10 Upcoming Movies That Are Causing Huge Controversy

Bradley Cooper's impending biopic of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein is widely expected to be one of the year's big awards players, though the moment that images surfaced of Cooper in-character as Bernstein, a firestorm of outrage exploded online.

Cooper chose to wear a prosthetic nose to portray Bernstein, a Jewish-American man, causing many to criticise the actor-writer-director for adopting "Jewface" - that is, donning makeup to bear the most stereotypical physical characteristics associated, often in harmful terms, with the Jewish people.

This, combined with Carey Mulligan - a British gentile woman - playing Bernstein's Costa Rican-Chilean wife Felicia Montealegre, prompted some to condemn the film for "ethnic cosplay," while stating the roles of Bernstein and Montealegre should've been played by actors of their respective ethnic makeups.

This controversy has dominated the film's discourse, and though both Bernstein's family and the Anti-Defamation League have since defended Cooper's choices, it goes without saying that such negative publicity could have a tectonic effect on Maestro's awards campaign in the coming months.

Then again, after months of back-and-forth about the propriety of Brendan Fraser wearing a fat-suit for The Whale, the film went on to win Best Actor and Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscars regardless, so don't be surprised if Academy voters don't pay this matter much mind either.