Everyone will have a gripe about snubs, but this is the first time that Best Picture is the ideal of what expanding the category was meant to do.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Warner Bros./Orion Pictures/Universal Pictures. After a string of significant victories on the awards trail, Christopher Nolan’s towering biographical blockbuster is the one to beat at the Oscars, the even-odds favorite for Best Picture. Any other film picking up the top prize at the end of the ceremony would, at this point, qualify as an upset ofrecipient of movie-of-the-year honors.
Naturally, the lineup also makes room for some hefty American dramas, the Academy’s bread and butter. No comprehensive survey of 2023’s most notable films could exclude eitherearns the tasteful, decade-spanning artist biopic slot, even as it breaks from a legacy of like-minded past nominees in a few ways, including director Bradley Cooper’s sometimes eccentric staging.
One could naturally argue that these 10 movies still open a rather tiny window into what cinema is today. There are no action movies, no musicals, no horror. One of the most eclectic Best Picture lineups ever isn’t so eclectic as to include any nonfiction; documentaries, unlike non-English films, are still very much relegated to their own category.
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