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Snubs and Surprises from the Oscar Nominations 2017!

By Freddy / 25 Jan 2017 (Wednesday)

The nominations for the 89th Academy Awards a.k.a. Oscars 2017 have been announced. Many of them have been predicted of course, but there are some names and titles who should have been there but aren't, or are not expected to show up but are nominated. Here are our thoughts of the snubs and surprises of the Oscar nominations.

Snubs

Amy Adams in Arrival (Best Actress)

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Amy Adams’s performance in ‘Arrival’ is considered one of the frontrunners in this category, which makes the absence of her name in the list very surprising. While Adams has not won an Oscar before, she has been nominated five times (four for supporting actress category and one for leading actress category) since 2005, proving that she is an Oscar-calibre actress. The competition this year is fierce, though.

Finding Dory (Best Animated Feature Film)

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After being snubbed from the Golden Globes nominations, this sequel to Finding Nemo did not get a nomination. It is a tough competition, though, with strong contenders such as Zootopia, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Moana. My Life as a Zucchini has been nominated for the Globes as well and the other contender is Red Turtle, a Studio Ghibli film. This marks one of the few years a Pixar film is not nominated in this category.

Tom Hanks in Sully (Best Actor)

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Here is another performance that has also been snubbed from Golden Globes nominations. Tom Hanks has been nominated in this category five times, winning two of them. However, it seems that his role as the real-life pilot Chesley Sullenberger has gone unappreciated this year. The film itself only managed to be nominated in one category, Sound Editing.

Pharrell Williams in Hidden Figures (Best Original Score)

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The music that the popular musician has composed for the biographical drama has received praises from critics, considered to be a possible win for Best Original Score. Williams has previously received a Best Original Song nomination for ‘Happy’ for ‘Despicable Me 2’ in 2014. ‘Hidden Figures’ receives three Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

Martin Scorsese in Silence (Best Director)

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Scorsese is another Oscar regular, having been nominated 8 times for the Best Director category. Oscar is fond of rewarding efforts, so it is a surprise that this 25-year project of Scorsese does not appear in this category. In fact, the film only managed to score 1 nomination (Best Cinematography).

Surprises

Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins (Best Actress in Leading Role)

I’ve said it, and I’ll say it again. All hail Meryl Streep! She’s one of the most talented actresses in our century… she’s not called Queen Meryl for nothing. Streep is nominated for her 20th Academy Award for her role in Florence Foster Jenkins, the most number of nominations by an actor/actress.

Having said that, her role as the tone-deaf opera singer was fantastic, perfect even, but in all honestly, that wasn’t her best performance or one that would call for an Oscar. Many predicted her slot would go to Amy Adams (Arrival), Annette Bening (20th Century Woman) or Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures).

In another news, Streep shared the following gif (via a publicist) in a statement for her nomination, and it’s the best.

#Oscars: Nominee Meryl Streep issues a GIF as her statement https://t.co/1dz8Brjmis pic.twitter.com/pxavIstZad
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 24, 2017

Michael Shannon in Nocturnal Animals (Best Supporting Actor)

Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals may be been snubbed, but Michael Shannon slips in with a Best Supporting Actor nod. We didn’t expect him to be in this category, especially with the contention from this year’s films. Co-star Aaron Taylor-Johnson brought home the Golden Globes earlier this month when Shannon didn’t even receive a nomination!

Suicide Squad (Best Makeup and Hairstyling)

Surprise! Surprise! Yeah, us too. We didn’t expect Suicide Squad to actually be an Oscar-nominated superhero movie. (Hey Deadpool, see this?) While it may not be in any of the bigger acting awards or technical categories, DC’s Suicide Squad manages to sneak in for a Makeup and Hairstyling nomination! Apart from Croc’s prosthetics and perhaps Enchantress’ medusa-like image, we can’t think other better reason. The joke’s on us, right?

Here's the full list of nominees:

Best Picture:

Moonlight
La La Land
Lion
Manchester By the Sea
Fences
Arrival
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
Hacksaw Ridge

Best Actor:

Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea
Denzel Washington, Fences
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Vigo Mortenson, Captain Fantastic
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge

Best Supporting Actor:

Dev Patel, Lion
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea

Best Actress:

Natalie Portman, Jackie
Emma Stone, La La Land
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving

Best Supporting Actress:

Viola Davis, Fences
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Michelle Williams, Manchester By the Sea

Best Director:

Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By the Sea
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival

Best Cinematography:

Linus Sandgren, La La Land
Grieg Fraser, Lion
Bradford Young, Arrival
James Laxton, Moonlight
Rodrigo Prieto, Silence

Best Animated Film:

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

Best Visual Effects:

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Jungle Book
Doctor Strange
Kubo and the Two Strings
Deepwater Horizon

Best Adapted Screenplay:

August Wilson, Fences
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Luke Davies, Lion
Theodore Melfi, Hidden Figures
Eric Heisserer, Arrival

Best Original Screenplay:

Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By the Sea
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Taylor Sheridan, Hell or High Water
Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou, The Lobster
Mike Mills, 20th Century Women

Best Costume Design:

Joanna Johnston, Allied
Colleen Atwood, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Consolata Boyle, Florence Foster Jenkins
Madeline Fontaine, Jackie
Mary Zophres, La La Land

Best Documentary Feature:

Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
O.J.: Made in America
13th

Best Documentary Short:

Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets

Best Film Editing:

Joe Walker, Arrival
John Gilbert, Hacksaw Ridge
Jake Roberts, Hell or High Water
Tom Cross, La La Land
Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon, Moonlight

Best Foreign Language Film:

Land of Mine, Denmark
A Man Called Ove, Sweden
The Salesman, Iran
Tanna, Australia
Toni Erdmann, Germany

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Eva von Bahr and Love Larson, A Man Called Ove
Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo, Star Trek Beyond
Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson , Suicide Squad

Best Original Score

Jackie, Mica Levi
La La Land, Justin Hurwitz
Lion, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
Moonlight, Nicholas Britell
Passengers, Thomas Newman

Best Original Song

"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" from La La Land
"Can’t Stop The Feeling" from Trolls
"City Of Stars" from La La Land
"The Empty Chair" from Jim: The James Foley Story
"How Far I’ll Go" from Moana

Best Production Design:

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

Best Animated Short Film:

Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper

Best Live Action Short Film:

Ennemis Intérieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing
Timecode

Best Sound Editing:

Arrival, Sylvain Bellemare
Deepwater Horizon, Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli
Hacksaw Ridge, Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright
La La Land, Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
Sully, Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

Best Sound Mixing:

Arrival, Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye
Hacksaw Ridge, Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace
La La Land, Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steve A. Morrow
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth

Photo Courtesy of: HBO Asia

The 89th Academy Awards will broadcast on February 27 live and exclusively across Asia on HBO (StarHub TV Ch 601) and streamed live on StarHub Go for HBO subscribers starting with the Oscars® Red Carpet ‘Live’ from8am followed by the 89th Oscars® at 9.30am. Both programs will encore that same night on HBO at 7pm and 8pm respectively.

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