Meanwhile, Focus’ The Phoenecian Scheme, the latest work of whimsy from Wes Anderson, is dryly amusing and features his usual mindblowing production design. But it doesn’t possess the broad appeal of 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was his only narrative feature that ever registered Oscar nominations beyond the writing and crafts categories.

Jennifer Lawrence’s wildly uninhibited portrayal of postpartum depression has rocketed Lynne Ramsay’s film “Die, My Love” into the awards conversation.

Last year, the Cannes Film Festival produced three best actress nominees at the Oscars. This year's edition may have just supplied another. In Lynne Ramsay's “Die, My Love,” Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson play a married couple with a newborn who move into an old country house.