As a life-long movie buff, I make an effort every year to watch all the contenders for Awards season. While I find the awards shows themselves generally self-righteous and disconnected from reality, I love to watch the films getting buzz and see what all the fuss is about.
To make my list, I pull from a range of sources including odds-making websites, nominees for pre-Oscar awards, festival winners and box office cash cows. Indie to blockbuster, period piece to slapstick, we’ll give you a run down of the year in film. Reviews for each movie will be linked once they’re written up. I’ll also give out my own made-up
(Ed. Note: Due to the pandemic and closed theaters, the Oscars are a lot later this year, so several films will technically come out in 2021, but still count for the 2020 awards season.)
Here are the 25 movies I’m watching (with a few more in reserve if there’s time or people cry Injustice! in the comments):
- Another Round
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (REVIEW)
- Da 5 Bloods (REVIEW)
- First Cow
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (REVIEW)
- Mank (REVIEW)
- Minari
- Miss Juneteenth
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things (REVIEW)
- Judas and the Black Messiah
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- News of the World
- Nomadland
- On the Rocks
- One Night in Miami (REVIEW)
- Promising Young Woman
- Soul (REVIEW)
- Sound of Metal (REVIEW)
- Tenet (REVIEW)
- The Father
- The Forty Year Old Version (REVIEW)
- The Midnight Sky (REVIEW)
- The Prom (REVIEW)
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 (REVIEW)
- Wolfwalkers
- Ammonite
- Bad Boys for Life
- Bill & Ted Face the Music
- Happiest Season
- Herself
- Kajillionaire
- Palm Springs
- Sylvie’s Love
- The Invisible Man
- The Mauritanian
- The United States vs Billie Holiday
- Wonder Woman 1984