Despite efforts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to diversify its ranks, this year’s Oscar nominees were overwhelmingly white and numerous nominated films featured largely male casts.
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– Leonardo DiCaprio on his nomination for best actor, which is expected to bring him his first Oscar. “The Martian” comes in at 4-1, followed by “Bridge of Spies” and “Brooklyn” (6-1), “The Big Short” (7-1), and “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “Room”, both at 12-1. One of the bigger brush-offs of the day was the omission from the roster of directing nominees of the highly regarded Ridley Scott, director of “The Martian”.
Leonardo DiCaprio won’t make a movie like “The Revenant” again.
Even with her Golden Globes win, many pundits were guessing that Jennifer Lawrence wouldn’t receive a best actress Oscar nomination for playing Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano in the David O. Russell comedy, which received mixed reviews.
For the second year in a row and only the second time since 1999, all 20 nominees in the four acting categories were white.
After “Far From Heaven” and this year’s “Carol”, it’s criminal that Haynes has yet to be Oscar nominated in the Oscars best director category.
Others are Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley, Paul Newman as “Fast” Eddie Felson, Peter O’Toole as Henry II, Al Pacino as Michael Corleone and Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I.
Sylvester Stallone, enjoying a new wave of popularity, scored a supporting actor nod for reprising his career-defining role as boxer Rocky Balboa in “Creed”.
“The nominees perpetuate what our culture and what the members of the academy value and sadly it is not women’s visions nor people of colour”, Melissa Silverstein, who pushes for gender equity in Hollywood, commented on Twitter about the Oscar nominations.
– Director Ciro Guerra, whose film “Embrace of the Serpent”, was nominated for best foreign language film.
The Oscar Nominations are finally out and people are already starting to speculate who will walk home with the Hollywood’s most celebrated prize.
“Certainly this movie took up nearly a year of my life”. His stiffest competition is seen as Mark Rylance, best known for his legendary stage work, for “Bridge of Spies”.
Best animated feature film: “Anomalisa”, “Boy and the World”, “Inside Out”, “Shaun the Sheep Movie”, “When Marnie Was There”. But, according toSlash Film, the seventh episode of the “Star Wars” franchise should have been nominated for Best Picture. But the latest installment of “Star Wars” only picked up five nods in the technical categories like sound and editing. The original reasoning was partly to make room for bigger, more populist films like Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” alongside acclaimed independent releases. The Newman family (six in total) has 89 nominations, the most for any family.
“Cartel Land”, “What Happened, Miss Simone?”, “The Look of Silence”, and “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom”.
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It’s not a bad deal for the actor who in 2014 was named the “All Time Worst” by the Razzies, with 32 nominations and 10 wins.
