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Universal’s Wicked, Neon’s Anora and Amazon MGM Studios’ Nickel Boys, all nominated in this year’s Best Picture Oscar race, are among the films set to take part in Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees awards showcase on Saturday, February 8 beginning at 9 a.m. PT.
A total of nine films with a total of 28 Oscar nominations in all will be spotlighted at the event, our annual virtual panel discussion series featuring a cross-section of Oscar-nominated movies and the creatives behind them.
Click here to sign up for the livestream.
The trio of Best Picture nominees will be joined at Contenders this weekend by three films up for the Animated Feature Oscar: Inside Out 2 from Disney/Pixar, 2024’s highest-grossing film at the global box office; Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot; and IFC Films’ Memoir of a Snail. Also in the lineup are National Geographic Documentary Films’ Documentary Feature nominee Sugarcane; and a pair of Live Action Short Film finalists in OAK Motion Pictures’ I’m Not a Robot and Six Feet Films’ The Last Ranger.
Panelists confirmed for Saturday’s showcase are writer-director Sean Baker, star Mikey Madison, and producers Alex Coco and Samantha Quan for Anora; writer-director Victoria Warmerdam and producer Trent for I’m Not a Robot; Kelsey Mann for Inside Out 2; director Cindy Lee and writer-producer-Darwin Shaw for The Last Ranger; writer-director Adam Elliot for Memoir of a Snail; co-writer/director RaMell Ross and producer Joslyn Barnes for Nickel Boys; director-producer-cinematographer Emily Kassie and director Julian Brave NoiseCat for Sugarcane; film editor Myron Kerstein, supervising sound editor and sound designer Nancy Nugent Title, supervising sound editor & sound designer/re-recording mixer John Marquis and re-recording mixer Andy Nelson for Wicked; and director Chris Sanders, composer Kris Bowers and supervising sound designer Randy Thom for The Wild Robot.
Wicked, Anora and Nickel Boys are joined in this year’s Oscar Best Picture race by The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, I’m Still Here and The Substance.
Inside Out 2, which is now the highest-grossing animated film of all time at the worldwide box office, The Wild Robot, which has the most nominations for an animated film this year with three (also nommed for Sound and Bowers’ Original Score), and Memoir of a Snail, which kicked off it campaign with a Best Picture win at Annecy, are joined in the Oscar Animated Feature race by double nominee Flow, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
Nat Geo’s Sugarcane is competing in the Oscar Documentary Feature category with Black Box Diaries, No Other Land, Porcelain War and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, while I’m Not a Robot and The Last Ranger are in the Live Action Short Film category that also includes A Lien, Anuja and The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent.
Click here to register for the Contenders Film: The Nominees livestream and to learn more about the event, which caps a Contenders season that got underway in October with Contenders Film: London, followed by Contenders Film: Los Angeles in November, and the virtual Contenders Film: International and Contenders Film: Documentary in December.
