Weep For Tom Hanks & Amy Adams, Who Were Accidentally Named Oscar Noms

So why was it such a surprise the star failed to pick up a nomination, either for her role in best picture nominee Arrival, or for her other Oscar contender, Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals? It’s this very restraint, we’d argue, that makes Adams’ performance one of last year’s best.

In addition to its Oscar nominations, the American Film Institute, Producers Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, Critics Choice Awards, and National Board of Review have lauded “Arrival“.

Arrival stars Adams as expert linguist Louise Banks who is enlisted by the government to investigate mysterious spacecrafts that have touched down across the globe.

Though Streep is an award season staple, many were actually surprised by her Oscar nomination. Arrival is masterfully done in terms of writing and craft, but it’s Adams’ performance that gives the movie its heart and soul. “That was a disappointment, big, big disappointment”. But look at it this way: Now the narrative for Adams to win the next time she’s nominated is set. Also nominated are “Pear Cider and Cigarettes”, directed by Robert Valley of Vancouver, and “Piper”, helmed by Alan Barillaro of Niagara Falls, Ont.

If global coproduction The Lobster deserved any recognition, it was certainly for Best Original Screenplay.

And “Deadpool“, it turned out, did not have enough superpower to break into the Oscar race.

Gosling, who has already won a best actor Golden Globe Award for “La La Land”, plays a jazz musician in the fantastical musical ode to Old Hollywood. Viggo Mortensen’s lead-actor nomination (his second following 2007’s “Eastern Promises”) for playing the unconventional patriarch in the film solidifies that.

“Martin Scorsese’s passion project, which some consider his best work in years, was left out of the Best Picture discussion and as he was absent in the Best Director category”. Despite a series of controversies in the early 2000s, nominations for Best Director and Best Picture for Hacksaw Ridge (Gibson’s first directorial effort since 2006’s Apocalypto) have solidified his comeback to Hollywood.