2027 Oscar predictions: best picture

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Set us as preferred Christopher Nolan’s suitably epic retelling of Homer’s “Odyssey” has a big lead.It’s a kind of homecoming for Nolan, decades after he had been tapped to helm “Troy” (from Homer’s “Iliad”) before Wolfgang Petersen reclaimed it and shunted him to the obscurity of his Batman trilogy.

It’s also the first of four consensus picks in Round 1 of the BuzzMeter.However, Robert Daniels wonders if the academy is “comfortable giving [Nolan] best picture for a second straight film ...Only William Wyler and David Lean have pulled it off.”Only runner-up “La Bola Negra,” a totally different kind of epic, has any separation from the rest of the pack.

Anne Thompson characterizes the race as “A Hollywood blockbuster … against a festival favorite.”Several panelists say “The Odyssey’s” journey to Oscar feels inevitable, but Katie Walsh is pulling for a horse race: “Perhaps the goodwill for ‘La Bola Negra’ will make for a proper competition, and don’t count out academy favorite Martin McDonagh’s ‘Wild Horse Nine.’ ”The Buzzmeter panel tracks the top contenders across major categories for both the Oscars and the Emmys.1.“The Odyssey”2.

“La Bola Negra”3.“Wild Horse Nine”4.

“Dune: Part Three”5.“Project Hail Mary”6.

“The Invite”7.“The Debut”8.

“Artificial”9.“I Play Rocky”10.

“Club Kid”11.“You Can See Everything”T12.

“Elsinore”T12.“Possible Love”T14.

“Digger”T14.“Josephine”RogerEbert.comRobert Daniels1.

“The Odyssey”2.“La Bola Negra”3.

“Project Hail Mary”4.“The Invite”5.

“The Debut”6.“Wild Horse Nine”7.

“Possible Love”8.“Elsinore”9.

“Dune: Part Three”10.“Club Kid”“Right now, it’s difficult to think of any film that could displace Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Ody...