The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has taken the very unusual step of releasing Oscars shortlists in nine categories at once for the first time ever. Previously they sent out shortlists separately and at different times. This is also the first year that Original Score and Best Song have been included in the shortlisting process by eliminating all but 15 contenders in each of those categories going forward. In past years the Academy simply released a list of eligible scores and songs ,but didn’t eliminate any of them until Oscar nominations were actually announced. Check out the semifinalists for Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Makeup/Hairstyling, Foreign Language Feature, Original Song, Original Score, Live Action Short and Animated Short below.

Among the biggest surprises is that Girl, the Belgian film that has inflamed the LGBTQ community and caused a huge backlash, was snubbed for Foreign Film. And although Sweden’s Border was not on the list of Foreign Language Film’s nine finalists, it did score a mention as finalist for Make Up and Hairstyling, the third such Swedish film to make that cut in that category this decade. And though Netflix’s Quincy was overlooked as a Documentary Feature finalist, the song “Keep Reachin'” made the shortlist for Best Song. This week’s holiday releases, Aquaman, Bumblebee, and Mortal Engines which all feature dazzling special effects were eliminated from the race after first being shortlisted on the Visual Effects branch’s list of 20 original contenders (now whittled down to 10). However Robert Zemeckis’ latest dance with Performance Capture techniques, Welcome To Marwen which also opens this week, did graduate to the Academy’s latest round of hopefuls, even if it is far less known than the higher profile trio of holiday openers.

Voting on nominations will run from January 7-14, and the list of nominees for the 91st Oscars will be unveiled on Tuesday, January 22. The hardware will be doled out Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland. ABC will air the ceremony live nationwide.

Here are the lists unveiled today:

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

One hundred sixty-six films were originally submitted in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

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

One hundred four films had originally qualified in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

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

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

All members of the Academy’s Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films on January 5. Members will vote to nominate three films for final Oscar® consideration.

Black Panther

Bohemian Rhapsody

Border

Mary Queen of Scots

Stan & Ollie

Suspiria

Vice

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Eighty-seven films had originally been considered in the category. Los Angeles-based Academy members from all branches screened the original submissions in the category between mid-October and December 10. The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist. Academy members eligible to participate in the nominations round of voting will view the shortlisted films. Members must see all nine films before casting their ballots.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:

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

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

One hundred fifty-six scores were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

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)

Ninety songs were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title and song title:

When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings, from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Treasure, from Beautiful Boy

All the Stars, from Black Panther

Revelation, from Boy Erased

Girl In The Movies, from Dumplin’

We Won’t Move, from The Hate U Give

The Place Where Lost Things Go, from Mary Poppins Returns

Trip A Little Light Fantastic, from Mary Poppins Returns

Keep Reachin’, from Quincy

I’ll Fight, from RBG

A Place Called Slaughter Race, from Ralph Breaks the Internet

OYAHYTT, from Sorry to Bother You

Shallow, from A Star Is Born

Suspirium, from Suspiria

The Big Unknown, from Widows

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Eighty-one films had originally qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

Age of Sail

Animal Behaviour

Bao

Bilby

Bird Karma

Late Afternoon

Lost & Found

One Small Step

Pépé le Morse

Weekends

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

One hundred forty films had originally qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

Caroline

Chuchotage

Detainment

Fauve

Icare

Marguerite

May Day

Mother

Skin

Wale

VISUAL EFFECTS

The Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist. All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the shortlisted films on January 5. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

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

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