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Ryan Coogler’s Bluesy Vampire Thriller”sinners,” the big-screen musical “Wicked: For Good” and Netflix The event “Kpop Demon Hunters” is one step closer oscar Enrollment. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released shortlists for 12 categories on Tuesday, including best song, score, international and documentary film, cinematography and this year’s new award, casting.
“Sinners” and “Wicked: For Good” received the most shortlist mentions with eight each, including makeup and hair, sound, visual effects, score, casting and cinematography. Two original songs of both are also going ahead. For “Wicked” it’s Stephen Schwartz’s “The Girl in the Bubble” and “No Place Like Home.” This is for “sinners” ludvig goranssonMiles Caton and Alice Smith’s “Last Time (I Seen the Sun),” and Goransson and Raphael Saadiq’s “I Lied to You.”
EJAE and Mark Sonnenblick’s “KPop Demon Hunters” hit “Golden” was another shortlisted song, along with other notable artists: Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner for “Train Dreams”; John Mayer, Ed Sheeran and Blake Slatkin for the “F1” song “Drive”; and Miley Cyrus, Simon Franglen, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for “Dream as One” from “Avatar: Fire and Ash.”
One of the highest profile shortlist categories is Best International Feature, where 15 films were nominated including “Sentimental Value” (Norway), “Sirat” (Spain), “No Other Choice” (South Korea), “The Secret Agent” (Brazil), “It Was Just an Accident” (France), “The Voice of Hind Rajab” (Tunisia), “Sound of Falling” (Germany) and “The President Cake”. (Iraq).
Notable documentaries among the 15 include “My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow,” “The Perfect Neighbor,” “The Alabama Solution,” “Come See Me in the Good Light,” “Cover-Up” and Mstislav Chernov’s “2000 Meters to Andreevka,” a co-production between the Associated Press and PBS Frontline.
Oscar’s new award for casting has shortlisted 10 films that will compete for five nomination slots: “Frankenstein,” “Hamnet,” “Marty Supreme,” “One Battle After Another,” “The Secret Agent,” “Sentimental Value,” “Sinners,” “Sir,” “Weapons,” and “Wicked: For Good.” Notably “Jay Kelly and “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” did not make the list.
Composers making the shortlist for best score include Goransson (“Sinners”), Jonny Greenwood (“One Battle After Another”), Max Richter (“Hamnet”), Alexandre Desplat (“Frankenstein”) and Kangding Ray (“Sir”).
For the most part, shortlists are determined by members in their respective categories, although the specifics vary from branch to branch: some have committees, some have minimum viewing requirements.
Since most of the shortlists are in the following categories celebrating crafts like sound and visual effects, there are also films that aren’t necessarily the most obvious of Oscar contenders, like “The Alto Nights,” which is shortlisted in hair and makeup, as well as the widely panned “Tron: Ares” and “The Electric State,” both shortlisted for visual effects.
The lists will be reduced to five when the final nominations are announced on January 22. The 98th Oscars, hosted by Conan O’Brien, will air live on ABC on March 15 at 7PM ET.