By Matt Neglia
Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced 9 of their shortlists for the 2019 Oscars including Best Makeup & Hairstyling, Best Visual Effects, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary and for the first time ever Best Original Score and Best Original Song. Animated, Live-Action and Documentary Shorts were announced as well.
7 films have been narrowed down for Best Makeup & Hairstyling, 10 for Visual Effects and the Shorts, 15 for Song, Score, Documentary Feature and 9 for Foreign Language Film.
Click below to see which films made the cut.
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
Border
Mary Queen Of Scots
Stan & Ollie
Suspiria
Vice
NOTABLE OMISSIONS: Aquaman, Deadpool 2 & The Favourite
Best Visual Effects
Ant-Man & The Wasp
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Christopher Robin
First Man
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Mary Poppins Returns
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Welcome to Marwen
NOTABLE OMISSIONS: Aquaman, Bumblebee, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Paddington 2 & A Quiet Place
Best Original Score
Annihilation
Avengers: Infinity War
The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Crazy Rich Asians
The Death of Stalin
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle Of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns
A Quiet Place
Ready Player One
Vice
NOTABLE OMISSIONS: Incredibles 2, Mary Queen Of Scots, Suspiria & Widows
Best Original Song
“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
“Treasure” from Beautiful Boy
“All The Stars” from Black Panther
“Revelation” from Boy Erased
“Girl In The Movies” from Dumplin’
“We Won’t Move” from The Hate U Give
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns
“Trip A Little Light Fantastic” from Mary Poppins Returns
“Keep Reachin’” from Quincy
“I’ll Fight” from RBG
“A Place Called Slaughter Race” from Ralph Breaks the Internet
“OYAHYTT” from Sorry to Bother You
“Shallow” from A Star Is Born
“Suspirium” from Suspiria
“The Big Unknown” from Widows
NOTABLE OMISSIONS: Black Panther – Pray For Me, Deadpool 2 – Ashes, Hearts Beat Loud – Hearts Beat Loud, On The Basis Of Sex – Here Comes The Change, A Private War – Requiem For A Private War & Vox Lux – Wrapped Up
Best Documentary Feature
Charm City
Communion
Crime + Punshiment
Dark Money
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Free Solo
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding The Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
On Her Shoulders
RBG
Shirkers
The Silence of Others
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
NOTABLE OMISSIONS: Half The Picture, McQueen & Science Fair
Best Foreign Language Film
Colombia, “Birds of Passage”
Denmark, “The Guilty”
Germany, “Never Look Away”
Japan, “Shoplifters”
Kazakhstan, “Ayka”
Lebanon, “Capernaum”
Mexico, “Roma”
Poland, “Cold War”
South Korea, “Burning”
NOTABLE OMISSIONS: Border & Girl
The Shorts
Best Animated Short
“Age of Sail”
“Animal Behaviour”
“Bao”
“Bilby”
“Bird Karma”
“Late Afternoon”
“Lost & Found”
“One Small Step”
“Pépé le Morse”
“Weekends”
Best Documentary Short
“Black Sheep”
“End Game”
“Lifeboat”
“Los Comandos”
“My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes”
“A Night at the Garden”
“Period. End of Sentence.”
“’63 Boycott”
“Women of the Gulag”
“Zion”
Best Live-Action Short
“Caroline”
“Chuchotage”
“Detainment”
“Fauve”
“Icare”
“Marguerite”
“May Day”
“Mother”
“Skin”
“Wale”
What do you think? We will be updating our Oscar Predictions to reflect these shortlists soon. The Academy Award nominations will be announced on January 22nd 2019 with the 91st ceremony to present the winners on February 24th 2019. Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
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