Columnist criticizes Oscars' Malone omission

Jeff Wells, who writes an on-line column on the movie industry called Hollywood Elsewhere correctly, in my opinion, took the Oscars’ producers to task today for their failure to include Academy Award winning actress Dorothy Malone in its "in-memoriam" segment (I must admit I don’t particularly care for Wells referring to this as "the death reel" — that gives me uncomfortable chills). Oscars’ only defense would be that Malone died this year — on Jan. 19 — but as Wells also points out Tom Paxton died last year before the Oscar telecast and he was not included in either this segment or last year’s.

Here, in part, is Wells’ rant on the issue;

"The decision by Oscar telecast producers Mike DeLuca and Suzanne Todd to omit Oscar-winner Dorothy Malone from the death reel was a stunner. Malone was iconic in the ’50s and ’60s — what were they thinking? Even if she hadn’t won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as a sexual compulsive in Douglas Sirk‘s Written on the Wind (’57), Malone’s book-store scene with Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (’46) would have more than sufficed.

"These plus her performances in Sirk’s The Tarnished Angels (’57), Andrew Stone‘s The Last Voyage, Robert Aldrich‘s The Last Sunset (’61) and her Constance MacKenzie character on ABC’s Peyton Place series from ’64 to ’69 … .c’mon.

"Why are some Hollywood luminaries included in the death reel and others ignored? The process seems haphazard and arbitrary.

"Deluca and Todd could have made up this year for excluding Bill Paxton (who passed on 2.25.17) in last year’s death reel, but naahhh.

"They also blew off Powers Boothe, Adam West, Glen Campbell, Robert Guillaume, David Cassidy, Fats Domino (although they included Chuck Berry), Hugh Hefner and Jim Nabors.

"They included Jeanne Moreau but without a dialogue clip or brief image montage. On both sides of the Atlantic Moreau was a thriving legend in the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s. Orson Welles (yeah, I know … who?) once called her "the greatest actress in the world," and her sepia-toned image appeared for less than two effing seconds?"

The Oscars: Predictions and Preferences

Someone connected with the Oscars is showing a lot of class. I’m not sure who it is. Possibly someone with the Motion Picture Academy. Or it could be one of the show’s producers. But I want to go on record as complimenting whoever it was who made the decision to have Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty rectify last year’s disaster by having them present the best picture Oscar again this year.

All Oscar groupies remember what happened in 2017 when Dunaway and Beatty announced La La Land had won the Oscar only to be corrected by one of that movie’s producers who admitted Moonlight was the real winner. For some reason, Dunaway and Beatty became the butt of countless cruel jokes and cheap shots over a mistake that wasn’t of their making. Some dope simply handed them the wrong envelope.

The way the Oscars worked — at least the way they worked last year — was that one representative of the accounting firm that tabulated the Oscar ballots was stationed at each side of the stage so that when the presenters came on stage — regardless from which side they entered on — there would be someone there to hand them the envelop containing the information they were to read at the podium. When someone entered from stage right, for instance, the accountant stationed stage left was then supposed to discard his copy of the envelope for that award in his possession. What happened was one of those accountants failed to discard the envelope for best actress when his cohort on the other side of the stage handed it to the presenter of that award. So when Beatty and Dunaway came on stage, that dolt handed them the best actress envelope. That’s why Beatty had this befuddled look on his face when he opened what he thought was the envelope containing the best picture winner and the card inside said the Oscar was going to Emma Stone for La La Land. So when Beatty hesitated, Dunaway basically saw only the movie title on the card and announced it as the winner.

Regardless, Beatty and Dunaway were immediately and unfairly inducted into the Bill Buckner Hall of Shame. Now someone — someone displaying some real courage — is extending them their get-out-of-jail-free card. Yeah!!!

So now the question becomes what will be the name of the picture contained on the card they extract tomorrow night from inside that envelope. I’m hoping it will be Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, easily the best picture of last year. But the year’s best picture rarely wins the Oscar. And it would be especially difficult for Billboards to win this year because (1) there has been a terrible and undeserved PC backlash against the movie and (2) its director, Martin McDonagh, failed to receive a nomination from the director’s branch of the Academy. The last time a picture won without its director being nominated was 2012 when Argo prevailed, but that was an unusual circumstance. Argo was not even considered a frontrunner until the Academy’s nominations were announced and the motion picture, correctly I’m guessing, assumed a conspiracy among the director’s branch prevented Argo’s director, Ben Affleck, from being nominated. The directors were angry around that time over the fact that on two separate occasions one of this country’s most revered directors, Martin Scorsese, was denied a directing Oscar he deserved and, in both instances, actors, in their first attempts at directing a film, won instead. The acting branch of the Academy comprises more than 35 percent of its total membership and the directors felt those actors rallied around one of their own instead of giving the award to its rightful recipient. Thus, the directing branch conspired to make sure that wouldn’t happen again when Argo was being considered. It was OK that Affleck was nominated by the Directors Guild because only directors vote for the winner of that award and they could make sure Affleck’s only honor would be the nomination. But they felt if Affleck was nominated for a directing Oscar, the actors would unite to support his nomination, giving him the trophy instead of it going to "a real director." The rest of the Academy was outraged at the actions of the director’s branch and went out of their way to register their displeasure by supporting Argo in other categories in which it was nominated, including best picture. Before that, you have to go all the way back to 1989's Driving Miss Daisy to find a movie that won best picture without its director being nominated.

Another thing Billboards has going against it is the preferential ballot. Academy members either loved the movie, the way I did, or they despised it on PC grounds. With the preferential ballot, the best picture winner is not going to be the one with the most first place votes, but the one with the most second, third, maybe even fourth place votes. That rewards a safe choice like the undeserving remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers Get Out or the movie I’m predicting to walk off with the top prize, the updated version of Beast from 20,000 Fathoms The Shape of Water.

Billboards does have a couple of things in its favor. It is loved by the acting branch, which I said, can dominate a category if all its members unite behind one film. After all, Billboards has three acting nominations, two likely acting wins and it won the Screen Actors Guild’s version of best picture. The second thing Billboards has going for it is the Winter Olympics. Seriously. Word out of Hollywood in the last month is Billboards has garnered a lot of last-minute momentum and, because the Academy did not want to compete with the Olympics for television viewers, it pushed back the date of handing out its awards this year, giving more time for that momentum to build. So we’ll see. Still, I’m rooting hard for Billboards, but predicting Water.

The acting winners — McDormand, Oldman, Janney and Rockwell — are all carved in granite and I don’t have any real strong objections about any of them although, except for McDormand, those are were not the nominees I would have really preferred to win. I like Allison Janney. In fact, I really like Allison Janney. But so do a lot of other people so she will be one of those winners who will be celebrated for the entirety of their career; but, personally, I would have cast my ballot for Laurie Metcalf in the supporting actress category. And I think Timothee Chalamet and Willem Dafoe are more deserving recipients of the actor and supporting actor Oscars respectively.

It seems foreordained that Guillermo Del Toro will take home the Oscar for best director, but since the inscription on that award reads "Outstanding Achievement in Direction of a Feature Length Motion Picture," I would have voted for Christopher Nolan’s direction of Dunkirk as the recipient. Think about it. Seriously. Was there a more outstanding directorial achievement last year than what Nolan pulled off with that film?

The overly praised Get Out (OK, it’s a good movie, but certainly doesn’t rise to the level of greatness) stands a good chance of winning for Original Screenplay and I won’t be terribly surprised, although I will be disappointed in the Academy’s judgment, if it does. But I’m sticking with my prediction of Billboards being triumphant in that category,. The superbly written adapted screenplay for Call Me By Your Name should and will win in that category.

I’ve heard The Shape of Water is also favored to win the cinematography award, which is no surprise since Academy voters often simply check off their best picture preferences in the craft categories as well. But Roger Deakins, whose been the cinematographer for some of the most visually stunning movies of the last quarter century but has yet to win an Oscar in spite of numerous nominations, has a lot of "he’s due" support. Not only that, he deserves to win for his shooting of Blade Runner 2049.

I’m predicting Dunkirk will win the film editing prize, but my preference for that Oscar is Baby Driver, one of the most arrestingly edited films in years.

And, finally, yes all you basketball fans out there, I’m betting that Kobe Bryant will win an Oscar.

The rest of my choices look like this:

Costume Design: Phantom Thread
Makeup and Hair Styling: Darkest Hour
Production Design: The Shape of Water
Score: The Shape of Water
Song: "Remember Me" (Coco)
Sound Editing: Dunkirk
Sound Mixing: Dunkirk
Visual Effects: War for the Planet of the Apes
Animated Feature: Coco
Documentary Feature: Faces Places
Foreign Language Feature: A Fantastic Woman
Animated Short: Dear Basketball
Documentary Short: Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (although Edith + Eddie has a shot at winning this)
Live Action Short: DeKalb Elementary

Final Oscar nomination predictions

(Listed in order of probability)

PICTURE
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. Lady Bird
3. Get Out
4. The Post
5. Dunkirk
6. The Shape of Water
7. Call Be By Your Name
8. The Florida Project
9. The Big Sick
10. Darkest Hour
11. I, Tonya
12. Mudbound

DIRECTOR
1. Guillermo Del Toro; The Shape of Water
2. Christopher Nolan; Dunkirk
3. Greta Gerwig; Lady Bird
4. Jordan Peele; Get Out
5. Martin McDonagh; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
6. Stephen Spielberg; The Post

ACTRESS
1. Frances McDormand; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. Sally Hawkins; The Shape of Water
3. Saoirse Roan; Lady Bird
4. Meryl Streep; The Post
5. Margot Robbie; I, Tonya

ACTOR
1. Gary Oldman; Darkest Hour
2. Timothee Chalamet; Call Me By Your Name
3. Daniel Day-Lewis; Phantom Thread
4. Daniel Kaluuya; Get Out
5. James Franco; The Disaster Artist
6. Tom Hanks; The Post

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Laurie Metcalf; Lady Bird
2. Allison Janney; I, Tonya
3. Holly Hunter; The Big Sick
4. Mary J. Blige; Mudbound
5. Octavia Spencer; The Shape of Water

SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Sam Rockwell; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. Willem Dafoe; The Florida Project
3. Richard Jenkins; The Shape of Water
4. Armie Hammer; Call Me By Your Name
5. Michael Stuhlberg; Call Me By Your Name
6. Christopher Plummer; All the Money in the World
7. Woody Harrelson; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Call Me By Your Name
2. Mudbound
3. Molly’s Game
4. The Disaster Artist
5. Wonder

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Get Out
2. Lady Bird
3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
4. The Shape of Water
5. The Big Sick
6. The Post

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Dunkirk
3. The Shape of Water
4. Call Me By Your Name
5. Darkest Hour
6. Mudbound

FILM EDITING
1. Dunkirk
2. The Shape of Water
3. Get Out
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
6. Baby Driver

PRODUCTION DESIGN
1. The Shape of Water
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Dunkirk
4. Darkest Hour
5. Beauty and the Beast
6. Phantom Thread

SOUND EDITING
1. Dunkirk
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Baby Driver
4. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
5. The Shape of Water
6. War for the Planet of the Apes

SOUND MIXING
1. Dunkirk
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. The Shape of Water
4. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
5. Baby Driver

VISUAL EFFECTS
1. War for the Planet of the Apes
2. Star Wars; The Last Jedi
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. Dunkirk
5. The Shape of Water

COSTUME DESIGN
1. Phantom Thread
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. The Greatest Showman
4. Darkest Hour
5. The Shape of Water

MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
1. Darkest Hour
2. Wonder
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
4. I, Tonya

SCORE
1. The Shape of Water
2. Dunkirk
3. Phantom Thread
4. The Post
5. Darkest Hour

SONG
1. Remember Me; Coco
2. This Is Me; The Greatest Showman
3. Evermore; The Beauty and the Beast
4. The Mystery of Love; Call Me By Your Name
5. Stand Up for Something; Marshall
6. Mighty River; Mudbound

ANIMATED FEATURE
1. Coco
2. The Breadwinner
3. Loving Vincent
4. The Lego Batman Movie
5. Ferdinand

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1. Jane
2. Faces Places
3. City of Ghosts
4. Last Men in Aleppo
5. Icarus

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1. A Fantastic Woman
2. The Square
3. Foxtrot
4. In the Fade
5. Loveless

ANIMATED SHORT
1. Dear Basketball
2. Negative Space
3. In a Heartbeat
4. Cradle
5. Lou

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
1. Heroin
2. Alone
3. Ten Meter Tower
4. 116 Cameras
5. Edith + Eddie

LIVE ACTION SHORT
1. The Silent Child
2. Watu Wote/All of Us
3. DeKalb Elementary
4. My Nephew Emmett
5. Rise of a Star

2017 Oscar Nominations Predictions (December)

Changes from last month’s predictions reflected in parenthesis_

PICTURE
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(no changes from last month)


DIRECTOR
Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Steven Spielberg, The Post
(Greta Gerwig replaced Joe Wright)

ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post
(Margot Robbie replaced Jessica Chastain)

ACTOR
Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Jake Gyllenhaal, Stronger
Tom Hanks, The Post
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
(no changes from last month)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary J. Blige (Mudbound)
Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
(Mary J. Blige replaced Melissa Leo)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name
(no changes from last month)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Last Flag Flying
Molly’s Game
Mudbound
(no changes from last month)


ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(no changes from last month)


CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
(no changes from last month)


COSTUME DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
The Greatest Showman
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
(no changes from last month)


FILM EDITING
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
The Shape of Water
(no changes from last month)


MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
The Greatest Showman
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
The Shape of Water
(no changes from last month)


PRODUCTION DESIGN
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
(didn’t predict this category last month)


SCORE
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
(didn’t predict this category last month)


SONG
"Evermore," Beauty and the Beast
"The Mystery of Love," Call Me By Your Name
"Remember Me," Coco
"Stand Up for Something," Marshall
"This Is Me," The Greatest Showman
(didn’t predict this category last month)

SOUND EDITING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars, The Last Jedi
(didn’t predict this category last month)


SOUND MIXING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars, the Last Jedi
(didn’t predict this category last month)


VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars, the Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
(didn’t predict this category last month)


ANIMATED FEATURE
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
The Lego Batman Movie
Loving Vincent

(didn’t predict this category last month)

2017 Oscar Nominations Predictions

* Designates predicted winner as of today

PICTURE

Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
* Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri


DIRECTOR
Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
* Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Steven Spielberg, The Post
Joe Wright, The Darkest Hour

ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, Molly’s Game
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
* Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post

ACTOR
Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Jake Gyllenhaal, Stronger
Tom Hanks, The Post
* Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Melissa Leo, Novitate
* Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

SUPPORTING ACTOR
* Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
* Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Last Flag
Molly’s Game
Mudbound

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
* Get Out
Lady Bird
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

CINEMATOGRAPHY
* Blade Runner 2049
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

COSTUME DESIGN
* Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
The Greatest Showman
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Possible: Victoria and Abdul
 
FILM EDITING
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
* Dunkirk
Get Out
The Shape of Water

MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
Beauty and the Beast
* Darkest Hour
The Greatest Showman
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
The Shape of Water

Oscar forecast: Only three categories in doubt

I see only three categories -- actor, foreign language film and documentary short -- where there's any real suspense over who or what the Oscar winner will be when the envelopes are opened Sunday evening.

Throughout most of this Oscar season, I thought Casey Affleck's performance in Manchester By the Sea was easily the best I saw all year and that he would waltz away with the best actor trophy. I still think his performance was the year's best, but I no longer think he will be the Oscar winner. I hope he wins. I really would like to see him win. But I just don't think it's going to happen. I'm also afraid the year's best animated film, Kubo and the Two Strings, will leave the auditorium Sunday night empty-handed.

The foreign language category is a horse race between two films, The Salesman and Toni Erdmann. Any one of three pictures -- Extremis, Joe's Violin or The White Helmets -- could waltz away with documentary short Oscar. (I will also admit Timecode has a legitimate outside shot to win the Oscar for Live Action Short.

It's also worth noting again that Oscar voters rarely choose what is actually the year's best picture to win it's best picture Oscar. It's happened only three times so this century -- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Hurt Locker, and 12 Years a Slave -- and it won't happen again this year. The reason for this is Oscar voters aren't looking to find "the best picture of the year." Their vote is dependent solely on how they feel after watching a movie, compared to what their emotions are after watching the others nominated.

So, without further delay, here's how I see this year's Oscar show unfolding:
Live Action Short: Ennemis Interieurs
Documentary Short: Joe's Violin
Animated Short: Piper
Foreign Language Film: The Salesman
Documentary Feature: O.J.: Made in America
Animated Feature: Zootopia
Visual Effects: The Jungle Book
Sound Mixing: La La Land
Sound Editing: Hacksaw Ridge
Song: "City of Stars," La La Land
Score: La La Land
Production Design: La La Land
Makeup and Hair Styling: Star Trek Beyond
Film Editing: La La Land
Costume Design: La La Land
Cinematography: La La Land
Original Screenplay: Manchester By the Sea
Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight
Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Fences
Actor: Denzel Washington, Fences
Actress: Emma Stone, La La Land
Director: Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Picture: La La Land

For those not keeping count, that's a total of 10 Oscars for La La Land. The only other films I see winning more than one are Fences and Moonlight (the year's best film), and they will only be receiving two each.

Nailing It

OK, so I know Casey Affleck is the co-favorite (along with Denzel Washington) and my pick to win the lead actor Oscar this year and that Viola Davis is going to beat out Michelle Williams for best supporting actress, but, I gotta tell ya', Williams really delivers the goods in this scene. She really feels these emotions.

My final 2017 Oscar nominations predictions

The Oscar nominations will be announced Tuesday morning so I figured this would be as good a time as any to look into my cracked crystal ball to forecast the results (listed alphabetically):

Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Lion
Manchester By the Sea
Moonlight

Director
Damen Chazelle, La La Land
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By the Sea
Martin Scorsese, Silence
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
(Possible: Denzel Washington, Fences)

Actress
Amy Adams, Arrival
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Emma Stone, La La Land
(Possible: Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins; Ruth Negga, Loving)

Actor
Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences

Supporting Actress
Viola Davis, Fences
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester By the Sea

Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
Lucas Hedges, Manchester By the Sea
Dev Patel, Lion

Adapted Screenplay
Arrival
Fences
Lion
Moonlight
Nocturnal Animals
(Possible: Hidden Figures)

Original Screenplay
Hell or High Water
Jackie
La La Land
The Lobster
Manchester By the Sea

Cinematography
Arrival
Jackie
La La Land
Moonlight
Silence

Costume Design
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land
Silence

Film Editing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
Jackie
La La Land
Moonlight
(Possible: Manchester By the Sea, Silence)

Make-Up and Hairstyling
Deadpool
Florence Foster Jenkins
Star Trek Beyond

Production Design
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Jackie
The Jungle Book
La La Land
Silence
(Possible: Arrival)

Score
Jackie
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Song
"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)," La La Land
"Can't Stop the Feeling," Trolls
"City of Stars," La La Land
"How Far I'll Go," Moana
"Runnin'," Hidden Figures
(Possible: "Try Everything," Zootopia)

Sound Editing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Silence
(Possible: The Jungle Book)

Sound Mixing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Silence
(Possible: The Jungle Book)

Visual Effects
Arrival
Doctor Strange
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
The Jungle Book
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Animated Feature
Finding Dory
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
The Red Turtle
Zootopia

Documentary Feature
Cameraperson
The Eagle Huntress
I Am Not Your Negro
O.J.: Made in America
13th

Foreign Language Film
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
My Life As a Zucchini
The Salesman
Toni Erdmann

Animated Short
The Head Vanishes
Inner Workings
Pearl
Piper
Sous Tes Doights

Documentary Short
Extremis
Joe's Violin
The Mute's House
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets

Live Action Short
Nocturne in Black
The Rifle, the Jackal, the Wolf and the Boy
Sing Mindenki
Timecode
The Way of Tea