2017 Academy Award Nominees!

2017 Academy Award Nominees!

The nominees for the The Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel have just been announced.. did your film get a nomination? The Academy Awards will air Sunday, February 26th. (Monday morning for us Aussies) No real surprises, take a look at the full list 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
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight 

Best Actor

Casey Affleck
Andrew Garfield
Ryan Gosling
Viggo Mortensen
Denzel Washington

Best Actress

Isabelle Huppert
Ruth Negga
Natalie Portman
Emma Stone
Meryl Streep

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali
Jeff Bridges
Lucas Hedges
Dev Patel
Michael Shannon

Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis
Naomie harris
Nicola Kidman
Octavia Spencer
Michelle Williams

Best Original Screenplay

Hell or High Water
La La Land
The Lobster
Manchester by the Sea
20th Century Women

Best Adapted Screenplay

Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
Moonlight

Best Film Editing

Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight 

Best Cinematography 

Arrival
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence

Best Production Design

Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caeasar!
La La Land
Passengers

Best Costume Design

Allied
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Florence Floster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land

Best Make-up and Hairstyling

A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad

Best Original Score

Jackie
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Passengers

Best Original Song

Audition, 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 Visual Effects

Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One

Best Sound Editing

Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully

Best Sound Mixing

Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One
13 Hours

Best Foreign Language Film

Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
The Salesman
Tanna
Toni Erdmann

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 Animated Feature

Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia

Best Animated Short

Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper

La La Land leads the nominations with 14 and its more than likely to win best picture but I do kind of hope Mel Gibson pulls in best director its unlikely but I’m hopeful! Roll on Feb 27.


Darran loves watching movies, listening to movies and generally everything movies which is mainly the reason why he started accessreel.com and roped some friends in to help him.. Favorite Films: Star Wars, Lost in Translation, Grosse Point Blank, Shawshank Redemption and any Kevin Smith or Tarantino.