Nominations 2017

Lost in the streets of Calcutta, a 5-year-old boy is later adopted by an Australian family. Reaching adulthood, Saroo (Dev Patel) decides to find his birthplace and original family.

20th Century Women, Directed By Mike MillsIn 1979 Santa Barbara, California, three women find their way through a changing world: a single mom (Annette Bening), a budding photographer (Greta Gerwig) and a precocious teen (Elle Fanning). The story cuts close to writer/director Mike Mills: “I make personal movies because I feel like it’s my best chance to make a good movie”, Mills told us.

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On the wake of the real estate disaster of 2008, two brothers (Ben Foster and Chris Pine) come up with a radical solution to save the family ranch in West Texas. "At the core of it it's the idea that you have to fight hard to get back what you want", writer Taylor Sheridan told us.

To interpret the iconic Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, a historic character already brought to the screen by several actresses, Natalie Portman took her cue straight from director Pablo Larraín: “A lot of it it’s imagined”, she told us at the Venice Film Festival. “This is a fictionalized version, I mean, most of the things nobody knows what went on behind closed doors.

The story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the interracial couple from a small rural community in Virginia who took their civil rights case all the way to the US Supreme Court in the early 1960s is told, in writer-director Jeff Nichols’ film, essentially through the eyes of its two main characters. Ruth Negga pored over an extensive amount of research, including a documentary about the case, to build her performance as Mildred.

As the complicated videogame CEO Michèle Leblanc in director Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of exquisite precision that many would like to define as “brave”. The French star disagrees: “I don’t see as being brave because I think all work consists of bringing the audience to really literally step into someone’s life”, shed told as at the Toronto Film Festival.

Conscientious objector Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield) enlists as an Army Medic during World War II and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.

“She’s fearless. She’s strong.