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Showing posts with label 89th Oscars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 89th Oscars. Show all posts

Friday, February 24, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Picture

The nominees are:

Arrival

Plot: When aliens touch down on earth linguist Louise Banks is brought in to help determine the purpose of their arrival, but it's the lack of communication between humans themselves that put the fate of the world in jeopardy.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* Shawn Levy - first nomination

* Dan Levine - first nomination

* Aaron Ryder - first nomination

* David Lynde - first nomination

Total Nominations for Film: 8 - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing

Thursday, February 23, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Director

The nominees are:

Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Oscar History: 1 previous nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Whiplash (2014). Also nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

Total Nominations for the Film: 14 - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, Best Original Song (2), Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Actress


The nominees are:

Isabelle Huppert, Elle

Role: Michele Leblanc, a woman who is raped and, due to a negative experience with police in her childhood, opts not to report the crime and instead takes matters into her own hands, becoming fascinated with her assailant in the process.

Oscar History: first nomination

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Actor

The nominees are:

Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea

Role: Lee Chandler, a man still grappling with the tragedy of his past when he's called upon to become the guardian of his teenage nephew after the death of his brother.

Oscar History: 1 previous nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Monday, February 20, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Supporting Actress

The nominees are:

Viola Davis, Fences

Role: Rose Maxson, a wife and mother who believes that she's living a happy life with her husband, only to have the rug pulled out from under her, leaving her trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered world.

Oscar History: 2 previous nominations for Best Supporting Actress for Doubt (2008) and Best Actress for The Help (2011)

Sunday, February 19, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Supporting Actor


The nominees are:

Mahershala Ali, Moonlight

Role: Juan, a man who takes the film's protagonist under his wing and becomes his father figure, but whose occupation as a drug dealer has contributed to the hostile and unstable home environment that makes him suffer so much.

Oscar History: first nomination

Friday, February 17, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Original Screenplay


The nominees are:

20th Century Women

Nominated Writers and Oscar History:

* Mike Mills - first nomination


Thursday, February 16, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay

The nominees are:

Arrival

Nominated Writers and Oscar History:

* Eric Heisserer - first nomination

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Film Editing

The nominees are:

Tom Cross, La La Land

Oscar History: 1 win for Best Film Editing for Whiplash (2014)

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Cinematography

The nominees are:

Greig Fraser, Lion

Oscar History: first nomination

Monday, February 13, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Production Design

The nominees are:

Stuart Craig & Anna Pinnock, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Oscar History:

* Stuart Craig - 3 wins for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration for Gandhi (1982), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and The English Patient (1996); 7 previous nominations for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration for The Elephant Man (1980), The Mission (1988), Chaplin (1992), and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), and Best Art Direction for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

* Anna Pinnock - 1 win for Best Production Design for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); 4 previous nominations for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration for Gosford Park (2001), for Best Art Direction for The Golden Compass (2007), and for Best Production Design for Life of Pi (2012) and Into the Woods (2014)

Sunday, February 12, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Costume Design

The nominees are:

Colleen Atwood, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Oscar History: 3 wins for Best Costume Design for Chicago (2002), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), and Alice in Wonderland (2010); 8 previous nominations for Best Costume Design for Little Women (1994), Beloved (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Nine (2009), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), and Into the Woods (2014)

Friday, February 10, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Makeup and Hairstyling

The nominees are:

A Man Called Ove

Nominated Team and Oscar History:

* Eva Von Bahr - 1 previous nomination for The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)

* Love Larson - 1 previous nomination for The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)

Thursday, February 9, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Visual Effects

The nominees are:

Deepwater Horizon

Nominated Team and Oscar History:

* Craig Hammack - first nomination

* Jason H. Snell - first nomination

* Jason Billington - first nomination

* Burt Dalton - 1 win for Best Visual Effects for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008); 2 previous nominations for Best Visual Effects for Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Sound Mixing

The nominees are:

13 Hours

Nominated Team and Oscar History:

* Greg P. Russell - 16 previous nominations for Best Sound for Black Rain (1989), The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Armageddon (1998), The Patriot (2000), Pearl Habor (2001), and Spider-Man (2002), and for Best Sound Mixing for Spider-Man 2 (2004), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Apocalypto (2006), Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Salt (2010), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), and Skyfall (2012)

* Gary Summers - 4 wins for Best Sound for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1992), Jurassic Park (1993), Titanic (1997), and Saving Private Ryan (1998); 6 previous nominations for Best Sound for Return of the Jedi (1983), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Backdraft (1991), and for Best Sound Mixing for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Avatar (2009), and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

* Jeffrey J Haboush - 3 previous nominations for Best Sound Mixing for Spider-Man 2 (2004), Salt (2010), and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

* Mac Ruth - 1 previous nomination for Best Sound Mixing for The Martian (2015)

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Sound Editing

The nominees are:

Arrival

Nominated Team and Oscar History:

* Sylvain Bellemare - first nomination

Monday, February 6, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Original Score

The nominees are:


Nicholas Britell, Moonlight

Oscar History: first nomination

Sunday, February 5, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Original Song

The nominees are:

"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)," La La Land

Music and Lyrics By: Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

Oscar History: first nomination for Hurwitz, also nominated for Best Original Score; first nomination for Pasek and Paul (all three also nominated for "City of Stars")

Friday, February 3, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Foreign Language Film

The nominees are:

Land of Mine

Country: Denmark
Director: Martin Zandvliet
Plot: A group of German POWs are forced by the Danish government to defuse millions of land mines buried on Danish beaches at the conclusion of WWII.

Director's Oscar History: first nominated film

Thursday, February 2, 2017

89th Oscars: Best Animated Feature

The nominees are:

Kubo and the Two Strings

Director: Travis Knight
Plot: A young boy must find his father's magical suit of armor and defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.

Director's Oscar History: 1 previous nominated film for Best Animated Feature for The Boxtrolls (2014)