The 2017 Oscars: Nominations

 

It's award season guys and the Oscar nominations just came in! La La Land leads the pack with a total of 14 nominations including best picture and best director. Moonlight has 8 nominations including best picture and best director. Arrival ties with Moonlight with 8 nominations including sound, cinematography and production design. Lion and Hacksaw ridge both have 6 nominations with Mel Gibson nominated in the Best Director category. The biggest Oscar snubs incudes Amy Adams in Arrival, Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures, Tom Hanks for Sully and Clint Eastwood as the director. Birth Of A Nation directed by Nate Parker also deserved to be nominated. After the #OscarsSoWhite trend last year, the Academy nominated 6 black actors which I only hope would increase next year with more African Americans and Latinos. The Oscars will air on February 26, 2017 with Jimmy Kimmel as its host. Here are the nominees; 

Best picture
La La Land
Moonlight
Manchester by the Sea
Arrival
Fences
Lion
Hidden Figures
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water

Best actress in a leading role
Natalie Portman, “Jackie”
Emma Stone, “La La Land”
Isabelle Huppert, “Elle”
Meryl Streep, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
Ruth Negga, “Loving”

Best actor in a leading role
Ryan Gosling, “La La Land”
Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
Denzel Washington, “Fences”
Andrew Garfield, “Hacksaw Ridge”
Viggo Mortensen, “Captain Fantastic”

Best director
Damien Chazelle, “La La Land”
Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”
Denis Villeneuve, “Arrival”
Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea”
Mel Gibson, “Hacksaw Ridge”

Still of Ryan Reynolds & Emma Stone from La La Land (Image via indiewire.com)

Best Actress in a supporting role
Viola Davis, “Fences”
Michelle Williams, “Manchester by the Sea”
Octavia Spencer, “Hidden Figures”
Naomie Harris, “Moonlight”
Nicole Kidman, “Lion”

Actor in a supporting role
Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”
Jeff Bridges, “Hell or High Water”
Lucas Hedges, “Manchester by the Sea”
Dev Patel, “Lion”
Michael Shannon, “Nocturnal Animals”

Best documentary
O.J.: Made in America
13th
I Am Not Your Negro
Fire at Sea
Life, Animated

Best foreign language film
Toni Erdmann
The Salesman
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
Tanna

Best animated feature film
Zootopia
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
The Red Turtle
My Life as a Zucchini

Best adapted screenplay
“Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins and Tarell McCraney
“Arrival,” Eric Heisserer
“Lion,” Luke Davies
“Fences,” August Wilson
“Hidden Figures,” Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi

Still of Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson & Octavia Spencer from Hidden Figures (Image via imdb.com)

Best original screenplay
“La La Land,” Damien Chazelle
“Hell or High Water,” Taylor Sheridan
“Manchester by the Sea,” Kenneth Lonergan
“The Lobster,” Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou
“20th Century Women,” Mike Mills
 Best original song
“How Far I’ll Go,” “Moana”
“City of Stars,” “La La Land”
“Audition (The Fools Who Dream),” “La La Land”
“Can’t Stop the Feeling!” “Trolls”
“The Empty Chair,” “Jim: The James Foley Story”
 Best original score
“La La Land,” Justin Hurwitz
“Moonlight,” Nicholas Britell
“Lion,” Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
“Jackie,” Mica Levi
“Passengers,” Thomas Newman

Still of Denzel Washington & Viola Davis from Fences (Image via usatoday.com)

 Best cinematography
“Moonlight,” James Laxton
“La La Land,” Linus Sandgren
“Arrival,” Bradford Young
“Silence,” Rodrigo Prieto
“Lion,” Greig Fraser
Best production design
“La La Land,” David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock
“Arrival,” Patrice Vermette and Paul Hotte
“Hail, Caesar!,”  Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh
“Passengers,” Guy Hendrix Dyas and Gene Serdena
Best visual effects
“The Jungle Book,” Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel and Neil Corbould
“Doctor Strange,” Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould
“Deepwater Horizon,” Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington and Burt Dalton
“Kubo and the Two Strings,” Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean and Brad Schiff

Still of Dev Patel from Lion (Image via hindustantimes.com)

Best costume design
“La La Land,” Mary Zophres
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” Colleen Atwood
“Florence Foster Jenkins,” Consolata Boyle
“Jackie,” Madeline Fontaine
“Allied,” Joanna Johnston
 Best makeup and hair styling
“Star Trek Beyond,” Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo
“Suicide Squad,” Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson
“A Man Called Ove,” Eva von Bahr and Love Larson Best Animated short film
Piper
Pearl
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Blind Vaysha
Best live action short film
Timecode
Sing (Mindenki)
Silent Nights
Ennemis Interieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Best documentary short subject
The White Helmets
Extremis
Watani: My Homeland
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin

Still of Mahershala Ali & Alex Hibbert from Moonlight (Image via abcnews.com)

Best film editing
“La La Land,” Tom Cross
“Moonlight,” Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon
“Hacksaw Ridge,” John Gilbert
“Arrival,” Joe Walker
“Hell or High Water,” Jake Roberts
Best sound editing
“La La Land,” Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
“Hacksaw Ridge,” Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright
“Arrival,” Sylvain Bellemare
“Sully,” Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
“Deepwater Horizon,” Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli
Best sound mixing
“La La Land,” Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steve A. Morrow
“Hacksaw Ridge,” Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson
“Arrival,” Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye
“13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth