Oscars Shortlists Narrow Down the Field for Visual Effects, Documentaries, Score, Original Song & More

The Oscars are stil in the process of figuring out whether or not they’ll have a host for next year’s ceremony honoring the year in film that was 2018. But in the meantime, they still have a whole process of voting to get through in order to determine which films will be vying for nominations. The Academy has unveiled the shortlists for nine categories, including Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Documentary Feature, Best Visual Effects and more.

Check out the Oscars nominations shortlists below to see what’s still in consideration.

Normally these shortlists are announced in a staggered way, but The Academy decided to release them all at the same time (via Variety). These are the lists that Academy members will be using to determine who gets Oscars nominations, which will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.

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?

Documentary Short Subject

Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
Los Comandos
My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence.
’63 Boycott
Women of the Gulag
Zion

Foreign Language Film

Colombia, Birds of Passage
Denmark, The Guilty
Germany, Never Look Away
Japan, Shoplifters
Kazakhstan, Ayka
Lebanon, Capernaum
Mexico, Roma
Poland, Cold War
South Korea, Burning

Makeup and Hairstyling

Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Stan & Ollie
Suspiria
Vice

Music (Original Score)

Annihilation
Avengers: Infinity War
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Crazy Rich Asians
The Death of Stalin
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns
A Quiet Place
Ready Player One
Vice

Music (Original Song)

“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
“Treasure” – Beautiful Boy
“All The Stars” – Black Panther
“Revelation” – Boy Erased
“Girl In The Movies” – Dumplin’
“We Won’t Move” – The Hate U Give
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” – Mary Poppins Returns
“Trip A Little Light Fantastic” – Mary Poppins Returns
“Keep Reachin’” – Quincy
“I’ll Fight” – RBG
“A Place Called Slaughter Race” – Ralph Breaks the Internet
“OYAHYTT” – Sorry to Bother You
“Shallow” – A Star Is Born
“Suspirium” – Suspiria
“The Big Unknown” – Widows

Short Film (Animated)

Age of Sail
Animal Behaviour
Bao
Bilby
Bird Karma
Late Afternoon
Lost & Found
One Small Step
Pépé le Morse
Weekends

Short Film (Live Action)

Caroline
Chuchotage
Detainment
Fauve
Icare
Marguerite
May Day
Mother
Skin
Wale

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

Welcome to Marwen somehow got on the finalist list for visual effects. Anything in Incredibles 2, which was on the previous shortlist for visual effects, was better than the effects used to bring those creepy dolls to life in the Robert Zemeckis movie. That’s just ludicrous.

Interestingly, A Star Is Born only ended up with one song on the shortlist for Best Original Song, and it’s “Shallow.” But Mary Poppins Returns has the chance of getting two nominations since they have two songs on the shortlist. We’ll see what happens when the nominations get announced next month.

The final Oscar nominations will be announced on January 22, but the 91st annual Academy Awards won’t air until Sunday, February 24, 2019. Stay tuned for all the latest Oscar nominations updates.

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