Oscar season is always a bit exciting, I am a lover of film, costumes, makeup, soundtracks and special effects. I have seen a number of movies over the past year, but one of the things I love most about awards season, is the additional movies to add to the list! And from the looks of things, I’ve got quite the list of movies now!
I’m going out on a limb, and I’m marking the ones I think might get the Oscar with a ** and mark the movies I have seen with a +
In case you were wondering, here are a few of the top nods and nominations:
Actress in a Leading Role
Isabelle Huppert in Elle
Ruth Negga in Loving
Natalie Portman in Jackie
Emma Stone in La La Land **
Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins +
Actor in a Leading Role
Casey Affleckin Manchester by the Sea
Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling in La La Land
Viggo Mortensen in Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington in Fances **
Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land ** (tie between this and Manchester)
Lion
Manchester by the Sea ** (Both got nods at the Golden Globes)
Actress in a Supporting Role
Viola Davis – Fences **
Naomie Harris – Moonlight
Nicole Kidman- Lion
Octavia Spencer- Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea
Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel – Lion
Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals **
Costume Design
Allied
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ** + (This ought to win but is in stiff competition with these others)
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land
Makeup
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad **
Animated Feature
Kubo and the Two Strings +
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle **(mostly because I don’t recall Oscar ever going for a mainstream Disney or Pixar film?)
Zootopia +
Sound Editing
Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully
Visual Effects
Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
The Jungle Book +
Kubo and the Two Strings +
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ** + (This one had better win!)
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
Sound Mixing
La La Land ** (IT’s a musical! Of course, I am going to root for Star Wars, but…)
Hacksaw Ridge
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story +
Arrival
13 Hours
Looks like Netflix, Redbox and the theatres and I will all be spending quite a bit of time together until Oscar Night, which is February 26th.