2) The Big Short
Potential nominations: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Hair & Makeup
The director of Anchorman and Step Brothers as one of the main contenders in the 2016 Oscar race? You better believe it’s happening, as Adam McKay has made the incredibly topical The Big Short, an ensemble drama about the 2007-2010 financial crisis.
The movie’s being released in December – prime Oscar consideration time – so, if it’s any good, The Big Short could make Best Picture, but if the script’s handled well it will more likely find itself up for Best Adapted Screenplay, considering the complex subject matter.
This one, though, is more likely all about two things: the actors and the wigs. Specifically, The Big Short appears to be going down the American Hustle route by giving every one of its leads ostentatious hair dos then letting them off the leash to do their acting-with-a-capital-A thing.
The trailer for The Big Short hints that it will be very much an actors’ movie, and with Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, and the newly Oscar-nominated Steve Carell in the ensemble, you could be looking at up to four contenders for that Best Supporting Actor category.
