Oscars 2018: 10 Movies That Could Win Best Picture Next Year

10. Untitled PTA Movie

The Film

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10 years on from There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson (who is writing and directing) and Daniel Day-Lewis are reuniting for a currently untitled movie set around the fashion world of the 1950s.

Taking place in London, it'll see a dressmaker commissioned to design for the Royal Family and members of high society.

Why It Could Win

Erm, it's Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis. The Academy likes PTA, especially as a writer, but more importantly it LOVES Day-Lewis. There Will Be Blood received eight nominations, and while it might be unfair to expect this to repeat that, this will be right on the radar of Oscar voters.

Day-Lewis has five Oscar nominations, and every time it's been accompanied by a Best Picture nomination. If he's on top form (and given this is his first movie since Lincoln, he probably will be), the movie will do well.

The material doesn't sound too heavy, but it could provide a rich and surely sumptuous period piece. It'll be easier to predict how it might do once we know more (if it's as weird as Inherent Vice it probably won't get too much love), but at this stage it'd be a surprise if a movie from this duo was overlooked.

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