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Sweet holy Lisan al Gaib, were back already for another season of the Movies Fantasy League.
The year you finally win.
This season, were dialing up the stakes: newer, more plentiful prizes!
Additional chances to earn points!
A bigger, glitzier, more competitive Podcasters Division!
Show me the movies.
Im ready to draft my team.
Im not ready yet!
Remind me to draft before the deadline:
What Is the Movies Fantasy League?
Its very easy, very fun, very free.
Weve given each movie a price based on its projected points-earning potential.
You have until 11:59 a.m. PT on October 3 to select your team.
(you’re free to find thescoring system at the MFL hub.)
Whichever team has the highest score following the Oscars ceremony on March 2, 2025, will win.
Read on to learn more and immerse yourself in the eligible movies.
Those errors have been corrected.
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Steve McQueen directed a movie about the London blitz?
Last year, every single one of the top 100 rosters included bothPoor ThingsandAmerican Fiction.
Just Pick the Best Picture Winner!
Yes, its a great idea to draft the eventual Best Picture winner.
They were, in a sense, relatively safe bets.
Is this the year of the Joker and Harley Quinn or Elphaba and Glinda?
Of Chalamet Bob Dylan?
Your guess is as good as ours.
… Or Pick Low-Priced Box-Office Powerhouses Instead!
This year, we adjusted the points structure for box office to make it a bit more meaningful.
1 at the domestic box office: 20 points per week spent at No.
Last year, the documentaries20 Days in Mariupol,Beyond Utopia, andStill: A Michael J.
Fox Moviewere among the best movies to draft when it came to points earned per dollar spent.
And the latter two didnt even get nominated for the Oscar.
Similarly, offbeat animated movies likeRobot DreamsandSuzumedelivered nice returns.
Our fourth-place team referenced Jack QuaidsOppenheimercharacter Richard Feynman.
Our tenth-place team went for the more timeless Melvin and Howard the Duck.
Our grand-prize winner Ben Chung went with … Ben Chung.
The films of 2024 offer much in the way of punnery.
Feel free to go ham on Tim Walz dadcore names, though.
3), expect there to be talk about when Denzel will get his.
Domingo, meanwhile, is coming hot off his first Oscar nomination forRustin.
All Best Picture nominees, with one winning.
Shes always going to be on the radar, especially for a movie with such weighty subject matter.
It won Venices Golden Lion prize!
Did you remember thatJokerled all nominated films at the 201920 Oscars?
Well, it did!
Hes the reason all eyes are on this Vatican-set movie for grown-ups.
At some point, the overdue drumbeat is going to begin for him.
Erivo is a previous Best Actress nominee for 2019sHarriet.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor was a 2021 Oscar nominee for her role inKing Richard.
Look no further than Austin Butlers recent nomination for playing Elvis as proof.
), this entry from DreamWorks Animation looks like it was built to compete.
Shes as essential to the power ofThe Wild Robotas its captivating, gorgeous visuals.
(Im kidding, I think.)
The point is that the biggest challenge toChallengersas an awards player is the coming months full of other contenders.
(Althoughit did a nice job of grabbing cash, too.)
The originalBeetlejuicewas a winner for Best Makeup, and Burtons films tend to do well in the craft categories.
Can they and Burton recapture the magic?
How much more pedigree do you need?
That same year, Heller directed Melissa McCarthy to a Best Actress nomination forCan You Ever Forgive Me?.
Probably wont be getting their second nods for this.
Sometimes these awards come in clusters.
ReijnsBodies, Bodies, Bodieswasnt an awards movie, but it did get a lot of peoples attention.
But she makes exquisite movies, and at some point, awards voters are bound to notice.
This is good news for a pair of Oscar-winning actresses like Swinton and Moore.
Maybe he has the magic touch.
December isnt un-crowded this year, but the increased holiday-season attendance numbers should keep this movie out ofMadame Webterritory.
Beck and Woods were the screenwriters behindA Quiet Place.
Also, Zoe Ziegler belongs on any list of Best Younger Actor/Actress nominees.
moment,Netflixs rather pedestrian release strategyhas left some viewers wondering what the big deal was.
This could stand in the way ofFuriosacompeting in categories like Costume Design, Production Design, and Sound.
Maybe this crime thriller changes that streak.
Netflix has a real Documentary Feature contender on its hands.
The reviews were mixed but also strangely muted, which has dampened the enthusiasm for an as-yet-unannounced fall release.
(The film still doesnt have American distribution, so nothing is guaranteed as of yet).
Andthatannouncement was accompanied by a green light for a sequel film.
So honestly,youtellmeif this movie is supposed to be good or not.
The original got two Golden Globe nominations and a DGA (!)
some of you might snark.
No, we have not.
The chances this makes serious money are not remote.
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