9 Movies That Would Be Best Picture Nominees If The Academy Only Considered 2020

That means that several of the movies that are expected to be in contention at next year’s ceremonies, like the Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman drama The Father, and Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday, among others, won’t actually be released in 2020. But if the rules hadn’t changed, what would next year’s Oscars actually look like? Here are the films that have been, or shortly will be, released in 2020 that would probably make up the Best Picture category. Many of these movies still won’t see wide release until next year, but have either received qualifying runs in Los Angeles already or will before the end of 2020.