You can smell the awards season in the air, as some great movies are coming out this month. These are my top 5, so check them out:

I AM LEGEND
Release Date: Friday, December 14
Cast: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Director: Francis Lawrence
Genre: Action/Thriller
Synopsis: Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable and manmade. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City, and maybe the world. But he is not alone. He is surrounded by ''the Infected''—victims of the plague who have mutated into carnivorous beings who can only exist in the dark and who will devour or infect anyone or anything in their path.

NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS
Release Date: Friday, December 21
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Harvey Keitel
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Genre: Action/Thriller
Synopsis: Treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) looks to discover the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by uncovering the mystery within the 18 pages missing from assassin John Wilkes Booth's diary.

SWEENEY TODD
Release Date: Friday, December 21
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Tim Burton
Genre: Comedy
Synopsis: Unjustly sent to prison, a man vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, he becomes Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, who "shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again.

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
Release Date: Tuesday, December 21
Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Director: Mike Nichols
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: Charlie Wilson, an alcoholic womanizer and Texas congressman, persuaded the CIA to train and arm resistance fighters in Afghanistan to fend off the Soviet Union. With the help of rogue CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, the two men supplied money, training and a team of military experts that turned the ill-equipped Afghan freedom-fighters into a force that brought the Red Army to a stalemate. However, the result also empowered the Taliban and terrorists including Osama bin Laden.

BUCKET LIST
Release Date: Tuesday, December 25
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Rob Morrow
Director: Rob Reiner
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Synopsis: Two terminally ill men try to fulfill a wish list known as "The Bucket List" before each kicks the bucket. After they break out of a cancer ward, they head off on a road trip with an itinerary that includes racing cars, eating giant plates of caviar and slinging poker chips in Monte Carlo.