The films in contentionpublished at 11:47 GMT
Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter
We’ll start with the blockbusters. Wicked: For Good, which concludes the origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West, is likely to show up in several categories.
Avatar: Fire and Ash, which sees the Na’vi encounter an aggressive new tribe, is also likely to be nominated ahead of its expected domination of the box office this Christmas.
Other possible nominees include One Battle After Another, about the kidnap of a former revolutionary’s daughter; Sinners, a 1930s-set vampire drama; and Hamnet, the adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the death of William Shakespeare’s son.
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Chase Infiniti, Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor starred in One Battle After Another
There are three sports biopics in the running: Marty Supreme, about a table-tennis player’s pursuit of greatness; Christy, which follows boxer Christy Martin; and The Smashing Machine, about UFC fighter Mark Kerr.
They face competition from conspiracy theory drama Bugonia, a new screen adaptation of Frankenstein, Hollywood satire Jay Kelly and music biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.
Sexual assault drama After The Hunt, Lorenz Hart biopic Blue Moon, missile thriller A House of Dynamite, loneliness study Train Dreams, musical love story Song Sung Blue and the John Bishop-inspired Is This Thing On? are also competing.
And several films eligible for the non-English language prize, such as The Secret Agent, No Other Choice, Sentimental Value, The Voice of Hind Rajab, Sirāt and It Was Just an Accident, could easily show up in other categories too.
