Oscar nominations 2019 – live updates: The Favourite and Roma lead nods with UK's Olivia Colman and Christian Bale shortlisted for best actor categories
The announcement follows what has been one of the tightest Oscar races in years
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Your support makes all the difference.This year’s Oscar nominations have been announced in Los Angeles bringing the 2019 awards season into its final stages.
The films vying for success at the annual awards ceremony were named by Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) and Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross.
In contention are Yorgos Lanthimos’s periood comedy The Favourite, Netflix film Roma and the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga mudsical drama, A Star is Born.
Catch up with all the action has it happened in our live blog below – and scan your eyes over the full list of nominations here.
The 91st Academy Awards ceremony will take place at the Dolby Theatre on 24 February.
There will be no host and will instead have a selection of guests introducing special segments throughout the evening.
Kevin Hart dropped out of hosting the ceremony after refusing to apologise for resurfaced homophobic tweets he made between 2009 and 2011.
Hey everyone, if Glenn Close doesn't win an Oscar, she'll be okay.
(Taken from her interview in The Guardian)
Actress in a Supporting Role:
Amy Adams - Vice
Marina De Tavira - Roma
Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone - The Favourite
Rachel Weisz - The Favourite
Achievement in Costume design
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots
Sound Mixing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Roma
A Star is Born
Sound Editing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
A Quiet Place
Roma
Best Animated Short Film
Animal Behaviour
Bao
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends
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