, who could become the fifth woman to get the nomination as a director and thus opt to be the second to win said statuette after Kathryn Bigelow.
'Trumbo'
Original title: 'Trumbo'
Director: Jay roach
After enjoying success on the small screen for his role as Walter White in the fictional 'Breaking Bad', Bryan Cranston seeks to succeed in the cinema. This Biopic about Dalton Trumbo could give you your first Oscar nomination. This is the best trick for the film at the Hollywood Academy Awards, although it has options for best film.
'The Walk'
Original title: 'The Walk'
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Two decades after sweeping the Oscars with the unforgettable 'Forrest Gump', Robert Zemeckis may return to the Academy Awards with 'the Walk', a fictional film based on the same story as the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary, that of the tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who crossed the space that separated the missing Twin Towers in 1974.
'Me, him and Raquel'
Original title: 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl'
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Finally and like every year, we must highlight the great winner of Sundance, and it is that in recent years academics have not forgotten the independent film contest to cover their quota of this type of film, 'Beasts of the Wild South' or 'Whiplash' are clear examples of films that triumphed at Sundance and subsequently surprised at the Academy Awards. 'Me, him and Raquel' may have it a bit more difficult because it is partly a comedy.