Hollywood, CA: January 24, 2017
La La Land leads the 2017 Oscar nominations with a record tying 14 nods. Damien Chazelle’s love letter to classic Hollywood musicals joins Titanic and All About Eve as one of the most nominated films of all time.
Some observations, surprises and disappointment:
Amy Adams 
was snubbed for both Nocturnal Animals and Arrival. Meryl Streep was recognized for Florence Foster Jenkins. Take that, Donald Trump.
What should have been Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s well deserved nomination for Nocturnal Animals went instead to his co-star, Michael Shannon, playing a grizzled sheriff in a small town solving a crime. Ironically, Jeff Bridges was recognized and more deserving for playing a very similar role in Hell Or High Water.
Happy to see the touching and beautiful Lion nominated, 
though Nicole Kidman did little in that film to earn her a best supporting actress nod. Disappointed that the Academy did not recognize Annette Benning’s fine work in Twentieth Century Women.
Pleased that young actor, Lucas Hedges was nominated for Manchester By The Sea.
The love for Hidden Figures is well deserved but the raves for Moonlight are hard to understand. Is it a result of the #OscarsSoWhite campaign of the last few years?
13th and I Am Not Your Negro are both moving and powerful films in the Best Documentary category. Both have to be seen.
Isabelle Huppert’s nomination as Best Actress in the lame, Elle makes little sense, and talking of making little sense, the off the wall, nonsensical and ridiculous, Toni Erdmann is on the list for Best Foreign Language film. That award has
to go to Land of Mine, a powerful and moving film from Denmark that should not be missed.
Read the 2017 nominations in full below.
Best Picture
- Arrival
- Fences
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Hell or High Water
- Hidden Figures
- La La Land
- Lion
- Manchester By The Sea
- Moonlight
Best Director
- Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
- Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson)
- La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
- Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
- Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
Best 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)
Best Actress In A Leading Role
- Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
- Ruth Negga (Loving)
- Natalie Portman (Jackie)
- Emma Stone (La La Land)
- Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins)
Best 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)
Best Actress In A Supporting Role
- 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 (Taylor Sheridan)
- La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
- The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou)
- Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
- 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Arrival (Eric Heisserer)
- Fences (August Wilson)
- Hidden Figures (Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi)
- Lion (Luke Davies)
- Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
Best Cinematography
- Arrival
- La La Land
- Lion
- Moonlight
- Silence
Best Original Score
- Jackie
- La La Land
- Lion
- Moonlight
- Passengers
Best Animated Feature
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Moana
- My Life As A Zucchini
- The Red Turtle
- Zootopia
Best Film Editing
- Arrival
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Hell or High Water
- La La Land
- Moonlight
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: The James Foley Story)
- ‘How Far I’ll Go’ (Moana)
Best Documentary Feature
- Fire At Sea
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Life, Animated
- OJ: Made in America
- 13th
Best Documentary Short
- Extremis
- 4.1 Miles
- Joe’s Violin
- Watani: My Homeland
- The White Helmets
Best Foreign Language Film
- Land Of Mine
- A Man Called Ove
- The Salesman
- Tanna
- Toni Erdmann
Best Live Action Short
- Ennemis Interieurs
- La Femme et le TGV
- Silent Nights
- Sing
- Timecode
Best Animated Short Film
- Blind Vaysha
- Borrowed Time
- Pear Cider and Cigarettes
- Pearl
- Piper
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 Production Design
- Arrival
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Hail Caesar
- La La Land
- Passengers
Best Visual Effects
- Deepwater Horizon
- Doctor Strange
- The Jungle Book
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Best Costume Design
- Allied
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Jackie
- La La Land
Best Makeup and Hair Design
- A Man Called Ove
- Star Trek Beyond
- Suicide Squad
