I've only seen Three Billboards, Darkest Hour and The Post. Of the three, The Post is at the top of my list. While I thought all three were good, The Post stood out for me for lots of reasons - craft, performances, relevance, etc. It feels like a really good year for films and performances overall and I would like to see several more before the awards show. - most especially Lady Bird and Call Me By Your Name.

Very interested in how this year's films stack up for everyone else!

I've seen all the Oscar nominated Best Picture films and all the remaining acting nominated films except for Roman Israel which I think is a long shot, and which got very mediocre reviews.

Of the Best Picture contingent, I loved Lady Bird and Three Billboards because I thought they were both beautifully conceived and executed films, albeit completely different in tone. I enjoyed The Post but it felt a little too by-the-numbers, if that makes sense. It was so well directed and acted but a bit formulaic. Phantom Thread was an oddball little film, that's for sure; not sure if 'enjoyed' it is the word I would use but it was certainly gripping. Call Me By Your Name bored me in many stretches and frankly the central romance was, I thought, creepy (might have been the sheer physical disparity between hulking Armie Hammer and scrawny little Timothee Chalomet-made me feel uncomfortably close to walking a predator stalking an adolescent rather than a luminous love story).

I saw Get Out when it opened, and liked it very much but I don't see it as a Best Picture contender. Thought Dunkirk was awesome and so well done but also think it's a bit too narrowly focused to be the winner, especially with the strong line up of films it's competing against.

runninginplace, great summary! Today I deviated from the Oscar nominations and saw 15:17 to Paris. I'm a sucker for heroes.

Get Out, but wouldn’t be unhappy if Dunkirk wins.

Out of them all I too have only seen Dunkirk and was so disappointed in it, so boring and I like war movies and Tom Hardy AND Kenneth Branagh lol. The Band of Brothers /Saving Private Ryan type are great.

I gave up on Oscar movies years ago, generally they don't entertain me and that's what I want. My favorite movies of the year were lowbrow, King Arthur and The Greatest Showman.

Last week, however, I watched Spotlight on netflix, it wasn't as bad(boring) as I thought it would be and was even mildly captivated, given the subject matter.

But an Oscar, nope.

Following up on myself: can't find the edit button now but this:

"made me feel uncomfortably close to walking a predator stalking an adolescent"

should be "watching a predator" Sheesh, typo brain bigtime!

Lynn, I liked 15:17 and glad I saw it but .... It was very short and, of course, since it was a true story, I already knew the background and what happened. Still as I said I’m a sucker for heroes as I cannot imagine I could respond successfully in emergencies. The 3 heroes played themselves quite well and I liked that there was footage of their Legion d’Honneur ceremony.