Perhaps Focus Features’ biggest candidate this year is next up on the docket.

Darkest Hour

Oscar Chances: Good: Sight unseen, everyone thought this would be a major Oscar contender. While it still has solid chances in a number of categories, its reputation hasn’t been great and it’s stumbling hard in the early precursors. It could bounce back, though.
Campaign-Proposed Categories

• Picture (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Uranski)
• Director (Joe Wright)
• Actor (Gary Oldman)
• Supporting Actor (Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, Ben Mendelsohn)
• Supporting Actress (Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James)
• Original Screenplay (Anthony McCarten)
• Film Editing (Valerio Bonelli)
• Cinematography (Bruno Delbonnel)
• Production Design (Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer)
• Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran)
• Sound Mixing (John Casali, Craig Berkey, Paul Cotterell)
• Sound Editing (Craig Berkey, Becki Ponting)
• Makeup and Hairstyling (Ivana Primorac, Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick)
• Original Score (Dario Marianelli)