By Josh Williams 

​I firmly believe that we are currently living within a horror renaissance. Each year we are graced with another groundbreaking horror film that elevates the genre to new heights. The streak has been pretty consistent lately and it seems like it is not going to slow down anytime soon with 2019 which should cap off an amazing decade for the genre. Whether it be art-house horror like "mother!" or a bit more mainstream horror like "A Quiet Place," this is truly the best time to be a horror fanatic.

2019 looks as if it won't be so different so we here at NBP decided to take a look at some horror films releasing this year that will keep that trend alive. So without further ado, here are some horror films to look forward to in 2019.

By Danilo Castro ​

​There’s no place like home. It’s where we go to relax, secure our cherished belongings, and spend time with the ones we love. It’s where we feel safest, and most removed from the evils of the outside world. Unless, of course,  evil decides to kick in the front door, and turn our very existences upside down. 

The breakdown between private and public is what makes the home invasion such an effective subgenre. By preying on what we know to be safe, these films hit upon primal fears, and force us to consider how we would act in the same situation. Jordan Peele’s “Us” is the latest release to tackles these fears, so with that in mind, we’ve retreated to the attic and compiled our list for the Best Home Invasion Movies. 

By Josh Williams 

​​Oh. My. God. 

The Russo brothers dropped the final "Avengers: Endgame" trailer by total surprise yesterday morning and it was a bit of a doozy. Clocking in at two minutes and twenty-seven seconds, the trailer covers a lot of ground. The first half is mainly black and white flashbacks of the main heroes (Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor) from their earlier movies. Once the flashbacks end however, we see our heroes in a number of different situations that offer up quite a few questions and very little answers. There are several things to unpack so let's go through some of the key things revealed in the trailer that we should be seeing in "Avengers: Endgame." 

Warning: Spoilers for just about every Marvel film, ever. 

By Ryan C. Showers ​​​

Last May, my boyfriend made reservations for us to take a 10-day gay cruise with Atlantis Events which would travel to different ports in French Polynesia. While I knew this would be a vacation I would never forget (how many opportunities will I have to go to Tahiti!?), I had a slight twinge of sorrow, because I knew the dates of the cruise overlapped with those of the Oscar ceremony. I have not skipped an Oscar telecast since before 2006. I couldn’t imagine missing them. But I kept reminding myself that a trip to Bora Bora was more important than watching an award show, and I was right.

By Will Mavity ​

​After running an unprecedently in-depth campaign, Netflix ultimately still lost Best Picture to “Green Book” this past weekend. And while they may not have made history, just three years after they were completely shut out from the Oscars for a film like “Beasts of No Nation,” they have established themselves as bona fide awards players. “Roma” may not have won Best Picture, but, it did something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. They took a slow-paced black and white film in a foreign language, released on a streaming service, with no major stars and netted it a whopping ten Oscar nominations and very nearly won Best Picture. And having gotten themselves a seat at the table, they have directors like Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Soderbergh clamoring to work with them. With even more films planned to release later this year, Netflix is certainly going to be a staple in the Oscar race each year moving forward. The question is, what will their biggest contenders be?

Click below to see some of the films Netflix could push as their awards contenders for 2019.

​By Daniel Howat 

The 91st Academy Awards are behind us now and "Green Book" claimed victory in a wildly contentious season. Oh, you thought that meant a break from awards season? Never! Awards season 2019 has only just begun! You've heard about some of the films which premiered earlier this year at Sundance and along with those, this is our official 2019 easy Oscar contenders preview!

​Let’s take a look at the films to keep an eye on this year that could make big plays at the 92nd Academy Awards.

By Will Mavity ​

The Dolby stage is still being cleaned off as we speak, and yet Oscar fans are already looking towards the future. What will be next year’s Oscar winners? And accordingly, what are this year’s Oscar winners doing next?

​We’ve got the most thorough rundown as possible of what projects the winners in all 24 categories have lined up next.

By Dan Bayer 

The last few weeks leading up to the 91st Academy Awards ceremony were full of sturm und drang. Seemingly every announcement made about the telecast was walked back within a matter of days, from Kevin Hart hosting to presenting certain awards during the commercial breaks. All the decisions were announced by the AMPAS Board of Governors with one goal in mind: Getting a larger audience for Disney-owned ABC, which broadcasts the ceremony. Now that the ceremony has finally aired, how did producers Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss do?

By Liam Heffernan​ 

In the 91 year history of the Academy Awards, only three films have succeeded in winning Best Picture in isolation, without any additional Oscars to its name. To find them you need to look a long way back in the archives. Could the same thing happen tomorrow night? In the age of the preferential ballot and with this particular awards season being as unpredictable as ever, perhaps it is time that we should expect the unexpected.

By Matt Neglia 

​After looking at the acting categories and the categories I personally deem to be locks for the 91st Academy Awards, we now come to the final remaining categories. These are the categories which have been giving me sleepless nights these past few days, especially when the guilds decided to truly go their own way this year and many of the precursors we rely on to tell us about these categories rewarded films which didn't end up receiving Oscar nominations in the end anyway. For these articles, I typically tend to rely on stats with a hint of gut instinct thrown in there. Today, I'm going to mostly be relying on my gut because for these categories, stats have truly failed us this year....or have they?

​You may have heard me deliver my final Oscar predictions on Episode 130 of the podcast but after some thoughtful reflection and going through these one more time, I can honestly say that after this post goes up, these will be my final locked in Oscar predictions for the 91st Academy Awards.

By Josh Williams 

The short film categories are always difficult to predict. Each short film is filled with a tremendous amount of heart and soul, they're easy to digest, and short films often pack a heavy punch in a small period of time. But it's always hard to guess just which one of these passion projects the Academy will go for.

You all read Liam Hefferman's piece on the Live Action Short Films so here is my breakdown of the Documentary Short Films!

By Cody Dericks 

As this divisive and often headache-inducing awards season comes to a close, a recurring phrase uttered all year among the team at Next Best Picture was “if I voted for the Oscars…”

So, I decided to see what would happen not only if the Next Best Picture staff were all Oscar voters, but if we were the only Oscar voters. I polled our writers, and even did the famously-complicated preferential-style tally for Best Picture, just like the Academy.

​I now present the Academy Awards if they were decided exclusively by our team!

​By Matt Neglia 

​I know. I know. Is anything truly a lock on Oscar night? Shockers happen all the time. Contenders sweep the entire season, winning every award possible, like Jason Reitman's "Up In The Air" for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2009, and then out of the blue "Precious" wins on Oscar night. Since these posts are more rooted in stats than gut feeling (though, that sometimes plays a role as well), I think it's very fair to call certain categories locked and loaded for Oscar night on February 24th. There's not many but they do exist this year and while we wait for some of the final guilds to chime in for those categories, let's take a look at these.

Click below to see my in-depth analysis on the categories I deem to be locks for the 91st Academy Awards and be sure to check out my previous article on the acting categories.

By Ryan C. Showers ​​
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Best Supporting Actress has been a clustered mess this year. This has mostly been due to the fact that the critical favorite, Regina King in “If Beale Street Could Talk,” failed to achieve nominations from two of the big precursor groups – Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA. Amy Adams and her six career nominations without a win seemed like the case-closed frontrunner for “Vice” months ago, but it never materialized. Even though she gained a firewall of nominations for the film, associations have been hesitant to make this the role for which she finally wins. After maintaining a consistent buzz all season long, hitting all the necessary precursors (Critics Choice, Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA, AMPAS), and recently winning the BAFTA, I have decided to predict Rachel Weisz in “The Favourite” to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

By Will Mavity

Sundance 2019 was the “slowest movie festival ever” for sales according to Variety. This year, something different was in the air. Perhaps it was the success of Sundance sales from last year like “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and “Three Identical Strangers.” Perhaps it was the fact that Amazon got out of the gate quickly and everyone felt compelled to catch up.

Whatever the reason, studios threw money around liberally this year. Whereas the 2019 Sundance audience award winner still remains without a distributor, the majority of this year’s hits, narrative and documentary alike went home with a distributor.​