He said the early Oscar frontrunner is Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, but he wondered if films focused on more contemporary issues could end up beating it.

Can the Oscars, in this very politically divided moment with a lot going on around the world, embrace a movie about a Homer epic that's, you know, many, many centuries old? I'm not sure.

I think that there's going to be a lot of hunger for something that feels relevant and importantly so.

Coyle mentioned a new documentary entitled Nazah from two Oscar-winning filmmakers about the war in Gaza, and also a trove of documentary and feature films that deal with the power of tech leaders from Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk.

We have Alex Gibney's four-hour Musk documentary.

We have Artificial by Luca Guadagnino, which will premiere at the New York Film Festival, about Sam Altman with Andrew Garfield playing him.

And we have The Social Reckoning, which is a sequel to The Social Network.