Sure, it’s still 11 months away, and literally NONE of these movies have come out, but that shouldn’t stop you from prematurely speculating about next year’s Oscar Race.
From IndieWire:
AMY ADAMS: In Big Eyes, directed by Tim Burton, Adams will play Margaret Keane, whose distinctive paintings were appropriated by her husband Walter (Christoph Waltz), leading to the collapse of their marriage, and a courtroom battle that saw Walter claim she was crazy. It sounds like the kind of downtrodden wife-to-independent woman arc that Adams will do beautifully, and though Burton hasn’t been awards-friendly for a long time, this project sees him reunite with the writers of Ed Wood, which won Martin Landau an Oscar. Whispers are that Adams is terrific in the film (unsurprisingly), and she can’t keep missing out forever, so she definitely seems like a force to reckon with in 2014.
MICHELLE WILLIAMS: She’s in the literary adaptation of Suite Francaise, playing Lucille, a woman in occupied France who begins an affair with the German soldier who’s taken over her village.
ROSAMUND PIKE: She’ll play Amy Dunne in David Fincher’s adaptation of thriller phenomenon Gone Girl. It might sound from the title alone, to the uninitiated, that Rosamund Pike won’t be in the film much, but a flashback-heavy structure means she’s essentially a co-lead, and she’ll certainly be present in the category. And unless Fincher’s casting instincts have completely abandoned him, we could well see Pike following in the footsteps of Brad Pitt, Jesse Eisenbergand Rooney Mara, the leads in Fincher’s last three pictures, to a nomination. It’s a complex, multi-faceted part, and one that should give Pike a huge boost going forward.
REESE WITHERSPOON: Reese is in Wild, a based-in-fact story of a woman who, after the death of her mother and the break-up of marriage, treks over a thousand miles across the Pacific Northwest. It sounds like it’ll be something of a one-woman show (which has worked out well for James Franco and Sandra Bullock in recent years), and Jean-Marc Vallee, whose “Dallas Buyers Club” won two acting Oscars this year, is helming. The film looks to be one of Fox Searchlight’s big prospects for the season, so definitely keep an eye on Witherspoon in the months to come.
And JESSICA CHASTAIN who could possibly score nods in two films. First up, her performance in three-hour, two-part relationship epic The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby won raves when the film premiered at TIFF, and was picked up by The Weinstein Company, presumably to add to their awards slate. And though it’s a fairly modest indie, and doesn’t sound like a prime Oscar contender, neither did Blue Valentine at the time, but Weinsteins worked hard to get Michelle Williams a nomination a few years back. Even so, there’s a back-up plan for Chastain: J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year, in which she stars alongside Oscar Isaaac. She could yet end up in Supporting rather than Lead, but if not, given her usual form, Chandor’s track record, and the exciting-sounding material, it would be a role to bet on.
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