Casey Affleck gives the performance of a lifetime as a janitor who is forced to confront his tragic past when he returns home to care for his nephew (Lucas Hedges) after his brother (Kyle Chandler) dies. Look for Oscar noms for Affleck, Hedges and Michelle Williams, who plays Affleck's ex-wife. Just ask Emma Stone.
Director Tom Ford delivers a beautiful movie with spectacular acting by Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, but will Academy members get behind such a twisted tale of kidnapping, rape and murder?
The true story of a young Australian man who found his birth parents in India by using Google Earth stars Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and newcomer Sunny Pawar.
Brad Pitt and Mation Cotillard play spies who fall in love during World War II. 'Nuff said.
With Zootopia and now Moana, Disney may be competing against itself in the animation category.
Warren Beatty makes his long-awaited return by writing, directing and co-starring in this romantic dramedy about Howard Hughes and old Hollywood starring Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich.
Natalie Portman's "wild" transformation into iconic first lady Jacqueline Kennedy will leave you and Academy members mesmerized.
This musical movie is singing and dancing its way to the Oscars. Look for many nominations, including best actress for Emma Stone, best actor for Ryan Gosling, best director for Damien Chazelle and best picture.
Jessica Chastain owns the screen (and could end up owning an Oscar) as she tears her way through Washington, D.C. as a ruthless Republican lobbyist who jumps to the other side to help pass stricter gun control legislation.
Will Smith will pull at your heart strings with his performance as an advertising guru facing a horrific tragedy. Things begin to change when he finds meaning and beauty through his loss after he starts receiving responses to letters he wrote to "Love," "Time" and "Death."
Would you like fries with your Oscar, Michael Keaton? The actor stars as Ray Kroc, the man who turned McDonald's into the world's fast food giant.
Look for many below-the-line noms just like Star Wars: The Force Awakens received last year.
Another Oscars, another nomination for J.Law for her work in this sci-fi thriller co-starring Chris Pratt.
Mark Wahlberg stars as a police officer during the Boston Marathon Bombing.
On. My. God. An animated movie about a koala who tries to save his theater by holding an American Idol-like singing competition with Reese Witherspoon (as a pig!) belting out covers of Katy Perry and Taylor Swift hits? Genius! (FYI: Click here to find out how you can see the movie for free on Saturday, Nov. 26!)
Denzel Washington directs and stars opposite Viola Davis in the big screen adaptation of August Wilson's Tony-winning name of the same play. You can't get anymore Oscar than that.
Matthew McConaughey packed on 50 pounds to play a businessman who teams up with a geologist (Édgar Ramírez) to go looking for gold in the jungles of Indonesia. Remember what happened the last time you couldn't recognize McConaughey!
Janelle Monáe, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer star in this real-life drama about three African-American female scientists at NASA who played a pivotal role in helping John Glenn (Scream Queens' Glen Powell) become the first American astronaut to make a complete orbit of the Earth.
Ben Affleck wrote, directed and stars in this drama about a Boston police officer's son (Affleck) in the 1930s who moves to Florida and becomes a gangster bootlegger. Argo 2.0?
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