See who the candidates for “Best Film” at the 2024 Oscars are

There are just a few months left until one of the most anticipated moments for film fans around the world. On March 10th, the award ceremony will be held Oscar 2024, an event that includes the best productions focused on the seventh art launched around the world in the last year. Separated into 23 categories, there is one in particular that everyone is looking forward to, that of best movie.

Some of the main candidates to win this category were already launched a few months ago, while many others had their debut date scheduled closer to the awards. However, the list of possible winners for best film in 2024 is extensive and now hosts a fair amount of competition between major productions. Check it out now:

Complete list of Oscar candidates for best film in 2024

To become the best film of an entire year, quality alone is not enough. Anyone who has been following the Oscars for a few editions knows that the awards also take into account good campaign work. In other words, the film must not only be seen, it must be remembered, discussed, talked about and shared.

Air (Air: The Story Behind the Logo)

Ben Affleck is largely responsible for this behind-the-scenes corporate story about Nike's partnership with Michael Jordan, when the shoe company made a big bet on the then-new basketball player, creating the now-ubiquitous line of Air Jordan sneakers. Matt Damon plays Sonny Vaccaro, the company executive who tries to convince the rising athlete to sign a big deal, while Viola Davis delivers another strong performance, this time in a supporting role as Jordan's mother.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 93%

• Where to watch: Prime Video

All of Us Strangers

Andrew Haigh's metaphysical drama, which was adapted from the novel S, by Taichi Yamada, from 1987, stars Andrew Scott playing a London screenwriter who begins a relationship with a mysterious neighbor played by Paul Mescal. Struggling to write a film inspired by his late parents, he is drawn back to his childhood home - only to discover that his mother and father live as if they hadn't died in a car accident 30 years ago.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from December 22nd

American Fiction

Emmy winner Cord Jefferson (Watchmen) makes his directorial debut with the adaptation of Erasure, by Percival Everett. Jeffrey Wright leads an impressive ensemble as a novelist struggling with his stalled writing career, as well as suffering from professional jealousy, while also navigating his dysfunctional family. The comedy won the audience award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from December 15th

Anatomy of a Fall

Sandra Hüller stars in this legal thriller as a woman accused of pushing her husband out of an attic window. Director Justine Triet's Palme d'Or-winning film embraces ambiguity as marriage takes center stage in his wife's murder trial, while his son struggles with his own moral questions as his father's death and the possible His mother's guilt weighs heavily on him. A promising title for the Oscar for best film.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
• Where to watch: in theaters from February 22, 2024

asteroid city

Acclaimed director Wes Anderson's latest film is another stylistic feast for the eyes, with an impressive ensemble of his usual actors (including Jason Schwartzman, Liev Schreiber, Tilda Swinton and Jeffrey Wright), joined by a few newcomers (Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks) for a comedy about a small desert town that is visited by an extraterrestrial presence in the mid-1950s. The work is on the outside in the fight for the best film statuette in 2024.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 75%
• Where to watch: NOW

Barbie

Greta Gerwig is the name of this great project, considered one of the favorites for the Oscar for best film and which topped the global box office – grossing more than US$ 1 billion worldwide – starring producer Margot Robbie as the Barbie doll that is released in an existential crisis when the boundaries between Barbieland and the real world break down. Ryan Gosling's turn in the film, as Ken, could earn the actor a third career nomination.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
• Where to watch: NOW

The Bikeriders

Jodie Comer and Austin Butler take on this period drama written and directed by Jeff Nichols, inspired by photographer Danny Lyon's 1967 book about a Chicago-based motorcycle club. Tom Hardy co-stars as the club's fictional leader who struggles to maintain control over his members as the group's popularity grows and adopts a violent, outlaw style during the rise of 60s American counterculture.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from December 1st

The Color Purple

Oprah Winfrey—an Oscar nominee for her supporting role in Steven Spielberg's 1985 adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel—serves as producer on this musical adaptation starring Fantasia Barrino (who made her Broadway debut in The Color Purple) in the lead role of Celie, a young black woman coming of age in the rural south of the United States. Definitely a strong candidate for the best film award in 2024.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: no reviews yet
• Where to watch: in cinemas from January 4, 2024

Dream Scenario

Nicolas Cage stars in writer-director Kristoffer Borgli's inventive fantasy film, starring as a hapless college professor whose life is thrown into chaos when a global phenomenon sees him appearing in other people's dreams. What starts as a hilarious comedy turns into a dark social satire.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
• Where to watch: still no release date in Brazil

Dumb Money

director of me, Tonya (2017), Craig Gillespie leads this ensemble-directed look at the everyday people who threatened Wall Street's power during the short squeeze of GameStop, which took place in January 2021. Paul Dano leads the film as the YouTuber who starts a stock market revolution, while America Ferrera, Shailene Woodley, Pete Davidson, Nick Offerman, Seth Rogen, Anthony Ramos and Sebastian Stan round out the star-studded cast.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 84%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from December 2nd

Fair Play

Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich star in writer-director Chloe Domont's psychological thriller, telling how a young couple keeps their relationship a secret from their colleagues. But when Dynevor's Emily is promoted over Ehrenreich's Luke, her dynamic completely transforms, threatening both her work and her personal lives.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
• Where to watch: Netflix

Ferrari

Two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver stars in the gripping biopic of Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the Italian sports car manufacturer who balances personal and professional struggles as he joins his team in the world of motorsport. Oscar winner Penélope Cruz co-stars in Michael Mann's drama, playing Laura, Ferrari's ex-wife and business partner, whose fears about the company's succession shake her to her core.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 73%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from February 8, 2024

The Holdovers

Director Alexander Payne reunites with Paul Giamatti for a 1970s-set comedy about a grumpy teacher at a posh New England prep school, tasked with caring for students who can't return home to their families for Christmas break.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from January 11, 2024

The Iron Claw

Writer-director Sean Durkin helms this drama about the Von Erich brothers, a family of professional wrestlers in search of fame and fortune. Experiencing tragedy and triumph during the 1980s, they lived under the shadow of their father and coach. Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson star as the young Von Erichs, while Holt McCallany plays the family's domineering patriarch.

• Rotten Tomatoes approval: not yet rated
• Where to watch: in cinemas from December 22nd

Killers of the Flower Moon

In the fight for the Oscar for best film in 2024, Martin Scorsese's latest three-hour-plus epic, based on David Grann's acclaimed book, is part romance and part gangster film, as it examines the “Reign of Terror” in the which members of the wealthy Osage tribe were sequentially murdered so that their white neighbors could take control of their oil rights.

• Rotten Tomatoes approval: 93%
• Where to watch: in theaters today

Teacher

Bradley Cooper stars as composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in his latest directorial effort, examining Bernstein's career through the eyes of his wife, actress Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan). In fact, this is the one who receives the most interesting material to work with, as the film focuses on the sometimes difficult marriage between the duo of artists, one an outsider and the other aware but discontented.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 84%
• Where to watch: on Netflix from December 19th

MayDecember

Another strong title for best picture, here director Todd Haynes and star Julianne Moore mark their fifth collaboration with this disturbing melodrama about an actress (Natalie Portman) who embarks on a research trip to prepare to play an infamous woman, who shocked her tight-knit community when she was revealed to have sexually abused a seventh-grade boy. Charles Melton offers impressive support as a victim – now in his late 30s and father of three of the children.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from January 18, 2024

Memory

Peter Sarsgaard won the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival for best actor for playing Saul, a man with dementia, in Michel Franco's drama. Oscar winner Jessica Chastain plays Sylvia, a woman dealing with her own demons, exacerbated when Saul enters her life.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
• Where to watch: still no release date in Brazil

Napoleon (Napoleon)

Ridley Scott reteams with Joaquin Phoenix for this epic biopic about the rise of French military leader and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, framed by his volatile relationship with his wife, Empress Joséphine, played by Vanessa Kirby. The work is a real unknown in the race for the Oscar for best film in 2024.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from November 22nd

nyad

Four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening can add a fifth nomination to her list, perhaps even winning best actress for her portrayal of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, as she makes several attempts at the nearly impossible mission of crossing from Cuba to Florida in open, shark-infested waters.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
• Where to watch: Netflix

Oppenheimer

A strong contender for the Oscar for best picture, Cillian Murphy leads an all-star cast (including Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh and Benny Safdie) as J. Robert Oppenheimer in an epic story from writer-director Christopher Nolan on the creation of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. Unraveling multiple timelines, Nolan's work depicts Oppenheimer's efforts to harness atomic energy, his complex relationships, and ultimate downfall as an activist following the bombing of Hiroshima.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
• Where to watch: in theaters today and available to rent digitally

Origin

Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay wrote and directed the biopic of journalist Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) as she embarks on an intellectual quest to understand racial and class inequality across the world and in history – bridging the dark realities of the system Indian casteism, the global world, the slave trade and the Jim Crow-era South, and the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from December 8nd

Past Lives

Playwright Celine Song makes her directorial debut with a moving drama about two childhood sweethearts in South Korea who reunite decades later in New York City. Greta Lee and Teo Yoo play the duo, who navigate complex emotions for each other in the moving film about cultural identity and destiny.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from February 15, 2024

Poor Things

Yorgos Lanthimos joins Emma Stone for this twisted version of the Frankenstein story. Stone plays a woman who is revived by a boundary-pushing scientist-father figure (Willem Dafoe), only to be usurped by a dissolute suitor (Mark Ruffalo), who takes the impressionable young woman on a trip to Europe. One of the favorites for best film.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from February 1, 2024

Priscilla

Shortly after being nominated for the best film award of the last season 2023, Elvis, Sofia Coppola's adaptation of Elvis and Me, the memoir of the wife of the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Priscilla Presley. Cailee Spaeny won the Volpi Cup in Venice for playing the eponymous young woman whose life is turned upside down by the meteoric rise of her famous husband, played by Jacob Elordi.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from December 26nd

Rustin

Colman Domingo stars as civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in George C. Wolfe's gripping biopic about the social justice leader who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington. Co-starring Chris Rock, Jeffrey Wright and Audra McDonald, the film depicts the often untold story of Rustin's efforts alongside Martin Luther King Jr.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 87%
• Where to watch: Netflix

saltburn

Oscar winner Emerald Fennell returns with another explosive and provocative satire starring Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan as a young man who is invited by an Oxford schoolmate (Jacob Elordi) to spend a summer at his family's elegant English estate. But nothing is as it seems in this twisty thriller that takes inspiration from Gothic literature.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 73%
• Where to watch: Coming soon to Prime Video (not yet announced)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Four years after its predecessor took home the Oscar for best animated film in 2019, the sequel to Spider-Man: into the Spider-Verse sees Miles Morales embark on another adventure that spans the multiverse and features 280 variations of the Marvel superhero.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
• Where to watch: HBO Max

The Taste of Things

Tran Anh Hùng's romantic drama – the French introduction to international feature film – stars Benoît Magimel as a French gourmet who shares a passion for French food with his dedicated chef Eugénie, who has been preparing dishes for her employer for years. As they enter middle age and reflect on their many years of collaboration in the kitchen, the couple's romantic bond grows stronger.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
• Where to watch: still no release date in Brazil

The Zone of Interest

Writer-director Jonathan Glazer eliminated the fictional elements of Martin Amis's 201 novel, set during the Auschwitz administration. Instead it devoted screen time to the real commander of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), and his family as they try to live a happy life. Strong name for the Oscar for best film in 2024.

• Approval on Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
• Where to watch: in cinemas from February 2, 2024

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Retratos Fantasmas will be Brazil's representative in the race for the 2024 Oscar

Retratos Fantasmas will be Brazil's representative in the race for the 2024 Oscar

Source: The Hollywood Reporter, JustWatch

Text proofread by: Pedro Bomfim (21 / 11 / 23)