‘Allied,’ with Oscar-winners Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, gets a trailer

The latest Oscar hopeful to start unveiling itself comes today in the form of the first trailer for Paramount’s Allied, starring Oscar winners Brad Pitt (12 Years a Slave) and Marion Cotillard (La vie en Rose).

Allied, directed by Oscar-winner Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) tells the true story of intelligence officer Max Vatan (Pitt) and French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Cotillard) who fall in love on a mission to kill a German official during World War II. The film also stars Lizzy Caplan, Matthew Goode and Jared Harris.

Paramount has a pretty heavy awards slate this year (even more than 20th Century Fox did last year with The Martian, Joy and The Revenant). We saw the first teaser for Arrival this week but nothing so far for Fences (understandable as it wrapped this summer) or Silence (whose principal photography wrapped nearly a year ago). Although Allied has a certain luster and appearance of an “Oscar” film – big stars, Oscar winners, WWII-era – it also feels a bit…dated. We’ll have to see where it lands during Oscar season but right now AW’s Gold Rush Gang isn’t seeing it factor too much compared to the studios other awards fare.

Paramount Pictures is set to release Allied on November 23, 2016.

Here’s the 60-second teaser trailer:

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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