Category: Nominations

91st Oscar Nominations – BLACK PANTHER Becomes First Superhero Movie To Garner A Best Picture Nomination

Actor-comedian and Oscar–nominated writer Kumail Nanjiani and actress–producer–director Tracee Ellis Ross announced the 91st Oscars nominations today (January 22), live from the Academy’s headquarters in Beverly Hills, CA.

Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER made history by becoming the first superhero movie to receive a Best Picture nomination. Skippy, nominated for Outstanding Production at the 4th Academy Awards, was based on a comic strip.

Spike Lee received his first Best Director nomination for the film BlacKkKlansman. This is his fifth overall, including his Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay nominations this year. He was previously nominated for his original screenplay for Do the Right Thing (1989) and for the documentary feature 4 Little Girls (1997). Lee was the recipient of an Honorary Award in 2015.

A Star Is Born is the fourth film version to receive Academy Award nominations, for a total of 26 nominations. The acting nominations for Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga are the third for both the lead characters (after Fredric March and Janet Gaynor in 1937, and James Mason and Judy Garland in 1954).

THE FAVOURITE and ROMA led the field with ten nominations each.

Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz in the film THE FAVOURITE. Photo by Atsushi Nishijima. © 2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved

With ten nominations, Roma has tied the record held by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) for the most nominations received by a foreign language film. It is the tenth foreign language film nominated for Best Picture. Roma is the fifth film to be nominated for both Foreign Language Film and Best Picture in the same year. Each of the previous four (Z, 1969; Life Is Beautiful, 1998; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000; Amour, 2012) won for Foreign Language Film but not Best Picture.

Alfonso Cuarón is the fourth person to receive four nominations in four different award categories for the same film. Warren Beatty did so twice, with Best Picture, Directing, Leading Actor and Writing nominations for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Reds (1981). Ethan Coen and Joel Coen received nominations for Best Picture, Directing and Writing and shared a nomination for Film Editing under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes for No Country for Old Men (2007). Alan Menken received four nominations in two Music categories for Beauty and the Beast (1991).

For the first time, two directors of films nominated in the Foreign Language Film category (Paweł Pawlikowski, Cold War and Alfonso Cuarón, Roma) have received Directing nominations. Bradley Cooper is the fifteenth person to direct himself to an acting nomination and the ninth to do so on his feature film directing debut.

In the acting categories, eight individuals are first-time nominees (Yalitza Aparicio, Olivia Colman, Marina de Tavira, Adam Driver, Sam Elliott, Richard E. Grant, Regina King, Rami Malek). Five of the nominees are previous acting winners
(Mahershala Ali, Christian Bale, Sam Rockwell, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz). Two were also nominated for acting last year (Willem Dafoe, Sam Rockwell). Yalitza Aparicio is the second actress nominated for a debut performance in a spoken language other than English. The first was Catalina Sandino Moreno, nominated for her leading role in Maria Full of Grace (2004).

Yalitza Aparicio as Cleo, Marco Graf as Pepe, Carlos Peralta Jacobson as Paco, and Daniela Demesa as Sofi in Roma, written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
Image by Alfonso Cuarón.

Lady Gaga is the second person to receive acting and song nominations for the same film. Mary J. Blige was the first, with her nominations for Mudbound last year.

The Cinematography nominations for Cold War and Roma mark the first time since 1966 that two black-and-white films have been nominated in the category in a single year. Since 1967, when the Academy eliminated a separate award category for black-and-white cinematography, there have been 15 black-and-white films nominated for Cinematography.

Sandy Powell has the most nominations for Costume Design of any living person with 14. The overall record in the category belongs to Edith Head with 35 nominations.

Kumail Nanjiani (left) and Tracee Ellis Ross announce the nominees for the 91st Annual Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.

The 91st Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network.

Academy members from each of the 17 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.

Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all 24 categories beginning Tuesday, February 12, through Tuesday, February 19.

Adam Driver stars as Flip Zimmerman and John David Washington as Ron Stallworth in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, a Focus Features release.
Credit: David Lee / Focus Features
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards

Performance by an actor in a leading role

  • Christian Bale in “Vice”
  • Bradley Cooper in “A Star Is Born”
  • Willem Dafoe in “At Eternity’s Gate”
  • Rami Malek in “Bohemian Rhapsody”
  • Viggo Mortensen in “Green Book”

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

  • Mahershala Ali in “Green Book”
  • Adam Driver in “BlacKkKlansman”
  • Sam Elliott in “A Star Is Born”
  • Richard E. Grant in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
  • Sam Rockwell in “Vice”

Performance by an actress in a leading role

  • Yalitza Aparicio in “Roma”
  • Glenn Close in “The Wife”
  • Olivia Colman in “The Favourite”
  • Lady Gaga in “A Star Is Born”
  • Melissa McCarthy in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

  • Amy Adams in “Vice”
  • Marina de Tavira in “Roma”
  • Regina King in “If Beale Street Could Talk”
  • Emma Stone in “The Favourite”
  • Rachel Weisz in “The Favourite”

Best animated feature film of the year

  • “Incredibles 2” Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle
  • “Isle of Dogs” Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson
  • “Mirai” Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito
  • “Ralph Breaks the Internet” Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer
  • “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Achievement in cinematography

  • “Cold War” Łukasz Żal
  • “The Favourite” Robbie Ryan
  • “Never Look Away” Caleb Deschanel
  • “Roma” Alfonso Cuarón
  • “A Star Is Born” Matthew Libatique

Achievement in costume design

  • “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Mary Zophres
  • “Black Panther” Ruth Carter
  • “The Favourite” Sandy Powell
  • “Mary Poppins Returns” Sandy Powell
  • “Mary Queen of Scots” Alexandra Byrne

Achievement in directing

  • “BlacKkKlansman” Spike Lee
  • “Cold War” Paweł Pawlikowski
  • “The Favourite” Yorgos Lanthimos
  • “Roma” Alfonso Cuarón
  • “Vice” Adam McKay

Best documentary feature

  • “Free Solo” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill
  • “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim
  • “Minding the Gap” Bing Liu and Diane Quon
  • “Of Fathers and Sons” Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert
  • “RBG” Betsy West and Julie Cohen

Best documentary short subject

  • “Black Sheep” Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn
  • “End Game” Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
  • “Lifeboat” Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser
  • “A Night at The Garden” Marshall Curry
  • “Period. End of Sentence.” Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton

Achievement in film editing

  • “BlacKkKlansman” Barry Alexander Brown
  • “Bohemian Rhapsody” John Ottman
  • “The Favourite” Yorgos Mavropsaridis
  • “Green Book” Patrick J. Don Vito
  • “Vice” Hank Corwin

Best foreign language film of the year

  • “Capernaum” Lebanon
  • “Cold War” Poland
  • “Never Look Away” Germany
  • “Roma” Mexico
  • “Shoplifters” Japan

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

  • “Border” Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer
  • “Mary Queen of Scots” Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks
  • “Vice” Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

  • “Black Panther” Ludwig Goransson
  • “BlacKkKlansman” Terence Blanchard
  • “If Beale Street Could Talk” Nicholas Britell
  • “Isle of Dogs” Alexandre Desplat
  • “Mary Poppins Returns” Marc Shaiman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

  • “All The Stars” from “Black Panther”
    Music by Mark Spears, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Anthony Tiffith; Lyric by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Anthony Tiffith and Solana Rowe
  • “I’ll Fight” from “RBG”
    Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
  • “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns”
    Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyric by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
  • “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born”
    Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt
  • “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
    Music and Lyric by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
A STAR IS BORN

Best motion picture of the year

  • “Black Panther” Kevin Feige, Producer
  • “BlacKkKlansman” Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers
  • “Bohemian Rhapsody” Graham King, Producer
  • “The Favourite” Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers
  • “Green Book” Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers
  • “Roma” Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers
  • “A Star Is Born” Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers
  • “Vice” Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers

Best Picture Release Dates:
Black Panther – February 15, 2018
BlacKkKlansman – August 9, 2018
A Star Is Born – October 4, 2018
Bohemian Rhapsody – November 1, 2018
Green Book – November 15, 2018
Roma – November 21, 2018
The Favourite – November 22, 2018
Vice – December 24, 2018

L-R: Joe Mazzello (John Deacon), Ben Hardy (Roger Taylor), Rami Malek (Freddie Mercury), and Gwilym Lee (Brian May) star in Twentieth Century Fox’s BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY. Photo Credit: Alex Bailey.

Achievement in production design

  • “Black Panther” Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart
  • “The Favourite” Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
  • “First Man” Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas
  • “Mary Poppins Returns” Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
  • “Roma” Production Design: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Bárbara Enríquez

Best animated short film

  • “Animal Behaviour” Alison Snowden and David Fine
  • “Bao” Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb
  • “Late Afternoon” Louise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco
  • “One Small Step” Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas
  • “Weekends” Trevor Jimenez

Best live action short film

  • “Detainment” Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon
  • “Fauve” Jeremy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon
  • “Marguerite” Marianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset
  • “Mother” Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado
  • “Skin” Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman

Achievement in sound editing

  • “Black Panther” Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker
  • “Bohemian Rhapsody” John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone
  • “First Man” Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
  • “A Quiet Place” Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
  • “Roma” Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay

Achievement in sound mixing

  • “Black Panther” Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin
  • “Bohemian Rhapsody” Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali
  • “First Man” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis
  • “Roma” Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García
  • “A Star Is Born” Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow

Achievement in visual effects

  • “Avengers: Infinity War” Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick
  • “Christopher Robin” Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould
  • “First Man” Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm
  • “Ready Player One” Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk
  • “Solo: A Star Wars Story” Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy

Adapted screenplay

  • “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • “BlacKkKlansman” Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
  • “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
  • “If Beale Street Could Talk” Written for the screen by Barry Jenkins
  • “A Star Is Born” Screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters

Original screenplay

  • “The Favourite” Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
  • “First Reformed” Written by Paul Schrader
  • “Green Book” Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
  • “Roma” Written by Alfonso Cuarón
  • “Vice” Written by Adam McKay

Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer And Hoyte van Hoytema On DUNKIRK’s Eight Nominations

Christopher Nolan’s epic action thriller DUNKIRK has received eight OSCAR nominations, and here’s what the filmmakers had to say about Tuesday’s announcement.

Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan:
“We are thrilled that the Academy has recognized the craft and talent of so many of the incredible people that brought the story of ‘Dunkirk’ to life. But most of all, this recognition helps us to believe that we have done some justice to honouring all those whose lives were affected by the real life events at Dunkirk.”

Hans Zimmer – Original Music
“Thank you to the academy for this extraordinary honor and to be in the company of such great talent. I would especially like to thank Chris Nolan for his vision in making such a bold, and experimental movie into a success. This score is as much Chris Nolan’s work as it is mine and our collaborative spirit is infused through this film.  It is the hardest and closest collaboration we have done to date. The thing that I’m proudest about the work on Dunkirk is that you can’t separate the sound from the images. Chris and I have now been working together for 16 years and it’s always been our ambition, somehow, that the score and the images become one total experience.”

Hoyte van Hoytema – Cinematography
“I loved every bit of this journey with Christopher Nolan, overcoming great obstacles, both technical and artistic on a daily basis. Chris saw us through it all with both brilliance and wit, while keeping us on our toes with new curveballs and challenges. I am very proud of what we achieved and extremely grateful to the Academy for this recognition of our work.”

Achievement in Sound Editing
Richard King
“I’m thrilled about my nomination for Dunkirk. It was a labor of love for everyone involved and I’m happy it’s getting the recognition it deserves.”

  • This is Richard’s 6th nomination.  He has won 3 Oscars – Inception, The Dark Night, and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

Achievement in Sound Mixing
Gary A. Rizzo
“I wish I were as witty and funny as Tiffany Haddish at this hour of the morning.  I’m incredibly honored and equally nauseous for the sound mixing nomination and humbled by the Best Picture and Best Director nominations as well.”

  • This is Gary’s 5th nomination.  He has won 1 Oscar – Inception.

NOMINATIONS: DUNKIRK has received 8 OSCAR nominations in the following categories:

  • Best Picture
  • Director
  • Cinematography
  • Original Score
  • Editing
  • Production Design
  • Sound Editing
  • Sound Mixing

DUNKIRK opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in. The story unfolds on land, sea and air. RAF Spitfires engage the enemy in the skies above the Channel, trying to protect the defenseless men below. Meanwhile, hundreds of small boats manned by both military and civilians are mounting a desperate rescue effort, risking their lives in a race against time to save even a fraction of their army.

Nolan directed DUNKIRK from his own original screenplay, utilising a mixture of IMAX and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen. The film was partially shot on location on the beaches of Dunkirk, France, where the actual events unfolded.

The film’s ensemble cast includes Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy and Barry Keoghan, with Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy. DUNKIRK was produced by Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, with Jake Myers serving as executive producer. The behind-the-scenes creative team included director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Lee Smith, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson and special effects supervisor Scott Fisher. The music was composed by Hans Zimmer.

DUNKIRK is available now on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, Limited Edition Blu-ray Filmbook and 2 Disc DVD.

http://www.dunkirkmovie.com/

90th Oscar Nominations Are Here – THE SHAPE OF WATER Leads Oscar Race With 13 Nominations

Countdown to the Oscars and the BIGGEST show in Hollywood happened Tuesday morning as the nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced from AMPAS headquarters at the Samuel Goldwyn theater.

This year’s most nominated film, The Shape of Water, is the tenth film in Oscar history to earn thirteen nominations. The current record of fourteen nominations is held by three films, All about Eve (1950), Titanic (1997) and La La Land (2016). Dunkirk received eight nods, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri seven nominations, Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread saw 6 nominations each, with Lady Bird and Blade Runner 2049 each earning five nods.

Actress-comedian Tiffany Haddish and actor-director Andy Serkis, joined by
Academy President John Bailey, announced the 90th Academy Awards nominations today.

Haddish and Serkis announced the nominees in 11 categories at 5:22 a.m. PT, with pre-taped category introductions by Academy members Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson, Gal Gadot, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Molly Shannon, Rebel Wilson and Michelle Yeoh. Haddish and Serkis announced the remaining 13 categories at 5:38 a.m. PT.

NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY – 90TH AWARDS

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Timothée Chalamet in “Call Me by Your Name” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Daniel Day-Lewis in “Phantom Thread” (Focus Features)
Daniel Kaluuya in “Get Out” (Universal)
Gary Oldman in “Darkest Hour” (Focus Features)
Denzel Washington in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Willem Dafoe in “The Florida Project” (A24)
Woody Harrelson in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Fox Searchlight)
Richard Jenkins in “The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight)
Christopher Plummer in “All the Money in the World” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Sam Rockwell in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Sally Hawkins in “The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight)
Frances McDormand in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Fox Searchlight)
Margot Robbie in “I, Tonya” (Neon/30 West)
Saoirse Ronan in “Lady Bird” (A24)
Meryl Streep in “The Post” (20th Century Fox)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Mary J. Blige in “Mudbound” (Netflix)
Allison Janney in “I, Tonya” (Neon/30 West)
Lesley Manville in “Phantom Thread” (Focus Features)
Laurie Metcalf in “Lady Bird” (A24)
Octavia Spencer in “The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight)

Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer in the film THE SHAPE OF WATER. Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures. © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved

Best animated feature film of the year

“The Boss Baby” (20th Century Fox) Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito
“The Breadwinner” (GKIDS) Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo
“Coco” (Walt Disney) Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
“Ferdinand” (20th Century Fox) Carlos Saldanha
“Loving Vincent” (Good Deed Entertainment) Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart

Achievement in cinematography

“Blade Runner 2049” (Warner Bros.) Roger A. Deakins
“Darkest Hour” (Focus Features) Bruno Delbonnel
“Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.) Hoyte van Hoytema
“Mudbound” (Netflix) Rachel Morrison
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) Dan Laustsen

Achievement in costume design

“Beauty and the Beast” (Walt Disney) Jacqueline Durran
“Darkest Hour” (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
“Phantom Thread” (Focus Features) Mark Bridges
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) Luis Sequeira
“Victoria & Abdul” (Focus Features) Consolata Boyle

Achievement in directing

“Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.) Christopher Nolan
“Get Out” (Universal) Jordan Peele
“Lady Bird” (A24) Greta Gerwig
“Phantom Thread” (Focus Features) Paul Thomas Anderson
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) Guillermo del Toro

Dunkirk

Best documentary feature

“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail” (PBS Distribution) A Mitten Media/Motto Pictures/Kartemquin Educational Films/WGBH/FRONTLINE Production Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman
“Faces Places” (Cohen Media Group) A Ciné Tamaris Production Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda
“Icarus” (Netflix) A Netflix Documentary in association with Impact Partners, Diamond Docs, Chicago Media Project and Alex Production Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
“Last Men in Aleppo” (Grasshopper Film) A Larm Film and Aleppo Media Center Production Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen
“Strong Island” (Netflix) A Yanceville Films and Louverture Films Production Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes

Best documentary short subject

“Edith+Eddie” (Kartemquin Films) A Heart is Red/Kartemquin Films Production Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright
“Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405” A Stiefel & Co. Production Frank Stiefel
“Heroin(e)” (Netflix) A Netflix Original Documentary in association with The Center for Investigative Reporting/Requisite Media Production Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon
“Knife Skills” A TFL Films Production Thomas Lennon
“Traffic Stop” (HBO Documentary Films) A Q-Ball Production Kate Davis and David Heilbroner

Achievement in film editing

“Baby Driver” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
“Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.) Lee Smith
“I, Tonya” (Neon/30 West) Tatiana S. Riegel
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) Sidney Wolinsky
“Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Fox Searchlight)

Best foreign language film of the year

“A Fantastic Woman” A Fabula Production –  Chile
“The Insult” A Douri Film Production –  Lebanon
“Loveless” A Non-Stop Production  – Russia
“On Body and Soul” An Inforg-M&M Film Production – Hungary
“The Square” A Plattform Production  – Sweden

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

“Darkest Hour” (Focus Features) Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
“Victoria & Abdul” (Focus Features) Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
“Wonder” (Lionsgate) Arjen Tuiten

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

“Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
“Phantom Thread” (Focus Features) Jonny Greenwood
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) Alexandre Desplat
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (Walt Disney) John Williams
“Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Fox Searchlight) Carter Burwell

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

“Mighty River” from “Mudbound” (Netflix) Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson
“Mystery Of Love” from “Call Me by Your Name” (Sony Pictures Classics) Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens
“Remember Me” from “Coco” (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
“Stand Up For Something” from “Marshall” (Open Road Films) Music by Diane Warren Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren
“This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman” (20th Century Fox) Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Best motion picture of the year

“Call Me by Your Name” (Sony Pictures Classics) A Frenesy Film/La Cinéfacture/Memento Films International/RT Features Production Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito, Producers
“Darkest Hour” (Focus Features) A Working Title Films Production Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski, Producers
“Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.) A Syncopy Pictures Production Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
“Get Out” (Universal) A Blumhouse Productions/QC Entertainment/Monkeypaw Production Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele, Producers
“Lady Bird” (A24) A Mission Films Production Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O’Neill, Producers
“Phantom Thread” (Focus Features) An Annapurna Pictures Production JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi, Producers
“The Post” (20th Century Fox) A 20th Century Fox/DreamWorks Pictures Production Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) A Double Dare You Production Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers
“Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Fox Searchlight) A Blueprint Pictures Production Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

Achievement in production design

“Beauty and the Beast” (Walt Disney) Production Design: Sarah Greenwood, Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
“Blade Runner 2049” (Warner Bros.) Production Design: Dennis Gassner, Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola
“Darkest Hour” (Focus Features) Production Design: Sarah Greenwood, Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
“Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.) Production Design: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry, Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin

Best animated short film

“Dear Basketball” (Verizon go90) A Glen Keane Production Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant
“Garden Party” A MOPA Production Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon
“Lou” (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Dave Mullins and Dana Murray
“Negative Space” An Ikki Films Production Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata
“Revolting Rhymes” A Magic Light Pictures Production Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer

Best live action short film

“DeKalb Elementary” A UCLA Production Reed Van Dyk
“The Eleven O’Clock” A FINCH Production Derin Seale and Josh Lawson
“My Nephew Emmett” A New York University Production Kevin Wilson, Jr.
“The Silent Child” A Slick Films Production Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
“Watu Wote/All of Us” A Hamburg Media School Production Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen

Achievement in sound editing

“Baby Driver” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Julian Slater
“Blade Runner 2049” (Warner Bros.) Mark Mangini and Theo Green
“Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.) Richard King and Alex Gibson
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (Walt Disney) Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce

Achievement in sound mixing

“Baby Driver” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
“Blade Runner 2049” (Warner Bros.) Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
“Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.) Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (Walt Disney) David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson

© 2017 Lucasfilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Achievement in visual effects

“Blade Runner 2049” (Warner Bros.) John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and
Richard R. Hoover
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (Walt Disney) Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
“Kong: Skull Island” (Warner Bros.) Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (Walt Disney) Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
“War for the Planet of the Apes” (20th Century Fox) Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist

Adapted screenplay

“Call Me by Your Name” (Sony Pictures Classics) Screenplay by James Ivory
“The Disaster Artist” (A24) Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
“Logan” (20th Century Fox) Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green, Story by James Mangold
“Molly’s Game” (STXfilms) Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
“Mudbound” (Netflix) Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

Original screenplay

“The Big Sick” (Amazon Studios) Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
“Get Out” (Universal) Written by Jordan Peele
“Lady Bird” (A24) Written by Greta Gerwig
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor, Story by Guillermo del Toro
“Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Fox Searchlight) Written by Martin McDonagh

Jordan Peele is the third person to receive Best Picture, Directing and Writing nominations for his first feature film as a director for Get Out. Warren Beatty did so with Heaven Can Wait (1978), followed by James L. Brooks with Terms of Endearment (1983). (Beatty shared the Directing and Writing nominations with Buck Henry.)

Greta Gerwig is the fifth woman nominated for Directing. The other nominated directors are Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties (1976), Jane Campion for The Piano (1993), Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003), and Kathryn Bigelow, who won the award for The Hurt Locker (2009). Lady Bird is the 13th film directed by a woman to be nominated for Best Picture. It is the fourth film written and directed solely by women to receive nominations for Best Picture and Writing. The earlier films were The Piano (1993), Lost in Translation (2003) and Winter’s Bone (2010).

Logan is the first comic-book adaptation ever nominated for screenplay.

Steven Spielberg extends his record total of Best Picture nominations for an individual producer with 10 for The Post. He has also directed 11 Best Picture-nominated films, the most of any living person, and second only to William Wyler’s total of 13.

Rachel Morrison, nominated for Mudbound, is the first woman to receive a nomination for Cinematography.

With Blade Runner 2049, Roger A. Deakins has the most nominations for Cinematography of any living person. Charles B. Lang, Jr. and Leon Shamroy share the all-time record with 18 nominations each.

Meryl Streep increases her lead as the most nominated performer with her 21st nomination for The Post.

At 88 years old, Christopher Plummer becomes the oldest acting nominee to date. He remains the oldest acting winner, having won for his supporting role in Beginners (2011) at the age of 82.

John Williams adds to his record number of music scoring nominations with his 46th. His overall total of 51 nominations (including five for Original Song) is the most for any living person, and second only to Walt Disney at 59.

Mary H. Ellis, nominated for Baby Driver, is the sixth woman to be nominated for Sound Mixing. The others are Deb Adair (one nomination), Anna Behlmer (10 nominations), Pud Cusack (one nomination), Lora Hirschberg (two nominations,
including one award) and Ai-Ling Lee (one nomination in the category).

Academy members from each of the 17 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.

Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all 24 categories beginning Tuesday, February 20 through Tuesday, February 27.

The 90th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

WAMG was among the 785 press organizations requesting credentials
for 90th Oscars and once again we will be in the pressroom as the winners arrive for questions with their statuettes.

Last year 299 outlets were issued credentials for the 89th Oscars with WAMG being on that list.

89th Oscar Nominations Of All 24 Categories To Feature Global Announcement On Tuesday Morning

nominations

One of the biggest days in Hollywood is at hand.

The 89th Oscars Nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 24. Coverage begins at 5:18 a.m. PST / 8:18 a.m. EST.

To help guide this year’s nominees through the 33 days between the nominations announcement and the Oscars ceremony, the Academy invited 11 Oscar-winning and nominated Academy members to share personal anecdotes about their Oscars experience and offer advice to the new class of nominees about this life-changing moment.

Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs will be joined by Demian Bichir, Dustin Lance Black, Glenn Close, Guillermo del Toro, Marcia Gay Harden, Terrence Howard, Jennifer Hudson, Brie Larson, Jason Reitman, Gabourey Sidibe and Ken Watanabe. These talented artists and filmmakers were filmed in six different cities around the globe—Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Toronto, London and Tokyo.

The pre-taped video footage will be edited together with voiceover and graphics announcing the nominations in all 24 award categories. In keeping with tradition, PwC will deliver the Oscars Nominations list to the Academy this evening, January 23.

Will presumed front-runner LA LA LAND see the most nominations? How will the categories for Best Actor and Best Actress pan out?

The 89th Oscars Nominations Announcement will be streamed live on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/Oscars and on http://www.oscar.com.

5:18:00 PST – Exact Time of the 1st Nominations Announcement
5:30:30 PST – Exact Time of the 2nd Nominations Announcement

Read Michelle McCue’s look at the “Oscars and Movies and Targeting Millennials” over at AWFJ.com. In her article about the declining ratings, she says, “more mainstream movies nominated, the ones we already root for, the ones the regular movie-going Joe goes to see and make box office hits, would reasonably bring the much needed audience, and millennials, back to the TV to watch Hollywood’s Big Night.”

The 89th Academy Awards airs Oscar Sunday, February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

88th Academy Awards Nominations – THE REVENANT, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Lead The Oscars 2016 Field

20160114_051841

The 2016 Oscar nominations are in. “We All Dream In Gold” was the phrase of the morning when Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Guillermo del Toro, John Krasinski and Ang Lee announced the 88th Academy Awards nominations.

WAMG was at the live news conference inside the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater along with 400 international media representatives.

THE REVENANT received the most nominations Thursday morning with twelve, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD saw eleven, followed by THE MARTIAN with seven.

Seeing six nominations apiece were BRIDGE OF SPIES, CAROL and SPOTLIGHT. Rounding out the multiple nods were THE BIG SHORT and STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS with five bids.

The buzz heard throughout the theater went to the much deserved nod for Sylvester Stallone (CREED) who is nominated for playing Rocky Balboa 40 years after his first nomination in 1976 for playing the same character, Charlotte Rampling with her Best Actress Nomination (45 YEARS) and every time MAD MAX: FURY ROAD was mentioned.

Vying for the big prize for Best Picture are:

  • “The Big Short” Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers
  • “Bridge of Spies” Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
  • “Brooklyn” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
  • “Mad Max: Fury Road” Doug Mitchell and George Miller, Producers
  • “The Martian” Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Mark Huffam, Producers
  • “The Revenant” Arnon Milchan, Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Mary Parent and Keith Redmon, Producers
  • “Room” Ed Guiney, Producer
  • “Spotlight” Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, Producers

20160114_050013

Del Toro and Lee announced the nominees in 11 categories at 5:30 a.m. PT, followed by Boone Isaacs and Krasinski for the remaining 13 categories at 5:38 a.m. PT.

Academy members from each of the 17 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees.

All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.

THE MARTIAN
THE MARTIAN

Official screenings of all motion pictures with one or more nominations will begin for members on Saturday, January 23, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Screenings also will be held at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and in London, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all 24 categories.

Nominations for the 88th Academy Awards:

Performance by an actor in a leading role

  • Bryan Cranston in “Trumbo”
  • Matt Damon in “The Martian”
  • Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Revenant”
  • Michael Fassbender in “Steve Jobs”
  • Eddie Redmayne in “The Danish Girl”

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

  • Christian Bale in “The Big Short”
  • Tom Hardy in “The Revenant”
  • Mark Ruffalo in “Spotlight”
  • Mark Rylance in “Bridge of Spies”
  • Sylvester Stallone in “Creed”

Performance by an actress in a leading role

  • Cate Blanchett in “Carol”
  • Brie Larson in “Room”
  • Jennifer Lawrence in “Joy”
  • Charlotte Rampling in “45 Years”
  • Saoirse Ronan in “Brooklyn”

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

  • Jennifer Jason Leigh in “The Hateful Eight”
  • Rooney Mara in “Carol”
  • Rachel McAdams in “Spotlight”
  • Alicia Vikander in “The Danish Girl”
  • Kate Winslet in “Steve Jobs”

Best animated feature film of the year

  • “Anomalisa” Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
  • “Boy and the World” Alê Abreu
  • “Inside Out” Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
  • “Shaun the Sheep Movie” Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
  • “When Marnie Was There” Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Achievement in cinematography

  • “Carol” Ed Lachman
  • “The Hateful Eight” Robert Richardson
  • “Mad Max: Fury Road” John Seale
  • “The Revenant” Emmanuel Lubezki
  • “Sicario” Roger Deakins
THE REVENANT
THE REVENANT

Achievement in costume design

  • “Carol” Sandy Powell
  • “Cinderella” Sandy Powell
  • “The Danish Girl” Paco Delgado
  • “Mad Max: Fury Road” Jenny Beavan
  • “The Revenant” Jacqueline West

Achievement in directing

  • “The Big Short” Adam McKay
  • “Mad Max: Fury Road” George Miller
  • “The Revenant” Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Won last year for BIRDMAN. The last back-to-back Oscar win for director was in 1950.)
  • “Room” Lenny Abrahamson
  • “Spotlight” Tom McCarthy
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Best documentary feature

  • “Amy” Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
  • “Cartel Land” Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
  • “The Look of Silence” Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
  • “What Happened, Miss Simone?” Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
  • “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor

Best documentary short subject

  • “Body Team 12” David Darg and Bryn Mooser
  • “Chau, beyond the Lines” Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
  • “Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah” Adam Benzine
  • “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • “Last Day of Freedom” Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

Achievement in film editing

  • “The Big Short” Hank Corwin
  • “Mad Max: Fury Road” Margaret Sixel
  • “The Revenant” Stephen Mirrione
  • “Spotlight” Tom McArdle
  • “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

Best foreign language film of the year

  • “Embrace of the Serpent” Colombia
  • “Mustang” France
  • “Son of Saul” Hungary
  • “Theeb” Jordan
  • “A War” Denmark

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

  • “Mad Max: Fury Road” Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
  • “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared” Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
  • “The Revenant” Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

  • “Bridge of Spies” Thomas Newman
  • “Carol” Carter Burwell
  • “The Hateful Eight” Ennio Morricone
  • “Sicario” Jóhann Jóhannsson
  • “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” John Williams

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

  • “Earned It” from “Fifty Shades of Grey”
    Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
  • “Manta Ray” from “Racing Extinction”
    Music by J. Ralph and Lyric by Antony Hegarty
  • “Simple Song #3” from “Youth”
    Music and Lyric by David Lang
  • “Til It Happens To You” from “The Hunting Ground”
    Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
  • “Writing’s On The Wall” from “Spectre”
    Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
BRIDGE OF SPIES
BRIDGE OF SPIES

Achievement in production design

  • “Bridge of Spies” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
  • “The Danish Girl” Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish
  • “Mad Max: Fury Road” Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
  • “The Martian” Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
  • “The Revenant” Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy

Best animated short film

  • “Bear Story” Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
  • “Prologue” Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
  • “Sanjay’s Super Team” Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
  • “We Can’t Live without Cosmos” Konstantin Bronzit
  • “World of Tomorrow” Don Hertzfeldt

Best live action short film

  • “Ave Maria” Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
  • “Day One” Henry Hughes
  • “Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)” Patrick Vollrath
  • “Shok” Jamie Donoughue
  • “Stutterer” Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

Achievement in sound editing

  • “Mad Max: Fury Road” Mark Mangini and David White
  • “The Martian” Oliver Tarney
  • “The Revenant” Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
  • “Sicario” Alan Robert Murray
  • “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Matthew Wood and David Acord

Achievement in sound mixing

  • “Bridge of Spies” Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
  • “Mad Max: Fury Road” Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
  • “The Martian” Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth
  • “The Revenant” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
  • “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

Achievement in visual effects

  • “Ex Machina” Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
  • “Mad Max: Fury Road” Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
  • “The Martian” Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
  • “The Revenant” Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
  • “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

Adapted screenplay

  • “The Big Short” Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
  • “Brooklyn” Screenplay by Nick Hornby
  • “Carol” Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
  • “The Martian” Screenplay by Drew Goddard
  • “Room” Screenplay by Emma Donoghue

Original screenplay

  • “Bridge of Spies” Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
  • “Ex Machina” Written by Alex Garland
  • “Inside Out” Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
  • “Spotlight” Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
  • “Straight Outta Compton” Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

Facts provided by AMPAS:

In 2011, the balloting rules first allowed for the possibility of between five and ten nominees for Best Picture. For the first three years, there were nine nominees. For the past two years, there have been eight.

Steven Spielberg has set the record for the most Best Picture nominations for an individual producer with nine.

In the Acting categories, eight individuals are first-time nominees (Bryan Cranston, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Brie Larson, Charlotte Rampling, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rachel McAdams and Alicia Vikander). Five of the nominees are previous Acting winners (Eddie Redmayne, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Winslet). At age 25, Jennifer Lawrence is the youngest four-time Acting nominee.

Sylvester Stallone, who received his first Acting nomination in 1976 for Rocky, is the sixth person nominated for playing the same role in two different films. He follows Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945); Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986); Peter O’Toole as Henry II in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968); Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974); and Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). Of these, only Bing Crosby and Paul Newman won Oscars (in 1944 and 1986, respectively).

Roger Deakins has the most nominations for Cinematography of any living person with 13. Charles B. Lang, Jr. and Leon Shamroy share the all-time record with 18 nominations each.

Sandy Powell now has the most nominations for Costume Design of any living person with 12. The overall record in the category belongs to Edith Head with 35 nominations.

John Williams extends his record number of music scoring nominations with 45. His overall total of 50 nominations (including five for Original Song) increases his record for the most Academy Award nominations of any living person (the only person with more is Walt Disney at 59). Thomas Newman’s nomination for Original Score for Bridge of Spies is his 13th and brings the total for members of the Newman family (Alfred, Lionel, Emil, Thomas, David and Randy) to 89, more than any other family.

The Original Song nomination for “Manta Ray” from Racing Extinction is the fifth for a song from a documentary. Previous nominations were for “More” from Mondo Cane (1963); “I Need To Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Oscar in 2006; “Before My Time” from Chasing Ice (2012), also written by this year’s nominee J. Ralph; and “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me (2014).

With his two nominations for Sound Mixing (for Bridge of Spies and Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Andy Nelson has tied Kevin O’Connell’s record for the most individual nominations in the category with 20.

Inside Out is the ninth animated feature to receive a Writing nomination. To date, none has won. With his fourth Writing nomination this year, Pete Docter has tied Andrew Stanton for the most writing nominations for animated films.

Watch the 88th Academy Awards LIVE on Sunday, Feb. 28 on ABC with host Chris Rock.

Visit oscar.go.com/nominees for more on today’s nominees.

Contributed by Michelle McCue and Melissa Thompson

88thOscars_Key_Host

2015 Oscar Nomination Predictions

Contributed by Michelle McCue, Gary Salem and Melissa Thompson

The countdown to the Oscars is less than 24 hours away.

While some of the presumed nominees, and the precursors, seemed like a done deal in the fall, Oscar watchers will know for sure on Thursday morning when the nominations for the 87th Academy Awards are announced. 

Will the guilds inclusion of AMERICAN SNIPER and perceived snubs that came with the lack of BAFTA, Directors Guild and Producers Guild nominations for SELMA make any difference? What nominations will come out of left field?

The Academy expanded the Best Picture category for a possible 10 nominees with the intention of including big box-office hits that would help the show’s TV ratings. However, this year the race is dominated by specialty and independent labels with Gone Girl being the only contender with blockbuster status.

One thing is sure, this year’s race will have awards season fans biting their nails right up to Oscar Sunday, February 22.

For you die-hards getting up Thursday morning before dawn, Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced last week that actor Chris Pine, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, and directors Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams will announce the nominations in all 24 Oscar categories at a special two-part live news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The Nominations Announcement is a live news conference where more than 400 media representatives, including WAMG, from around the world will be gathered.

At 5:30 a.m. PT, Cuarón and Abrams will announce the nominees in the following categories: Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Film Editing, Original Song, Production Design, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects.

At 5:38 a.m. PT, Pine and Boone Isaacs will take the stage to unveil the nominations for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Cinematography, Costume Design, Directing, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay and Best Picture.

You can catch it live here: www.oscars.org/live or below.

BEST PICTURE

AMERICAN SNIPER (gaining traction with all the guild noms – PGA, WGA, DGA)
BIRDMAN (PGA)
BOYHOOD (PGA)
FOXCATCHER (PGA)
GONE GIRL (PGA)
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (PGA)
THE IMITATION GAME (PGA)
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PGA)
WHIPLASH (PGA)

If AMPAS voters go to 10, look for SELMA to make it in. Watch out for the 10th Producers Guild nominee, NIGHTCRAWLER.

BEST DIRECTOR – All line up with the Directors Guild nominees
Wes Anderson – THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Clint Eastwood – AMERICAN SNIPER
Alejandro G. Inarritu – BIRDMAN
Richard Linklater – BOYHOOD
Morten Tyldum – THE IMITATION GAME

Spoiler: Ava DuVernay – SELMA. Watch out for WHIPLASH’s Damien Chazelle.

BEST ACTOR
Benedict Cumberbatch – THE IMITIATION GAME (SAG)
Ralph Fiennes – THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (BAFTA)
Michael Keaton – BIRDMAN (SAG)
David Oyelowo – SELMA
Eddie Redmayne – THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (SAG)

Spoiler: Jake Gyllenhaal – NIGHTCRAWLER (SAG). Watch for a last minute surge for Bradley Cooper in AMERICAN SNIPER.

BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Aniston – CAKE (SAG)
Felicity Jones – THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (SAG)
Julianne Moore – STILL ALICE (SAG)
Rosamund Pike – GONE GIRL (SAG)
Reese Witherspoon – WILD (SAG)

Spoiler: Marion Cotillard – TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT. Watch out of BAFTA nominee Amy Adams, BIG EYES.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Duvall – THE JUDGE (SAG)
Ethan Hawke – BOYHOOD (SAG)
Edward Norton – BIRDMAN (SAG)
Mark Ruffalo – FOXCATCHER (SAG)
J.K. Simmons – WHIPLASH (SAG)

Spoiler: Miyavi – UNBROKEN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette – BOYHOOD (SAG)
Keira Knightley – THE IMITATION GAME (SAG)
Emma Stone – BIRDMAN (SAG)
Meryl Streep – INTO THE WOODS (SAG)
Naomi Watts – ST. VINCENT (SAG)

Spoiler: BAFTA nominee Imelda Staunton, PRIDE. Watch out for Tilda Swinton, SNOWPIERCER.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Richard Linklater – BOYHOOD
Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness – THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman – FOXCATCHER
Mike Leigh – MR. TURNER
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo – BIRDMAN

Spoiler: Dan Gilroy – NIGHTCRAWLER

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Damien Chazelle – WHIPLASH
Gillian Flynn – GONE GIRL
Jason Hall – AMERICAN SNIPER
Anthony McCarten – THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Graham Moore – THE IMITATION GAME

Spoiler: Paul Thomas Anderson – INHERENT VICE

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Hoyte van Hoytema – INTERSTELLAR
Roger Deakins – UNBROKEN
Robert Yeoman – THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Dick Pope – MR. TURNER
Emmanuel Lubezki – BIRDMAN

Spoiler: Óscar Faura – THE IMITATION GAME

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
BIG HERO 6
THE BOXTROLLS
CHEATIN’ (Annie nominee) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ilPAEgkpA
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
THE LEGO MOVIE

Spoiler: The Tale of The Princess KAGUYA (GKIDS/Studio Ghibli) or THE BOOK OF LIFE

BEST COSTUME
Collen Atwood – INTO THE WOODS
Mark Bridges – INHERENT VICE
Milena Canonero – THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Ruth Carter – SELMA
Milena Canonero – THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Spoiler: THE IMITATION GAME Sammy Sheldon Differ or MR. TURNER Jacqueline Durran

BEST MAKE UP & HAIR
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
FOXCATCHER
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
MALEFICENT
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

Spoiler: NOAH

BEST SCORE
Alexandre Desplat – THE IMITATION GAME
John Powell – HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
Hans Zimmer – INTERSTELLAR
Marco Beltrami – THE HOMESMAN
Jóhann Jóhannsson – THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

Spoiler: UNDER THE SKIN – Mica Levi

BEST DOCUMENTARY
CITIZENFOUR
FINDING VIVIAN MAIER
JODOROWSKY’S DUNE
KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON
LIFE ITSELF

Spoiler: VIRUNGA

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
IDA – Poland
FORCE MAJEURE – Sweden
LEVIATHAN – Russia
TIMBUKTU – Mauritania
WILD TALES – Argentina

Spoiler: THE LIBERATOR – Venezuela

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
GODZILLA
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
INTERSTELLAR
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

Spoiler: THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
BIRDMAN
INTERSTELLAR
INTO THE WOODS
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
THE IMITATION GAME

Spoiler: MR. TURNER

87th-academy-awards-the-oscars-Oscar-Promo-Key-Art_1_rgb

The Academy Awards presentation will air live on ABC on Oscar Sunday, February 22, 2015.

Follow the Academy, Oscar’s producers, and host Neil Patrick Harris for the latest updates throughout Oscar season.

Host
Neil Patrick Harris: http://twitter.com/ActuallyNPH

Oscars Producers
Neil Meron: http://twitter.com/neilmeron
Craig Zadan: http://twitter.com/craigzadan

Hashtags
#Oscars

Academy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheAcademy
Twitter: http://twitter.com/theacademy
Instagram: http://instagram.com/theacademy
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/oscars
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+Oscars

86th Academy Awards Nominations Announcements. ©A.M.P.A.S.
86th Academy Awards Nominations Announcements. ©A.M.P.A.S.

Watch The Academy Awards Nominations LIVE Here

The 2013 Oscar Nominations will be revealed LIVE this morning. Oscar host Seth MacFarlane and actress Emma Stone will announce the nominations in 11 categories.

Watch them here!

Motion picture, television and theater producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce this year’s Oscars. The 85th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

Download the Official Oscars App:
Apple App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oscars/id411784735?ls=1&mt=8 
            Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abc.oscars 
            Amazon App Store: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=com.abc.oscars

FOLLOW THE ACADEMY
www.oscars.org
www.facebook.com/TheAcademy
www.youtube.com/Oscars
www.twitter.com/TheAcademy

#OscarNoms

Visit the official Academy Awards website www.oscar.com.

Follow Oscars’ Host Seth MacFarlane on Twitter
https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane

You Can Even Follow the Oscars’ Producer on Twitter for Behind the Scenes Updates
http://twitter.com/NeilMeron

85th Academy Awards Nomination Predictions

Contributed By: Michelle McCue and Melissa Thompson

Okay Oscar junkies (us included!), it’s that time of year once again, and it’s gonna be a barn-burner! 2012 was the year of Old Hollywood glory with the return of big studio films. Filmmakers took audiences on a trip to revolutionary France to meet Jean Valjean, Civil War America with an introduction to President Lincoln, on a fantasy adventure to the “Bathtub” with Hushpuppy and in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

A handful of films will take the lions share, but there’s always room for a good upset when 10 of the 24 categories are announced. Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards will be announced by the show’s host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone at the 5:30 a.m. PT news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where hundreds of media representatives from around the world (including WAMG) will be gathered. Below are our guesses on how the morning will go down.

The Oscar® Nominations Announcement will be streamed live on YouTube.

85th Academy Awards Nominees Predictions

Best Picture

  1. ARGO
  2. BEASTS OF THE  SOUTHERN WILD
  3. DJANGO UNCHAINED
  4. LES MISERABLES
  5. LIFE OF PI 
  6. LINCOLN
  7. MOONRISE KINGDOM
  8. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
  9. SKYFALL
  10. ZERO DARK THIRTY

ALT:  THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL 

Best Actor

  1. BRADLEY COOPER – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
  2. DANIEL DAY LEWIS – LINCOLN
  3. JOHN HAWKES – THE SESSIONS
  4. HUGH JACKMAN – LES MISERABLES
  5. DENZEL WASHINGTON – FLIGHT

ALT: JACK BLACK – BERNIE

Best Actress

  1. JESSICA CHASTAIN – ZERO DARK THIRTY
  2. MARION COTILLARD – RUST AND BONE
  3. JENNIFER LAWRENCE – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
  4. HELEN MIRREN – HITCHCOCK
  5. NAOMI WATTS – THE IMPOSSIBLE

ALT: EMMANUELLE RIVA – AMOUR  or  QUVENZHANE WALLIS – BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

Best Supporting Actor

  1. ALAN ARKIN – ARGO
  2. JAVIER BARDEM – SKYFALL
  3. ROBERT DE NIRO – SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
  4. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – THE MASTER
  5. TOMMY LEE JONES – LINCOLN

ALT: CHRISTOPH WALTZ – DJANGO UNCHAINED

Best Supporting Actress 

  1. SALLY FIELD – LINCOLN
  2. ANNE HATHAWAY – LES MISERABLES
  3. HELEN HUNT – THE SESSIONS
  4. NICOLE KIDMAN – THE PAPERBOY
  5. MAGGIE SMITH – THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

ALT: AMY ADAMS – THE MASTER

Best Director

  1. BEN AFFLECK – ARGO
  2. KATHRYN BIGELOW – ZERO DARK THIRTY
  3. TOM HOOPER – LES MISERABLES
  4. ANG LEE – LIFE OF PI
  5. STEVEN SPIELBERG – LINCOLN

ALT: MICHAEL HANEKE – AMOUR

Best Animated Feature

  1. BRAVE
  2. FRANKENWEENIE
  3. PARANORMAN
  4. RISE OF THE GUARDIANS
  5. WRECK-IT RALPH

ALT: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA

Original Screenplay

  1. AMOUR
  2. DJANGO UNCHAINED
  3. THE MASTER
  4. MOONRISE KINGDOM
  5. ZERO DARK THIRTY

ALT: LOOPER

Adapted Screenplay

  1. ARGO
  2. BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
  3. LINCOLN
  4. THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
  5. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

ALT:  LIFE OF PI

Motion picture, television and theater producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce this year’s Oscars. The 85th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

Download the Official Oscars App:
Apple App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oscars/id411784735?ls=1&mt=8 
            Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abc.oscars 
            Amazon App Store: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=com.abc.oscars

FOLLOW THE ACADEMY
www.oscars.org
www.facebook.com/TheAcademy
www.youtube.com/Oscars
www.twitter.com/TheAcademy

#OscarNoms

Visit the official Academy Awards website www.oscar.com.

Follow Oscars’ Host Seth MacFarlane on Twitter
https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane

Follow Seth’s Dad
http://twitter.com/DadMacFarlane

You Can Even Follow the Oscars’ Producer on Twitter for Behind the Scenes Updates
http://twitter.com/NeilMeron

Oscar Host Seth MacFarlane And Actress Emma Stone To Announce Nominations This Thursday

Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards® will be announced by the show’s host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone on Thursday, January 10. This will be the first time since 1972 that an Oscar show host has participated in the nominations announcement.

MacFarlane and Stone will unveil the nominations at a 5:30 a.m. PT news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where hundreds of media representatives from around the world will be gathered. Once again, We Are Movie Geeks will be in the audience and will bring you coverage of the morning’s events.

Since the first nominations announcement in 1964, the Academy president has been joined by one or more co-announcers at the event. This year the Academy will break with tradition when MacFarlane, who was named Oscar show host in October, joins Stone on Oscar nominations morning. Charlton Heston (1972) was the only other show host to participate in the nominations announcement.

Stone starred in the 2011 Best Picture nominee “The Help” and the summer release “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Her other film credits include “Superbad,” “Zombieland,” “Easy A” and “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” Stone will be seen in “Gangster Squad” later this month and in “The Croods,” due out in March.

Visit the official Academy Awards website www.oscar.com. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013 and televised live on ABC.

FOLLOW THE ACADEMY
www.oscars.org
www.facebook.com/TheAcademy
www.youtube.com/Oscars
www.twitter.com/TheAcademy

Day & Date Change – 85th Academy Awards Nominations Now On Thursday, January 10, 2013

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced key dates for the 85th Academy Awards season. Oscar obsessivas – ready for this?

In an effort to provide members and the public a longer period of time to see the nominated films, the Academy will reveal the 85th Academy Awards nominations on January 10, five days earlier than previously announced. A Thursday morning instead of the standard Tuesday. You can bet the screenings for the December released films will be in full gear due to today’s announcement by The Academy. Not that it matters to Oscar watchers, but where does this leave the other award shows? The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards will air live on Sunday, January 13, 2013. How exciting will that show be now! More red carpet banter to be sure. As for the annual Broadcast Film Critics Association show? The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards show fell on a Thursday earlier this year – January 12th to be exact. This group will have to get watching the end of the year films mach schnell. No word yet from them on when their show will now air.

In addition, this will be the first time the Academy will provide its membership the opportunity to vote electronically. Together with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Everyone Counts, the Academy has been developing an electronic voting process for more than a year. The Academy conducted extensive research and held numerous focus groups with its members to ensure a smooth transition and widespread adoption. The Academy will make several voting resources available to members during the transition, including the installation of assisted voting stations in Los Angeles, New York and London, a 24-hour telephone help line during voting periods, and paper ballots.

The key dates are:    
 
Friday, November 30, 2012:   Official Screen Credits due
Saturday, December 1, 2012:   Governors Awards presentation
Monday, December 17, 2012:   Nominations voting begins
Thursday, January 3, 2013:   Nominations voting ends 5 p.m. PT
Thursday, January 10, 2013:   Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PT, Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Monday, February 4, 2013:   Nominees Luncheon
Friday, February 8, 2013:   Final voting begins
Saturday, February 9, 2013:   Scientific and Technical Awards presentation
Tuesday, February 19, 2013:   Final voting ends 5 p.m. PT
Sunday, February 24, 2013:   85th Academy Awards presentation

In the pre-Nominations phase, members will continue to vote via paper ballot in eight categories due to specialized screening schedules and processes. Those categories are Animated Feature Film, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Hairstyling and Visual Effects.

The Academy Awards ceremony will be held at The Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. A 90-minute red carpet show will immediately precede the broadcast.