2017 Academy Award Nominees

   OK well i didn't do badly on my predictions but didn't do as good as i had hoped. I did get Best Director and Best Supporting Actor completely right but Viggo Mortensen got me in Best Actor and no Amy Adams in Best Actress Academy? Come on guys. 
   
   Anyway this years crop of nominees in pretty much every category is one of the most solid and competitive in years. You can make a very solid case for every nominee and in a few, Best Actor for instance, it wouldn't be shocking for any of the nominees to win it. Thats a rarity as lately there's always been one glaring instance of "What are they doing here?" every year but the Academy seems to have avoided doing that this season.

   Anyway not going to do a full on prediction post yet as need some time to actually SEE everything thats up this year but here's a complete rundown of this years nominees:

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 Actor in a Leading Role

• Casey Affleck - Manchester By The Sea
• Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge
• Ryan Gosling - La La Land
• Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic
• Denzel Washington - Fences

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

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 Supporting Actress

• Viola Davis - Fences
• Noamie Harris - Moonlight
• Nicole Kidman - Lion
• Octavia Spencer - Hidden Figures
• Michelle Williams - Manchester By The Sea

Best Original Screenplay

• Hell or High Water
• La La Land
• The Lobster
• Manchester By The Sea
• 20th Century Women

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Arrival
• Fences
• Hidden Figures
• Lion
• Moonlight

Best Film Editing

• Arrival
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Hell or High Water
• La La Land
• Moonlight

Best Foreign Language Film

• A Man Called Ove - Sweden
• Land Of Mine - Denmark
• The Salesman - Iran
• Tanna - Australia
• Toni Erdmann - Germany

Best Animated Feature

• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Moana
• My Life As A Zucchini
• The Red Turtle
• Zootopia

Best Cinematography

• Arrival
• La La Land
• Lion
• Moonlight
• Silence

Best Production Design

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

Best Visual Effects

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

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling

• A Man Called Ove
• Star Trek Beyond
• Suicide Squad

Best Sound Mixing

• Arrival
• Hacksaw Ridge
• La La Land
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Best Sound Editing

• Arrival
• Deepwater Horizon
• Hacksaw Ridge
• La La Land
• Sully

Best Costume Design

• Allied
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Florence Foster Jenkins
• Jackie
• La La Land

Best Original Score

• Jackie
• La La Land
• Lion
• Moonlight
• Passengers

Best Original Song

• La La Land - Audition
• La La Land - City of Stars
• Moana - How Far I'll Go
• Jim: The James Foley Story - The Empty Chair
• Trolls - Can't Stop the Feeling

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 Live-Action Short

• Ennemis Intérieurs
• La Femme et le TGV
• Silent Nights
• Sing
• Timecode

Best Animated Short

• Blind Vaysha
• Borrowed Time
• Pear Cider and Cigarettes
• Pearl
• Piper