UPDATED 9/15: Frontrunners are already forming for Oscar’s Best Picture race, according to early combined predictions at Gold Derby. Now that the three major fall film festivals — Telluride, Venice and Toronto — have premiered many of the most anticipated titles, the predictions reflect the state of flux now that critics have passed judgment on early fall contenders. Two major shifts: “Jojo Rabbit” and “The Laudromat” dropped from the top 10, replaced by “Joker” and “Parasite.” However, expect “Jojo Rabbit” to rally and return soon now that it’s won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival, which often predicts the top Oscar. For the most part, “Jojo” was warmly received by audiences at the fest, but it received a few cooler early reviews from major outlets, including Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Los Angeles Times. Over all, it’s got a positive 75 score at Rotten Tomatoes.

Here are the current top 10 Best Picture picks on the Gold Derby site, in order, as of Sept. 14:

1. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”: Oscar voters love to look into a big-screen mirror and see their chosen profession reflected back at them. Sure, Quentin Tarantino‘s fairy-tale time capsule takes us back to 1969, when the decade of peace, love and understanding would come to an abrupt end as an unpopular war would continue to rage and protest would fill the streets. But he somehow sweetens the past with wistful nostalgia, and makes a TV Western star (Leonardo DiCaprio) with a fading career and his loyal stuntman (Brad Pitt) into heroes in real life. The filmmaker himself, who made chopped-up narratives a la 1994’s “Pulp Fiction” the essence of storytelling cool, has yet to win a Best Picture trophy. That rapid-fire neo-noir competed for the prize as did his 2009 revisionist World War II battlefield epic “Inglourious Basterds” and 2012’s Antebellum-era Western “Django Unchained.” This could be the one that does the trick.

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2. “The Irishman” (premieres Sept. 27 at the New York Film Festival and opens Nov. 27): Many, including myself, thought that Martin Scorsese‘s 1980 “Raging Bull” and 1990’s “Goodfellas” should have claimed Oscar’s most coveted prize. The irony, of course, was that he lost to two actors who were making their directing debuts: Robert Redford‘s “Ordinary People” and Kevin Costner‘s “Dances With Wolves.” Instead, he won for 2006’s Irish mob film “The Departed,” which was based on a 2002 Hong Kong movie “Infernal Affairs.” But “The Irishman” feels more substantial as it reunites Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci while giving Al Pacino his first role in a Scorsese film with this violent reality-based gangland saga that spans decades.

3. “Marriage Story” (opens Dec. 6) This is a 21st-century update of “Kramer vs. Kramer,” about a contentious bicoastal divorce between a stage director (Adam Driver) and his TV actress wife (Scarlett Johansson). Director and writer Noah Baumbach has previously cashed in on human foibles and difficult personalities while focusing on contentious families, especially in 2005’s “The Squid and the Whale,” 2007’s “Margot at the Wedding” and 2017’s “The Meyerowitz Stories.”

4. “1917” (opens Dec. 25): It’s been 20 years since English theater director Sam Mendes switched his focus to cinema with his 1999 film debut, “American Beauty,” a pungent satire of middle-class suburbia. The film won Best Picture while he took home the directing trophy. But that was the only time he was up for those awards. Mendes might be in the mix again, however, with this World War I yarn about two young British soldiers who race against time as they try to stop a battalion from walking into a deadly trap. It has been a while since a war film actually won an Oscar — that would be “The Hurt Locker” in 2008 so the genre is overdue indeed for recognition.

5. “Little Women” (opens Dec. 25): Actress Greta Gerwig made quite a splash when she became just the fifth woman to be nominated and the first in eight years for Best Director with 2017’s “Lady Bird,” her first solo helming debut. The comedy about a headstrong high-schooler would receive four other nods, including Best Picture and for Gerwig’s original screenplay. For her second feature, she decided to tackle the mother of all books about sisterhood, Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.” If you thought “A Star Is Born” has been remade to death, consider that eight previous films have depicted Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth March and their mother Marmee as their father is away from their New England home during the Civil War. But Gerwig breathed fresh life into a coming-of-age story with her first feature and she seems fully capable to a 21st-century version of this classic that is relatable to today’s forward-thinking females.

6. “The Farewell”: Another female-directed movie makes the cut. Bejing-born, Miami-raised director/writer Lulu Wang has been declared a star in the making ever since her 2014 feature debut “Posthumous” landed. Her second film came about after she shared a story on NPR’s “This American Life” in 2016 about how her grandmother wasn’t told about her terminal cancer diagnosis by her family and how they staged a wedding as an excuse to have one last reunion. That tale became the basis of Sundance sensation, “The Farewell,” which opened in July and stars comic actress Awkwafina (“Crazy Rich Asians”) as Wang’s stand-in in a more serious and emotion-driven role.

7. “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” (Opens Nov. 22): For some reason, the documentary branch last year failed to nominate Morgan Neville‘s acclaimed “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” a tribute to children’s TV show host Fred Rogers — which became the highest-grossing biographical doc of all time. The rest of the the Academy voters can now make up for that oversight with Marielle Heller‘s film about the fateful meeting between Mr. Rogers (Tom Hanks) and a cynical “Esquire” profile writer (Matthew Rhys). Heller collected plaudits for her two previous features, 2015’s “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” and 2018’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

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8. “Joker” (opens Oct. 4): Joaquin Phoenix as Batman’s arch-nemesis and director Todd Phillips go the origin story route for this dark and twisted tale about how the Clown Prince of Crime came to be. Plenty have played this geek gone bad before, most notably a cackling Jack Nicholson in 1989’s “Batman” and Heath Ledger, who won a posthumous supporting Oscar for his quiet damaged-goods menace in 2008’s “The Dark Knight.” But Phoenix allows his loner’s wane and awkward physique to reveal what goes on in his unhinged mind. The film takes its violent cues from Martin Scorsese‘s “Taxi Driver” and “King of Comedy,” so much so that Robert De Niro — the star of those archetypal urban loner fables — has a role in the movie. The comic-book-inspired walk on the weirdo side won the Golden Lion in Venice — often a precursor when it comes to Best Picture. Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” took the same prize in 2017 and snatched the top Oscar while 2018’s winner “Roma” made do with Best Director along with the foreign-language film and cinematography trophies.

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9. “Parasite” (opens Oct. 11): The first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes is Bong Joon-ho‘s dramatic thriller about a clash of the classes, pitting a rich family against a street-smart but poor clan whose children gain employment in the wealthy household as a tutor and art therapist. Matters grow more complicated as more members of the underprivileged family take jobs in the mansion. South Korea is expected to pick “Parasite” as its official entry in the foreign-language race. But judging from the rapturous reception at Cannes. Bong, whose previous art-house fare with an edge includes “Snowpiercer” and “The Host,” might break out from being a cult figure with “Parasite,” which has been praised as his best directorial effort yet. There’s even talk of an American remake in the works.

10. “Ford v Ferrari” (Opens Nov. 15): This truth-based film directed by James Mangold (2005’s Best Picture nominee “Walk the Line”) has a pair of popular actors, both working together onscreen for the first time, who could take away some of Leo and Brad’s starry glow above. Christian Bale plays speed-demon British racer Kevin Miles and Matt Damon is American visionary carmaker Carroll Shelby who are both hired by Ford to make a racing car that could beat Italy’s Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France.

Lastly, “Jojo Rabbit”(Opens Oct. 18) will likely be a strong contender and move up into this list: If Mel Brooks can get away with “Springtime for Hitler” in “The Producers” then New Zealand kidder Taika Waititi (2017’s “Thor: Ragornak,” 2016’s “Hunt for the Wilderpeople”) can poke fun at the Third Reich as a young German lad in a Nazi youth camp is best friends with an imaginary Hitler — played by director/writer Waititi himself. The twist is, the lonely boy discovers that his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. You can’t say you have seen this movie before.

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