Here are the eight movies battling for the top prize at the upcoming Oscars 2021 ceremony
In a year that saw movie theatres boarded up due to Covid-19, eight new films that did reach our screens impressed Academy voters enough that they are in contention for Hollywood's biggest award—the Oscar for best picture.
The blockbusters may be absent, but an eclectic array of titles are in the mix, from a lavish Netflix ode to Tinseltown's Golden Age to a tiny indie drama about Korean immigrants scraping out a living off the land in rural America.
Here are the eight movies battling for the top prize at Sunday's Oscars ceremony:
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The Father
Starring Anthony Hopkins and adapted by French playwright Florian Zeller from his own stage production, The Father takes viewers on a terrifying voyage through the onset of dementia.
The film is set in a London apartment where ailing but stubborn father Anthony (Hopkins) has chased off his latest caregiver, forcing daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) to find a replacement before her departure for Paris.
But nothing in Anthony's life is quite as it seems, with the audience increasingly questioning his perspective, as his faculties rapidly appear to fade.
Widely praised at its Sundance premiere in January 2020, the film has many admirers—particularly for Hopkins' tour-de-force lead performance—but is a long shot for best picture.