The Terrific Ten: Must-see movies to watch ahead of the 2016 awards season

The Awards season 2016 will be a year with much to get excited about. The Golden Globes early in January is the first major awards event in Los Angeles California, this year hosted again by British comedian Ricky Gervais. The 88th Academy Awards (or “Oscars”) in Los Angeles will be hosted by all-round entertainer Chris Rock. With all the glamor and excitement of the forthcoming awards, not everyone can win so here are the ten movies we believe you should see in order to be ‘red-carpet ready’ for the coming Awards season.

 

This year’s films manoeuvring for cinematic award supremacy run the gamut from true life stories and semi-biographical films to westerns, tales of survival under adversity and even the latest instalment of a science-fiction space opera.

 

Veteran and cult directors such as Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino, Actors and Actresses such as Leonardo Di Caprio, Eddie Redmayne, Samuel L. Jackson, Cate Blanchett and Jennifer Lawrence star in films ranging from historical drama to biographical to the latest blockbuster chapter in the Star Wars saga.  Here is the list of buzz-worthy movies you need to see.

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Bridge of Spies
(Tom Hanks, Stephen Spielberg, 20th Century Fox)

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A historical drama set firmly in the Cold War during the 1960s with the Soviet Union’s trial of US Air Force pilot Gary Powers, shot down whilst flying over Soviet Airspace in a U-2 spy plane.

 

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Carol  (Cate Blanchett, Todd Haynes, Weinstein Company)

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A romantic movie drawn on the novel The Price of Salt by Phyllis Nagy.  Set in 1950s New York City the film tells the relationship between a young photographer and an older woman.

Danish Girl

Danish Girl (Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hooper, Focus Features)

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The true story of the first sex reassignment recipient Lili Elbe.

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Hateful 8 (Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Weinstein Company)

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Bringing Tarantino’s love of spaghetti western’s to life with an all-star cast and launching in 100 cinemas with 70mm film this film represents no small undertaking.

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Inspired by a true story of a fur trapper who is injured by a bear attack, robbed by friends and left to die. His survival becomes a tale of retribution against those who wronged him.

Room

Room (Brie Larson, Lenny Abrahamson, A24 Films)

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Canadian-Irish drama about a mother and son imprisoned in their home by the father and their escape.

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Spotlight (Mark Ruffalo, Tom McCarthy, Dreamworks)

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A true story concerning investigative journalists at the Boston Globe newspaper who break the story of systematic child-abuse at the hands of priests in the Catholic Church.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Harrison Ford, J.J. Abrams, Disney)

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The seventh instalment chronologically, though following events 30 years after the last of the original trilogy of movies, Return of the Jedi in the mid 1980s.  One of Science-Fiction’s biggest movie franchises under the care of Director J.J. Abrams will likely cause the most queue’s at cinemas this Christmas.

Joy

Joy (Jennifer Lawrence, David Russell, Fox Movie)

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A drama bringing together the key players of American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook for a fresh multi-generational drama telling their story.

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The Big Short (Christian Bale, Adam McKay, Plan B Entertainment)

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Based on the book from Liar’s Poker Michael Lewis his analysis of the recent financial collapse is translated into a movie aimed to explaining what actually happened

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