Longterm Forecast: Most Anticipated Movies of 2012
50 films to choose from. Pick your top 10 most anticipated movies after the cut. (We compiled this list January 1st and I haven’t updated any release dates since then. Help me correct any errors or missing info you find.)
Please choose 10. Don’t forget to punch the VOTE button at the bottom.
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Doesn’t Peter Jackson have a film coming out this year?
Sasha,
Where is Django Unchained? Did I overlook Tarantino?
If Nailed actually comes out this year, then I’ll eat my copy of I Heart Huckabees.
Is it too late to anticipate Wanderlust? Cause do, I really do!
and within seconds, the hottest cream rises to the top.
The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrman (Dec 25)
Untitled Terrence Malick Film (TBA)
The Hunger Games, Gary Ross (March 23)
Lincoln, Steven Spielberg (TBA)
Prometheus Ridley Scott (June 8 )
Brave, Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman (June 22)
Anna Karenina, Joe Wright (Sept 7, UK)
Untitled Kathryn Bigelow Osama bin Laden Film (Dec 19)
The Avengers, Joss Whedon (May 4)
The Amazing Spider-Man, Marc Webb (July 3)
How about if half of these are Best Picture nominees 11 months from now?
Where’s The Dark Knight Rises?
I believe the Wettest County has moved to a date to coincide with the Venice Film Festival. It’s not opening in April anymore.
Inside Llewyn Davis? Isn’t there a chance that’s coming out this year?
Snow White and The Huntsmen
Only God Forgive, Nicolas Winding Refn
The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan
Great Expectations, Mike Newell
Dans la maison, Francois Ozon
Quite a few are missing. I’m going to wait.
Please add these movies as well:
Snow White and The Huntsman, Rupert Sanders
Only God Forgive, Nicolas Winding Refn
The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan
Great Expectations, Mike Newell
Dans la maison, Francois Ozon
Rust and Bone!
Wow. I haven’t had so many film’s I’m stoked about since I first got a Netflix account. After picking 9 big ones and leaving a symbolic spot open for Django Unchained, I realized I hadn’t picked Woody Allen’s new one. It’s always a good sign when choices like this one are so difficult.
You know, I’m sure Hunger Games will be terrible as it caters to the teen demographic, but so much about it screams “GREAT MOVIE” if everyone involved really wanted it to be.
Sure it comes from a YA novel of absurd trendiness, but the core idea in the book is a rock solid one, albeit one that should have had more commentary about our present-day situation. But the director is solid, the lead is a major talent and the source is very cinematic. This is a movie that could be great if you left all of the focus groups and studio execs out of the process.
Hopefully, I’m wrong and it will be good.
We are missing:
Dark Night Rises
Les Miserables (!!!!!!!!!!!)
The Hobbit
That movie with Bill Murray about FDR’s affair with his cousin
Gatsby wins for me. I hope it’s awesome.
Looks like close to 2 months worth of films are missing from: All You Need Is Love, Susanne Bier (July 11) to Anna Karenina, Joe Wright (Sept 7, UK).
Brendan — thanks. don’t know how that happened, but I’ll fix it right away.
Les Miserables, Djano Unchained, and Gambit are missing.
Les Miserables Tom Hooper
The Door Istvan Szabo
The Players Hazanavicus
Only God Forgives Nicholas Refn
I don’t know how all those dropped out.
Fixing.
Who the fuck is voting here??? Lincoln, the most anticipated movie of the year?? Seriously people???
the movie of LES MIZ will be the biggest
elephant in the Oscar room this year,
provided Hooper and his ensemble pull it off.
if not, there won’t be any cause for Hooper
haters and those on this site who seem so
puzzled by the success and existence of
Broadway and the West End.
It’s Daniel Day Lewis, Carlos, he doesn’t make films that often.
Obligatory Meryl Streep comment! Great Hope Springs has been moved up to August 10.
My most anticipated:
On the Road
Cosmopolis
Bigelow Bin Laden
Anna Karenina
Life of Pi
Malick
Great Hope Springs
Grandmasters
5.
erg, that was a mess, sorry.
I see what happened. I was editing the poll from two windows and the two versions kept overwriting each other.
Hooper haters? Wouldn’t you have to have a personality or unique talent to be disliked?
Only three of my votes ended up in the Top 10 (Prometheus, The Master, Gravity)
The Dark Knight Rises was #17? Huh? Wow! I’ll admit I could stand to be more excited about it, but I’m going to be there opening day, none-the-less. End of an era, Anne Hathaway be damned. But, it definitely has that 2007 “Spider-Man 3″-vibe about it, so I kind of understand too.
But “Only God Forgives” in Bottom 10????????? Wuh!? Drive was the best film of last year!
Most looking forward to: Malick, The Master, Cloud Atlas, Django Unchained, Only God Forgives
Absolutely dreading: Lincoln, Les Miz, Dark Shadows, Hunger Games, The Dictator
on firefox on mac and can’t vote
only see most anticipated movies thing in red with the following movies–hunger games, wettest country, avengers, dark shadows, moonrise, prometheus
i click on it and only get the same red image with only those movies again with nothing to click on
Aw hell yeah!! Its about time!!
What’s up with August, Osage County?
I’m curious to see what Ang Lee does with Life of Pi–I thought the book was unreadable.
Wait, Ryan how do I vote? The link is not working for me….leads me straight to this website here!
checked with safari on mac and have same problem—can’t vote–clicking on red image after the jump just takes me to another section called “anticipated” with the same image–and clicking on image just enlarges it with only a few movies and no voting option
I’m extremely nervous about my own absurdly high expectations for The Master. PTA has arguably been the most consistent, compelling filmmaker of the past 15 years to go repeatedly go home empty handed come Oscars so I’m hoping this film is his long-overdue Oscar breakthrough (and I know he’s done just fine with nominations, I just want that much-deserved spot on the podium for him). The competition looks pretty stiff based upon the above list, though, so for now it’s anybody’s game. Should be a great year to make up for past last year’s dull awards season.
Ah screw it heres my top 10
1. The Master (not sure if this is the official title)
2.Untitled Kathryn Bigelow Project
3.Inside Llewyn Davies
4.The Place Beyond the Pines
5.Cogan’s Trade
6.Mud
7.Only God Forgives
8.Rust and Bone
9.Untitled Terrance Malik Project
10.Cosmopolis
Films that almost made the list
1.Stoker
2.The Wettest County in the World
3.Beast of the Southern Wild
4.Moonrise Kingdom
5.Looper
6.Welcome to the Punch
7.Bernie
8.The Raid
9.Gravity
10.Cloud Atlas
Nailed isn’t coming out, Silver Lining Playbook is
“Should be a great year to make up for past last year’s dull awards season.”
“The trick” this year should be “getting them nominated!”
And a list for more mainstream movies:
1.The Hobbit
2.The Dark Knight Rises
3.Prometheus
4.The Amazing Spider-Man
5.Dark Shadows
6.Frankenweiny
7.Les Miserables
8.The Bourne Legacy
9.World War Z
10.The Hunger Games
Okay!! So that’s a list of about 30 films I wish to see! Now who else is rooting for Refn, Cianfrance, Cauron, Anderson, and Hillcoat this year?!?!
I don’t see the poll.
Julian Walker — the entire poll is right here on this page. So you just tick the boxes next to 10 titles of your choice, and scroll to the bottom of the poll panel to click the “Vote” button.
(don’t click on the sample preview on the main page. that’s just a jpg. it’s not clickable.)
Ryan, I’ve tried accessing this page, and the link in your comment, in Firefox, IE, and Chrome. In none of them am I seeing a poll, and when I click on the preview from this page (not from the main page), it’s a jpg. Is it possible something’s down right now?
Never mind, it finally came up in IE, but only after I’d made the comment and the page refreshed. Weird.
My most anticipated movie of year is LINCOLN (especially when I saw DDL in Lincoln set)
i HOPE it will be good and sweep the Oscars.
P.S: I CAN NOT VOTE. where to vote?
Sasha, I see you wasted NO time putting 2011 behind you. Wise choice. I think we will look back on this Oscar cycle with a little (no, a lot of) buyers’ remorse. Viva 2012!
My Most Anticipated of 2012
1. Voyage of Time (2012)
Dir: Terrence Malick
Stars: Brad Pitt & Emma Thompson
2. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Dir: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway & Joseph Gordon-Levitt
3. Untitled Terrence Malick Project (2012)
Dir: Terrence Malick
Stars: Ben Affleck, Rachael McAdams, Jessica Chastain, Michael Sheen, Javier Bardem & Rachel Weisz
4. The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Dir: Derek Cianfrance
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper & Rose Byrne
5. Only God Forgives (2012)
Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Ryan Gosling & Kristin Scott Thomas
6. Django Unchainced (2012)
Dir: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Di Caprio, Christoph Waltz, Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Samuel L. Jackson
7. The Gangster Squad (2012)
Dir: Ruben Fleischer
Stars: Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin, Nick Notle & Anthony Mackie
8. Rust and Bone (De rouille et d’os) (2012)
Dir: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Marion Cotillard
9. The Great Gatsby (2012)
Dir: Baz Luhrmann
Stars: Leonardo Di Caprio & Carey Mulligan
10. Gravity (2012)
Dir: Alfonso Cuaron
Stars: George Clooney & Sandra Bullock
Hon. Mention: Amour (Love) (2012), Seven Psychopaths (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Amour (Love) isn’t on this list.
Neither is Voyage of Time or Django Unchained (which is surprising since that is a lot of people’s #1 and a Tarantino film, very mainstream)
I rebuilt the whole contraption in a simplified style. Heavy traffic today. It was loading too slowly and apparently dying before it showed up for some of you.
Thanks for calling it to my attention. Better now?
Where is Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing? That ranks in my top 5, easily.
Here we go! Really looking forward to just another year of anticipation, fun and frustration.
1. The Master
2. Django Unchained
3. Terrence Malick
4. Nero Fiddled
5. Only God Forgives (based on Drive)
6. The Place Beyond the Pines
7. On the Road
8. Michael Haneke’s
9. Gangster Squad
10. Great Gatsby (to see DiCaprio and Milligan).
Thanks Ryan, it’s working fine now.
CD. Much Ado was there, and then gone. Now it’s back again.
I forgot Gary Ross was directing Hunger Games. I loved Pleasantville and Seabiscuit…
As it stands, I’m already trying get everyone on board to see The Great Gatsby and Django Unchained on Christmas. I’m gonna turn 8 years old again just waiting for that day to come.
I almost missed Cogan’s Trade because its release date was marked as TBA. The movie actually is slated for a September 21st release and will be distributed by TWC. So come on Weinstein, work your magic for Andrew Dominik and Pitt this year.
Also, does anyone actually believe Malick will release a film this year? His last film came out roughly 9 months ago. Can’t have too much of a good thing and we all know how much he likes post-production.
Harmonica, thanks. Updated.
Malick has four projects slated for 2012 & 2013. Two in each year. You’d think that one of the four will definitely come out in 2012
A prequel and a speilberg biopic are the two most anticipated…Hmmm. I didn’t vote for them..
Sasha, I see you wasted NO time putting 2011 behind you. Wise choice. I think we will look back on this Oscar cycle with a little (no, a lot of) buyers’ remorse. Viva 2012!
Ryan did that and it was a wise choice.
About 5 minutes after the ceremony was over I asked where the 2012 poll was at haha.
A lot of good (on paper) films lined up for this year, hopefully the academy takes notice this time (not holding my breath) and doesn’t ignore the films like Drive, Melancholia, Take Shelter, Marthy Marca May Marlene, A Separation…
Les Miserables will be the Best Picture Winner next year. I’m calling it now. Mark. My. Words.
One year in advance, it seems it is gonna be a presidential face/off… Daniel Day-Lewis’ Lincoln vs. Bill Murray’s Roosevelt in Hyde Park on Hudson. Also, Lincoln seems the clear frontrunner for a sweep.
1. Anna Karenina
2. On the Road
3. Cosmopolis
4. Rust and Bone
5. The Master
6. Prometheus
7. Dark Knight Rises
8. KB Osama project
9. Lincoln
10. Cloud Atlas
Rankings after 4 hours
1. The Dark Knight Rises
2. Lincoln
3. Prometheus
4. The Master
5. Django Unchained
6. Gravity
7. The Great Gatsby
8. The Hobbit
9. The Hunger Games
10. Brave
11. Untitled Terrence Malick Film
12. Skyfall
13. Untitled Kathryn Bigelow Osama bin Laden Film
14. Moonrise Kingdom
15. The Avengers
16. Anna Karenina
17. Nero Fiddled
18. The Amazing Spider-Man
19. World War Z
20. Les Miserables
If anyone here saw the TDKR prologue in front of MI:4 then the Batman would be automatically number 1 on the list. You could feel the electricity in the auditorium after it ended. This will definitely crush the competition.
How many of these have U.S. people of color in leading roles?
I can’t wait to see The Dark Knight Rises, Django Unchained, Gravity, Les Miserables, The Master, Amour & The Amazing Spider-Man but I admit the men.. I mean film I’m most rooting for is Magic Mike, actually it has my vote for best cast ensemble already
The clear front runners on paper at the start of the year almost never are winners come oscar time. I bet the BP winner will be anything but Lincoln and Les Miserables.
Bernie.
The clear front runners on paper at the start of the year almost never are winners come oscar time.
Results of last year’s Day-After-the-Oscars survey:
1. War Horse
2. Ides of March
3. J Edgar
4. The Tree of Life
5. Midnight in Paris
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
8. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
10. A Dangerous Method
11. The Descendants
12. The Artist
13. Carnage
14. Drive
15. The Iron Lady
16. Moneyball
17. Contagion
18. Hugo
19. We Bought a Zoo
20. Young Adult
It’s been pointed out that we left this poll open all the way through May — so we caught wind of The Artist a few weeks after the poll came online.
But seriously — these polls do a fairly good job of narrowing down the 2 dozen films we should keep an eye on.
Pretty impressive. Credit where credit is due. Put your 1000 heads together and the collective brainpower is formidable.
But yes, the movies that look the most baity from 12 months away can turn out to have unforeseen problems.
(we had 1550 people vote on last year’s poll. This year, already over 800 participants the first day.)
What about Jason Reitman’s Labour Day? Or another movie with Kate Winslet, something about Potato Peel Pie Society or something.
Too bad the most anticipated film, highest grossing film, one of the best reviewed films (HP:DH 2) of the year was kicked out of the BP race and was declared not only as the biggest Oscar snub of 2011 but making
the world’s most successful movie franchise of all-time became the most-snubbed top-grossing franchise of all time. Now it knows how Lion King, Men in Black, Batman or The Dark Knight, Ice Age, Star Wars, and Spiderman feels.
“the movies that look the most baity from 12 months away can turn out to have unforeseen problems”
So, last year the top three were pretty much knocked off by the end. So, if use the formula based on last year’s list and apply it to this year’s list – damn – The Master sits in the spot occupied by Tree of Life. I can live with that.
#4-8 – they survived last year, as will #4 – 8 on the new list.
#9 is the fanboy position, then and now. And so on.
The end of what is possibly the most popular series ever was a terrific success! The movie was fun, exciting, heart-wrenching and heartwarming. It had action and adventure as well as romance, not to mention the awesome acting and special effects. The movie had people all over the world under its spell. When the magic was over, we were left satisfied, impressed and downright awed.
Three way race between Wettest County, Les Miserables and The Hobbit! Wettest County wins bp bkuz its Weinstein! Good luck beating weinstein once again!
Should be a good year! Good mix of fun and high brow coming out this year. If DDL hadn’t won the Best Actor Oscar so recently he might finally be the first acting winner from a Spielberg film. Should be an interesting year. And Ben Affleck is a better Director than Actor so I have high expectations for Argo. However, I’m stoked for Hunger Games coming out in less than a month!
Seriously — any people of color in these “most highly anticipated films”?
brainypirate,
sad situation, isn’t it?
I’m eager to add any movies with a balanced blend that anyone can name.
I like this game. I don’t know how I missed it last year.
Ryan,
I feared as much.
I should add that I’m interested in U.S. people of color, as AMPAS seems more willing to nominate Asians and Latin Americans than to nominate Asian Americas and Latinas/os — and of course Native Americans (and I don’t count Tommie Lee Jones or Cher in that number).
I’m looking for any refuge from the Davis-Streep flame war; maybe I’ll find it here
What the F is Wettest County? The cynic in me says that two of the last 3 Best Picture winners are the least-seen in theaters in the history of film-making in the United States, that whichever has the lowest boxoffice gross of those choices automatically vaults to the status of prohibitive favorite.
I had hoped the Times heroic expose of AMPAS would shame it into at least giving a look-see toward populist fare which hopefully will hit it out of the park and be embraced by critics as well. But last night’s ratings INCREASE for one of the most pathetic BP lineups ever just about snuffed that out. We had a chance to send a message to AMPAS by simply not watching the telecast. That the Academy needs to get with the times and acknowledge that quality and ginormous success can sometimes intersect.
And opportunity…lost.
ABC trotted out Botox Billy and viewers just fell in line. Osmosis at its best. Now AMPAS thinks we’re down with honoring films that the vast majority of Americans haven’t seen nor do they wish to see and will just keep on leaving intelligent blockbusters at the door, or worse, relegated to the Usual Suspect Zone of visual effects, art direction and cinematography nominations. But it’s just that you get years like 2011, without an Inception, Toy Story 3 or a Dark Knight mega-critic/fan favorite to position themselves as an alternative to the second-least-earning (as of now, adjusted for inflation) best picture winner in the history of American film.
The Oscars are a dinosaur colony and the figurative meteor that similarly wiped the real ones out so long ago is bearing down on them. It makes one so discouraged that you want to leave AMPAS to its fate. Instead of the Oscars wising up, it’s time for the People’s Choices and MTV Movie Awards to upgrade their selection process and be a true alternative to the awards that will usher festival and arthouse films into the club while folks like Christopher Nolan and his actors and crew get stopped by the bouncer out front.
Copied and pasted (mostly) from GD, but I’m tired and I’ve got a nasty cough.
Where’s my John Cho-America Ferrera-Adam Beach road trip film???
Eva Mendes and Sandra Oh as detectives on the hunt for a serial killer who targets people with the last name White.
Wes Studi and Lupe Ontiveros as documentary filmmakers whose films go missing as they uncover and ugly truth about the film industry.
Daniel Dae Kim and Zoe Saldana (see? 2-for-1 with her!) as honeymooners in the Caribbean who discover that Saldana’s grandfather (John Amos), long thought dead, has married a younger woman (Morena Baccarin) and started a new family.
Q’orianka Kilcher as an actress dealing with public outrage after she is cast as Nathan Fillion’s new love interest after the previous actress (Kristin Bell) leaves the show.
Angela Bassett as the president of the U.S. who must organize a rescue mission after the vice president is abducted while overseas.
Viola Davis and Archie Kao as single parents who start dating after getting to know one another through the PTA.
Edward James Olmos as the president of the U.S. who must uncover a mole in his cabinet.
OMG, that was so easy — why aren’t these films getting greenlit???
^
more please
every one of those is a terrific pitch.
“Edward James Olmos as the president of the U.S. who must uncover a mole in his cabinet.”
Played by the mole from Caddyshack, of course!
Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock and Omar Epps as father and sons who get stranded outside Lagos and have to learn to navigate the culture in order to get back to the States.
Ryan,
Sometimes I want to get really Borgesian and write movie reviews of movies I wish had been made — maybe I should do that with these.
Dean Cain travels to Japan to meet the father he never knew — Ken Watanabe, who had been a student in the U.S. when he met Cain’s mother, Frances McDormand.
I had to almost put a little effort into finding even seven films I’m looking forward to….and beyond those seven….I’m not exactly sure whether I should even get excited about the next Batman or the Spiderman reboot….at all. I guess I just need more info down the line.
Terrence Malick’s “The Burial”
The Master
Lincoln
Gravity
Argo
Savages
Anna Karenina
Django Unchained
The Gangster Squad
The Dark Knight Rises
…. and that’s only the beginning.
this is going to be a terrific year. Fingers crossed.
Cameron Diaz and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as film bloggers who get swept up in comic controversy trying to prove their ethnic heritage after a well-known actor(Danny Pudi) accuses them of being too white.
Blair Underwood and Tamlyn Tomita as scientists who must find the cause of a mysterious illness that struck a group of astronauts months after their return.
George Lopez, Graham Greene and Shohreh Aghdashloo as tourists stranded in a small Scottish town during its annual Highland games. Dawn French plays the hostess of the B&B and Idris Elba plays an athlete trying to become the first black man to win the all-around.
Kerry Washington, Joan Chen, Misty Upham, Sofia Vergara and Maggie Smith play five catty actresses competing for the Best Actress Oscar. Each tries to undermine the other’s chances by finding ways to embarrass them at public events. Tony Shaloub plays the agent they share in common. Lawrence Fishburne plays the Oscar producer who must keep them separated during the show.
brainypirate, killing me dead.
I want so badly for that one about the 5 actresses to be real.
Oh, and of course, John Cho, America Ferrera and Adam Beach as graduate students taking a road-trip from California to Boston for the annual Plymouth Rock/Mayflower commemoration, reversing Manifest Destiny and wreaking havoc on the heartland!
Ryan,
I just don’t know who should actually win the award………
I don’t know either, but I hope for a rigged tie vote, a sex tape, a red carpet wardrobe malfuncton of Rube Goldberg proportions, and a revelation involving ancestry.com and Nat King Cole (who appears in scenes recreated with CGI performance capture that earn the film an NC-17 rating)
I really can’t wait for more Middle Earth and more Cate Blanchett
Dustin Hoffman’s “Quartet”?
Pam Grier, Viola Davis and Whoopi Goldberg undergo sex change and skin tinting procedures to become undercover members of the Academy. ‘Mo Colour wins best picture.
“I really can’t wait for more Middle Earth and more Cate Blanchett”
I might have to pop my Tolkein cherry with The Hobbit. Cate Blanchett is one of those actors who I didn’t get until I was about 18 and now she’s a Queen. I don’t know if I’ve seen a film featuring two better lead performances together than Notes on a Scandal.
There really isn’t a whole lot to look forward to from the looks of it right now but I chose the following…
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit
Skyfall (purely because Mendez is one of my favorite modern directors)
The Gangster Squad
Argo (can Affleck make it 3 for 3?)
Cogan’s Trade
The Hunger Games (haven’t read the books, just following hype)
The Wettest County
The Great Gatsby
Lincoln
P.S. where is The Bourne Legacy?
The Bourne Legacy, Tony Gilroy (Aug. 3)
this is the glitchiest damn poll — I swear I keep putting summer movies in and they keep disappearing
Between the 19th & 25th December there’s a clusterfuck of shabby looking and one short back-and-sides.
They need to spread the shabby.
Much Ado About Nothing, Joss Whedon – I have to agree with that assessment.
You should include Twelve Years a Slave, McQueen’s period pic about slavery with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Brad Pitt.
@ Jesse Crall, WORD!
I think the way Blanchett played Galadriel was Iconic.
Have you heard of the leaked plot-line of Terrence Malick’s “Lawless”?
“two intersecting love triangles. It is a story of sexual obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin, Texas.”
I really can’t wait to see that, as well as her other project with Malick “Knight of Cups”.
Additionally, I’m hoping Joe Wright’s “Indian Summer” gets made in the following couple of years, with her leading it.
That woman has worked with the biggest directors, nobody can even get near her collection, and she’s only 42.
She’s been in 7 Best Picture nominated films, more than any of the big profile actresses, past or present, and I’m pretty sure both Hobbit parts will get nods in that category as well.
@ Ryan: “I don’t know either, but I hope for a rigged tie vote, a sex tape, a red carpet wardrobe malfuncton of Rube Goldberg proportions, and a revelation involving ancestry.com and Nat King Cole (who appears in scenes recreated with CGI performance capture that earn the film an NC-17 rating).”
Awesome! Let’s starting setting up appointments with producers!
@ Mattoc: “Pam Grier, Viola Davis and Whoopi Goldberg undergo sex change and skin tinting procedures to become undercover members of the Academy. ‘Mo Colour wins best picture.”
Love it! If we can get it so that White male Whoopi also gets to present the Best Pic award, I’m sold!
“I swear I keep putting summer movies in and they keep disappearing”
There’s probably some cosmic reason for that, Ryan.
“You should include Twelve Years a Slave, McQueen’s period pic about slavery with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Brad Pitt.”
Unfortunately, we have to wait until 2013. I’m sure it will be a stunner that will all but erase the GWTW mentality that’s gripped us since ’39..
BEST MOTION PICTURE
1] The Hobbit
2] Django Unchained
3] Lincoln
4] The Master
5] Life of Pi
6] Untitled Kathryn Biglow Film
7] Inside Llewyn Davis
8] The Dark Knight Rises
9] The Great Gasby
In terms of people of color in the Oscar race, I’m hoping Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson will be amazing in Django Unchained.
Oh God, how sad that from the last year’s list, only half of those movies were actually good/great.
This year, I am really looking forward to my 3D (Dark Shadows, Dark Knight Rises and Django Unchained), plus
4) The Master
Wettest County
5) Only God Forgives
6) Gravity
7) Cloud Atlas
9) Untitled Terrence Malick
10) Rust and Bone
11) The Grandmasters
12) Amour
13) Prometheus
14) Lincoln
15) Gambit
16) The Great Gatsby
17) The Gangster Squad
18) The Place Beyond the Pines
19) Skyfall
20) Frankenweenie
Kerry Washington, Joan Chen, Misty Upham, Sofia Vergara and Maggie Smith play five catty actresses competing for the Best Actress Oscar. Each tries to undermine the other’s chances by finding ways to embarrass them at public events. Tony Shaloub plays the agent they share in common. Lawrence Fishburne plays the Oscar producer who must keep them separated during the show.
PLEASE make this movie happen! he he he
01. Skyfall
02. Untitle Terrence Malick
03. Promotheus
04. Only God Forgive
05. Django Unchained
06. Lincoln
07. Kon-Tiki (Norwegian film)
08. Wettest Country
09: Untitle Bigelow movie
10: Gravity, dir Alfonso Cuaron ( not on your list Ryan)
To the most anticipated movie of 2011 was kicked out of the BP race and snubbed at the Oscars.
Oscar most anticipated:
1. Lincoln
2. The Master
3. Django Unchained
4. The Great Gatsby
5. Les Miserables
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Hyde Park on the Hudson
8. The Silver Lining Project
9. Only God Forgives
10. Anna Karenina
Box-Office anticipated:
1. TDKR
2. The Avengers
3. The Hunger Games (don’t care but still)
4. The Dictator
5. The Hobbit
(Notice they all have “The” in the title..:P More like…”duh”
)
Damn it! I somehow missed “The Master” which is, far and away, my most anticipated of the year. Oh well. I’m happy that many others did not miss it.
MY LIST:
1. “The Master”
2. “Lincoln”
3. “Gravity”
4. “The Dark Knight Rises”
5. “Les Miserables”
6. Bigelow “Osama Bin Laden” Project
7. “Prometheus”
8. “Wettest County”
9. “The Great Gatsby”
10. “World War Z”
Runners-Up: “The Hobbit,” “Coogan’s Trade,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” “The Place Beyond the Pines,” and “Argo”
So “Nailed” is actually getting distributed? I’ll believe that when I see it.
People need to get more pumped for “Les Miz,” man. If Tom Hooper is able to pull this off, which will probably be one of the most difficult feats in filmmaking history (the musical is three hours of JUST SINGING), I’m willing to let bygones be bygones. I’m also hoping that Russell Crowe is able to pull off those baritone notes.
I’m having my money on Anna Karenina here. Joe Wright is greatly underrated and he has shown interest for classical literature before. Really looking forward to his interpretation fo this russian evergreen.
Also I think they finally have to reward Nolan with a Direction Nomination and Tarantino could officially be considered overdue for a Direction Win.
Also having high hopes on Lincoln, Malick, of course PTA and actually The Dictator.
Ryan, Mattoc, Manuel,
Maybe we should start a twitter channel: Films of Color We’d Like to See
I am hearing/reading strong reviews for THE SURROGATE with John Hawkes and Helen Hunt. Have a feeling it could be Hawkes year.
Since we’re talking about minority roles, I felt like pointing out how, despite his reputation as a “Get Off My Lawn” conservative, Clint Eastwood’s done an amazing job directing women and minorities in critical roles. Million Dollar Baby, Letters From Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, Changeling, Get off My, er, Gran Torino…Amazing diversity without seeming forced or tokeny.
@GoOnNow
That Malick Austin movie sounds great. Blanchett’s taken a film breather lately, but it looks like she’s ready to rock and roll again. I read a Vanity Fair profile of her and she seemed like a very quiet, nice, humble woman. It left a good impression and compelled me to check out some of her work. I was obviously rewarded.
I would have voted for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel had it been on the list.
My most anticipated:
1. Les Mesirables
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. Django Unchained
4. The Hobbit
5. The Hunger Games
6. Brave
7. The Avengers
8. Skyfall
9. Anna Karenina
10. The Expendables 2
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel looks promising, adorian.
but isn’t that an HBO premiere movie?
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel sets off all my postcolonial alarm bells — someone wrote an essay about how it’s a British “magic Indian” narrative (akin to U.S. “magic negro” stories).
Does anyone else sense this issue from the promos?
i didnt read the hunger games so i really dont know what all the hype is about..im sure itll be good though. anyway my personal favorites that im looking forward to are prometheus, dark knight rises, bourne legacy, hobbit and ive always loved the great gatsby. lot to look forward too this year.
Wesley Snipes plays a film director who goes to India to manage his rage after his third big Oscar-bait film is passed over for a BP nod at the Oscars. While there, he meets a young Indian-American pilgrim (Kal Penn, of course) who becomes his muse and eventually his lead actor in a series of road trip films that become international hits and utilize actors from all over the world.
Mo’Nique and Margaret Cho team up for a mockumentary about a women-of-color standup-comedy tour called “Blasian Saddles”. Demian Bichir and Salma Hayek play TV producers trying to book them for Univision.
Gabrielle Union and James Kyson Lee and Rosie Perez and Chiwetel Ejiofor in a modern Much Ado about Nothing, with Peter Dinklage as Prince Peter and The Rock as Prince John.
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Jason Bourne. Idris Elba as Ethan Hunt. Djimon Hounsou as James Bond. Sophie Okonedo as Laura Croft.
Or maybe Thandie Newton for Croft — she’s got more of the Angelina vibe going on.
Michelle Yeoh as the leader of an international team of UN peacekeepers (Til Schweiger, Michael Fassbender, Ashwariya Ray, et al.) whose plane is shot down in a war zone. Yeoh must get everyone to safety — and none of them die!!
Oh, for the Bourne/Hunt/Bond/Croft films — obviously, Jean Dujardin must play the villain in all four of them. Maybe it could be a crossover tetralogy!!!
Gabourey Sidibe as Black Hitler. With Ben Stiller as Goebbels and Sam Jackson as FDR and Meryl Streep as Churchill.
Forget Anna Karenina…it’s been done, redone, re-redone, re-re-redone, do you see what I’m getting at here?
I just picked 1… Les Miserables by Tom Hooper!!!
Sparkle. Of course.
The Marigold Hotel is playing here at the moofies…now.
I haven’t seen it yet, but I know a few people that have. Lots of shenanigans.
I’ll go and see it and report back – hopefully it doesn’t have ads.
@PaulH – no Captain Obvious, please explain.
Mattoc, there have been one dozen versions of Anna Karenina not counting the one we’ll be getting this year; 1914, 1915, 1927, 1935, 1948, 1953, 1960, 1967, 1974, 1985, 1997 and 2005.
“there have been one dozen versions of Anna Karenina”
Yes, but Joe Wright is great at finding something fresh in classic material and at literary adaptations. He has a great cast and Tom Stoppard wrote the script, so my hopes are high.
Anybody know if The Normal Heart is shooting for this year? IMBD claims it’s not coming out until 2014, but that can’t be right – right?! If it does make it into 2012, it seems like it would be a natural awards favorite, on paper at least…
My Top 10:
1. The Dark Knight Rises
2. Rust and Bone
3. Prometheus
4. Django Unchained
5. Katherine Bigalow’s Bin Laden movie
6. The Master
7. Skyfall
8. Gangster Squad
9. Seven Psychopaths
10. Lincoln
I love brainypirate’s pitches. Awesome stuff!
Where is Lowlife?
Director: James Gray
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Poaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner
Lowlife wasn’t on my radar.
We’ll do another survey later in the year, revised with new titles as we come aware of them.
Cool.
Based on what I’ve read about the role, and what I’ve read about the filming of it so far, it looks like it could land Marion a Best Actress nomination. It’s a meaty part that I think the Academy might eat up (if the movie doesn’t suck, but James Gray is usually solid.).
Check out some of the set photos: http://www.justjared.com/2012/02/26/marion-cotillard-and-joaquin-phoenix-on-set-for-low-life/
Thanks, Gez!!
What about Morgan Freeman and Angela Bassett as film producers who specialize in indie/ethnic films but get into controversy when they start moving towards more mainstream fare–with more white leads–in order to “make more $$” (in reality: win awards). When they start campaigning for a famous white actress over one of their former protegées, a well-respected but under-rewarded black actress, film blogger & tweeter Ana Ortiz starts calling them out on what she sees as internalized racism, which leads to lots of public discussion around Oscar season.
Lots of references to social media, with stars and media personalities playing themselves in cameos.
No “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” on that list makes me really sad.