A24 additionally has not less than one confirmed commodity in its 2023 lineup, Celine Tune’s Previous Lives. The romantic drama starring Greta Lee and Teo Yoo obtained near-unanimous reward when it premiered at Sundance again in January. It’s set for a June launch, at which level the studio must determine if they will get awards consideration for one thing rather a lot smaller and extra intimate than their latest best-picture winner.
Netflix’s Comeback 12 months?
Netflix’s Oscar success with All Quiet on the Western Entrance was all of the extra shocking as a result of the German-language conflict movie had been overshadowed for a lot of the 12 months by titles like Bardo, White Noise, and Glass Onion. Regardless of the wins for All Quiet and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, it was comparatively a down 12 months for Netflix, which did not garner multiple best-picture nominee for the primary time since 2018. However with the movies it has lined up for 2023, it’s simple to see how that might change.
The massive contender is the a lot anticipated Maestro, the Leonard Bernstein biopic directed by and starring Bradley Cooper. Between performing, writing, and producing, Cooper has amassed 9 Oscar nominations, however he’s by no means received. He appears to be taking no possibilities right here: real-life function, facial prosthetics (or so the images from the set appear to recommend), each Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg onboard as producers. If Maestro isn’t the year-ahead Oscar front-runner, it’s not less than the film most individuals are trying ahead to with imaginary statuettes dancing of their eyes.
Final 12 months, White Noise entered the season with huge buzz however by no means actually linked with awards voters. That’s not stopping Netflix from coming again with one other guide adaptation a couple of household confronted with mysterious and doubtlessly harmful occasions. Go away the World Behind is an adaptation of the 2020 novel of the identical identify, directed by Mr. Robotic creator Sam Esmail. Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke play a pair at a trip rental who’re confronted by the arrival of one other household (Mahershala Ali performs the daddy, Trade’s Myha’la Herrold is his daughter) who deliver information of a mysterious blackout. Roberts has been nice in tandem with Esmail earlier than, on the Amazon collection Homecoming, and whereas a December launch typically factors in direction of awards ambitions, this might on the very least be a Fowl Field–model hit thriller.
After his 2020 movie, Mank, earned best-picture and best-director nods, David Fincher is again with Netflix once more, this time reteaming along with his Seven screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker for The Killer. Michael Fassbender performs an murderer going via a disaster of conscience, with Tilda Swinton in a costarring function.
Netflix may also distribute a trio of true-life tales, all or any of which might seize Oscar’s consideration. Director George C. Wolfe (Ma Rainey’s Black Backside) is directing Rustin, in regards to the lifetime of homosexual civil rights chief Bayard Rustin, with a screenplay cowritten by Milk Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black. Rustin is performed by Colman Domingo, who can be set to hit theaters on the finish of the 12 months in The Coloration Purple (extra on that later). Oscar-winner Regina King is ready to play Shirley Chisholm, the primary Black lady elected to Congress, in Shirley, written and directed by Oscar-winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave). And Annette Bening—who has nonetheless by no means received an Academy Award—will star in Nyad as long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad, who at age 64 grew to become the primary particular person to swim from Cuba to Florida with out the safety of a shark cage. Jodie Foster is ready to costar.
