2-Time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is pairing up with Oscar winner Julia Roberts in the mid-life crisis comedy Larry Crowne (watch for Golden Globes to follow.) It's being distributed theatrically by Universal Pictures who have a good track record with big-name awards. Another good reason to take heed is Tom Hanks is writing and directing the film himself. Something the Academy adores.
Oscar winners Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Gwyneth Paltrow are starring in Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh's thriller Contagion, distributed by awards Gods Warner Bros. Soderbergh turned back to his independent film roots (apart from those dreadful Oceans movies) after winning his 2000 Oscar for Traffic but this seems to be a good way for them to allow him back in.
This September, you'll get to see Brad Pitt team up with Capote director Bennett Miller in the Aaron Sorkin scripted Moneyball opposite Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman. Pitt will portray real life Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane (Oscar loves their real people!) Is this Pitt's career-win Blind Side? Or is it another Any Given Sunday? This seems like an easy money-maker appealing to both sports fans, Pitt fans and awards-seekers.
Oscar's favorite loser Meryl Streep aims for her seventeenth nomination as The Iron Lady, or British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Streep gets to do a real person again (which she's amazing at) an accent (which she's amazing at) and British royalty (which Oscar loves.) This could very well be the right time and right role for her long-awaited (and long overdue) third win. Expect the film to garner nominations in Make Up and attention for the female director, Phyllidia Lloyd who is a household name among those familiar with Opera (i.e., British Academy and Academy Awards voters.)
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