In the snappy photo gallery Paul Sheehan compiled for The Envelope, he gives us sneak peeks at 30 films considered to be "Oscar bait" in the next derby, including director Rob Marshall's adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical "Nine" (starring Penelope Cruz and Daniel Day-Lewis) and Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" (with Saorise Ronan, Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz).

Since we posted the gallery the other day, there have been new developments regarding two of the flicks. A trailer just came out for Ang Lee 's "Taking Woodstock" and RopeOfSilicon.com unveiled a poster for Marty Scorsese 's "Shutter Island." Below: what Sheehan reveals about those pix. Check out the rest of the photo gallery highlights here.

"Taking Woodstock" (Focus Features – Aug. 14)
Oscar winner Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain") reunites with Oscar-nominated scripter James Schamus ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") for this biopic set against the backdrop of the famed 1969 musical festival. With Schamus now head of the studio, expect a big push for this period piece. Emmy-nominated writer Demetri Martin (""Important Things With Demetri Martin," "Late Night With Conan O'Brien") plays the son of the couple — two-time Olivier Award winner Henry Goodman ("Assassins," "The Merchant of Venice") and Oscar nominee Imelda Staunton ("Vera Drake") -- behind the festival. The rest of the cast is filled with theater folk, including Tony winners Liev Schreiber ("Glengarry Glen Ross") and Dan Folger ("The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee") and nominee Jonathan Groff ("Spring Awakening").

"Shutter Island" (Paramount – Oct. 2)
With this period crime drama based on the 2003 bestselling mystery by Dennis Lehane ("Mystic River"), Martin Scorsese helms his first film since winning an Oscar for 2006 best picture "The Departed." Three-time Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio ("What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "The Aviator," "Blood Diamond") takes direction from Scorsese for the fourth time. He plays a U.S. Marshal searching for patient (Emily Mortimer) missing from a Cape Cod hospital for the criminally insane in 1954. Oscar winner Ben Kingsley ("Gandhi") is the head of the hospital with Oscar nominees Max Von Sydow ("Pelle the Conqueror") as a dubious doctor and Michelle Williams ("Brokeback Mountain") as DiCaprio's wife.

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