The moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally here: Oscar nominations have just been announced! This year’s Golden Globe winners and recently announced BAFTA nominations were mostly distributed among familiar titles like A Star Is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Roma. This morning, the Oscars proved no different.
The Favourite and Roma received the most nominations (10 each!), with the latter also dominating the technical awards. Yalitza Aparicio also became the second Mexican actress to be nominated for the Best Lead Actress award after Salma Hayek (who was nominated for 2002’s Frida). Late bloomer Vice and audience-favorite A Star Is Born raked in an impressive eight nominations, despite the notable lack of a nomination for Bradley Cooper’s direction in the case of the latter, while Black Panther followed closely behind with seven, including a history-making Best Picture nomination for the superhero movie.
Cold War, the Polish Best Foreign Film entry from Oscar Winner Pawel Pawlikowski was a surprise contender with three major nominations, including one for Best Director. In an awards show that often confines international cinema to one category, it’s incredibly refreshing to see multiple films from all over the world crack so many different categories.

The nominations are not without major snubs. Despite last year’s (slight) progress in celebrating female filmmakers (Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, for example), it is extremely troubling to see a lack of female directors or their films (You Were Never Really Here, Private Life, The Rider, Shirkers to name just a few) being recognised for major awards like Best Director or Best Picture this season.
The Academy also overlooked impressive (perhaps even career-peak) performances by Toni Collette in Hereditary and Ethan Hawke in First Reformed, while Call Me By Your Name star Timothee Chalamet, despite being nominated for all major awards for his role in Beautiful Boy, was overlooked by The Academy. Another glaring oversight was the lack of Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, long considered the eventual winner of the Best Documentary Feature category. Elsewhere, in a year that was rumoured to be a rematch between Damien Chazelle and Barry Jenkins, it’s a shame to see both directors’ films — First Man and If Beale Street Could Talk, respectively — underperform, with Jenkins’s feature shockingly being left out of the Best Picture race and First Man composer Justin Hurwitz failing to secure a nod.
On a brighter note, to our and Oprah’s delight, Capharnaum scored a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film following Golden Globe, Critic’s Choice, and BAFTA nominations this year. This marks the second Oscar nomination of a Lebanese film after last year’s The Insult.
Here is the list of nominees:
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali (Green Book)
Richard E Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born)
Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)
Sam Rockwell (Vice)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Vice
Best Costume Design
Black Panther (Ruth E Carter)
The Favourite (Sandy Powell)
Mary Poppins Returns (Sandy Powell)
Mary Queen of Scots (Alexandra Byrne)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Mary Zophres)
Best Documentary Feature
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
RBG
Hale Country This Morning, This Evening
Of Fathers and Sons
Best Sound Editing
First Man
A Quiet Place
Bohemian Rhapsody
Black Panther
Roma
Best Sound Mixing
A Star Is Born
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Roma
Black Panther

Best Supporting Actress
Emma Stone (The Favourite)
Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)
Amy Adams (Vice)
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Marina De Tavira (Roma)
Best Foreign Language Film
Roma (Mexico)
Cold War (Poland)
Shoplifters (Japan)
Capharnaum (Lebanon)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Best Animated Short
Animal Behaviour
Bao
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends
Best Animated Feature
Incredibles 2
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Best Production Design
The Favourite (Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton)
First Man (Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas)
Roma (Eugenio Caballero and Barbara Enriquez)
Mary Poppins Returns (John Myhre and Gordon Sim)
Black Panther (Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart)
Best Visual Effects
First Man
Avengers: Infinity War
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Ready Player One
Christopher Robin
Best Film Editing
Bohemian Rhapsody (John Ottman)
Vice (Hank Corwin)
BlacKkKlansman (Barry Alexander Brown)
The Favourite (Yorgos Mavropsaridis)
Green Book (Patrick J Don Vito)
Best Documentary, Short Subject
Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence.
Best Short Film, Live Action
Detainment
Fauve
Marguerite
Mother
Skin
Best Cinematography
Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
Cold War (Lukasz Zal)
Never Look Away (Caleb Deschanel)
The Favourite (Robbie Ryan)
A Star Is Born (Matty Libatique)
Best Original Score
If Beale Street Could Talk (Nicholas Britell)
Mary Poppins Returns (Marc Shaiman)
Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat)
BlacKkKlansman (Terence Blanchard)
Black Panther (Ludwig Goransson)
Best Original Song
“Shallow” (A Star Is Born)
“All the Stars” (Black Panther)
“I’ll Fight” (RBG)
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” (Mary Poppins Returns)
“When a Cowboy Trades his Spurs for Wings” (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)
Best Original Screenplay
Green Book (Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga)
The Favourite (Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara)
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
Vice (Adam McKay)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
Best Adapted Screenplay
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters and Eric Roth)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and Kevin Willmott)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)

Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)
Adam McKay (Vice)
Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)
Best Actor
Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Christian Bale (Vice)
Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)
Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate)
Best Actress
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)
Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Yalitza Aparicio (Roma)
Best Picture
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star is Born
Vice
The Academy Awards will air in Lebanon on Monday, February 25, after midnight.