WWT Talk: The 2020 Best Picture Oscar Nominee Highlights
Ford v Ferrari
American automotive designer Carroll Shelby and fearless British race car driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary vehicle for the Ford Motor Co. Together, they plan to compete against the race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
Director: James Mangold
Produced by: James Mangold, Peter Chernin, Alex Young
Cast: Roberta Sparta, Caitriona Balfe, Christian Bale, Matt Damon
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: November 1, 2019
Runtime: 2 hours 32 minutes
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Rated: PG-13
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The Irishman
Frank Sheeran maintains ties with the Bufalino crime family and claims to have killed fellow Teamster Jimmy Hoffa.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Produced by: Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Gastón Pavlovich, Randall Emmett, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Gerald Chamales, Irwin Winkler
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci
Distributor: Netflix
Release Date: (in select theaters 11/1, available on Netflix 11/27)
Runtime: 3 hours 29 minutes
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
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Jojo Rabbit:
Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend — Adolf Hitler — Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on.
Director: Taika Waititi
Produced by: Taika Waititi, Chelsea Cohen, Carthew Neal
Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release Date: October 18, 2019
Runtime: 1 hour 04 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
PG-13
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Joker:
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks — the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he’s part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker.
Director: Todd Phillips
Produced by: Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: October 4, 2019
Runtime: 2 hours 01 minutes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
R
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Little Women
Following the lives of four sisters, Amy, Jo, Beth and Meg, as they come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War. Though all very different from each other, the March sisters stand by each other through difficult and changing times.
Director: Greta Gerwig
Produced by: Amy Pascal, Denise Di Novi, Robin Swicord
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, Chris Cooper
Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing
Release Date: December 25, 2019
Runtime: 2 hours 14 minutes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rated: PG
Little Women (Listen to the Full Episode below)
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Marriage Story
A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes.
Director: Noah Baumbach
Produced by: David Heyman, Noah Baumbach
Cast: Merritt Wever, Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver
Distributor: Netflix
Release Date: December 6, 2019
Runtime: 2 hours 16 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rated: R
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1917
Two British soldiers embark on a dangerous mission to save 1,600 men from certain doom during World War I.
Director: Sam Mendes
Produced by: Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Callum McDougall, Brian Oliver
Cast: Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Madden
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Release Date: December 25, 2019
Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes
Genre: Drama, War
Rated: R
1917 (Listen to the Full Episode below)
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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood’s golden age.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Produced by: David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Al Pacino
Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing
Release Date: July 26, 2019
Runtime: 2 hours 41 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rated: R
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Parasite
Greed and class discrimination threatens the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Produced by: Kwak Sin-ae, Moon Yang-kwon, Jang Young-hwan
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, So-dam Park
Distributor: NEON, CJ Entertainment
Release Date: October 11, 2019
Runtime: 2 hours 12 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Rated: R
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