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Academy Award shortlists for Best Foreign Language Film, Music, VFX, Make-Up and Hairstyling and Documentary Feature revealed

December 18, 2018 by Gary Collinson

With the nominations for the 91st Academy Awards set to be announced next month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced the shortlists for several categories including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Music (Original Song), Best Music (Original Score), Best Visual Effects, Best Make-Up and Hairstyling and Best Documentary Feature. Take a look at the films which remain in contention here…

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”

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

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”

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”

Make-Up and Hairstyling
“Black Panther”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“Border”
“Mary Queen of Scots”
“Stan & Ollie”
“Suspiria”
“Vice”

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?”

The final nominations will be announced on January 22nd 2019, while the Oscar ceremony itself takes place on February 24th 2019.

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Academy Awards, Oscars

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flickering Myth. He is a film, television and digital content writer and producer, whose work includes the gothic horror feature The Baby in the Basket and the suspense thriller Death Among the Pines. He is also the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.

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