Academy Shortlist Dump! Nine Categories Whittled Down
Updated: Jan 21, 2019
Formerly, the Academy used to release shortlists for seven of its 24 competitive Oscar categories bit by bit in the weeks leading up to voting, but this year, they're trying something different. All seven categories are joined for the first time by Original Score and Original Song, their shortlists now revealed in one single dump on the same day. Oddities abound in the new categories - The Death of Stalin for Original Score? - and the usual mix of surprises and sure bets among the others. We even get two East Asian titles in the running for Foreign Language Film! This year's Oscar nominations will be announced on the 22nd of January. All the info below:
Best Visual Effects
Ant-Man and 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
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Stan & Ollie
Suspiria
Vice
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
Best Original Song
'A Place Called The Slaughter Race' (Ralph Breaks the Internet)
'All The Stars' (Black Panther)
'Girl In The Movies' (Dumplin')
'I'll Fight' (RBG)
'Keep Reachin'' (Quincy)
'OYAHYTT' (Sorry to Bother You)
'Revelation' (Boy Erased)
'Shallow' (A Star Is Born)
'Suspirium' (Suspiria)
'The Big Unknown' (Widows)
'The Place Where Lost Things Go' (Mary Poppins Returns)
'Treasure' (Beautiful Boy)
'Trip A Little Light Fantastic' (Mary Poppins Returns)
'We Won't Move' (The Hate U Give)
'When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings' (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)
Best Documentary
Charm City
Communion
Crime + Punishment
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 Neighbour?
Best Foreign Language Film
Ayka - Kazakhstan
Birds of Passage - Colombia
Burning - South Korea
Capernaum - Lebanon
Cold War - Poland
The Guilty - Denmark
Never Look Away - Germany
Roma - Mexico
Shoplifters - Japan
Best Live Action Short Film
Caroline
Chuchotage
Detainment
Fauve
Icare
Marguerite
May Day
Mother
Skin
Wale
Best Animated Short Film
Age of Sail
Animal Behaviour
Bao
Bilby
Bird Karma
Late Afternoon
Lost & Found
One Small Step
Pepe le Morse
Weekends
Best Documentary Short Subject
'63 Boycott
Black Sheep
Los Comandos
End Game
Lifeboat
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence.
Women of the Gulag
Zion
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