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The race to the 97th Academy Awards is heating up as A24 has set release dates for two of the buzziest titles to come out of the film festival circuit, Queer and The Brutatlist. Queer is the latest film from Luca Guadagnino, who also directed Challengers earlier this year, and is based on William S. Burrrough’s 1985 novel of the same name. It sees Daniel Craig play a man who becomes infatuated with a younger discharged American serviceman played by Drew Starkey. The Brutalist, directed by Brady Corbet, explores 30 years in the life of László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor, as he pursues the American dream and his complicated relationship with a wealthy client who will change his life, played by Guy Pearce.
Both movies premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival and were acquired by A24. A24 has now set both movies’ release dates for an Oscar-qualifying run in 2024. Queer will open for a limited release on November 27, 2024, and The Brutalist will open for a limited release on December 20, 2024. This will allow both films to qualify for submission at the 97th Academy Awards as the rules stipulate a movie must play for one week in either Los Angeles or New York at three showings a day within the calendar year to be considered eligible.
The Awards Race Begins
Queer and The Brutalist now being potential awards contenders really lights up the competition. Early word of mouth has been very kind to movies like Palme d’Or winner Anora and Cannes Film Festival winners The Substance and Emilia Pérez. Movies like Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Robert Zemeckis’ Here, and Edward Berger’s Conclave are also set to release over the next few months and could be contenders for the awards.
This is a rare year when there are four sequels to Academy Award Best Picture nominees: Dune: Part Two, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Joker: Folie à Deux, and Gladiator II, so that puts them into play even though Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga bombed at the box office. Right now, the only sure thing is that Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project, Megalopolis, will not be a contender this year in the major Oscar categories.
Both Queer and The Brutalist got incredibly strong reviews following their premieres, yet many are hesitant about whether A24 will be able to mount a full awards campaign for them. A24 can run a successful Oscar campaign, as evident by the Best Picture wins for Moonlight and Everything Everywhere All At Once. Yet the studio was criticized for handling The Iron Claw, which, like The Brutalist, opened close to Christmas.
A24 reportedly was slow to get screeners out to awards voters for The Iron Claw, with many saying they fumbled its Oscar chances and explaining why Zac Efron failed to score a Best Actor nomination or the movie a Best Picture nomination because many voters didn’t get a chance to screen the movie before early voting submissions were due. With the strong reviews that both Queer and The Brutalist generated, hopefully, A24 puts their full backing behind them.
Queer
opens in limited release on November 27, 2024.
The Brutalist
opens in limited release on December 20, 2024.
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