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D.C.’s Take: The 89th Acad­emy Award Nom­i­na­tions

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It’s that time of the year again for us film fans. On Jan. 24, we were given the nominations for the 89th Academy Awards, along with speculations about what lucky film will get the chance to get in as the best of the best that 2016 has given us. This year has both surprises and snubs. But for the most part, these nominations are looking good. theoscars “La La Land” has a massive 14 nominations, including the top 5, being up for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay. With that massive number of nominations, it’s now tied for the most nominations with “All About Eve” and “Titanic”. I absolutely loved “La La Land”, and I’m very pleased with a number of nominations it got. As a matter of fact, I predicted about 13 for the film. Other films like “Moonlight” and “Arrival” have 8 nominations. Both have grabbed Best Picture and Director respectively. Everybody does these predictions, like myself. So obviously some nominations are pretty easy to count on, with a few surprises. One of which is Mel Gibson being nominated for Best Director for his film “Hacksaw Ridge,” which was nominated for Best Picture, as well as Andrew Garfield for Best Actor. It seems like maybe Hollywood has forgiven Gibson for his antics over his rants and focused on how great of a director he is. Controversy aside, he gave it his best with this war film and it’s a great thing he’s been nominated. I mean, he did win an Oscar for “Braveheart”. Another surprise was in the Best Supporting Actor category as Michael Shannon was nominated for “Nocturnal Animals” instead of his co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Taylor- Johnson did win the Golden Globe for his role in the film, which was shocking and not deserved in my opinion. But from what I heard from people who have seen “Nocturnal Animals,” he was the best part. Martin Scorsese’s passion project, “Silence” failed to get more than one nomination as it was only got a Best Cinematography nomination. At this point, this isn’t a surprise for me since this came out in a few theaters and the studio hasn't been campaigning enough for it. And this was a movie I was very looking forward to seeing because I love Scorsese. But it only had one showing time at night, and was taken down in less than a week. There were a few snubs that were totally left out. The biggest one is definitely Amy Adams not getting a Best Actress nomination for her outstanding role in “Arrival”. Even though the film has multiple nominations, it’s sad that the Academy failed to acknowledge Adams’ best work in years. “Drive It Like You Stole It” from “Sing Street” was completely shut out of the Best Original Song category, which is madly confusing since it was one of the catchiest songs in any movie from this year. I believe that this song was perfect. The blame should be upon the studio, which hasn’t been campaigning the movie enough. And as for “Deadpool,” it’s really not shocking that it’s left out of Best Picture. While it was one of the best superhero movies of the year, it was odd that it was even being considered be nominated. It was talked because it got both WGA and PGA nominations, which are admittedly high standards. It would’ve had a shot to win Adapted Screenplay for sure. 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 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:
  • Vi­ola Davis- Fences
  • Naomie Har­ris- Moon­light
  • Nicole Kid­man- Lion
  • Oc­tavia Spencer- Hid­den Fig­ures
  • Michelle Williams- Man­ches­ter By the Sea
Best Original Screenplay:
  • Hell or High Wa­ter
  • La La Land
  • The Lob­ster
  • Man­ches­ter By the Sea
  • 20th Cen­tury Women
Best Adapted Screenplay:
  • Ar­rival
  • Fences
  • Hid­den Fig­ures
  • Lion
  • Moon­light
Best Animated Feature:
  • Kubo and the Two Strings
  • Moana
  • My Life as a Zuc­chini
  • The Red Tur­tle
  • Zootopia
  Editing:
  • Ar­rival
  • Hack­saw Ridge
  • Hell or High Wa­ter
  • La La Land
  • Moon­light
Cinematography:
  • Ar­rival
  • La La Land
  • Moon­light
  • Lion
  • Si­lence
Production Design:
  • Ar­rival
  • Fan­tas­tic Beasts and Where to Find Them
  • Hail, Cae­sar!
  • La La Land
  • Pas­sen­gers
Costume Design:
  • Al­lied
  • Fan­tas­tic Beasts and Where to Find Them
  • Flo­rence Fos­ter Jenk­ins
  • Jackie
  • La La Land
Makeup and Hairstyling:
  • A Man Called Ove
  • Star Trek Be­yond
  • Sui­cide Squad
Visual Effects:
  • Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon
  • Doc­tor Strange
  • The Jun­gle Book
  • Kubo and the Two Strings
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Sound Mixing:
  • Ar­rival
  • Hack­saw Ridge
  • La La Land
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  • 13: Hours: The Se­cret Sol­diers of Beng­hazi
Sound Editing:
  • Ar­rival
  • Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon
  • Hack­saw Ridge
  • La La Land
  • Sully
Original Score:
  • Mica Levi- Jackie
  • Justin Hur­witz- La La Land
  • Nicholas Britell- Moon­light
  • Hauschka and Dustin O’Hal­lo­ran- Lion
  • Thomas New­man- Pas­sen­gers
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
Best Foreign Language:
  • Land of Mine, Den­mark
  • A Man Called Ove, Swe­den
  • The Sales­man, Iran
  • Tanna, Aus­tralia
  • Toni Erd­mann, Ger­many
Best Documentary Film:
  • Fire at Sea
  • I Am Not Your Ne­gro
  • Life, An­i­mated
  • O.J.: Made in Amer­ica
  • 13th
  Best Animated Short:
  • Blind Vaysha
  • Bor­rowed Time
  • Pear and Cider Cig­a­rettes
  • Pearl
  • Piper
Best Documentary Short:
  • Ex­tremis
  • 4.1 Miles
  • Joe's Vi­o­lin
  • Watani: My Home­land
  • The White Hel­mets
Best Live Action Short:
  • En­ne­mis In­terieurs
  • La Femme et le TGV
  • Silent Nights
  • Sing
  • Time­code