https://www.afi.com/award/afi-awards-2022/

Movies of the year:

Avatar: The Way of Water

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All At Once

The Fabelmans

Nope

She Said

Tár

Top Gun: Maverick

The Woman King

Women Talking

AFI Special Award: The Banshees of Inisherin

TV:

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Better Call Saul

Hacks

Mo

Pachinko

Reservation Dogs

Severance

Somebody Somewhere

The White Lotus

I know you all got sick and tired of me talking about awards. But straight after the Oscars happen, award pundits rev up their early predictions. So here's a general list of every movie that has general awards buzz. It's not every movie, but it's a lot of the bigger ones.

I'll link a trailer if there is one (or if there is footage), and I'll put the director and what it's about briefly.

Armageddon Time dir. James Grey (autobiographical drama)

Asteroid City dir. Wes Anderson (romantic dramedy ensemble)

Avatar 2 dir. James Cameron

Babylon dir. Damien Chazelle (Hollywood transitioning from silent to sound loosely based on Hollywood Babylon)

The Banshees of Insherin dir. Martin McDonaugh (Irish friends break up)

Bardo (or False Chronicle of Handful of Truths) dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu (Mexican history recreated)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever dir. Ryan Coogler

Blonde dir. Andrew Dominik (Marilyn Monroe dark and twisted biopic)

Bones and All dir. Luca Guadagnino (coming of age romance horror)

Broker dir. Hirokazu Koreeda (family road drama)

Canterbury Glass dir. David O. Russell (period piece comedy)

Cha Cha Real Smooth dir. Cooper Raiff (coming-of-age)

Decision to Leave dir. Park Chan-wook (neo-noir)

Disappointment Blvd dir. Ari Aster

Don't Worry Darling dir. Olivia Wilde (social thriller)

Elvis dir. Baz Luhrmann (Elvis biopic)

Emancipation dir. Antoine Fuqua (slave drama)

Empire of Light dir. Sam Mendes (romantic-drama period piece)

Everything Everywhere All At Once dir. Daniels (action-comedy multiverse of madness)

The Fabelmans dir. Steven Spielberg (autobiographical drama)

The Greatest Beer Run Ever dir. Peter Farrrelly (Vietnam war drama)

The Holdovers dir Alexander Payne (dramedy)

I Wanna Dance With Somebody dir. Kasi Lemmons (Whitney Houston biopic)

The Killer dir. David Fincher (based on the graphic novel)

Killers of the Flower Moon dir. Martin Scorsese (western)

Knives Out 2 dir. Rian Johnson

Next Goal Wins dir. Taika Waititi (sports dramedy)

Nope dir. Jordan Peele (aliens invade)

The Northman dir. Robert Eggers

Poor Things dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (woman changes brains with a baby)

Rustin dir. George C. Wolfe (Bayard Rustin biopic)

She Said dir. Maria Schrader (journalists who uncovered the Weinstein story)

The Son dir. Florian Zeller (based on his play)

Thirteen Lives dir. Ron Howard (based on the rescue mission in Thailand)

Three Thousand Years of Longing dir. George Miller

Till dir. Chinonye Chukwu (seeking justice for Emmett Till)

TÁR dir. Todd Field (German pianist)

The Whale dir. Darren Aronofsky (based on the play, 400 pound man struggles to connect with his daughter)

White Noise dir. Noah Baumbach (based on the novel, college professor existential crisis)

The Woman King dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood (historical epic)

Women Talking dir. Sarah Polley (based on the novel)

You People dir. Kenya Barris (dramedy)