25 Jan 2017

La La Land dances away with 14 Oscar nominations

6:59 am on 25 January 2017

Romantic musical La La Land is leading this year's Oscar nominations with 14 nominations, including the top prize of best picture and best actor nods for Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

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It will contend with sci-fi movie Arrival with eight nods; war movie Hacksaw Ridge; modern western Hell or High Water; and dramas Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, Hidden Figures, Lion and Fences.

The 14 nominations of La La Land for the highest honours in the movie industry equalled the record held by 1997 blockbuster Titanic and the 1950 film All About Eve.

It is now the most nominated musical in Oscar history, having topped the 13 nods Mary Poppins received in 1965.

Damien Chazelle is nominated both for his direction and original screenplay, while his film had two nominations in the best song category.

The film, which received 11 Bafta nominations earlier this month, got additional nods for its score, editing and cinematography.

It was also shortlisted for its costume and production design and for its sound editing and mixing.

In the best actor category, Gosling will compete with Casey Affleck, who plays a grieving father in Manchester by the Sea; Fences star Denzel Washington; British actor Andrew Garfield of Hacksaw Ridge and Viggo Mortensen's unorthodox dad in Captain Fantastic.

In a key difference from 2016 and 2015, seven people of colour were among the acting nominees, and four of the nine best picture contenders told African-American or Indian stories.

They included supporting actor nominees Dev Patel for Lion, and Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris for Moonlight, the tale of a young boy struggling with his sexual identity in an impoverished Miami neighborhood.

Hidden Figures, about three black female mathematicians working on the US space program in the 1960s, brought a supporting actress nod for Octavia Spencer.

Last year, all 20 acting nominees were white, unleashing an #OscarsSoWhite backlash on social media for the second consecutive year.

Some notable absences on Tuesday's list included Annette Bening's star turn in 20th Century Women and Amy Adams performance as a linguist in Arrival.

Martin Scorsese's religious passion project Silence, which was 28 years in the making, was missing from the main categories and earned just one nomination, for cinematography.

Jimmy Kimmel will host the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on 26 February.

Best picture

Arrival

Fences

Hacksaw Ridge

Hell or High Water

Hidden Figures

La La Land

Lion

Manchester By the Sea

Moonlight

Best actress

Isabelle Huppert (Elle)

Ruth Negga (Loving)

Emma Stone (La La Land)

Natalie Portman (Jackie)

Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Best actor

Casey Affleck (Manchester By the Sea)

Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)

Ryan Gosling (La La Land)

Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)

Denzel Washington (Fences)

Best director

Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)

Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)

Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester By the Sea)

Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Best supporting actress

Viola Davis (Fences)

Naomie Harris (Moonlight)

Nicole Kidman (Lion)

Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)

Michelle Williams (Manchester By the Sea)

Best supporting actor

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)

Lucas Hedges (Manchester By the Sea)

Dev Patel (Lion)

Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)

Best cinematography

Arrival

La La Land

Lion

Moonlight

Silence

Moonlight.

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Moonlight

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 documentary

Fire at Sea

I Am Not Your Negro

Life, Animated

OJ: Made in America

13th

Best foreign language film

Land of Mine

A Man Called Ove

The Salesman

Tanna

Toni Erdmann

Best costume design

Allied

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Florence Foster Jenkins

Jackie

La La Land

Best score

Jackie

La La Land

Lion

Moonlight

Passengers

Best song

Audition (La La Land)

Can't Stop the Feeling! (Trolls)

City of Stars (La La Land)

The Empty Chair (Jim: The James Foley Story)

How Far I'll Go (Moana)

Best sound editing

Arrival

Deepwater Horizon

Hacksaw Ridge

La La Land

Sully

Best sound mixing

Arrival

Hacksaw Ridge

La La Land

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

13 Hours

Best documentary short

4.1 Miles

Extremis

Joe's Violin

Watani: My Homeland

The White Helmets

Best production design

Arrival

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Hail, Caesar!

La La Land

Passengers

Best animated feature

Kubo and the Two Strings

Moana

My Life As a Zucchini

The Red Turtle

Zootopia

Best animated short

Blind Vaysha

Borrowed Time

Pear Cider and Cigarettes

Pearl

Piper

Best film editing

Arrival

Hacksaw Ridge

Hell or High Water

La La Land

Moonlight

Best live-action short

Ennemis Interieurs

La Femme et le TGV

Silent Nights

Sing

Timecode

Best visual effects

Deepwater Horizon

Doctor Strange

The Jungle Book

Kubo and the Two Strings

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Best makeup and hairstyling

A Man Called Ove

Star Trek Beyond

Suicide Squad

- Reuters / BBC

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