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For your Consideration In the Valley of Violence Best Overlooked Feature Best Hero (Paul) Florence Foster Jenkins Best Picture Best Ensemble Best Actress (Meryl Streep) Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg) Best Original Screenplay Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Makeup & Hairstyling, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Best Comedy Feature Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Best Visual Effects Best Production Design Best Costume Design Best TV Comedy various nominees Black-ish Modern Family Documentary Now Haters Back Off

I feel like Moonlight beating out Manchester for Best Drama at the Globes was significant. I'm just not sure how significant.

Yeah, I think Johnson is getting nominated for sure now, but someone is getting shut out for sure now. This is quite the shake up!

So, Aaron Taylor Johnson's chance at an Oscar nomination just rose a tad bit.

Best Drama 1. Manchester by the Sea 2. Moonlight 3. Hacksaw Ridge 4. Hell or High Water 5. Lion Best Comedy 1. La La Land 2. Florence Foster Jenkins 3. 20th Century Women 4. Sing Street 5. Deadpool Best Drama Actor 1. Casey Affleck 2. Denzel Washington 3. Andrew Garfield 4. Joel Edgerton 5. Viggo Mortenson Best Drama Actress 1. Natalie Portman 2. Amy Adams 3. Isabelle Huppert 4. Ruth Negga 5. Jessica Chastain Best Comedy Actor 1. Ryan Gosling 2. Hugh Grant 3. Ryan Reynolds 4. Colin Farrell 5. Jonah Hill Best Comedy Actress 1. Emma Stone 2. Annette Bening 3. Meryl Streep 4. Hailee Steinfeld 5. Lily Collins Best Director 1. Damien Chazelle 2. Kenneth Lonergan 3. Barry Jenkins 4. Mel Gibson 5. Tom Ford Best Screenplay 1. Manchester by the Sea 2. Moonlight 3. Nocturnal Animals 4. Hell Or High Water 5. La La Land Animated 1. Moana 2. Kubo and the Two Strings 3. Zootopia 4. My Life as a Zucchini 5. Sing Foreign 1. Toni Erdmann 2. Elle 3. Neruda 4. Divines 5. The Salesman Score Moonlight Arrival La La Land Lion Hidden Figures Best Song City of Stars How Far I'll Go Faith Can't Stop the Feeling Gold

Sing Street is a really good film though. It's a shame the odds are against it.

I am honestly going to fill out all the TV categories regardless... I know I haven't seen much, but I feel like some categories could use the help.

For Your Consideration Hail, Ceasar! Best Supporting Actor (Alden Ehrenreich) Best Production Design Best Song (No Dames) Best Comedy Feature Pete's Dragon Best Song (Nobody Knows) Most Disappointing Box Office Run God's Not Dead 2 Best Supporting Actor (Jesse Metcalfe) Most Disappointing Box Office Run I hope it's fine to suggest so many things for the FYC... I know I've suggested a lot!

For Your Consideration Con't Midnight Special Best Supporting Actress (Kirsten Dunst) Best Cinematography Best Visual Effects Best Original Score Best Overlooked Feature Best Hero (Roy) The Edge of Seventeen Best Ensemble Best Actress (Hailee Steinfeld) Best Original Screenplay Best Soundtrack Best Comedy Feature Best Overlooked Feature Most Disappointing Box Office Run Best TV Series Drama Candidates This Is Us The Walking Dead Hacksaw Ridge Best Picture Best Director (Mel Gibson) Best Actor (Andrew Garfield) Best Film Editing Best Production Design Best Costume Design Best Makeup and Hairstyling Best Sound Best Hero (Desmond T. Doss) The Wave Best Visual Effects Best Foreign Language Feature Best Overlooked Feature Best Hero (Kristian) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Best Ensemble Best Supporting Actor (Dan Fogler) Best Adapted Screenplay Best Production Design Best Costume Design Best Visual Effects Best Hero (Newt Scamander) The Jungle Book Best Voice / Motion Capture Performance (Idris Elba) Best Production Design Best Visual Effects Best Sound Best Hero (Mowgli) Best Villain (Shere Khan) Most Impressive Box Office Run My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Best Comedy Feature Worst Picture Candidates Why Him? Nine Lives Norm of the North Cabin Fever Max Steel The Divergent Series: Allegiant

Unlike some other companies, Paramount has four major Oscar players in the pool; that's Fences, Arrival, Silence, and Florence Foster Jenkins. Surely some of their films are falling by the wayside in favor of other films, and if I had to guess, the runaway box office success of Fences, the approachable vibe of Silence, and the somewhat unexpected success at the Golden Globes for Florence Foster Jenkins are all eating into Silence's chances a little bit. Then again, Silence may have qualities that eat into Paramount's other films as well. On a related note, I get why A24 has seemingly chosen to emphasize Moonlight in their campaigning efforts and leave their other films, such as 20th Century Women, with substantially less campaigning, but it's a shame nonetheless.

For Your Consideration Sing Street Best Picture Best Ensemble Best Supporting Actor (Jack Reynor) Best Original Screenplay Best Film Editing Best Cinematography Best Costume Design Best Makeup and Hairstyling Best Original Song Best Soundtrack Best Overlooked Feature Best Hero (Conor 'Cosmo' Lawlor) Jason Bourne Best Film Editing Best Sound Best Hero (Jason Bourne) Best Villain (Asset) Hell or High Water Best Picture Best Director (David Mackenzie) Best Ensemble Best Actor (Chris Pine) Best Supporting Actor (Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges) Best Supporting Actress (Debrianna Mansini) Best Original Screenplay Best Film Editing Best Cinematography Best Sound Most Impressive Box Office Run Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Best Picture Best Ensemble Best Director (Gareth Edwards) Best Actress (Felicity Jones) Best Supporting Actor (Diego Luna) Best Adapted Screenplay Best Voice / Motion Capture Performance (Alan Tyduk) Best Film Editing Best Cinematography Best Production Design Best Costume Design Best Original Score Best Sound Best Visual Effects Best Hero Best Villain (Director Krennic and Darth Vader) Most Impressive Box Office Run Zootopia Best Original Screenplay Best Voice / Motion Capture Performance (Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman) Best Animated Feature Best Original Song (Try Everything) Best Hero (Judy Hoops) Best Villain (Bellweather) Most Impressive Box Office Run (More to come)

I agree! The movies that did get a nomination were pretty good, but I think there is a reason why nobody remembers them, save for Slumdog Millionaire. Even I watched half of Benjamin Button before getting bored. Wall-E and The Dark Knight were two of the best films of the year, and completely topple over a majority of 2008's Best Picture nominees. I support Wall-E for that year's Best Picture.

It's a shame the Best Scene award was left out this year, but I'm still hyped!

I saw all of those movies this year! And I didn't see many films in 2016! XD

I would like to see Best Voice Performance categories split between Lead Voice Role and Supporting Voice Role. And I think last time the Horror Genre wasn't included, maybe because only one film had anything remotely close to a chance in 2015. Even if I'm not a fan of the horror genre, that exclusion seemed off to me. Besides those minor grievances, I think last year did it pretty well.

I am shocked at snubs for Hacksaw Ridge and Jackie, but I guess that's okay. If A Man Called Ove got the Makeup nom as well as the foreign nom, that would be a good thing for that movie's sales, so here's hoping. My picks: Star Trek Beyond Florence Foster Jenkins A Man Called Ove

2016 has been an interesting year to say the least. When are we going to be able to send in nominations?

I disagree heavily about Rogue One's score not being up to snuff. The music in Rogue One did a very good job of being its own rather than leaning in towards the regular Star Wars themes, and the score often complemented many of the film's moments to great affect. Especially the Baze Malbus moment that I won't spoil.

The one that makes my mind race is the cast nomination for Captain Fantastic. They've chosen this over other films like 20th Century Women, Nocturnal Animals, Hell or High Water, etc. At the very least, we know Bleeker Street is focusing their campaign efforts on this film, so I just wonder what will come of it come Oscar time.

There are some moments in Rogue One that I feel guarantees it for a nomination.

I just wonder what the exclusion of Elle means for Isabelle Huppert's nomination chances.

I find it interesting that Sing Street itself got the comedy/musical nomination at the Golden Globes, but no songs got any noms.

The Golden Globes had some surprises in this category! Simon Helberg for Florence Foster Jenkins and Aaron Taylor Johnson for Nocturnal Animals!

I wonder how far Green Room can get with no campaigning from A24. It probably won't climb all the way up, but I think it might have jumped a few pegs higher amidst all the other 'no-chance' films.

Well, that's legitimately interesting. This race is getting tighter; it'll be a photo finish.