Oscar Hopefuls from Universal Pictures

First up for Universal Pictures is First Man,

Oscar Hopefuls From Universal Pictures

First Man

from director Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling, the team that brought you Academy Award Winner La La Land last year this is the story of NASA’s journey to land a man on the moon, that man being Neil Armstrong. The story by James R. Hansen focuses on the costs both personal for Armstrong and the cost for the US for one of the most dangerous missions in history.

Next is a festival favorite

Green Book

According to Wikipedia Green Book is a 2018 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly, about a real-life tour of the Deep South in the 1960s by Jamaican-American classical pianist Don Shirley played by Mahershala Ali and New York bouncer Tony Lip played by
Vigo Mortensen, who served as Shirley’s driver and security. The screenplay was written by Nick Vallelonga, who is Tony Lip’s son, Brian Hayes Currie and Peter Farrelly. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, where it won the People’s Choice Award.[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Book_(film)