Writer/director Damien Chazelle's musical La La Land won a record number of prizes earlier this month at the 2017 Golden Globes ceremony, further cementing its status as a serious contender at this year's Oscars show too. The race to the 2017 Oscars is far from over, however, what with Barry Jenkins' drama Moonlight having been recognized as the best of 2016 by the National Society of Film Critics around the same time that La La Land was winning big at the Golden Globes. In fact, a number of questions have been hanging in the balance, waiting for a concrete answer (such as, whether or not Deadpool is going to be among those films competing for the Academy gold), ahead of this year's Oscar nominations being officially revealed.
The official nominees for this year's 89th Academy Awards ceremony have been unveiled, per tradition, by Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, about a month ahead of the actual Oscar ceremony. Among the other members of this year's Oscar nominations announcements "team" were two people who won Academy Awards in 2016 - Brie Larson (who won for her performance in Room) and Emmanuel Lubezki (who won his third Oscar for his cinematography on The Revenant) - as well as fellow Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson, Award Award-nominated filmmakers Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) and Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) and Oscar-nominated actor Ken Watanabe (Inception), among others.
Read on for the full list of this year's Oscar nominations - and find out who/what's in the running (and who/what is not in the running) at this year's Academy Awards event!
Best Picture
- Arrival
- Fences
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Hell or High Water
- Hidden Figures
- La La Land
- Lion
- Manchester by the Sea
- Moonlight
Best Director
- Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
- Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
- Damien Chazelle, La La Land
- Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
- Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Best Actor
- Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
- Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
- Ryan Gosling, La La Land
- Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
- Denzel Washington, Fences
Best Actress
- Isabelle Huppert, Elle
- Ruth Negga, Loving
- Natalie Portman, Jackie
- Emma Stone, La La Land
- Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Arrival
- Fences
- Hidden Figures
- Lion
- Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay
- La La Land
- Hell or High Water
- The Lobster
- Manchester by the Sea
- 20th Century Women
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
Best Supporting Actress
- Nicole Kidman, Lion
- Viola Davis, Fences
- Naomie Harris, Moonlight
- Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
- Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Best Original Song
- "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)”, La La Land
- "Can't Stop the Feeling", Trolls
- "City of Stars", La La Land
- "The Empty Chair", Jim
- "How Fair I'll Go", Moana
Best Animated Feature
- Zootopia
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Moana
- My Life as a Zucchini
- The Red Turtle
Best Original Score
- Jackie
- La La Land
- Lion
- Moonlight
- Passengers
Best Cinematography
- Arrival
- La La Land
- Lion
- Moonlight
- Silence
Best Costume Design
- Allied
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Jackie
- La La Land
Best Sound Editing
- Arrival
- Deepwater Horizon
- Hacksaw Ridge
- La La Land
- Sully
Best Sound Mixing
- Arrival
- Hacksaw Ridge
- La La Land
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- A Man Called Ove
- Star Trek Beyond
- Suicide Squad
Best Live-Action Short
- "Ennemis Interieurs" "
- Le Femme et le TGV"
- "Silent Nights"
- "Sing"
- "Timecode"
Best Animated Short
- Pearl
- Pear and Cider Cigarettes
- Piper
- Blind Vaysha
- Borrowed Time
Best Visual Effects
- Deepwater Horizon
- Doctor Strange
- The Jungle Book
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Best Film Editing
- La La Land
- Moonlight
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Arrival
- Hell or High Water
Best Production Design
- Arrival
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Hail, Caesar!
- La La Land
- Passengers
Best Documentary Short
- Extremis
- 4.1 Miles
- The Mute’s House
- The White Helmets
- Watani: My Homeland
Best Documentary Feature
- Fire at Sea
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Life Animated
- OJ: Made in America
- 13th
Best Foreign Language Film
- Land of Mine
- A Man Called Ove
- The Salesman
- Tana
- Toni Erdmann
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The 89th Annual Academy Awards ceremony is going to be telecast on Sunday, February 26th, 2017 on ABC, starting at 8:30 p.m. EST.
Source: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences