The awards season is winding down, the nominations are out and the ultimate stretch of the race that concludes on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood with the 97th annual Oscars is on. Meaning it’s time for Deadline’s Contenders Movie: The Nominees, our annual digital nominees showcase that kicks off this morning at 9 a.m. PT.
In a season through which the Los Angeles wildfires tragedy have additionally affected the race — suspending some precursor ceremonies, delaying Oscar voting and the nominations announcement and placing into query whether or not the massive variety of voters within the space have had time to even see the flicks, a lot much less vote — Contenders affords one-stop looking for a cross-section of nominated motion pictures and designed to get voters extra engaged and excited, and possibly even to catch up on this troubled season.
Though Emilia Pérez led the Oscar nominations with a near-record 13, latest unearthing of previous social media posts by its Finest Actress-nominated star Karla Sofía Gascón, the first-ever trans performing nominee on the Oscars, has made a hard-to-call race even more durable to name, and has by extension made a one of the vital wide-open races in years even tighter. Different controversies concerning much-nominated movies like The Brutalist and its use of AI, the performing nominations for the Donald Trump origin movie The Apprentice and extra are making the race not simply unpredictable, but additionally political, whether or not the Academy desires it or not.
Controversies round awards season are nothing new, however the goal and objective behind Contenders is, as all the time, to let the movies converse for themselves. In the present day, you’ll hear from Oscar Finest Image nominees Depraved, Nickel Boys and Anora, together with animated standouts The Wild Robotic, Inside Out 2 and Memoir of a Snail. The lineup spans a number of classes, with Sugarcane within the Documentary Function race and and I Am Not a Robotic and The Final Ranger repping Reside Motion Shorts.
The filmmakers, nominated throughout the board in most of the upcoming awards exhibits and the Oscars themselves, shall be readily available to speak about their achievements and simply what received them thus far.
Comply with together with our panel protection all morning on Deadline and our social media channels through #DeadlineContenders, and verify again Monday after we launch the streaming web site that includes the whole panel movies.
See beneath for immediately’s rundown of movies and panelists so as of look.
Contenders Movie: The Nominees
NEON
Anora
Sean Baker (Author/Director/Producer/Editor/Casting Director)
Mikey Madison (Actor)
Alex Coco (Producer)
Samantha Quan (Producer)
DISNEY/PIXAR
Inside Out 2
Kelsey Mann (Director)
ORION PICTURES/AMAZON MGM STUDIOS
Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross (Co-Author/Director)
Joslyn Barnes (Co-Author/Producer)
OAK MOTION PICTURES
I’m Not a Robotic
Victoria Warmerdam (Author/Director)
Trent (Producer)
SIX FEET FILMS
The Final Ranger
Cindy Lee (Director)
Darwin Shaw (Author/Producer/Editor)
IFC FILMS
Memoir of a Snail
Adam Elliot (Author/Director)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Sugarcane
Emily Kassie (Director/Producer/Cinematographer)
Julian Courageous NoiseCat (Director)
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Depraved
Myron Kerstein (Movie Editor)
Nancy Nugent Title (Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Design)
John Marquis (Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Design/Re-Recording Mixer
Andy Nelson (Re-Recording Mixer)
DREAMWORKS ANIMATION
The Wild Robotic
Chris Sanders (Author/Director)
Kris Bowers (Composer)
Randy Thom (Supervising Sound Designer)
