The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the shortlists for few of the Oscar categories. Some of these aren’t unexpected like Black Panther is on the list of Best Makeup and Hairstyling or Avengers: Infinity War being on the shortlist for Best Visual Effects. There are some may be surprised to see Black Panther on the list for Best Visual Effects. Also, it’s exciting to see that The Guilty is on the shortlist as well, but Woman at War is not on the list, yet both are being remade for US audiences. Check out the full list of all nine shortlists:
Best 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?
Best Documentary Short
- Black Sheep
- End Game
- Lifeboat
- Los Comandos
- My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes
- A Night at the Garden
- Period. End of Sentence.
- ’63 Boycott
- Women of the Gulag
- Zion
Best 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
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- Black Panther
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Border
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Stan & Ollie
- Suspiria
- Vice
Best 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
Best Original Song
- “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- “Treasure” from Beautiful Boy
- “All the Stars” from Black Panther
- “Revelation” from Boy Erased
- “Girl in the Movies” from Dumplin’
- “We Won’t Move” from The Hate U Give
- “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns
- “Trip a Little Light Fantastic” from Mary Poppins Returns
- “Keep Reachin’” from Quincy
- “I’ll Fight” from RBG
- “A Place Called Slaughter Race” from Ralph Breaks the Internet
- “OYAHYTT” from Sorry to Bother You
- “Shallow” from A Star Is Born
- “Suspirium” from Suspiria
- “The Big Unknown” from Widows
Best Animated Short
- Age of Sail
- Animal Behaviour
- Bao
- Bilby
- Bird Karma
- Late Afternoon
- Lost & Found
- One Small Step
- Pepe le Morse
- Weekends
Best Live-Action Short
- Caroline
- Chuchotage
- Detainment
- Fauve
- Icare
- Marguerite
- May Day
- Mother
- Skin
- Wale
Best 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
