LOS ANGELES – What will the Oscar winners and erstwhile hopefuls be doing next? (Besides not wearing Spanx and maintaining their awards beards.)  In a deal that was brokered shortly before the Oscar ceremony, Quvenzhané Wallis will be starring in a Will Smith- and Jay Z-backed version of “Annie,” directed by Will Gluck (“Easy A,” “Friends With Benefits”). And in a publicity coup, Sony and Columbia, the studios behind the movie, announced it on Sunday, so Ms. Wallis answered questions about it on the Oscars red carpet.  As announced today, Steven Spielberg will be heading the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. “I’ve often asked Steven to be jury president, but he’s always been shooting a film,” Gilles Jacob, the president of the festival, said in a statement. “So when this year I was told ‘E.T., phone home,’ I understood and immediately replied: ‘At last!’”  Some winners with big projects behind them, like Ang Lee and Daniel Day-Lewis, are not planning anything for a while. (“I need to have a lie-down,” Mr. Day-Lewis said in the press room after the ceremony.) Jennifer Lawrence will, of course, be starring in the next installment of “The Hunger Games,” due in November, and is slated to appear in another film directed by David O. Russell, alongside Bradley Cooper, with whom she also stars in “Serena,” a Depression-era drama directed by Susanne Bier, who won a foreign language Oscar for “In a Better World.” Got that?  Mr. Cooper has his own franchise to take care of, with the next “Hangover” sequel. Christoph Waltz’s buzzed hair was for a role in a Terry Gilliam movie, and Robert De Niro has a slew of projects lined up, some of which may have the pedigree to finally bring him to the Academy stage again.  And Oscar-watchers are already spitballing a list of contenders for next year, like “The Counselor,” from director (and three-time nominee) Ridley Scott, with the first original screenplay by Cormac McCarthy; “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” a biopic starring Idris Elba; “The Monuments Men,” written and produced by and starring George Clooney (along with Cate Blanchett, Daniel Craig, Matt Damon, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman and Bill Murray), about an art heist during World War II; and Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” with Leonardo DiCaprio.  There are also three entries from the Weinstein Company: the Sundance favorite “Fruitvale”; the biopic “Grace of Monaco,” starring Nicole Kidman; and the adaptation of Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County.” Between them Harvey Weinstein will have a slew of other chances to be thanked from, or forgotten to be thanked from, the Oscars stage.
A roundup of what the winners (and losers) will be doing next and a look ahead at what may be competing at next year&#8217;s Oscars.