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.
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.
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