The Oscar Nominations Are In And Yeah, It’s Mostly Just About ‘La La Land’
At least it's not just a bunch of white people this year.
The old white men in charge of Hollywood have issued their annual decree, declaring categorically which were the best movies of last year. Yes, it’s Oscar nomination time. Forget your populist blockbusters, you unwashed proletariat scum. Deadpool? How dare you. It’s time to talk about serious cinema. Like La La Land. And some other stuff, I guess. But mostly La La Land.
The throwback musical scored a record-tying 14 nominations, a feat only Titanic and All About Eve have managed before. It’s up for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Song (for ‘City of Stars’), Best Original Song again (for ‘Audition’), Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. Okay guys, we get it, you were fans.
Losing to La La Land in the Best Picture category you’ll find Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, Lion, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight.
After back to back years of #OscarsSoWhite, the acting categories are a sea of diversity, with six whole people of colour. Six! More like #OscarsSoWoke.
Less woke: Mel Gibson is up for Best Director. Hollywood loves a comeback story, I guess.
Also Meryl Streep was nominated. Supposedly for her work in Florence Foster Jenkins, but we all know she really got the nod because people just want to hear her hang more shit on Donald Trump. For the record, that’s fine by me.
The winners of the 89th Academy Awards will be announced on February 28.
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MOVIES YOU SHOULD FEEL ABOUT NOT HAVING SEEN
Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
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Best Director
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
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Best Actress
Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Ruth Negga (Loving)
Emma Stone (La La Land)
Natalie Portman (Jackie)
Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins)
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Best Actor
Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)
Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)
Denzel Washington (Fences)
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Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis (Fences)
Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
Nicole Kidman (Lion)
Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)
Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)
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Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)
Dev Patel (Lion)
Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)
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Best Original Screenplay
Hell or High Water
La La Land
The Lobster
Manchester by the Sea
20th Century Women
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Best Adapted Screenplay
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
Moonlight
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Best Cinematography
Arrival
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence
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Best Film Editing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight
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Best Documentary
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
OJ: Made in America
13th
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Best Animated Feature
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life As a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia
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Best Foreign Language Film
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
The Salesman
Tanna
Toni Erdmann
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Best Score
Jackie
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Passengers
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Best Song
‘Audition’ (La La Land)
‘Can’t Stop the Feeling!’ (Trolls)
‘City of Stars’ (La La Land)
‘The Empty Chair’ (Jim: The James Foley Story)
‘How Far I’ll Go’ (Moana)
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Best Production Design
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
La La Land
Passengers
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Best Costume Design
Allied
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land
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Best Visual Effects
Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
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Best Makeup and Hairstyling
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad
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Best Sound Editing
Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully
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Best Sound Mixing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours
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Best Live-Action Short
Ennemis Interieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing
Timecode
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Best Documentary Short
4.1 Miles
Extremis
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets
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Best Animated Short
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper