Time Network Special Article As winter approaches, the annual awards season is here again. Before the awards season war was in full swing, many films also began to appear frequently. Which works will be the biggest hit of the awards season in 2023? Can your favorite actor reach new heights in his career?
Now that several of the major "weather vane" awards in North America have not yet been released, Time Jun has compiled 10 popular films that may shine during the awards season. If you haven't had time to pay attention to it, you can add it to the to-see list with one click.
"Instant Universe"
（Everything Everywhere All At Once）
Director/Screenwriter: Kwan Jiayong / Daniel Schnatter
Starring: Michelle Yeoh / Xu Weilun / Jamie Lee Curtis
MTC Score: 81 | Rotten Tomatoes: 95% Fresh| IMDb Rating: 8.1
55-year-old Chinese American immigrant Evelyn (played by Michelle Yeoh) has two family and career collapses. On the old father's birthday, in addition to preventing his daughter (played by Xu Weilun) from violently walking out of the cabinet and wiping her ass for her useless husband (played by Guan Jiwei), he also had to go to the tax bureau to explain the not-so-good tax problems to the stodgy aunt (Jamie Lee Curtis). Just stepped into the elevator of the building, the soft husband turned into a Matrix, claiming to be a version of another universe, and Xiulian is also one of thousands of universes. It is too late to understand that the forces of evil have spread in the multiverse, the world is about to be destroyed, and only in this universe, the "worthless" Evelyn can save the world...
Award performance: Gotham Award "Best Picture" nomination; Nominated for the "Best Audience Award" at the South by Southwest Film Festival
"Tar"
(Library)
Director/Screenwriter: Todd Field
Starring: Cate Blanchett / Nomi Melante / Nina Hoss
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% fresh| IMDb rating: 8.2
The film tells the story of world-famous musician Lydia Tal (Cate Blanchett), just a few days away from recording a symphony that will take her to the pinnacle of her career. Tar's six-year-old adopted daughter, Petra, is very intelligent and charming and plays a key role here. When various factors seem to work against Tarr, the daughter becomes an important moral support for the struggling mother.
Award performance: Gotham Award "Best Picture / Best Actress / Best Screenplay / Best Supporting Actress" nomination; The actress of the Venice Film Festival won the award and was nominated for the "Golden Lion Award"
"Dream House"
(The Fabelmans)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Michelle Williams / Paul Dano / Seth Rogan MTC Rating: 84 | Rotten Tomatoes: 94% fresh| IMDb rating: 8.3
Spielberg created a new coming-of-age film based on himself, with Michelle Williams playing the male protagonist's mother. The film is partly adapted from Spielberg's life experience, focusing on the hero's growth period and his relationship with his parents, whose name is not Steven, but who lives in Phoenix, Arizona like Laos.
Living in Phoenix in the late '50s and early '60s, Spielberg was shooting family movies and adventure movies with his father's 8mm camera while confronting anti-Semitism. The Spielbergs moved to California in high school, and when his parents divorced, he lived with his father, and the tension with his father became the inspiration for him to create movies such as "E.T. Alien", "Captain Iron Hook", "Jurassic Park", "Lincoln" and "Cat and Mouse Game".
Award performance: Toronto Film Festival "People's Choice Award" award
"Determination to Break Up"
(Decision to Leave)
Director: Park Chan-wook
Starring: Tang Wei / Park Hae-il / Lee Jung-hyun
MTC Score: 84 | Rotten Tomatoes: 94% Fresh| IMDb Rating: 7.3
Hae-joon (Park Hae-il), who investigates a murder in the mountains, meets the deceased's wife, Seilai (Tang Wei). "I was afraid he hadn't come back from the mountain, thinking he might end up dead." Reilai showed no signs of emotion about her husband's death, and her behavior was so different from her grieving relatives that police believed she was the suspect. As Haejun interrogates and monitors Relai, he realizes that he is gradually becoming interested in her. At the same time, despite being charged with a crime, Relais begins to take bold action against Haejun. A suspect who hides the truth. Detectives who want to suspect suspects at the same time. They had the decision to break up.
Award performance: Busan Film Festival "Best Picture / Best Actor / Best Actress" award, "Best Director" nomination; Cannes Film Festival "Best Director" award, "Palme d'Or" Best Film nomination; Gotham Award nomination for "Best International Film"
"The Triangle of Sorrow"
(Triangle of Sadness)
Director/Screenwriter: Ruben Österlund
Starring: Woody Harrelson / Harris Dickinson / Charby Dean Corrick
MTC Score: 63 | Rotten Tomatoes: 70% Fresh| IMDb Rating: 7.9
Carl and Yaya are an influential model couple. After Fashion Week, they were invited to a yacht for a luxurious transoceanic journey, where the crew was very dedicated to the holidaymakers. The famous dinner was about to take place, but the captain refused to leave his cabin. When the storm arrives and jeopardizes the comfort of passengers, things take an unexpected turn and the balance is upset...
Award performance: Cannes Film Festival "Palme d'Or" Best Film Award; San Sebastian Film Festival "Film of the Year" nomination
"Beauty and Bloodshed"
(All the Beauty and the Bloodshed)
Director: Laura Petras
Starring: South Gordon
MTC score: 89| Rotten Tomatoes: 97% fresh| IMDb score: 7.8
The film is a candid documentary about a groundbreaking American cinematographer, with director Laura Petras interviewing artist Nan Gordon about his life and motivation. With photos and videos of protests organized by Gordon, Petras illustrates her personal narrative. Gordon left home at a very young age and made his breakthrough as a photographer with The Ballad of Sexual Dependence. Today, she devotes all her energy to her activist organization, PAIN, Immediate Intervention for Prescription Addiction, which groups of painkiller addicts come forward and fight the Sackler family, the producers of these drugs. The family made billions of dollars selling OxyContin, exacerbating the opioid crisis in the United States.
Awards: Gotham Award "Best Documentary" nomination; Nominated for "Best Documentary" at the London Film Festival and awarded for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival "Golden Lion"
"The Banshee of Inisherin"
(The Banshees of Inisherin)
Director/Screenwriter: Martin MacDonald
Starring: Colin Farrell / Brendan Gleason / Barry Keon
MTC Score: 87| Rotten Tomatoes: 97% Fresh| IMDb Rating: 8.2
Colin Farrell and Brandon Gleason work together again to play a pair of good brothers on the coastal island of Inischerlin, Ireland, but they are facing a crisis of renunciation, this time not only friendship, but also fingers! Martin MacDonald once again showed his mastery of black satirical comedy, when the heartbreak and hurt of friendship came to an end to the extreme, the anger and revenge generated were even more out of control than love, and the time and space background contrasted with the Irish Civil War, which was more evil.
Awards: Gotham Award "Best International Film" nomination; Venice Film Festival "Best Screenplay Award" & actor award, "Golden Lion Award" Best Film nomination
"Women's Talk"
(Women Talking)
Director: Sarah Polly
Starring: Rooney Mara / Ben Wishaw / Frances McDormand
MTC Score: 80 | Rotten Tomatoes: 89% Fresh| IMDb Rating: 7.7
It tells the story of hundreds of women who have been sexually assaulted for years in a remote religious colony, and some of whom learn that they were drugged and assaulted by a group of men from their own communities. To protect themselves and their daughters from further harm, they decided to take measures. The women tried to raise enough money, but they were illiterate, knew nothing about the world outside their communities, and didn't even speak the language of their countries. They have little time to choose: whether to stay in the only world they know or dare to escape.
Award performance: Gotham Award "Best Screenplay / Best Supporting Actor / Best Supporting Actress" nomination
"Elvis"
(Elvis)
Director: Buzz Ruhmann
Starring: Austin Butler / Tom Hanks / Olivia de Jonge MTC Rating: 64 | Rotten Tomatoes: 77% fresh| IMDb rating: 7.4
The life of the late rock legend "Elvis Presley" Elvis Presley has reappeared on the big screen shockingly and movingly. An unknown country boy turned into the king of rock and roll, Elvis Presley's wonderful life began the moment he stood on the stage.
Elvis Presley was promoted by manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks) to help him on the road to international superstardom, but unprecedented fame and fortune, coupled with social and cultural changes, made Elvis lose himself for a time, and the two developed a complex relationship full of contradictions for more than 20 years. During this gorgeous starry journey, Elvis Presley also met Priscilla Presley (Olivia de Jonge), the woman who influenced him the most. Many classic golden songs are accompanied by intimidating dances, and fans are fascinated.
Award performance: People's Choice Award "Best Picture / Drama Movie Star" nomination
"Whale"
(The Whale)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Brandon Fisher / Sadie Zink / Samantha Morton
MTC Score: 65 | Rotten Tomatoes: 71% fresh
tells the story of Charlie, who weighs six hundred pounds, in a dilapidated apartment in rural Idaho, stubbornly and resolutely trying to eat himself to death. As Charlie draws closer to an inevitable fate, his friends Liz (a cynical atheist nurse) and Elder Thomas (a young and promising Mormon preacher), both try to find in Charlie the will to be saved, both physically and spiritually. However, only Charlie's estranged daughter Ellie can let him see a future beyond his current state of despair. Although Ellie is scathing, full of hatred, and full of thorns, Charlie can find in her one last chance to atone for her sins, and maybe even a glimmer of hope.
Award performance: Gotham Award "Best Actor / Best Supporting Actress" nomination; Winner of the "Best Foreign Language Film" at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for the Golden Lion Award for "Best Picture"
Author/Editor: Donnie Yen