The 2017 Oscar Nominations Are In!

While I am back at George Mason for my spring semester this year and hoping things will be much better than last year, here are my favorite Oscar nomination categories announced this week.

Which one of the 2016 movies will win an Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year? Will it be...?

• Arrival (8 nominations)
• Fences (4 nominations)
• Hacksaw Ridge (6 nominations)
• Hell or High Water (4 nominations)
• Hidden Figures (3 nominations)
• La La Land (14 nominations)
• Lion (6 nominations)
• Manchester by the Sea (6 nominations)
• Moonlight (8 nominations)

Best Director?

• Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
• Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson)
• La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
• Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
• Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)

Best Actor?

• Manchester by the Sea (Casey Affleck)
• Hacksaw Ridge (Andrew Garfield)
• La La Land (Ryan Gosling)
• Captain Fantastic (Viggo Mortensen)
• Fences (Denzel Washington)

Best Actress?

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

Best Supporting Actor?

• Moonlight (Mahershala Ali)
• Hell or High Water (Jeff Bridges)
• Manchester by the Sea (Lucas Hedges)
• Lion (Dev Patel)
• Nocturnal Animals (Michael Shannon)

Best Supporting Actress?

• Fences (Viola Davis)
• Moonlight (Naomie Harris)
• Lion (Nicole Kidman)
• Hidden Figures (Octavia Spencer)
• Manchester by the Sea (Michelle Williams)

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 Animated Feature?

• Kubo and the Two Strings 
• Moana
• My Life as a Zucchini
• The Red Turtle
• Zootopia

Best Production Design?

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

Best Costume Design?

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

Best Cinematography?

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

Best Film Editing?

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

Best Makeup and Hairstyling?

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

Best Original Score?

• Jackie (Mica Levi)
• La La Land (Justin Hurwitz)
• Lion (Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka)
• Moonlight (Nicholas Britell)
• Passengers (Thomas Newman)

Best Original Song?

• La La Land ("Audition (The Fools Who Dream)")
• Trolls ("Can't Stop the Feeling!")
• La La Land ("City of Stars")
• Jim: The James Foley Story ("The Empty Chair")
• Moana ("How Far I'll Go")

Best Visual Effects?

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

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

Tune in to find out during ABC's 89th Annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 26th. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel!