We’re less than a month away from the Oscar nominations now, and we have a clearer picture than ever as to which films will be in the conversation! With the Globes nominations behind us and the guilds beginning to announce theirs, who are the frontrunners for the biggest award of the night?
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Pain and Glory (2019) is the latest film from esteemed Spanish filmmaker and two-time Oscar winner Pedro Almodóvar. It stars Antonio Banderas as Salvador Mallo, a film director undergoing a life crisis, in the semi-autobiographical tale of Almodóvar’s life. It was one of the most acclaimed films out of Cannes Film Festival, where Banderas won the Best Actor award. Where does it rank among Almodóvar’s filmography? Will the film stand a chance in this stacked Oscar field?
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The Laundromat (2019) is the latest from Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, written by Scott Z. Burns and starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas among others. It tells the true story of the Panama Papers, the documents that exposed offshore tax evasion and fraud, and the journalist(s) who uncovered them. It was pegged as a potential Oscar frontrunner some months ago but released to unspectacular reviews at the festivals before an unceremonious dump on Netflix. What went wrong?
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