Oscars 2017: La La Land equals nomination record

The Oscar nominations are in, and effervescent musical La La Land joins Titanic and All About Eve as the most nominated film in the history of the awards with 14 nods

Could these be the most predictable Oscar nominations ever? The three horse race for Best Picture continues, but La La Land is way out in front with 14 nominations (two of which are for best song), Moonlight has eight, while Manchester by the Sea only manages six after failing to keep pace with La La Land in the technical categories like cinematography, editing and sound.

While the results are on the whole boring, some quirks in Academy voting delighted us:

• The Academy didn't make the same mistake as the Golden Globes, and recognised Michael Shannon for his great supporting turn in Nocturnal Animals over Aaron Taylor-Johnson, whom the Golden Globes awarded best supporting actor.

• Greek visionary Yorgos Lanthimos gets an unexpected nod for best screenplay for his hilarious and delightfully strange deadpan fantasy The Lobster.

Some nominations, meanwhile, confused the hell out of us:

• The worst movie of 2016, Suicide Squad, is now an Oscar-nominated movie. The nod for David Ayer's braindead superhero flick nod comes for best make-up – the Academy are clearly the only ones to dig Killer Croc.

• Mel Gibson has inexplicably been welcomed back into Hollywood's boosom with an unexpected Best Director nomination for his brutal war film Hacksaw Ridge.

A nominations we feel conflicted about

• Meryl Streep received her 20th acting nomination for her performance as the "world's worst singer" in Florence Foster Jenkins. If you've seen Mamma Mia, you'll realise that role isn't much of a strech. We were gutted that Amy Adams didn't get nominated here for her extraordinary performance in Arrival. We'd have also loved to see Annette Bening receive some love for 20th Century Women. But at the same time, Meryl socked it to Trump with her speech at the recent Golden Globes, so she's earned a lifetime pass from us.

Oscars 2017 – the nominated films:

Best Picture

Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell Or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester By The Sea
Moonlight

Best director

Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester By The Sea)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Best actor

Casey Affleck (Manchester By The Sea)
Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)
Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)
Denzel Washington (Fences)

Best actress

Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Ruth Negga (Loving)
Natalie Portman (Jackie)
Emma Stone (La La Land)
Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Best supporting actor

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
Jeff Bridges (Hell Or High Water)
Lucas Hedges (Manchester By The Sea)
Dev Patel (Lion)
Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)

Best supporting actress

Viola Davis (Fences)
Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
Nicole Kidman (Lion)
Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)
Michelle Williams (Manchester By The Sea)

Best animated feature

Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia

Best song

La La Land – Audition
La La Land – City of Stars
Moana – How Far I'll Go
Jim: The James Foley Story – The Empty Chair
Trolls – Can't Stop the Feeling

Best foreign film

A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
Land of Mine (Denmark)
The Salesman (Iran)
Tanna (Australia)
Toni Erdmann (Germany)

Best cinematography

Arrival
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence

Documentary feature

Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
OJ: Made In America
13th

Documentary short 

Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets

Best Costume Design

Allied (Joanna Johnston)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Colleen Atwood)
Florence Foster Jenkins (Consolata Boyle)
Jackie (Madeline Fontaine)
La La Land (Mary Zophres)

Best Original Score

Jackie (Mica Levi)
La La Land (Justin Hurwitz)
Lion (Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka)
Moonlight (Nicholas Britell)
Passengers (Thomas Newman)

Best Sound Editing

Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully

Best Sound Mixing

Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours

Best Production Design

Arrival (Patrice Vermette)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Stuart Craig)
Hail, Caesar!
La La Land (Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, David Wasco)
Passengers (Guy Hendrix Dyas)

Best Original Screenplay

Hell or High Water (Taylor Sheridan)
La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou)
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
20th Century Women (Mike Mills)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Arrival (Eric Heisserer)
Fences (August Wilson)
Hidden Figures (Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi)
Lion (Luke Davies)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McRaney)

Best Animated Short

Blind Vaysha (National Film Board of Canada)
Borrowed Time (Quorum Films)
Pear Cider and Cigarettes (Massive Swerve Studios and Passion Pictures Animation)
Pearl (Google Spotlight Stories/Evil Eye Pictures)
Piper (Pixar)

Best Film Editing

Arrival (Joe Walker)
Hacksaw Ridge (John Gilbert)
Hell or High Water (Jake Roberts)
La La Land (Tom Cross)
Moonlight (Joi McMillon, Nat Sanders)

Best Visual Effects

Deepwater Horizon
Doctor Strange
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad