All of them have high-profile projects in development.
Adele Romanski (Best Picture, “Moonlight”): Romanski will collaborate with “The Myth of the American Sleepover” writer/director David Robert Mitchell once again on “Under the Silver Lake,” his follow-up to “It Follows.”
Dede Gardner (Best Picture, “Moonlight”): she produced James Gray’s “The Lost City of Z,” which arrives in theaters next month, David Michôd’s “War Machine,” Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja,” “World War Z 2,” the TV adaptation of “The Departed” and a miniseries about Lewis and Clark.
Jeremy Kleiner (Best Picture, “Moonlight”): Kleiner, who works with Gardner at Plan B Entertainment, is also co-producing “World War Z 2,” “The Departed,” “War Machine” and “Okja.”
Damien Chazelle (Best Director, “La La Land”): is set to helm “First Man.” A biopic following Neil Armstrong between 1961 and 1969, the adaptation of James Hansen’s biography “First Man: A Life of Neil A. Armstrong” will reunite Chazelle with Ryan Gosling.
Emma Stone (Best Actress, “La La Land”): The newly minted prizewinner has a whole host of forthcoming projects: “Battle of the Sexes,” which co-stars Steve Carell in a dramatization of the famous 1973 tennis match pitting Billie Jean King against Bobby Riggs; Cary Fukanaga’s Netflix series “Maniac,” which reunites her with her “Superbad” co-star Jonah Hill; “Love May Fail,” an adaptation of the novel by Matthew Quick; and a “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” spinoff in which she stars as Cruella de Vil.
Mahershala Ali (Best Supporting Actor, “Moonlight”): His latest, “Roxanne Roxanne,” just premiered at Sundance, and he’ll appear in Robert Rodriguez’s sci-fi thriller “Alita: Battle of Angel” as well.
Viola Davis (Best Supporting Actress, “Fences”): In addition to continuing her leading role on TV’s “How to Get Away with Murder,” Davis will star as Harriet Tubman in Kirk Ellis’ biopic. She’s also been cast in “Widows,” Steve McQueen’s follow-up to “12 Years a Slave.”
Kenneth Lonergan (Best Original Screenplay, “Manchester by the Sea”): Lonergan is writing BBC’s miniseries adaptation of “Howards End,” which made its way to the silver screen 25 years ago as a Merchant Ivory production. This new take on E.M. Forster’s novel will consist of four episodes.
Barry Jenkins (Best Adapted Screenplay, “Moonlight”): he’s writing a limited series based on Colson Whitehead’s best-selling novel “The Underground Railroad” and a feature about Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, America’s first two-time Olympic boxing champion.
Tarell Alvin McCraney (Best Adapted Screenplay, “Moonlight”): He’s directing a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra”
Asghar Farhadi (Best Foreign-Language Film, “The Salesman”): The two-time Oscar winner is set to collaborate with Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem on an as-yet untitled Spanish-language production. It’s been described to Variety as “a psychological thriller with a dash of Agatha Christie” whose script is “a real page-turner.”
Ezra Edelman (Best Documentary, “O.J.: Made in America”): Edelman is following up his acclaimed longform doc with “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” about the security guard who was accused of being a terrorist at the 1996 Olympic Games despite actually being a life-saving hero.
