The 89th Academy Awards Nomination List (2017)

I cannot be any sadder because I just could not catch up fast enough on all these movies that did not come to Brunei. Last year I managed to catch a few big ones through my travelling. But this year, the dates just did not align for me and I was just crushed, still am, that I have still not yet seen La La Land.

So I will not be able to do any of the predictions this year. I cannot make any educated guesses. But from what I have heard, La La Land - with its record-tying 14 nominations, may be able to grab 10 wins.

So here are the bigger Oscar nomination categories:


BEST PICTURE:
ARRIVAL (seen)
FENCES
HACKSAW RIDGE
HELL OR HIGH WATER (seen)
HIDDEN FIGURES
LA LA LAND
LION
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
MOONLIGHT 

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING:
ARRIVAL - Denis Villeneuve
HACKSAW RIDGE - Mel Gibson
LA LA LAND - Damien Chazelle
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA - Kenneth Lonergan
MOONLIGHT - Barry Jenkins

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
CASEY AFFLECK - Manchester by the Sea
ANDREW GARFIELD - Hacksaw Ridge
RYAN GOSLING - La La Land
VIGGO MORTENSEN - Captain Fantastic
DENZEL WASHINGTON - Fences

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
ISABELLE HUPPERT - Elle
RUTH NEGGA - Loving
NATALIE PORTMAN - Jackie
EMMA STONE - La La Land
MERYL STREEP - Florence Foster Jenkins

PERFORMANCE BY AN 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

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
VIOLA DAVIS - Fences
NAOMIE HARRIS - Moonlight
NICOLE KIDMAN - Lion
OCTAVIA SPENCER - Hidden Figures
MICHELLE WILLIAMS - Manchester by the Sea

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY):
ARRIVAL - Eric Heisserer
FENCES - August Wilson
HIDDEN FIGURES - Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
LION - Luke Davies
MOONLIGHT - Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY):
HELL OR HIGH WATER - Taylor Sheridan
LA LA LAND - Damien Chazelle
THE LOBSTER -Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA - Kenneth Lonergan
20TH CENTURY WOMEN - Mike Mills

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
MOANA
MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI
THE RED TURTLE
ZOOTOPIA

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY:
ARRIVAL - Bradford Young
LA LA LAND - Linus Sandgren
LION - Greig Fraser
MOONLIGHT - James Laxton
SILENCE - Rodrigo Prieto

ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING:
ARRIVAL - Joe Walker
HACKSAW RIDGE - John Gilbert
HELL OR HIGH WATER - Jake Roberts
LA LA LAND - Tom Cross
MOONLIGHT - Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE):
JACKIE - Mica Levi
LA LA LAND - Justin Hurwitz
LION - Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
MOONLIGHT - Nicholas Britell
PASSENGERS - Thomas Newman

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC (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: The James Foley Story
HOW FAR I’LL GO - Moana; Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda