Contenders

Norwegian director Mona Fastvold's The World to Come whisks her away to a frontier country as two dressed peasant women - played by Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston - unexpectedly despite their strained relationships with their…

One of the gentler romantic offerings of the award season is Harry Macquen’s film Supernova, in which a middle-aged gay couple, Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), take a road trip through the English Lake District to visit…

The California city of Paradise was home to around 26,000 people in November 2018 when catastrophic wildfire turned most of the city to ashes. Ron Howard's National Geographic documentary Rebuilding Paradise begins with footage of…

KilI It And Leave This Town is a deeply personal, unconventional, and moving hand-drawn animation by artist and animator Mariusz Wilczynski, whose debut feature film explores topics such as grief and childhood. “I wouldn't say it's…

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has signaled his intention to draw from a diverse cross section of America in building his cabinet. Unlike President Trump’s cabinet, which is more white and male than any in nearly 40 years, Mr. Biden’s…