The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced shortlists in consideration for the 91st Oscars in nine categories, weeks before the nominations in other categories go live.
Nominations for the awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.
The Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.
Semi-finalists in Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film and Visual Effects are as follows:
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
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
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
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
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Stan & Ollie
Suspiria
Vice
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
MUSIC (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
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Age of Sail
Animal Behaviour
Bao
Bilby
Bird Karma
Late Afternoon
Lost & Found
One Small Step
Pp le Morse
Weekends
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Caroline
Chuchotage
Detainment
Fauve
Icare
Marguerite
May Day
Mother
Skin
Wale
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
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