The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

Nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Song    This probably has Original Screenplay in the bag.  I wouldn't give it high odds for any of the rest of its nominations.

In the summer of 1968, several protest groups went to the Democratic National Convention to protest the Vietnam War and the selection of Herbert Humphrey as the Democratic candidate.  The protesters were denied a permit by the city, thousands of people crowded into Grant Park, and eventually a full-scale riot broke out.  Eight men were arrested: Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne) and Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp), Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong), David Dellinger (John Carroll Lynch), John Froines (Danny Flaherty) and Lee Weiner (Noah Robbins), and Bobby G. Seale (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II).  Seale was picked up for Protesting While Black, even though he was only in the city for four hours.  He was separately represented, but his lawyer (Sir Not Appearing in This Film) was in the hospital and the trial proceeded anyway.  

If that last sentence made you cock your head like the RCA dog, congratulations.  You've arrived at the central point of this film.  This trial was a total miscarriage of justice from witness tampering, a blatantly racist judge (Frank Langella, a legend), and heavy political overtones.  It's frankly a little on the nose, but the Academy loves that shit, which is why I think it will get an award, but not all the awards.  I will say that it's definitely the funniest of the Best Picture nominees so far.

It's currently streaming on Netflix.