For the first time in its history, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has released nine shortlists for the upcoming Oscars on the same day. Monday, the Academy announced a reduced pool of contenders in nine categories, including: Best Documentary Feature, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Makeup & Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Visual Effects, Best Animated Short Film, Best Documentary – Short Subject, and Best Live Action Short Film.
The amount of contenders varies by category, with seven for Makeup & Hairstyling, nine for Foreign Language Film and Visual Effects, 10 for each of the short categories, and 15 for Documentary Feature, Original Score and Original Song. This is the first time the Academy is releasing shortlists for Original Score and Song, whose nominees have until now been decided from much longer lists.
Here are the shortlists in all nine Oscar categories for the upcoming 91st Academy Awards.
Best 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?
Best Foreign Language Film
- Ayka – Kazakhstan
- Birds of Passage – Columbia
- Burning – South Korea
- Capernaum – Lebanon
- Cold War – Poland
- The Guilty – Denmark
- Never Look Away – Germany
- Roma – Mexico
- Shoplifters – Japan
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
- Black Panther
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Border
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Stan & Ollie
- Suspiria
- Vice
Best Original Score
- Annihilation – Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury
- Avengers: Infinity War – Alan Silvestri
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Carter Burwell
- Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson
- BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard
- Crazy Rich Asians – Brian Tyler
- The Death of Stalin – Christopher Willis
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – James Newton Howard
- First Man – Justin Hurwitz
- If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell
- Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat
- Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman
- A Quiet Place – Marco Beltrami
- Ready Player One – Alan Silvestri
- Vice – Nicholas Britell
Best Original Song
- “All the Stars” – Black Panther
- “The Big Unknown” – Widows
- “Girl in the Movies” – Dumplin’
- “I’ll Fight” – RBG
- “Keep Reachin'” – Quincy
- “OYAHYTT” – Sorry to Bother You
- “A Place Called Slaughter Race” – Ralph Breaks the Internet
- “The Place Where Lost Things Go” – Mary Poppins Returns
- “Revelation” – Boy Erased
- “Shallow” – A Star Is Born
- “Suspirium” – Suspiria
- “Treasure” from Beautiful Boy
- “Trip a Little Light Fantastic” – Mary Poppins Returns
- “We Won’t Move” – The Hate U Give
- “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Best 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
- Welcome to Marwen
Best Animated Short Film
- Age of Sail
- Animal Behaviour
- Bao
- Bilby
- Bird Karma
- Late Afternoon
- Lost & Found
- One Small Step
- Pépé le Morse
- Weekends
Best Documentary – Short Subject
- ‘63 Boycott
- Black Sheep
- End Game
- Lifeboat
- Los Comandos
- My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes
- A Night at the Garden
- Period. End of Sentence.
- Women of the Gulag
- Zion
Best Live Action Short Film
- Caroline
- Chuchotage
- Detainment
- Fauve
- Icare
- Marguerite
- May Day
- Mother
- Skin
- Wale