Not sure I follow you. But yeah, Meryl's lack of nom for Rikki and the Jets did seem to indicate that it wasn't a great movie, because the trend in recent years is to nominate her for everything.

You left out the best one of all, the 19th Pokémon movie, Pokémon The Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel:

The key word was eligible

^ Definitely but her problem is that she's too damn good, and when she's too damn good twice in one year the votes get split.

Andrew Garfield was good in Hacksaw Ridge, but excellent in Silence. He got nominated for the wrong movie.

I wonder if the nominations would have been the same if not for the backlash last year or if they decided to overcompensate.

I'm surprised at lack of Hidden Figures acting noms. Also, I think Ali will win Best Supporting. I haven't seen Moonlight, but have heard. Liked him on House of Cards and would love that. I think he could take it. Surprised nothing for Adams, but that's ok. She'll be just fine. Surprised Life of Pets wasn't nominated, but can understand that one and Dory. Really hope Kubo wins. Glad for Negga too. She's cute on Preacher and gonna see Loving soon...

I think they would have been the same, the academy loves Octavia Spencer, Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. I haven't seen Hidden Figures yet, but it is hugely popular (up to $85m domestic and is dropping at an impressively slow rate)

Denzel and Viola both easily earned their nominations in Fences. And Ali his in Moonlight. Fences and Moonlight would definitely have gotten nominated, Hidden Figures I think got an extra boost due to just how popular it is. Best picture wise, Fences has a 95% w/ 8.0 average, Hidden Figures has a 92% w/ a 7.6, Moonlight has a 98% with a 9.0.

Wish Keaton got nomd. He was robbed for Birdman...

Totally agree with this one. Entire emotional core of the film is due to the kid. Dev was fine but not nearly as impactful.

Also agree on Garfield being slightly better in Silence versus Hacksaw.

So is it Casey or Denzel?

Amy Adams needs do a film in a place with a harsh climate and eat the raw organ of a dead animal.

Hands down Casey. Not even a question. Denzel has his 2 and Davis was really the impact I heard...

There couldn't have been any snubs. From the podium, it looked to be about a million to a million-and-a-half nominees. Largest pool of nominees ever in all of history's time.

Agreed. Bridges was good, but it feels like he's repeating his performance lately. Foster was great in this. In fact, Foster's been great in a lot of films. He's a damn fine actor and I have to believe eventually he'll get recognised as such.

He wasn't that good in The Founder, his only 2016 credit. And I'm pretty sure they don't give out nominations just for being Michael Keaton.

"Hands down, not even a question", "I heard". You're a funny guy.

He wasn't robbed, people just thought that it was "his turn." IMO Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler) & Philip Seymour Hoffman (A Most Wanted Man) turned in better performances than Keaton and weren't even nominated.

Oscars: Academy Disqualifies ‘Arrival,’ ‘Silence,’ ‘Manchester’ Original Scores

http://variety.com/2016/film/in-cont...ce-1201941479/

I thought this was weird in the article :

Whether they were substantial or not is irrelevant in the case of "Silence" -- no movie is Oscar-eligible in that category if it has more than one credited composer. That's the reason that the brilliant score for The Revenant was ruled ineligible last year. (And maybe why Hidden Figures isn't nominated this year).

Is that a different category than the one Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won for The Social Network?

I heard Nate Parker is behind this.

Casey Affleck and Mel Gibson's Oscar nominations spark outrage due to their troubled pasts

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.2954279

I guess I was partially wrong. If two composers write the music together, they're eligible for the Original Score Oscar, but if the original works of two different composers are used, then they are not.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...224-story.html

That makes sense, seems like a bullshit rule, but makes sense.

I think the rule was set up after it was either Brokeback Mountain or Babel won for Original Score when something like 80% of the Score was not written for the film and only a few minutes of actual Music in the final was Original.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt should have gotten a nomination for Snowden.

He had the voice down and you could not tell it was JGL.