Category: Shortlists

The Academy has announced 26 films submitted for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. What’s most interesting here is some of the titles that weren’t submitted. Throughout the year, I try to keep track of new animated releases and add them to the Hopefuls list. Five films that were on that list…

The Academy has announced the list of 170 films that are eligible for consideration in this year’s Best Documentary Feature category. They will further narrow this list down to a list of finalists from which the five nominees will be selected. 170 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SUBMITTED FOR 2017 OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA – One hundred…

The Academy has announced that 92 countries have submitted films for consideration for the Best Foreign Language FIlm category. This is up 7 from last year’s 85. This is yet another new record for submissions. I’ll organize them all into a formal list for the 90th Oscars page, but for now, here’s the press release.…

The final shortlist the Academy has released this year features the films eligible for three nominations in the Best Makeup and Hairstyling category. Based solely on past history, the films most likely to earn nominations are A Man Called Ove (the foreign lingo entry, think Il Divo, La Vie en Rose, and The 100-Year-Old Man);…

The Motion Picture Academy has announced that 336 feature films are eligible for the Best Picture Oscar (as well as most other categories). 336 FEATURE FILMS IN CONTENTION FOR 2016 BEST PICTURE OSCAR® LOS ANGELES, CA – Three hundred thirty-six feature films are eligible for the 2016 Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…

The Academy’s Visual Effects branch has narrowed its list down to ten. The expected inclusions, Rogue One, The Jungle Book, Doctor Strange, and Fantastic Beasts are there. I expect those to be the nominees and would love for Kubo to join them. 10 CONTENDERS REMAIN IN VFX OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy…

The Academy still isn’t sending me press releases, which is disturbing since they were for some time. I’m not sure if I got dumped or Hotmail is just not accepting them. Anyway, even their own website doesn’t currently list the press release. As such, I’m just going to list below the 9 films that have…

It’s now time to look at the final longlist from the Academy, the scores eligible for this year’s Best Original Score Oscar. Note that Arrival, once thought to be a major competitor in this category, was declared ineligible because it prominently used a previously written piece in the score, which might cause confusion among voters…

Today, the Academy has announced 91 original songs that are eligible for consideration for this year’s Academy Awards. Since they limit nominations to two per film, Disney has only submitted two from Moana, though three are on the list for La La Land, the two films most noted for a raft of original songs. I…

The short-shortlist is the final round before Oscar nominations are announced. Although the Academy usually issues press releases on these things, they have not done so yet. However, this is being heavily reported, I will post the list without the full press release. Cameraperson Command and Control The Eagle Huntress Fire at Sea Gleason Hooligan…

The Academy has announced 20 films on the shortlist for consideration for this year’s Best Visual Effects Oscar. From these 20, the list will be narrowed to 10 films from which the final 5 nominees will be selected. Based on my own predictions and hopefuls list, the titles missing are A Monster Calls, Assassin’s Creed,…

The Academy has announced its ten-film shortlist for consideration for the Best Animated Short Film category at this year’s Oscars. Five these titles will become Oscar nominees. Of these, the only film I suspect to be a lock is Piper from Pixar. Walt Disney’s Inner Workings is also a likely nominee. 10 ANIMATED SHORTS ADVANCE…

The Academy has announced its ten-film shortlist for consideration for the Best Live-Action Short Film category at this year’s Oscars. Five these titles will become Oscar nominees. I am not familiar enough with any of these films to know which will become nominees. 10 LIVE ACTION SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2016 OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA…

We have our latest shortlist from the Academy. This is the list of 27 animated features submitted for consideration for the Best Animated Feature category. Assuming all of these release prior to the deadline, we’ll have five nominees this year (only need 16 to trigger that number). 27 ANIMATED FEATURES SUBMITTED FOR 2016 OSCAR® RACE…

Here is the list of Documentary Features submitted to the Academy for consideration for this year’s Oscars. There will be a narrowed list at a later date. 145 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SUBMITTED FOR 2016 OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA – One hundred forty-five features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the…