2027 Oscars power rankings: These are the top 10 best picture contenders right now

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Set us as preferred Venice, Telluride and Toronto have wrapped, and the New York Film Festival is winding down.Ovations have been meticulously timed.

Existential crises have been parsed, not including the trauma induced by Tom Cruise’s “Digger,” which prudently skipped the festivals to delay, if only for a couple of weeks, the poisonous word of mouth from seeping out.(It’s still well worth seeing.)And there have been, of course, prizes, including a Netflix movie, the Spanish maximalist melodrama “La Bola Negra,” winning Toronto’s People’s Choice Award.

That’s a first for the streamer, which means we will again be asking the question: Can a Netflix film finally win the best picture Oscar? If you’ve seen “The Odyssey,” you probably know the answer to that question.But with more than five months (!) until the 99th Academy Awards, it’s a bit early for ironclad guarantees, even if it feels like it would take the winds of Poseidon to blow “The Odyssey’s” best picture campaign off course.

But it’s not too soon to roll out a first set of Oscar power rankings for best picture.With apologies to “Obsession,” “Fjord,” “Possible Love,” “You Can See Everything,” “Elsinore,” and whatever other movies you love (or look forward to loving), let’s start counting.

Because of ongoing health issues, Mike Leigh has said that this warm and wrenching drama will be his last movie.If so, it’d be quite the capper to a career that has netted him seven Oscar nominations, five for his screenplays and two for direction.

Yes, only one of his movies, “Secrets & Lies,” has been nominated for best picture.But “Tender Loving Care,” centered on two social service workers navigating the fraying social safety net and, in one case, anxiety about aging parents, possesses a bracing humanity full...