Astra Midseason Movie Award for Most Anticipated Film

The Astra Midseason Movie Award for Most Anticipated Film is one of the annual awards given out by the Hollywood Creative Alliance.

Winners

2010s

Year	Film	Director
2018 [1]	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee
	Crazy Rich Asians	Jon M. Chu
	Bad Times at the El Royale	Drew Goddard
	Mission: Impossible – Fallout	Christopher McQuarrie
	Widows	Steve McQueen
2019 [2]	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino
	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker	J. J. Abrams
	It Chapter Two	Andy Muschietti
	Joker	Todd Phillips
	Little Women	Greta Gerwig

2020s

Year	Film	Director
2020 [3]	No Award given.
2021 [4]	Last Night in Soho	Edgar Wright
	Candyman	Nia DaCosta
	The French Dispatch	Wes Anderson
	The Green Knight	David Lowery
	No Time to Die	Cary Joji Fukunaga
2022 [5] [6] [7]	Nope	Jordan Peele
	Babylon	Damien Chazelle
	Avatar: The Way of Water	James Cameron
	Don't Worry Darling	Olivia Wilde
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese
2023 [8] [9] [10]	Barbie	Greta Gerwig
Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan
Dune: Part Two	Denis Villeneuve
Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One	Christopher McQuarrie
2024 [11] [12] [13] [14]	Joker: Folie à Deux	Todd Phillips
	Deadpool & Wolverine	Shawn Levy
	Alien: Romulus	Fede Álvarez
	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice	Tim Burton
	Wicked	Jon M. Chu
2025 [15] [16]	Wicked: For Good	Jon M. Chu
	Weapons	Zach Cregger
	Avatar: Fire and Ash	James Cameron
	The Fantastic Four: First Steps	Matt Shakman
	Superman	James Gunn

References

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