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Roma and The Favourite Lead the 2019 Oscar Nominees

Olivia Colman, in period garb, peers into a tiny mirror.
Oscar nominee Olivia Colman in The Favourite. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

The nominations for the 91st Academy Awards were announced bright and early Tuesday morning with the help of Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross. The Favourite and Roma tied for the most nominations with 10 apiece, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ scrapped Best Popular Film category proved unnecessary, since blockbuster Black Panther snagged a Best Picture slot on its own merits.

Among the first-time nominations (Spike Lee for Directing) and surprises (Marina de Tavira for Supporting Actress) there were snubs, too. Academy voters shunned Won’t You Be My Neighbor? for Documentary Feature and shut Best Picture frontrunner A Star Is Born out of both the Film Editing and Directing categories, seemingly dinging its chances of winning. A Best Picture win under those circumstances would at least be unprecedented: Only twice since Best Film Editing became a category has a movie won Best Picture without being nominated for Directing as well, and both of those (Driving Miss Daisy and Argo) at least had Editing nominations.

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The complete list of nominees is below. The Academy Awards will be presented on Feb. 24, and you can check out more of Slate’s Oscars coverage here.

Best Picture

Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star Is Born
Vice

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice

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Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams, Vice
Marina de Tavira, Roma
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Best Directing

Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Adam McKay, Vice

Best Animated Feature

Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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Best Adapted Screenplay

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born

Best Original Screenplay

The Favourite
First Reformed
Green Book
Roma
Vice

Best Foreign Language Film

Capernaum (Lebanon)
Cold War (Poland)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)

Best Documentary Feature

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Free Solo
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG

Best Original Song

“All the Stars,” Black Panther
“I’ll Fight,” RBG
“The Place Where Lost Things Go,” Mary Poppins Returns
“Shallow,” A Star Is Born
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings,” The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

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Best Original Score

Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns

Best Cinematography

Cold War
The Favourite
Never Look Away
Roma
A Star Is Born

Best Film Editing

BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice

Best Costume Design

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

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Mary Queen of Scots
Vice

Best Production Design

Black Panther
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma

Best Sound Editing

Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
A Quiet Place
Roma

Best Sound Mixing

Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Roma
A Star Is Born

Best Visual Effects

Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story

Best Documentary Short

Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
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Best Animated Short

Animal Behaviour
Bao
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends

Best Live Action Short

Detainment
Fauve
Marguerite
Mother
Skin

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