Awards season is in full swing and on Tuesday morning The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the 2017 Oscar nominees.Romantic musical “La La Land” led the Oscar nominations on Tuesday with 14 nods, including the top prize of best picture.It will contend with sci-fi movie “Arrival” with eight nods; family drama “Manchester by the Sea”; coming of age drama “Moonlight”; war movie “Hacksaw Ridge”; “Hidden Figures,” about the U.S. space program; African-American drama “Fences”; modern western “Hell or High Water”; and Indian adoption drama “Lion” for the best picture award at the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on Feb. 26.Best Picture”Arrival””Fences””Hacksaw Ridge””Hell or High Water””Hidden Figures””La La Land””Lion””Manchester by the Sea””Moonlight”Best ActorCasey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”Denzel Washington, “Fences”Ryan Gosling, “La La Land”Viggo Mortensen, “Captain Fantastic”Andrew Garfield, “Hacksaw Ridge”Best ActressIsabelle Huppert, “Elle”Ruth Negga, “Loving”Natalie Portman, “Jackie”Emma Stone, “La La Land”Meryl Streep, “Florence Foster Jenkins”Best DirectorDenis Villeneuve, “Arrival”Mel Gibson, “Hacksaw Ridge”Damien Chazelle, “La La Land”Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea”Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”Best Supporting ActorMahershala Ali, “Moonlight”Jeff Bridges, “Hell or High Water”Lucas Hedges, “Manchester by the Sea”Dev Patel, “Lion”Michael Shannon, “Nocturnal Animals”Best Supporting ActressViola Davis, “Fences”Naomie Harris, “Moonlight”Nicole Kidman, “Lion”Octavia Spencer, “Hidden Figures”Michelle Williams, “Manchester by the Sea”Best Original ScreenplayTaylor Sheridan, “Hell or High Water”Damien Chazelle, “La La Land”Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou, “The Lobster”Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea”Mike Mills, “20th Century Women”Best Adapted ScreenplayBarry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McRaney, “Moonlight”Luke Davis, “Lion”Eric Heisserer, “Arrival”August Wilson, “Fences”Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, “Hidden Figures”Best Animated FilmTravis Knight and Arianne Sutner, “Kubo and the Two Strings”John Musker, Ron Clements, and Osnat Shurer, “Moana”Claude Barras and Max Karli, “My Life as a Zucchini”Michael Dudock De Wit and Toshio Suzuki, “The Red Turtle”Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer, “Zootopia”Best Foreign Language Film”Land of Mine,” Denmark”A Man Called Ove,” Sweden”The Salesman,” Iran”Tanna,” Australia”Toni Erdmann,” GermanyBest Documentary Film”Fire at Sea””I Am Not Your Negro””Life, Animated””O.J.: Made in America””13th”Best Animated Short FilmTheodore Usher, “Blind Vaysha”Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj, “Borrowed Time”Robert Valley and Cara Speller, “Pear Cider and Cigarettes”Patrick Osborne, “Pearl”Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer, “Piper”Best Original Song”Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” from “La La Land”music by Justin Hurwitz, lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul”Can’t Stop the Feeling” from “Trolls” music and lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin, and Karl Johan Shuster”City of Stars” music by Justin Hurwitz, lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul”The Empty Chair” from “Jim: The James Foley Story”music and lyric by J. Ralph and Sting”How Far I’ll Go” from “Moana”music and lyric by Lin-Manuel MirandaBest Original ScoreMica Levi, “Jackie”Justin Hurwitz, “La La Land”Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka, “Lion”Nicholas Britell, “Moonlight”Thomas Newman, “Passengers”Makeup and HairstylingEva 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”Costume DesignJoanna Johnston, “Allied”Colleen Atwood, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”Consolata Boyle, “Florence Foster Jenkins”Madeline Fontaine, “Jackie”Mary Zophres, “La La Land”
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