LAMB Devours The Oscars is here! It’s been gone for a couple of years, but with today’s revealing of the nominees we’re thrilled to announce the return of this popular feature! If you’re new or unfamiliar, The LAMB Devours The Oscars will see a LAMB member cover a different award every day (hopefully!) from today until this year’s ceremony on Sunday February 26th. That’s all 23 categories except Best Picture, with each of the nine picture nominees receiving a dedicated post. You can do a review of the films, general discussion of the nominees, backstory/history on the category itself, give your predictions, etc. Whatever you like. Click here to check out some previous articles. What we end up with (hopefully) is a diverse daily series celebrating Hollywood’s biggest night.

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If you haven’t seen them yet, here’s the full list of nominees:

Best Picture
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Hidden Figures
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Hell or High Water
Moonlight
Fences

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea
Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
Dev Patel – Lion
Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Viola Davis – Fences
Naomie Harris – Moonlight
Nicole Kidman – Lion
Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea

Cinematography
Arrival
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence

Documentary Feature
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life Animated
13th
O.J.: Made in America

Lead Actor
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling – La La Land
Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington – Fences

Lead Actress
Isabelle Huppert – Elle
Ruth Negga – Loving
Natalie Portman – Jackie
Emma Stone – La La Land
Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins

Directing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight

Production Design
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
La La Land
Passengers

Visual Effects
Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Costume Design
Allied
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Jackie
La La Land
Florence Foster Jenkins

Animated feature film
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia

Documentary (short subject)
Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets

Film editing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight

Foreign language film
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
The Salesman
Tanna
Toni Erdmann

Makeup and hair styling
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad

Original song
“Audition (The Fools Who Dream)”, La La Land
“Can’t Stop the Feeling,” Trolls
“City of Stars,” La La Land
“The Empty Chair,” Jim, The James Foley Story
“How Far I’ll Go,” Moana

Original score
Jackie
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Passengers

Short film (animated)
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper

Short film (live action)
Ennemis Interieurs
La femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing
Timecode

Sound editing
Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully

Sound mixing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Writing (adapted screenplay)
Arrival, Eric Heisserer
Fences, August Wilson
Hidden Figures, Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
Lion, Luke Davies
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney

Writing (original screenplay)
Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan
La La Land, Damien Chazelle
The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou
Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan
20th Century Women, Mike Mills

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