Olivia Colman’s period comedy-drama The Favourite and Netflix’s black-and-white epic Roma lead this year’s Oscar race, with 10 nominations each.
The other contenders include ‘A Star Is Born’ and ‘Vice’ with eight each, followed by ‘Black Panther’ with seven.
Black Panther is the first superhero movie to be nominated for best picture.
Colman is among the British acting nominees, alongside her co-star ‘Rachel Weisz’ and ‘Christian Bale’ for Vice.
Films with the most nominations:
- 10 – The Favourite, Roma
- 8 – A Star Is Born, Vice
- 7 – Black Panther
- 6 – BlacKkKlansman
- 5 – Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book
- 4 – First Man, Mary Poppins Returns
Colman’s strongest competition in the best actress category is likely to come from ‘Glenn Close’, who is odds-on favourite to win her first Academy Award for ‘The Wife’ after six previous nominations, according to bookmakers,
‘Yalitza Aparicio’ is nominated for her first screen role, as the Mexican maid in Roma. The film has also given Netflix its first ever best picture nomination.
The best actress category also includes ‘Melissa McCarthy’ for ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ and Lady Gaga for A Star Is Born.
Gaga’s co-star Bradley Cooper is nominated in the best actor category, but the frontrunners for that statuette are two men who earned acclaim for portraying real-life public figures.
Rami Malek won rave reviews for playing Queen singer Freddie Mercury in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, while Bale transformed into former US Vice-President Dick Cheney with the help of prosthetics in Vice.
Richard E Grant has received his first ever Oscar nomination, for best supporting actor for his role in the film Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Withnail & I star was among the first 2019 nominees to be announced, alongside Mahershala Ali, Adam Driver, Sam Elliott and Sam Rockwell.
Weisz is up for best supporting actress, as are Amy Adams, Marina de Tavira, Regina King and Emma Stone.
The ceremony will take place on 24 February.
Full nomination list
Best picture
- BlacKkKlansman
- Black Panther
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Favourite
- Green Book
- Roma
- A Star Is Born
- Vice
Best actor
- Christian Bale – Vice
- Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
- Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate
- Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
- Viggo Mortensen – Green Book
Best actress
- Yalitza Aparicio – Roma
- Glenn Close – The Wife
- Olivia Colman – The Favourite
- Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
- Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best supporting actor
- Mahershala Ali – Green Book
- Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
- Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born
- Richard E Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Sam Rockwell – Vice
Best supporting actress
- Amy Adams – Vice
- Marina de Tavira – Roma
- Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
- Emma Stone – The Favourite
- Rachel Weisz – The Favourite
Best director
- Alfonso Cuaron – Roma
- Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
- Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
- Adam McKay – Vice
- Pawel Pawlikowski – Cold War
Best adapted screenplay
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- BlacKkKlansman
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- A Star Is Born
Best original screenplay
- The Favourite
- First Reformed
- Green Book
- Roma
- Vice
Best foreign language film
- Capernaum – Lebanon
- Cold War – Poland
- Never Look Away – Germany
- Roma – Mexico
- Shoplifters – Japan
Best original song
- All The Stars – Black Panther
- I’ll Fight – RGB
- The Place Where Lost Things Go – Mary Poppins Returns
- Shallow – A Star Is Born
- When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Best original score
- BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard
- Black Panther – Ludwig Goransson
- If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell
- Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat
- Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
Best animated feature
- Incredibles 2
- Isle of Dogs
- Mirai
- Ralph Breaks the Internet
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best documentary feature
- Free Solo
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening
- Minding the Gap
- Of Fathers and Sons
- RBG
Best cinematography
- Cold War
- The Favourite
- Never Look Away
- Roma
- A Star Is Born
Best costume design
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Mary Zophres
- Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter
- The Favourite – Sandy Powell
- Mary Poppins Returns – Sandy Powell
- Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne)
Best make-up and hairstyling
- Border
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Vice
Best production design
- Black Panther
- The Favourite
- First Man
- Mary Poppins Returns
- Roma
Best visual effects
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Christopher Robin
- First Man
- Ready Player One
- Solo: A Star Wars Story
Best film editing
- BlacKkKlansman
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Favourite
- Green Book
- Vice
Best sound editing
- Black Panther
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- First Man
- A Quiet Place
- Roma
Best sound mixing
- Black Panther
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- First Man
- Roma
- A Star Is Born
Best animated short
- Animal Behaviour
- Bao
- Late Afternoon
- One Small Step
- Weekends
Best live action short
- Detainment
- Fauve
- Marguerite
- Mother
- Skin
Best documentary short
- Black Sheep
- End Game
- Lifeboat
- A Night at the Garden
- Period. End of Sentence.
Source: BBC