Awards Season 2019: Academy Award Nominations

As announced earlier today, here is a selection of the nominations for the 91st Academy Awards:

BEST PICTURE

Black Panther

BlackKlansman

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 Mortensen (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?)

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)

A full list of nominees can be found here.

By my reckoning, that's 28 out of 33 for a prediction success rate of 85%. I'll take that! 

A couple of surprise nominations for Roma in the acting categories (although Yalitza Aparicio's name has cropped up previously) and a few surprises in Best Director too- I can imagine Pawel Pawlikowski is over the moon at the moment. Otherwise, everything pretty much went as expected. I'm particularly pleased for the nomination for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse for Best Animated Feature and the love for Can You Ever Forgive Me? (two superb performances rightly recognised, along with a superb script). 

As predicted, Black Panther is the first mainstream superhero movie to get a Best Picture Oscar nod. I've just looked out of the window and- well, I never- the sky hasn't fallen and the End of Days hasn't begun. Hopefully, this will be an encouragement to the Academy members to perhaps broaden their horizons somewhat?

If my calculations are correct, Roma and The Favourite both get 10 nominations apiece, while A Star Is Born and Vice both get eight. 

The 91st Academy Awards will be handed out on Sunday February 24th. It's looking likely that, for the first time in 30 years, the ceremony won't have a main host- but will still have guest presenters to announce each award.  

Huge congratulations to all nominees!

Next up for awards season is the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards this coming Sunday (27th January), so there'll be a post about that early next week.