Sony Pictures Classics Launching ‘Still Alice’ and Julianne Moore Into the Oscar Race

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s Alzheimer’s drama “Still Alice,” starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart, out of the Toronto International Film Festival, where the film screened to acclaim.

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Per Deadline, the label plans to the film in time for Oscar season, meaning Moore is all but secured a nomination for her devastating performance as a cognitive psychologist who’s diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. Stewart and Kate Bosworth play her daughters and Alec Baldwin stars as her husband in the film. This marks SPC’s second buy out of the festival following their acquisition of Giulio Ricciarelli’s directorial debut “Labyrinth of Lies.”