One of the big contenders at next year’s Oscars is expected to be the new British World War II film Blitz.

Today the first trailer arrived for Oscar-winner Sir Steve McQueen’s latest movie starring Saoirse Ronan in a role that could finally win her an Academy Award.

The official synopsis reads: “Sir Steve McQueen’s Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English…