Hey everybody congratulations we did it, we’re the real winners, but here’s a list of potential movie-centric ones courtesy of the Oscar nominations that were announced this morning.
Are you ready? Do you care? Did you, like me, forget this was happening today? Are you also on the internet in your pyjamas eating chocolate chip cookies for breakfast? Don’t tell me, let me just guess.
Here are the nominations:
Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester By the Sea
Moonlight
Best Director
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester By the Sea)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Best Actress
Emma Stone (La La Land)
Natalie Portman (Jackie)
Amy Adams (Arrival)
Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins)
Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Best Actor
Casey Affleck (Manchester By the Sea)
Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)
Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)
Denzel Washington (Fences)
Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis (Fences)
Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
Nicole Kidman (Lion)
Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)
Michelle Williams (Manchester By the Sea)
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
Lucas Hedges (Manchester By the Sea)
Dev Patel (Lion)
Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Lion
Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay
Hell or High Water
La La Land
The Lobster
Manchester By the Sea
20th Century Woman
And, honestly, of course there are a million more categories but these are the ones everybody’s going to talk about all day, so consider this your crash course. So hooray! You did it! We’re doing it! And never ever forget that Leonardo DiCaprio will be presenting the award for Best Actress this year, and that I am the love of his life.
Happy Oscars, everybody!
