With 14 nominations 鈥楲a La Land鈥 ties record
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THE candy-colored love letter to musicals “La La Land” yesterday landed a record-tying 14 nominations to the Academy Awards, which fielded a notably more diverse field of nominees following two straight years of “OscarsSoWhite” backlash.
“La La Land” matched “Titanic” and “All About Eve” for most nominations ever, earning nods for best picture, stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, its jazz-infused songs and its 32-year-old writer-director, Damien Chazelle.
“I’m in Beijing right now. This only adds to the disorientation,” Chazelle said by phone. “All that I have in my head is ‘thank you’ a million times over.”
The other nominees for best picture were “Moonlight,” “Arrival,” “‘Manchester by the Sea,” “Hell or High Water,” “Lion,” “‘Fences,” “Hidden Figures” and “Hacksaw Ridge.”
Barry Jenkins’ luminous coming-of-age portrait “Moonlight,” nominated for eight awards, Denzel Washington’s fiery August Wilson adaption “Fences” and Theodore Melfi’s crowd-pleasing African American mathematician drama, “Hidden Figures,” insured that for now, at least, “OscarSoWhite” wouldn’t be trending on nominations morning. After two straight years of all-white acting nominees, seven people of color were among the 20 actors nominated yesterday.
The biggest surprise was the strong boost of support for Mel Gibson, who had long been shunned in Hollywood since an anti-Semitic tirade while being arrested for drunk driving in 2006 and a 2011 conviction for domestic violence. Not only did his World War II drama “Hacksaw Ridge” land a best picture nod, but Gibson scored an unexpected best director nomination.
Denis Villeneuve’s cerebral science fiction thriller “Arrival” tied “Moonlight” for the second most nominees with eight nods. Yet Amy Adams, the five-time nominated star of “Arrival,” was left out of the competitive best actress nominees.
Meryl Streep landed her 20th nomination. Her performance in “Florence Foster Jenkins” was among the best actress nominees that included Stone, Natalie Portman (“Jackie”), Ruth Negga (“Loving”) and Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”). Beside Adams, also left out was Annette Bening for “20th Century Women.”
The nominees for best actor were Gosling, Casey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea”), Andrew Garfield (“Hacksaw Ridge”), Viggo Mortensen (“Captain Fantastic”) and Denzel Washington ("Fences”).
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