The THR Oscar Chart: The Many Ups and Downs of This Year’s Best Picture Race

The Oscar race, in recent years, has become a year-round marathon. But most of the action — festivals, premieres, campaigning, award shows and, yes, even a scandal or two — happens within the six months between Labor Day weekend and Oscar night itself. Each week along the way, The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage, Scott Feinberg, publishes an updated Feinberg Forecast, featuring his best assessment of the standings in each of the major categories, based on the very latest developments and intel. Now, with the 97th Oscars just days away, we thought it would be fun to provide a visual representation of how this season, in the best picture race, films have risen, fallen or altogether imploded along the way, and to explain, in captions, what specifically caused some of the more noteworthy movements on the road to Hollywood’s biggest night.

This story appeared in the Feb. 26 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.

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