Over the next several hours we’ll be compiling a rough list of 60 or 70 upcoming movies that look most interesting, most promising, most likely to be among the best of 2019. Then we’ll turn that list into a poll and see how they rank, sight unseen, as projects that we need to keep an eye on, as the films we expect to be talking about and fighting for in the weeks leading up Oscar Night 2020.
We’re asking our smart well-informed readers at Awards Daily to pitch in and add your own lists and individual titles, to be sure nothing important is overlooked.
Can I ask, for the sake of convenience and informative detail, that we format our suggestions this way:
Title, Director (Cast)
Like this:
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- The Irishman, Martin Scorsese (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci)
- Gemini Man, Ang Lee (Will Smith, Clive Owen, Mary Elizabeth Winstead)
- The Woman in the Window, Joe Wright (Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore)
- Us, Jordan Peele (Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elizabeth Moss)
- Ad Astra, James Gray (Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, Ruth Negga)
Here’s a starter kit of 30 titles to kick things off:
The Irishman, Martin Scorsese (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci)
Gemini Man, Ang Lee (Will Smith, Clive Owen, Mary Elizabeth Winstead)
The Woman in the Window, Joe Wright (Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore)
Us, Jordan Peele (Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elizabeth Moss)
Ad Astra, James Gray (Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, Ruth Negga)(If these clusters look random, just wait till we alphabetize them later. Scavenger hunt.)
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino (Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie)
Pale Blue Dot, Noah Hawley (Natalie Portman, Dan Stevens, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz)
Harriet, Kasi Lemmons (Janelle Monáe, Deborah Ayorinde, Cynthia Erivo, Joe Alwyn)
Judy, Rupert Goold (Rene Zellweger, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon)
Lamborghini, Bobby Moresco (Antonio Banderas, Alec Baldwin, Maria Grazia Cucinotta)Little Women, Greta Gerwig (Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan)
The King, David Michod (Timothée Chalamet, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn)
The Goldfinch, John Crowley (Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wolfhard, Ansel Elgort)
The Highwaymen, John Lee Hancock (Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates, Kim Dickens)
The Laundromat, Steven Soderbergh (Gary Oldman, Melissa Rauch, Meryl Streep, Robert Patrick)High Flying Bird, Steven Soderbergh (André Holland, Melvin GreggZachary Quinto, Zazie Beetz)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Richard Linklater (Cate Blanchett, Judy Greer, Kristen Wiig, Laurence Fishburne)
Knives Out, Rian Johnson (Jamie Lee Curtis, Ana de Armas, Michael Shannon, Chris Evans)
The Glorias: A Life on the Road, Julie Taymor (Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Julianne Moore, Bette Midler)
The Pope, Fernando Meirelles (Juan Minujín, Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Matthew T. Reynolds)A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Marielle Heller (Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson, Tammy Blanchard)
Light of My Life, Casey Affleck (Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson, Tammy Blanchard)
The Lion King, Jon Favreau (Donald Glover, Alfre Woodard, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Seth Rogen)
Mrs. Lowry and Son, Adrian Noble (Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall, Stephen Lord)
Joker, Todd Phillips (Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Shea Whigham, Zazie Beetz)Triple Frontier, J.C. Chandor (Charlie Hunnam, Ben Affleck, Pedro Pascal, Oscar Isaac)
Official Secrets, Gavin Hood (Matthew Goode, Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes)
Radegund, Terrence Malick (August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruno Ganz)
Fair and Balanced, Jay Roach (Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Allison Janney)
Rocketman, Dexter Fletcher (Richard Madden, Taron Egerton, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jamie Bell)
New adds (in progress)
Uncut Gems, Safdie brothers (Adam Sandler, Pom Klementieff, Idina Menzel)
First Cow, Kelly Reichardt (Rene Auberjonois, Dylan Smith, Orion Lee)
Mektoub my love: Intermezzo, Abdellatif Kechiche (Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau)
Dolor y gloria, Pedro Almodóvar (Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas)
Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven (Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson)
Waiting For the Barbarians, Ciro Guerra (Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson, Johnny Depp)
Varda, by Agnès, Agnès Varda (Documentary)
Frankie, Ira Sachs (Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear)
The Truth, Hirazu Koreeda (Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke)
Bacurau, Kleber Mendoça Filho (TBA)
The Dead Don’t Die, Jim Jarmusch (Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny, Selena Gomez, Adam Driver)
Vitalina Varela, Pedro Costa (TBA)
Sybil, Justine Triet (Gaspard Ulliel, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sandra Hüller)
Wet Season, Anthony Chen (cast under wraps)
The True History of the Kelly Gang, Justin Kurzel (Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Hunnam)
The Aftermath, James Kent (Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard, Jason Clarke)
Aladdin, Guy Ritchie (Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Nasir Pedrad)
Ammonite, Francis Lee (Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan)
Blackbird, Roger Michell (Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, Mia Wasikowska)
Cats, Tom Hooper (Taylor Swift, Judi Dench, Idris Elba)
Downton Abbey, Michael Engler (Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery)
Dumbo, Tim Burton (Eva Green, Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito)
Glass, M. Night Shyamalan (James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson)
Greta, Neil Jordan (Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz)
Jeanne, Bruno Dumont
Lucy in the Sky, Noah Hawley (Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz)
The Personal History of David Copperfield, Armando Iannucci (Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Ben Whishaw)
Toy Story 4, Josh Cooley (Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Jordan Peele)
Yesterday, Danny Boyle (Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon)
Pain & Glory, Pedro Almodovar (Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, Cecilia Roth)
The Last Thing He Wanted, Dee Rees (Anne Hathaway, Willem Dafoe, Ben Affleck)
Star Wars Episode IX, J.J. Abrams (Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o)
Mainstream, Gia Coppola (Andrew Garfield, Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff, Jason Schwartzman)
The Nest, Sean Durkin (Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Anne Reid, Michael Culkin)
The Many Saints of Newark, Alan Taylor (Ray Liotta, Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Joe Talbot (Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Danny Glover, Tichina Arnold, Mike Epps, Thora Birch)
Ford v. Ferrari, James Mangold (Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Jon Bernthal, Josh Lucas)
Waves, Trey Edward Shults (Lucas Hedges, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell, Alexa Demie)
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Chad Stahelski (Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Jason Mantzoukas, Ian McShane)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie Kaufman (Brie Larson, Jesse Plemons)
The Last Thing He Wanted, Dee Rees (Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Toby Jones, Rosie Perez)
Bad Education, Cory Finley (Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, Ray Romano)
Sorry We Missed You, Ken Loach (Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Katie Proctor)
Guest of Honour, Atom Egoyan (David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, Luke Wilson)
Dumbo, Tim Burton (Danny DeVito, Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton)
Greta, Neil Jordan (Chloe Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert)
The Mustang, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (Matthias Schoenaerts)
Captain Marvel, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck (Brie Larson, Jude Law, Samuel L. Jackson)
Saturday Fiction, Lou Ye (Gong Li, Tom Wlaschiha, Mark Chao, Joe Odagiri)
The Kitchen, Andrea Berloff (Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson, Margo Martindale)
Last Christmas, Paul Feig (Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Emma Thompson, Michelle Yeoh)
One Second, Zhang Yimou (Yi Zhang, Wei Fan)
Avengers: Endgame, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evan, Scarlett Johansson, Letitia Wright, Zoe Saldana, Tom Holland)
After the Wedding, Bart Freundlich (Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams)
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, Chiwetel Ejiofor (Maxwell Simba, Chiwetel Ejiofor)
Brittany Runs A Marathon, Paul Downs Colaizzo (Jillian Bell)
Earthquake Bird, Wash Westmoreland (Alicia Vikander)
Late Night, Nisha Ganatra (Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling)
Maradona, Asif Kapadia (Documentary)
Molly*, Sally Potter (Salma Hayek, Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning)
Monsoon*, Hong Khaou (Henry Golding)
On The Rocks*, Sofia Coppola (Bill Murray, Rashida Jones)
Parasite, Bong Joon-ho (Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee)
The Truth, Hirazu Koreeda (Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke)
The Aftermath, James Kent (Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard, Jason Clarke)
Aladdin, Guy Ritchie (Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Nasir Pedrad)
The Wolf Hour, Alistair Banks Griffin (Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle)
Climax, Gaspar Noé (Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic)
Queen and Slim, Melina Matsoukas (Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith)
Shirley, Josephine Decker (Elizabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg)
Zola, Janicza Bravo (Taylour Paige, Colman Domingo, Riley Keough)
Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry
Wendy, Benh Zeitlin
The Nightingale, Jennifer Kent
The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers
Frankie, Ira Sachs
The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg
Dry Run, Todd Haynes
Domino, Brian De Palma
Dragged Across Concrete, S. Craig Zahler
Mr. Jones, Agnieszka Holland
Gloria Bell, Sebastián Lelio
Antlers, Scott Cooper
Devs, Alex Garland
Where Is Anne Frank?, Ari Folman
Deadwood, Daniel Minahan
The Report, Scott Z. Burns
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin
Greed, Michael Winterbottom
Timmy Failure, Tom McCarthy
1917, Sam Mendes
In Fabric, Peter Strickland
Maya, Mia Hansen-Løve
Driveways, Andrew Ahn
The Beach Bum, Harmony Korine
Tremors, Jayro Bustamante
Flarsky, Jonathan Levine
Fonzo, Josh Trank
Downhill, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Blessed Virgin, Paul Verhoeven
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniels
Bad Hair, Justin Simien
Missing Link, Chris Butler
The Mountain, Rick Alverson
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Terry Gilliam
Miranda July film, Miranda July