Academy Award Nominations 2017

The 2017 Academy Award nominations were announced early this morning. Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” took the most nominations of the year with 14. An asterisk (*) notes my personal pick for the winner of that award.

Best Picture:

“Arrival”

“Fences”

“Hacksaw Ridge”

“Hell or High Water”

“Hidden Figures”

“La La Land”   *

“Lion”

“Manchester by the Sea”

“Moonlight”

 

Lead Actor:

Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”  *

Andrew Garfield, “Hacksaw Ridge”

Ryan Gosling, “La La Land”

Viggo Mortensen, “Captain Fantastic”

Denzel Washington, “Fences”

 

Lead Actress:

Isabelle Huppert, “Elle”

Ruth Negga, “Loving”

Natalie Portman, “Jackie”

Emma Stone, “La La Land”   *

Meryl Streep, “Florence Foster Jenkins”

 

Supporting Actor:

Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”

Jeff Bridges, “Hell or High Water”

Lucas Hedges, “Manchester by the Sea”   *

Dev Patel, “Lion”

Michael Shannon, “Nocturnal Animals”

 

Supporting Actress:

Viola Davis, “Fences”

Naomie Harris, “Moonlight”

Nicole Kidman, “Lion”

Octavia Spencer, “Hidden Figures”

Michelle Williams, “Manchester by the Sea”   *

 

Best Director:

Damien Chazelle, “La La Land”   *

Mel Gibson, “Hacksaw Ridge”

Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”

Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea”

Denis Villeneuve, “Arrival”

 

Animated Feature:

“Kubo and the Two Strings”   *

“Moana”

“My Life as a Zucchini”

“The Red Turtle”

“Zootopia”

 

Animated Short:

“Blind Vaysha”

“Borrowed Time”

“Pear Cider and Cigarettes”   *

“Pearl”

“Piper”

 

Adapted Screenplay:

“Arrival”   *

“Fences”

“Hidden Figures”

“Lion”

“Moonlight”

 

Original Screenplay:

“20th Century Women”

“Hell or High Water”

“La La Land”

“The Lobster”   *

“Manchester by the Sea”

 

Cinematography:

“Arrival”   *

“La La Land”

“Lion”

“Moonlight”

“Silence”

 

Best Documentary Feature:

“13th”

“Fire at Sea”

“I Am Not Your Negro”

“Life, Animated”

“OJ: Made in America”   *

 

Best Documentary Short Subject:

“4.1 Miles”

“Extremis”

“Joe’s Violin”

“Watani: My Homeland”

“The White Helmets”

 

Best Live-Action Short Film:

“Ennemis Interieurs”

“La Femme et la TGV”

“Silent Nights”

“Sing”

“Timecode”

 

Best Foreign Film:

“A Man Called Ove”

“Land of Mine”

“Tanna”

“The Salesman”

“Toni Erdmann”   *

 

Film Editing:

“Arrival”   

“Hacksaw Ridge”

“Hell or High Water”

“La La Land”   *

“Moonlight”

 

Sound Editing:

“Arrival”   *

“Deepwater Horizon”

“Hacksaw Ridge”

“La La Land”

“Sully”

 

Sound Mixing:

“Arrival”   *

“Hacksaw Ridge”

“La La Land”

“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

“13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”

 

Production Design:

“Arrival”

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”

“Hail, Caesar!”   *

“La La Land”

“Passengers”

 

Original Score:

“Jackie”   *

“La La Land”   

“Lion”

“Moonlight”

“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”

 

Makeup and Hair:

“A Man Called Ove”

“Star Trek Beyond”   *

“Suicide Squad”

 

Costume Design:

“Allied”

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”

“Florence Foster Jenkins”

“Jackie”   *

“La La Land”

 

Visual Effects:

“Deepwater Horizon”

“Doctor Strange”

“Jungle Book”

“Kubo and the Two Strings”

“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”   *