With the nominations for the 91st Academy Awards set to be announced next month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced the shortlists for several categories including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Music (Original Song), Best Music (Original Score), Best Visual Effects, Best Make-Up and Hairstyling and Best Documentary Feature. Take a look at the films which remain in contention here…
Foreign Language Film
Colombia, “Birds of Passage”
Denmark, “The Guilty”
Germany, “Never Look Away”
Japan, “Shoplifters”
Kazakhstan, “Ayka”
Lebanon, “Capernaum”
Mexico, “Roma”
Poland, “Cold War”
South Korea, “Burning”
Music (Original Song)
“A Place Called Slaughter Race” from “Ralph Breaks the Internet”
“All The Stars” from “Black Panther”
“Girl In The Movies” from “Dumplin’”
“I’ll Fight” from “RBG”
“Keep Reachin’” from “Quincy”
“OYAHYTT” from “Sorry to Bother You”
“Revelation” from “Boy Erased”
“Shallow” from “A Star Is Born”
“Suspirium” from “Suspiria”
“The Big Unknown” from “Widows”
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns”
“Treasure” from “Beautiful Boy”
“Trip A Little Light Fantastic” from “Mary Poppins Returns”
“We Won’t Move” from “The Hate U Give”
“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
Music (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”
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”
Make-Up and Hairstyling
“Black Panther”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“Border”
“Mary Queen of Scots”
“Stan & Ollie”
“Suspiria”
“Vice”
Documentary Feature
“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 Neighbor?”
The final nominations will be announced on January 22nd 2019, while the Oscar ceremony itself takes place on February 24th 2019.