10. The Grand Budapest Hotel Is The Year's First Awards Movie
This won't be much of a surprise to many, but Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel will probably be the year's first movie with a genuine shot at some major awards love (excluding The Lego Movie for Best Animated Film), given the writer-director's previous track record with enchanting audiences and Oscar voters alike. The mind-blowingly awesome cast, including Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Ed Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson and Owen Wilson (gasp), is sure to carry Anderson's material well even if it ultimately ends up not being among his best work. The film premieres at the Berlin International Film Festival next Thursday, so word on the joint will break out then. If Anderson's pic isn't an early prospective Best Original Screenplay nominee, it would be a huge shocker, but I suspect it will be the year's first movie to lock an Oscar nod in a "major" category.
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