{"id":2625,"date":"2011-09-10T00:34:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T20:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2011-09-10T00:34:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T20:34:31","slug":"top-10-oscar-contenders-for-best-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/top-10-oscar-contenders-for-best-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Oscar contenders for best picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALA LA Times<\/a><\/p>\n

Now that many Oscar-contending films have been seen at the Venice and Telluride film festivals, here’s how the race for best picture is shaping up, including\u00a0some still unseen but highly anticipated contenders. Coming soon:\u00a0Reactions\u00a0from the Toronto Film Festival, which starts Thursday.<\/p>\n

FRONT-RUNNERS
\n“The Artist”
\n“The Descendants”
\n“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
\n“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
\n“The Help”
\n“J. Edgar”
\n“The Ides of March”
\n“The Iron Lady”
\n“Midnight in Paris”
\n“War Horse”<\/p>\n

POSSIBLE
\n“Albert Nobbs”
\n“Carnage”
\n“Coriolanus”
\n“A Dangerous Method”
\n“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2”
\n“Hugo”
\n“Martha Marcy May Marlene”
\n“Moneyball”
\n“My Week with Marilyn”
\n“Like Crazy
\n“The Rum Diary”
\n“The Skin I Live In”
\n“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
\n“The Tree of Life”
\n“We Bought a Zoo”
\n“We Need to Talk About Kevin”
\n“Young Adult”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALA LA Times Now that many Oscar-contending films have been seen at the Venice and Telluride film festivals, here’s how the race for best picture is shaping up, including\u00a0some still unseen but highly anticipated contenders. Coming soon:\u00a0Reactions\u00a0from the Toronto Film Festival, which starts Thursday. FRONT-RUNNERS “The Artist” “The Descendants” “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” “The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-Gl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6136,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/the-2013-oscar-nominations\/","url_meta":{"origin":2625,"position":0},"title":"The 2013 Oscar Nominations","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"January 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"BEST PICTURE \"Amour\" \"Argo\" \"Beasts of the Southern Wild\" \"Django Unchained\" \"Les Miserables\" \"Life of Pi\" \"Lincoln\" \"Silver Linings Playbook\" \"Zero Dark Thirty\" ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Bradley Cooper for \"Silver Linings Playbook\" Daniel Day-Lewis for \"Lincoln\" Hugh Jackman for \"Les Miserables\" Joaquin Phoenix for \"The Master\" Denzel Washington\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19387,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-war-of-the-rohirrim\/","url_meta":{"origin":2625,"position":1},"title":"The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"August 22, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning \"The Lord of the Rings\" and \"The Hobbit\" film trilogies are once again returning to Middle-Earth with a brand-new J.R.R. 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