The nominations for the 96th Oscars revealed Tuesday included a diverse mix of Best Picture contenders, from box office blockbusters and festival favorites to sweeping streamer epics and indie darlings.
Deadline reviewed all 10 of the nominees, beginning with Past Lives, when it captured all the Sundance buzz in January; followed by Killers of the Flower Moon, eventual Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest in May at Cannes; tracking the Barbenheimer duo of Barbie and Oppenheimer dominating the summer box office; and seeing Poor Things, Maestro, The Holdovers and American Fiction during the fall festival whoosh of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
Click on the titles to read the Deadline critics’ full reviews of the films that will be vying for the marquee statuette in March. RELATED: All The Best Picture Oscar Winners – Photo Gallery Distributor: Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM StudiosProducers: Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine JohnsonDirector-screenwriter: Cord JeffersonCast: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, Issa Rae, Sterling K.
BrownDeadline’s takeaway: Perhaps the most impactful message American Fiction delivers is about personal agency in a world that often seeks to define the stories of others.
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