91st Academy Awards Nominees Announced – Many Surprises Make The List

by Salal Awan

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science has announced the annual 91st Academy Awards nominations and there are a lot of new surprises in this list.

In these nominations, the most wins are for Roma and The Favorite. They remain on the top by securing 10 nominations each. The surprise this year is for the first Hollywood superhero movie to be nominated for the Best Picture award, which belongs to Black Panther. The rest of the nominations includes many great films Vice, A Star Is Born, BlackkKlansman, Green Book, and Bohemian Rhapsody.

Here’s how the 91st Annual Academy Awards nominations tally up against each other.

91st Academy Awards Nominees (Oscars 2019)

Best Picture

  • Black Panther
  • Blackkklansman
  • Green Book
  • Bohemian Rhapsody
  • The Favorite
  • A Star Is Born
  • Vice
  • Roma

Best Actor in a Leading Role

  • Christian Bale, Vice
  • Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
  • Willem Defoe, Gate
  • Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

Best Actress in a Leading Role

  • 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 Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Amy Adams, Vice
  • Marina de Tavira, Roma
  • Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Emma Stone, The Favourite
  • Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • 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 Directing

  • BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee
  • Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski
  • The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
  • Vice, Adam McKay

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • BlacKkKlansman, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
  • If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins
  • A Star Is Born, Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, and Will Fetters

Best Original Screenplay

  • The Favourite, Deborah Davis, and Tony McNamara
  • First Reformed, Paul Schrader
  • Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, and Peter Farrelly
  • Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
  • Vice, Adam McKay

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Capernaum, Lebanon
  • Cold War, Poland
  • Never Look Away, Germany
  • Roma, Mexico
  • Shoplifters, Japan

Best Animated Feature

  • Incredibles 2
  • Isle of Dogs
  • Mirai
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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 Documentary Short

  • Black Sheep
  • End Game
  • Lifeboat
  • A Night at the Garden
  • Period. End of Sentence.

Best Cinematography

  • Cold War, Lukasz Zal
  • The Favourite, Robbie Ryan
  • Never Look Away, Caleb Deschanel
  • Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
  • A Star Is Born, Matthew Libatique

Best Documentary Feature

  • Free Solo
  • Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  • Minding the Gap
  • Of Fathers and Sons
  • RBG

Best Production Design

  • Black Panther
  • The Favourite
  • First Man
  • Mary Poppins Returns
  • Roma

Best Sound Mixing

  • Black Panther
  • Bohemian Rhapsody
  • First Man
  • Roma
  • A Star Is Born

Best Costume Design

  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  • Black Panther
  • The Favourite
  • Mary Poppins Returns
  • Mary Queen of Scots

Best Film Editing

  • BlacKkKlansman
  • Bohemian Rhapsody
  • The Favourite
  • Green Book
  • Vice

Best Sound Editing

  • Black Panther
  • Bohemian Rhapsody
  • First Man
  • A Quiet Place
  • Roma

Best Animated Short Film

  • Animal Behavior
  • Bao
  • Late Afternoon
  • One Small Step
  • Weekends

Best Live Action Short

  • Detainment
  • Fauve
  • Marguerite
  • Mother
  • Skin

Best Makeup and Hairstyle

  • Border
  • Mary Queen of Scots,.
  • Vice

Best Visual Effects

  • Avengers: Infinity War
  • Christopher Robin
  • First Man
  • Ready Player One
  • Solo: A Star Wars Story

So that covers the total nominations list for the 91st Academy Awards. Now we will have to wait for the results to see which one of these ends up being the winner of their respective category. Keep an eye out on Twisted Voxel for more Academy Awards news.

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