'Roma' and 'The Favourite' Lead the 91st Academy Award Nominations

The nominations are here! Roma picks up ten nods, tying the record for the most Oscar nominations for a foreign-language film and setting brand new records for Netflix in the process. It’s the first ever Best Picture nominee with no box office receipts, which is likely to change everything going forward, in my opinion (Netflix also got the Coen Brothers’ Ballad of Buster Scruggs in for three surprise nods in costumes, screenplay and song). Also getting nominated for Roma were its actresses, both Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira (!) in a surprise nom. The Favourite was right up there with ten nods of its own, but overall the Best Picture nominees weren’t a big surprise to me. Vice over performed today with eight nominations, including one for Sam Rockwell, while A Star is Born was snubbed for director, with Bradley Cooper getting Affleck’d in favor of The Favourite’s Lanthimos and Pawel Pawlikowski for Cold War (that always elite, fickle director’s branch also skipped over Peter Farrelly, lessening Green Book’s chances to win right after it took the PGA this weekend). Also of note, Black Panther got 7 noms total and becomes the first superhero movie ever nominated for Best Picture, Spike Lee is now a Best Director and Best Picture Oscar nominee for the first time in his career, and Paul Schrader is now a first time Oscar nominee ever, after First Reformed gets a screenplay nomination (the guy who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull had inexplicably never been nominated for an Oscar until now).

BEST PICTURE:

• BLACKKKLANSMAN

• BLACK PANTHER

• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

• THE FAVOURITE

• GREEN BOOK

• ROMA

• A STAR IS BORN

• VICE

BEST DIRECTOR:

• Alfonso Cuaron, ROMA

• Yorgos Lanthimos, THE FAVOURITE

• Spike Lee, BLACKKKLANSMAN

• Adam McKay, VICE

• Pawel Pawlikowski, COLD WAR

BEST ACTOR:

• Christian Bale, VICE

• Bradley Cooper, A STAR IS BORN

• Willem Dafoe, AT ETERNITY’S GATE

• Rami Malek, BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

• Viggo Mortenson, GREEN BOOK

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?

Both of Roma’s actresses got nominated today, setting a record for two acting nominees from the same foreign-language film

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 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 ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

• THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

• BLACKKKLANSMAN

• CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

• IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

• A STAR IS BORN

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

• THE FAVOURITE

• FIRST REFORMED

• GREEN BOOK

• ROMA

• VICE

BlacKkKlansman gets 6 nods, landing Spike Lee his very first Oscar nomination for Best Director- can he win?

BEST EDITING:

• BLACKKKLANSMAN

• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

• THE FAVOURITE

• GREEN BOOK

• VICE

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

• COLD WAR

• THE FAVOURITE

• NEVER LOOK AWAY

• ROMA

• A STAR IS BORN

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

Bradley Cooper is left off the Best Director list after getting nominated everywhere else- after Ben Affleck’s famous snub in the same category, has the directors branch finally turned its back on actors turned directors?

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

• FREE SOLO

• HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING

• MINDING THE GAP

• OF FATHERS AND SONS

• RBG

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM:

• CAPERNAUM (LEBANON)

• COLD WAR (POLAND)

• NEVER LOOK AWAY (GERMANY)

• ROMA (MEXICO)

• SHOPLIFTERS (JAPAN)

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

• INCREDIBLES 2

• ISLE OF DOGS

• MIRAI

• RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET

• SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:

• BLACK PANTHER

• FIRST MAN

• THE FAVOURITE

• MARY POPPINS RETURNS

• ROMA

With 7 nominations, Black Panther is the first comic book/superhero movie ever nominated for Best Picture, 10 years after The Dark Knight’s infamous snub

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

• THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

• BLACK PANTHER

• THE FAVOURITE

• MARY POPPINS RETURNS

• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING:

• BORDER

• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

• VICE

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

• AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

• CHRISTOPHER ROBIN

• FIRST MAN

• READY PLAYER ONE

• SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:

• BLACK SHEEP

• END GAME

• LIFEBOAT

• A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN

• PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE.

Cold War landed a directing nomination for Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski- this is the first time two directors of foreign films are nominated in this category since 1976

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT:

• DETAINMENT

• FAUVE

• MARGUERITE

• MOTHER

• SKIN

BEST ANIMATED SHORT:

• ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

• BAO

• LATE AFTERNOON

• ONE SMALL STEP

• WEEKENDS

BEST SOUND MIXING:

• BLACK PANTHER

• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

• FIRST MAN

• ROMA

• A STAR IS BORN

BEST SOUND EDITING:

• BLACK PANTHER

• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

• FIRST MAN

• A QUIET PLACE

• ROMA

In terms of snubs, the biggest shocker is probably the omission of Won’t You Be My Neighbor from the documentary race. Seriously? The movie that’s swept almost every precursor in that category missed out on a nomination? How? Another entirely offensive snub is First Man in score! How did this happen? What does the music branch have against Justin Hurwitz? What was easily the year’s best score didn’t even get nominated, I can’t believe it. And even though Roma got ten nominations, it missed out in editing, surprisingly (a really important category), where movies like Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody got in instead. Someone please tell me what is so great about Bohemian Rhapsody’s editing. I wonder sometimes if this editing branch doesn’t actually know their own craft. Roma would seem to be ahead now in the Best Picture race after Green Book got just five nominations and missed director, but I’m still not counting out Blackkklansman. It’s the only movie to get into Picture, Director, Acting, Screenplay and Editing, all the most important categories, and if there’s any hesitance towards Roma over the foreign-language/Netflix factor, I could see that film sneaking through on the preferential ballot. The Academy’s new membership makes for different results in the balloting than the other groups now, so watch out.

The Favourite led with 10 nominations, along with Roma, but is believed to be too divisive to win on a preferential ballot with AMPAS- we’ll see how it does with BAFTA next month