Oscars: Roma, Favourite top nominations with 10 apiece

The Academy unveiled its 2019 Oscar nominations early Tuesday morning, with The Favourite and Roma leading all films with 10 nods apiece. Both movies are nominated for best picture for the 91st Oscars alongside BlacKkKlansman, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book, A Star Is Born and Vice.A Star Is Born and Vice also were dominant in the 2019 Oscar nominations, earning eight apiece, followed by Black Panther with seven, BlacKkKlansman with six and Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book with five each. Meanwhile, in the directing category, Spike Lee earned his first-ever best directing Oscar nomination for BlacKkKlansman, while A Star Is Born director Bradley Cooper was among the snubs, though he did earn a best acting nomination. Lee will vie with Alfonso Cuaron (Roma), Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite), Adam McKay (Vice) and Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War) for the honor of best director at the 2019 Oscars.The Oscar nominations announcement took place at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, with Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross hosting.The 91st annual Academy Awards will be presented once again at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood. The show will air live Sunday, February 24, on ABC. Here are some of the nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards.Best ActressYalitza Aparicio (Roma) Glenn Close (The Wife)Olivia Colman (The Favourite)Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)Best ActorChristian Bale (Vice)Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate)Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)Best Supporting ActressAmy Adams (Vice)Marina de Tavira (Roma)Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)Emma Stone (The Favourite)Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)Best Supporting ActorMahershala Ali (Green Book)Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born)Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)Sam Rockwell (Vice)Best Original ScreenplayThe Favourite (Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara)First Reformed (Paul Schrader)Green Book (Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly)Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)Vice (Adam McKay)Best CinematographyThe Favourite (Robbie Ryan)Never Look Away (Caleb Deschanel)Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)A Star Is Born (Matty Libatique)Cold War (Lukasz Zal)Best Documentary FeatureFree Solo (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill)Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim)Minding the Gap (Bing Liu and Diane Quon)Of Fathers and Sons (Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert)RBG (Betsy West and Julie Cohen)Best Animated FeatureIncredibles 2 (Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle)Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson)Mirai (Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito)Ralph Breaks the Internet (Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer)Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller)Best Foreign-Language FilmCapernaum (Lebanon)Cold War (Poland)Never Look Away (Germany)Roma (Mexico) Shoplifters (Japan)Best Visual EffectsAvengers: Infinity War (Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick)Christopher Robin (Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould)First Man (Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm)Ready Player One (Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk)Solo: A Star Wars Story (Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy)Best Animated ShortAnimal Behaviour (Alison Snowden and David Fine)Bao (Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb)Late Afternoon (Louise Bagnall and Nuria Gonzalez Blanco)One Small Step (Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas)Weekends (Trevor Jimenez)Best Documentary ShortBlack Sheep (Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn)End Game (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman)Lifeboat (Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser)A Night at the Garden (Marshall Curry)Period. End of Sentence. (Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton)– Courtesy: Hollywood Reporter

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