For our September update, several films moved on from one stage to the next. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders.

Moving to Stage 2

We have twenty-one films moving into Stage 2. This means that these films have finally had all of their background information set. Just click on the links below to see their pages. What is most often missing at this stage is information on distribution, MPAA ratings, and length. Rarely, the missing information is credited individuals, such as composers, editors, and cinematographers.

All We Imagine as Light (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Anora (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
The Apprentice (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Bird (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Blitz (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
A Complete Unknown (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Emilia Pérez (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
The Fire Inside (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Girls Will Be Girls (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Gladiator II (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
In the Summers (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Kraven the Hunter (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Moana 2 (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Mufasa: The Lion King (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Nickel Boys (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Nosferatu (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
The Piano Lesson (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Piece by Piece (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Transformers One (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Wicked (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)

Moving to Stage 3

There are were one film that moved on to Stage 3. This means their theatrical releases have already closed or a contender has been released wide (none of these films).

Alien: Romulus (Stage 3 of 5; Pending Eligibility)

Moving to Stage 4

If a film has surpassed a month in release, it is eligible for a move to Stage 4, but must first have already completed Stage 3 as well, so a lot of films stay in Stage 3 for a relatively long period of time while others move to Stage 4 rather quickly. We have only five films that have arrived in Stage 4.

Deadpool & Wolverine (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Dìdi (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
The Imaginary (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Sing Sing (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Twisters (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)

Moving to Stage 5

Stage 5 is the final stage before the critics, guilds, and other organizations start handing out awards. This will be the final stage all of our films will reach prior to December (at the earliest). This means they have fully completed their box office runs.

Four films have moved into Stage 5 as of this update. They are below:

Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
The Garfield Movie (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)

With that, the number of films waiting at Stage 5 for precursors to begin is now twenty-four.

And those are the films that are moving to new stages. Now, let’s look at the top ranked films in each of the five stages. We’ll look primarily at the top ten at most stages. Those with fewer than ten will have all titles listed while narrow will have twenty.

Best of Broad

1. (80.6 / 100) – Dune: Part Two (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
2. (60.9 / 100) – Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
3. (36.4 / 40) – Megalopolis (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
4. (32.2 / 40) – Here (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
5. (29.5 / 40) – Conclave (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
6. (29.3 / 40) – Joker: Folie à Deux (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
7. (26.8 / 40) – Gladiator II (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
8. (26.2 / 40) – Lee (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
9. (17.2 / 40) – Wicked (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
10. (15.8 / 40) – Nosferatu (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)

Best of Narrow

1. (79.6 / 100) – Kinds of Kindness (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
2. (71.9 / 100) – Hit Man (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
3. (70.1 / 100) – Challengers (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
4. (64.7 / 100) – Ezra (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
5. (64 / 100) – The Bikeriders (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
6. (59.7 / 100) – Drive-Away Dolls (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
7. (56 / 100) – We Grown Now (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
8. (47.9 / 100) – Handling the Undead (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
9. (33.7 / 40) – Hard Truths (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
10. (26.4 / 40) – We Live in a Time (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
11. (25.3 / 40) – Blitz (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
12. (24.4 / 40) – White Bird (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
13. (22.5 / 25) – The Room Next Door (Stage 1 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
14. (21.5 / 40) – The Piano Lesson (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
15. (20.9 / 40) – Bird (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
16. (20.3 / 55) – It Ends with Us (Stage 3 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
17. (19.8 / 40) – A Complete Unknown (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
18. (19.3 / 40) – His Three Daughters (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
19. (18.7 / 40) – A Real Pain (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
20. (18.6 / 40) – The Apprentice (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)

Best of Acting

1. (68 / 100) – Suncoast (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
2. (62.4 / 100) – Tuesday (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
3. (60.3 / 100) – Shirley (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
4. (59.2 / 90) – Fancy Dance (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
5. (58.9 / 90) – Dìdi (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
6. (58.4 / 90) – Sing Sing (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
7. (56.3 / 100) – Bob Marley: One Love (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
8. (40.9 / 60) – Nightbitch (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
9. (35.9 / 75) – The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (Stage 3 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
10. (33.8 / 60) – Emilia Pérez (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)

Best of Craft

1. (66.9 / 100) – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
2. (65.5 / 100) – IF (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
3. (37.5 / 60) – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)

Best of Effects

1. (61.6 / 100) – Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
*. (61.6 / 100) – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
3. (61.1 / 100) – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
4. (60.2 / 100) – Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
5. (59.8 / 100) – Civil War (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
6. (43.1 / 75) – Deadpool & Wolverine (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
7. (41.8 / 75) – Twisters (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
8. (27 / 65) – Alien: Romulus (Stage 3 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
9. (17.5 / 55) – Mufasa: The Lion King (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
10. (17.3 / 55) – Kraven the Hunter (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)

Best of Animation

1. (58 / 100) – Mars Express (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
2. (57 / 100) – Kung Fu Panda 4 (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
3. (56.5 / 85) – Inside Out 2 (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
4. (52.1 / 100) – The Garfield Movie (Stage 5 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
5. (51 / 85) – The Imaginary (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
6. (44.2 / 85) – Despicable Me 4 (Stage 4 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
7. (32.9 / 50) – Piece by Piece (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
8. (28.6 / 50) – The Wild Robot (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
9. (27.5 / 50) – Memoir of a Snail (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
10. (26.9 / 50) – Transformers One (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)

Best of International

1. (23.8 / 50) – All We Imagine as Light (Stage 2 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
2. (2 / 20) – Armand (Stage 1 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
*. (2 / 20) – Black Dog (Stage 1 of 5; Pending Eligibility)
*. (2 / 20) – Grand Tour (Stage 1 of 5; Pending Eligibility)