The Soloist
I know that the likes of Danny Boyle, Sean Penn and Kate Winslet will still be lovingly caring for their Oscars that they won back in February but there are already a group of movies that look like they will be vying for the top honours in 2010.
And it's former Oscar winners and nominees such as Daniel Day Lewis, Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson and Martin Scorsese that are flexing their muscles so early.
Joe Wright is back with a more American movie, after the success of British pictures Pride and Prejudice and Atonement which established him as one of this country's most exciting filmmakers, as he joins Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr on The Soloist.
The film follows the true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musical prodigy who developed schizophrenia whilst at Julliard and is now living on the streets of LA and his growing friendship with Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Lopez.
The film was originally supposed to be released in November of 2008 and there was talk of Robert Downey Jr getting his hands on a Best Supporting Actor Oscar but the film got pushed back, and Heath Ledger then dominated the awards circuit.
After being pushed back again from it's March 2009 slot the film is now expected to reach cinemas in September.
Adapted from the novel by Cormac McCarthy, the writer behind No Country For Old Men, The Road is another movie that was pushed back from it's November 2008 release slot.
Starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-Phee as father and son who find themselves walking through a burned America. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
The big shock of this year's nominations was the exclusion of Clint Eastwood, made worse by the fact that he had two critical and commercial releases in the form of Changeling and Gran Torino, but 2010 could bring further success for the director with the release of The Human Factor.
Starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela the film looks look at life of the popular leader after the fall of apartheid in South Africa during his first term as president when campaigned to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup event as an opportunity to unite his countrymen.
There is a tradition at the Oscars that biopic pictures do well with the voters with the likes of Ray, Walk the Line and Monster all scooping gongs in the past.
Public Enemies is Johnny Depp's first movie since 2008's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street for which he picked up another Best Actor Oscar nomination as he takes on the role of John Dillinger.
Directed by Heat filmmaker Michael Mann Public Enemies follows the FBI's man hunt for John Dillinger, the legendary Depression era bank robber.
No one could stop Dillinger. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard), to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression.
With support from Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard there are already many whispers surrounding this movie and it's awards potential.
Other movies that could possibly gain award nominations include Shutter Island, the latest collaboration between martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio and Peter Jackson's adaptation of the popular Alice Sebold novel The Lovely Bones.
There's another release from Pixar in the form of Up, many believed that Wall-E should have been nominated in the Best Picture category not just Best Animated Feature, and Sean Penn teams up with Terrence Malick for The Tree of Life.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw