aka the Oscar Push

Superficial mini-descriptions in case you've never heard of them.

Your choices:

Appaloosa
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800308/
Ed Harris (directing as well) and Viggo Mortensen in Western tale of a "lawless rancher."

The Argentine + Guerrila
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892255/ + http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374569/
The Che movies. Soderbergh directs Del Toro as the revolutionary Guevara.

Australia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455824/
Set around the bombing of Darwin, a WWII Japansese offensive in Australia, w/ Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman.

Body of Lies
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758774/
The writer-director team behind Kingdom of Heaven suit up a CIA story w/ DiCaprio and Crowe.

Brothers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765010/
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire playing . . . brothers. The war in Afghanistan figures in, too.

The Brothers Bloom
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844286/
Soph. effort from Brick writer / director. Con-men flick w/ Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, and Mark Ruffalo.

Burn After Reading
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887883/
Coen Brothers comedic caper w/ Clooney, Pitt, Swinton, Malkovich, and McDormand.

Changeling
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824747/
Eastwood directs Angelina Jolie in true saga of 1920's Wineville Chicken Murders.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421715/
Fincher's back in the saddle w/ Pitt, who ages backwards.

Doubt
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918927/
John Patrick Shanley adapts and directs his own hit play, Doubt, a religious drama w/ Meryl Streep, PSH, and Amy Adams.

Flash of Genius
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054588/
Greg Kinnear as intermittent windshield wiper inventor who got dicked by Ford.

Frost/Nixon
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870111/
Ron Howard retells British bigwig journalist's interview w/ Richard Nixon.

Marley & Me
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822832/
Adaptation of bestselling book centered around a couple and their dog. Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston are the couple.

Milk
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/
Story of openly gay SF mayor, Harvey Milk. Gus Van Sant behind the camera—Franco and Penn in front.

Miracle at St. Anna
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1046997/
Spike Lee takes on WWII, in tale of four American soldiers cornered in a Tuscan village.

Revolutionary Road
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959337/
Adaptation of the famed novel about a 1950's suburb-dwelling husband and wife: DiCaprio and Winslet. Sam Mendes directs.

The Road
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/
Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic vision rendered by the director of The Proposition and starring Viggo Mortensen.

The Soloist
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0821642/
Robert Downey Jr. is a journalist, and Jamie Foxx is homeless musician. Joe Wright is the director.

Synecdoche, New York
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/
A Charlie Kaufman mind-fuck.

W.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175491/
Oliver Stone's back in The White House w/ Josh Brolin as the 43rd President of U.S.


Obviously, these aren't the only twenty movies coming out from here until Christmas. I tried to bias the list towards Oscar-buzzed flicks, but if there are any that I forgot / others you're waiting on, do post and tell.