Jacob Woldseth

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Movies to see before award season.

This list will be frequently updated as movies move in-and-out of contention.

This list contains films in contention for the following categories:
-Best Picture
-Best Director
-Best Actor
-Best Actress
-Best Supporting Actor
-Best Supporting Actress
-Best Adapted Screenplay
-Best Original Screenplay
-Best Animated Feature
-Best Documentary Feature
-Best Foreign Language Film

The technical categories will be in a separate list.

Last updated: 12/15/2016 (Added Golden Globe nominees that were absent from the list)

This list will be frequently updated as movies move in-and-out of contention.

Update 10/13/17:
(Big update today. I added all of the movies that have come into contention over the summer and removed a few that have dropped out. I will continue to monitor the list monthly until award season ends.)
*Added - The Post
*Added - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
*Added – Get Out
*Added – Blade Runner 2049
*Added – The Florida Project
*Added – Last Flag Flying
*Added – Lady Bird
*Added - The 15:17 to Paris
*Added - All the Money in the World
*Added – Breathe
*Added - First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
*Added – Hostiles
*Added - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
*Added - Murder on the Orient Express
*Added - Roman J. Israel, Esq.
*Added - The Square
*Added – Stronger
*Added – Suburbicon
*Added - Thank You For Your Service
*Added - Victoria and Abdul
*Added - Wind River
*Added - Wonder Woman
*Added – Wonder
*Added – The Disaster Artist
*Added – Good Time
*Added – Brad’s Status
*Added – Goodbye Christopher Robin
*Added - The Leisure Seeker
*Added – Chappaquiddick
*Added - Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
*Added - I, Tonya
*Added - In the Fade
*Added – Kings
*Added – Disobedience
*Added - Beatriz at Dinner
*Added - The Meyerowitz Stories
*Added - Logan Lucky
*Added - The Death of Stalin
*Added – Girls Trip
*Added – The Lost City of Z (Cinematography)
*Added – War for the Planet of the Apes (Sound editing)
*Added – Coco
*Added – Transformers: The Last Knight (Sound editing)
*Added – Baby Driver (Sound editing)
*Added - Justice League (Sound editing)
*Added – Baby Driver (Sound editing)
*Added – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Sound mixing)
*Added – The Breadwinner
*Added – The Lego Batman Movie
*Added – The Boss Baby
*Added – Ferdinand
*Added – The Lego Ninjago Movie
*Added – In This Corner of the World

*Removed – The Book of Henry

This list will be frequently updated as movies move in-and-out of contention.

*Updated 1/23/19:
Final update for the year! Removed all moves not nominated for Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG, or Independent Spirit Awards. Add missing Academy Award nominated films. Good luck watching them all. See you next year!

Added:
A Night at the Garden
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Avengers: Infinity War
Bao
Black Sheep
Border
Christopher Robin
Detainment
End Game
Fauve
Late Afternoon
Lifeboat
Marguerite
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
One Small Step
Period. End of Sentence.
Ready Player One
Skin
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Weekends

Removed:
22 July
Ad Astra
Bad Times at the El Royale
Batman Ninja
Ben is Back
Bird Box
Creed II
Crime + Punishment
Disobedience
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
Duck Duck Goose
Early Man
Hearts Beat Loud
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Judy
Lu Over the Wall
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Monster Family
Next Gen
On the Basis of Sex
Paddington 2
Smallfoot
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
The Front Runner
The Grinch
The Hate U Give
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Mule
The Other Side of the Wind
The Sisters Brothers
Three Identical Strangers
Vox Lux
Welcome to Marwen
What They Had
White Boy Rick
Widows

This list will be frequently updated as movies move in-and-out of contention.

Updated 1/19/2019:
Final update for the year. Removed all films not nominated for at least one of the 4 major awards shows and added missing Oscar nominees.

This list will be updated frequently throughout the year as contenders rise and fall.

Updated on 3/15/21 - Completed final update for this award season. This list now includes all of the films nominated for Oscars, Spirit Awards, Golden Globes, and SAG awards. Everything else has been removed as it wasn't nominated.

This list will be updated frequently throughout the year as contenders rise and fall.

This list will be updated frequently throughout the year as contenders rise and fall.

This list will be updated frequently throughout the year as contenders rise and fall.