After a second year in a row of #oscarssowhite controversy, Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and the Board of Governors voted in January to change the rules for voting on the Oscars—the boldest move yet to bring real diversity to the membership and the awards themselves. Now the pressure is on for those changes to actually be reflected in the nominations, and lucky for the Academy voters, there seems to be no lack of choices for diverse films to nominate in 2017. It’s going to be hard to ignore these contenders—diverse stories that span the globe and history, both from directors and writers of color, and three featuring Idris Elba, just for good measure.

1. Vincent-n-Roxxy stars Zoë Kravitz, who was in Mad Max: Fury Road and the Divergent series and this summer’s very excellent Dope. No doubt she’ll be flashing that clever smile of hers in the way only she can.

2. Oscar-winning and multi-nominee Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will get a sequel on Netflix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, with Michelle Yeoh returning and Glee’s Harry Shum Jr. (!) also starring. Releases February 26.

3. Amandla Stenberg stars in the 90s set As You Are, a movie about the friendship between three awkward, punk outcasts. Stenberg plays Sarah, a transracial adoptee to a white family in a predominantly white suburb.

Nate Parker in The Birth of a Nation. Courtesy of Sundance

4. Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, which was part of a bidding war for distribution rights at Sundance, is the biopic about Nat Turner, a slave who led a rebellion in 1831. Yes, that title is a deliberate reference to a certain other Hollywood historical drama.

5. Are you sick of Oscar-nominated Wall Street films like The Wolf on Wall Street and The Big Short that barely feature any women? Indian-American director Meera Menon will hopefully change that with her new film, Equity, described as the “first female-driven Wall Street film.”

6. Moonlight, based on Tarell McCraney’s play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, stars André Holland (The Knick, Selma), Naomie Harris (Spectre), Janelle Monae (the woman behind albums Electric Lady and The ArchAndroid), and Mahershala Ali (House of Cards).