89th Oscars | Nominations Released

[TheScorpion]

http://oscar.go.com/nominees

Some surprises:

- Amy Adams snubbed (Arrival, Nocturnal Animals)
- Alan Rickman snubbed (Eye in the Sky)
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson snubbed (Nocturnal Animals)
- Deadpool snubbed (not all that surprising)
- Passengers with two nominations
- Suicide Squad with one nomination
- Viggo Mortensen nominated for best actor (Captain Fantastic)
- La La Land with fourteen nominations

[Locke]

Suicide Squad? For what? A Razzie?

[CaptainCrunch]

Really actually sad about the Alan Rickman snub. I was surprised at Amy Adam's not getting nominated as well.

[OutOfTheCube]

I really don't like the expanded Best Picture category.

You can always look at the 'Best Director' category, and that's typically the five movies that would've been nominated in the old way.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Sorry but Viggo Mortensen deserves a nomination for that movie. How many of you have seen it? He was "fantastic", truly.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Viggo was amazing, Viggo is amazing. Few actors can pull you into the story like he can. More than deserving nod for Captain Fantastic, hope he wins.

Honestly though haven't seen any of the other nominees and looking through Best Picture noms only saw Arrival. Will try to track the rest down before Oscar night but this is the least focused I've been for the big nominations in sometime.

[Locke]

I didnt think I was going to like Captain Fantastic but I was thoroughly impressed. Really, really good film.

[RougeUnderoos]

Other than "The Sound of Music", which I was kind of forced to watch as a kid as some sort of Aryan tradition, I can't stand musicals.

Is La La Land really that good?

The whole year of movies was rather underwhelming to me. I liked "Arrival" and "Hell Or High Water" but didn't think, while watching them, that they would be up for Best Picture.

"Fences", just from the trailer/commercials just looks like two hours of Denzel being angry at his kid. Probably an unfair assessment, but they did sell it that way.

[Nyah]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Is La La Land really that good?

I thought it was charming, but I wasn't really blown away by it like some people were. Now that I've seen it, I probably won't watch it again. Maybe I'm dead inside. The movies that really blew me away were Moonlight & Manchester by the Sea. I loved them both.

[Erick Estrada]

Not the greatest year for movies that's for sure. La La Land doesn't seem like a movie that would appeal to me but I thought the same about Birdman and I was pleasantly surprised.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I barely thought La La Land was a musical. There's only like 5 musical numbers in the whole movie and none of them are that long.

I actually find it odd that we don't differentiate between movies with musical numbers (La La Land, Disney Movies, South Park movie) and full blown musicals in which there isn't a single word of spoken dialogue as everything is done in song.

It is probably getting a bit overhyped as it isn't exactly a monumental filmmaking achievement or anything, it's just a really solid good movie.

As for the Oscars, I find it a bit irritating that the most common stories are clickbait crap about the "top 5 snubs" and the like. How about we talk about the movies nominated and why they are there? But I guess fake controversy sells a lot better.

[nik-]

Amy Adams really just isn't a great actor. She's fine, but not great.

[CaptainCrunch]

You shut your mouth

[MrMastodonFarm]

Watch Junebug and tell me Amy Adams isn't a god damn treasure.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

Watch Junebug and tell me Amy Adams isn't a god damn treasure.

Blows Jennifer Lawrence away in American Hustle.

[getbak]

This is Streep's 20th nomination since 1979.

[trackercowe]

Originally Posted by getbak

This is Streep's 20th nomination since 1979.

Streep is a great actress don't get me wrong, but I feel she garners nominations now for her name value alone. I would have chosen Amy Adams, although I haven't seen FFJ I thought Adams was great in everything this year (well except Batman/Superman).

I have seen the majority of the best picture nominations, and as some stated it's not the best crop of nominees. I still have yet to see La La Land. I want to, it\s just difficult to convince anyone to come see a musical with me. Here is my top ten movies of the year if anyone cares.

1. Nocturnal Animals (ecstatic Shannon was nominated)
2. Green Room
3. The Nice Guys
4. Hacksaw Ridge
5. 10 Cloverfield Lane
6. Deadpool
7. Captain America: A Civil War
8. Star Wars Rogue One
9. Hell or High Water
10. Sing Street

Honorable mentions: The Arrival, Star Trek Beyond, Zootopia, Dr. Strange, Lion (particularly the first half), The Witch, Don't Breathe.

The lesson for 2016 is to try and not get trapped in someone's else's dwelling. Split would also make my top ten if it were a 2016 release.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Sorry but Viggo Mortensen deserves a nomination for that movie. How many of you have seen it? He was "fantastic", truly.

Captain Fantastic should have got a best picture nomination

[Dion]

Originally Posted by nik-

Amy Adams really just isn't a great actor. She's fine, but not great.

Better than J Lawrence.

[OutOfTheCube]

Also. Zero nominations anywhere for "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" is a damn shame.