"Best Picture nominee"

2022 · Steven Spielberg · 151 min · Drama

The Fabelmans is Spielberg turning the camera on himself and finding that the story of how he became a filmmaker is also the story of how he lost his family. Michelle Williams gives a performance of startling vulnerability, Gabriel LaBelle carries the film with skill beyond his years, and the filmmaking sequences capture the intoxicating discovery of artistic purpose like nothing else in recent cinema. It's more personal than polished, which is exactly what makes it feel like something new from a director who's been doing this for fifty years.

2012 · Steven Spielberg · 150 min · Biography / Drama / History

Lincoln succeeds because Daniel Day-Lewis doesn't play a monument. He plays a tired, funny, cunning politician who happened to change the course of American history during the worst month of his life. Spielberg surrounds him with an ensemble that brings the messy realities of democracy to vivid life, and Tony Kushner's screenplay finds genuine drama in parliamentary procedure. It's a film about how the sausage gets made, and it makes that process as gripping as any battlefield.