Despite the sunny lightheartedness of hosts Kumail Nanjiani and Tracey Ellis Ross, the announcement of the nominations for the 91st Academy Awards was filled with shocking omissions and inclusions — some in so-called lesser categories were downright earthquaking, and in the major categories still stunning.
For instance: Won’t You Be Me Neighbor? and Three Identical Strangers — both frontrunners for documentary feature — were completely left out; former winner Justin Hurwitz’s score for First Man — which has won almost every major composing award so far — was snubbed; and Bradley Cooper was blanked for directing A Star Is Born, though he received three other nominations for it.
The Favourite and Roma tied with 10 nominations overall, followed by Vice with nine, A Star Is Born with eight and Black Panther with seven.
Here are the nominees, with some notes.
PICTURE
A Star Is Born
Black Panther
Green Book
The Favourite
Roma
BlacKkKlansman
Vice
Bohemian Rhapsody
> Missing from this list: If Beale Street Could Talk and Crazy Rich Asians.
DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Yorgos Lagrimos, The Favourite
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay, Vice
Pawel Pawilikowski, Cold War
> Cuaron was also nominated for producing, writing, cinematography and as director of a foreign language film nominee, making him the first person ever to get five nominations for a single film. Bradley Cooper was overlooked for s debut at directing A Star Is Born. Spike Lee, who has been nominated for writing and documentary and who has an honorary award, received his first nod for directing.
ACTOR
Christian Bale, Vice, pictured
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
> Three big upsets here: Robert Redford (in what has been billed as his final film), John David Washington and Ethan Hawke were all overlooked in favor of Mortensen and Dafoe.
ACTRESS
Olivia Colman, The Favorite
Lady Gaga, A Star is Born
Glenn Close, The Wife
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
> Aparicio, a non-professional actress, was the surprise nominee in this category in favor of Emily Blunt, Toni Collette and Nicole Kidman.
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Sam Rockwell, Vice
> One of this year’s most competitive categories saw Michael B. Jordan and Timothee Chalamet overlooked, while Elliott, Grand and Driver received their first nominations.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Amy Adams, Vice
Marina De Tavira, Roma
> The big surprise here was Roma‘s De Tavira (she plays the mother) figuring in the top fove over Margot Robbie and Michelle Yeoh.
SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL
Roma
Green Book
The Favourite
Vice
First Reformed
SCREENPLAY ADAPTED
A Star Is Born
If Beale Street Could Talk
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roma
The Favourite
Cold War
Never Look Away
A Star is Born, pictured
FILM EDITING
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice
SOUND EDITING
First Man
Bohemian Rhapsody
Roma
Black Panther
A Quiet Place
SOUND MIXING
First Man
Bohemian Rhapsody
Roma
Black Panther
A Star is Born
SCORE
If Beale Street Could Talk (Nicholas Britell)
Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat)
Mary Poppins Returns (Marc Shaiman)
Black Panther (Ludwig Goransson)
BlacKkKlansman (Terrence Blanchard)
SONG
“Shallow,” A Star Is Born (Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson)
“All the Stars,” Black Panther (Kendrick Lamar)
I’ll Fight, RBG (Diane Warren)
“The Place Where Lost Things Go,” Mary Poppins (Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman)
“When a Cowboy Trades his Spurs for Wings,” The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Carter Burwell)
> Song is often a category filled with a lot of other star-power from the recording industry… too many, in fact, for all to get rewarded. Not included on the final list are Troye Sivan, Thom Yorke, Dolly Parton, Alan Menken, The Coup, Chaka Khan and Quincy Jones.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
First Man
Roma
COSTUMES
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Queen of Scots
Poppins
VFX
Avengers: Infinity War
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story
First Man
Christopher Robin
> Some upsets here as well, as Welcome to Marwen, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Mary Poppins Returns were overlooked.
MAKEUP
Vice
Mary Queen of Scots
Border
> Stan and Ollie, Suspiria and Bohemian Rhapsody were all overlooked.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Roma (Mexico)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Shoplifters (Japan)
Capernaum (Lebanon)
Cold War (Poland)
ANIMATED FEATURE
Isle of Dogs
The Incredibles 2
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, pictured
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Mirai
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Minding the Gap
RBG
Free Solo
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Of Fathers and Sons
> The last two were surprise inclusions over Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and Three Identical Strangers.
LIVE ACTION SHORT
Detainment
Fauve
Marguerite
Mother
Skin
ANIMATED SHORT
Bao
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends
Animal Behaviour
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence.
— Arnold Wayne Jones
