Get your conspiracy theories ready, folks: it’s Academy Awards time. The nominees for the 91st installment of the Awards show were announced on Tuesday morning via livestream, and boy, are they a pretty weird group of nominees. Netflix’s Roma and Focus Features’ The Favourite led the pack with ten nominations each, closely followed by Annapurna’s Vice and Warner Bros.’ A Star is Born with eight. This year’s Oscar villains are well-represented in the Best Picture category as most expected them to be, with the surprisingly not-as-successful-as-you-might-expect Green Book and the made-lots-of-money-but-morally-bankrupt Bohemian Rhapsody taking their positions atop the category following their respective wins at the Golden Globes.
In terms of snubs, well, take your pick: Ethan Hawke, he of First Reformed fame, wasn’t nominated for Best Actor, in an award that all but seems fated to go to Rami Malek at this point, and the Mr. Rogers documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor, a financial and critical success was ignored by the Academy as well. In terms of surprises, Pawel Pawlikowski receiving a Best Director nod for Cold War over Green Book director Peter Farrelly is both good news and a cautionary tale for young directors who think it’s funny to flash their penises at young women, and Black Panther got nominated for Best Picture, which is good for nerds like us and, more importantly, ABC’s parent company.
For those disappointed with the nominees: remember, the only Academy Awards that matter are the ones you give out in your head after a long and fun year of moviegoing, and the only reason this goddamn awards show bullshit exists in the first place is to give gambling addicts something to do between the Super Bowl and March Madness. Speaking of which, we’ll have our Oscar gambling odds analysis for you closer to the show date, but be warned: it’s anybody’s race this year.
Here’s the full list of Academy Awards nominees:
Best Picture
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star Is Born
Vice
Best Director
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Adam McKay, Vice
Best Actress
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best Actor
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Vice
Marina De Tavira, Roma
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice
Best Original Screenplay
The Favourite
First Reformed
Green Book
Roma
Vice
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born
Best Animated Feature Film
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Foreign Language Film
Capernaum
Cold War
Never Look Away
Roma
Shoplifters
Best Documentary Feature
Free Solo
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG
Best Documentary Short
“Black Sheep”
“End Game”
“Lifeboat”
“A Night at the Garden”
“Period. End of Sentence.”
Best Live Action Short
“Detainment”
“Fauve”
“Margureite”
“Mother”
“Skin”
Best Animated Short
“Animal Behavior”
“Bao”
“Late Afternoon”
“One Small Step”
“Weekends”
Best Original Score
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns
Best Original Song
“All the Stars,” Black Panther
“I’ll Fight,” RBG
“The Place Where Lost Things Go,” Mary Poppins Returns
“Shallow,” A Star Is Born
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings,” The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Best Sound Editing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
A Quiet Place
Roma
Best Sound Mixing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Roma
A Star Is Born
Best Production Design
Black Panther
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma
Best Cinematography
Cold War
The Favourite
Never Look Away
Roma
A Star Is Born
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Vice
Best Costume Design
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots
Best Editing
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice
Best Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story
The 91st Academy Awards will take place on February 24 and air on ABC.
Featured image via Netflix.