Oscar Nominations 2017: Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet the Beautiful People of This Year’s Academy Awards
After 2016’s #OscarsSoWhite controversy, the 2017 Academy Awards promise to be a refreshingly diverse ceremony: Among the night’s most promising and buzzed-about honorees are Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’s coming-of-age narrative about a young black man coming to terms with his sexuality in the projects of Miami, and Hidden Figures, the Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe three-hander about the black women mathematicians working behind the scenes at a nascent NASA in the lead-up to the agency’s first successful mission. Elsewhere, Damien Chazelle’s sophomore film La La Land, which swept the Golden Globes, promises to have a strong showing on Feb. 26, and Kenneth Lonergan’s devastating Manchester by the Sea sees nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Picture, and Best Director. Among the lesser-expected nominees are Meryl Streep for Florence Foster Jenkins and Nicole Kidman for Lion, while Amy Adams was snubbed for dual work in Nocturnal Animals and Arrival. Get to know the beautiful stars of the year’s best films — now, with Academy Award nominations to show for it — here.
Isabelle Huppert, Best Actress, Elle
Ruth Negga, Best Actress, Loving
Natalie Portman, Best Actress, Jackie
Meryl Streep, Best Actress, Florence Foster Jenkins
Andrew Garfield, Best Actor, Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling, Best Actor, La La Land
Casey Affleck, Best Actor, Manchester by the Sea
Viggo Mortensen, Best Actor, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Best Actor, Fences
Michelle Williams, Best Supporting Actress, Manchester by the Sea
Nicole Kidman, Best Supporting Actress, Lion
Naomi Harris, Best Supporting Actress, Moonlight
Viola Davis, Best Supporting Actress, Fences
Mahershala Ali, Best Supporting Actor, Moonlight
Lucas Hedges, Best Supporting Actor, Manchester by the Sea
Jeff Bridges, Best Supporting Actor, Hell or High Water
Dev Patel, Best Supporting Actor, Lion
Michael Shannon, Best Supporting Actor, Nocturnal Animals
Damien Chazelle, Best Director and Best Screenplay, La La Land