After months of wondering what the Best Picture front runner is, we may have been given our answer with the release of the first trailer for the upcoming Steven Spielberg film, The Post. What makes the timing even better is that this coincides with the recent Weinstein’s attempt of a New York Times story about his alleged sexual assault allegation and the feud between the Los Angeles Times and Disney. Above all that, the subject matter of The Post is especially timely seeing that it echoes the relationship between the Trump administration and media.
Based on a true story, The Post follows the partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents.
