La La Land looks set to dance its way to victory at the biggest night in Hollywood after picking up a record-tying 14 Oscars nominations for the 89th Academy Awards.
The smash-hit musical – led by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling – picked up the most nods on Tuesday, and tied the record set by Titanic and All About Eve.
The picture now has a chance to beat the record 11 Oscars that have been won by Ben-Hur, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Thankfully one year after #OscarsSoWhite controversy, seven of the 20 actors nominated for awards were non-white. There was not a single non-white acting nominee in 2016.
Veteran actress Meryl Streep who is nominated for best actress for her role in Florence Foster Jenkins also received her record 20th Oscar nomination, 37 years after she was first nominated for her supporting turn in The Deer Hunter.
This year’s nominees were announced by past Oscar winners Brie Larson and Jennifer Hudson and as well as past nominees Glenn Close and Ken Watanabe at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Tuesday
La La Land has already been the biggest success of awards season, winning over critics and cinema-goers alike.
The film swept the Golden Globe Awards with a record-breaking seven awards for Best Original Score Motion Picture, Best Original Song Motion Picture categories, Best Screenplay Motion Picture and Best Director Motion Picture.
Gosling and Stone each accepted the Best Performance by an Actor and Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy while the musical as a whole took the Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy award for a clean sweep of seven gongs.
It follows their success at this year’s Critics’ Choice Awards, in which it won eight of the 12 awards that it was put forward for while it is also up for a whopping 11 gongs at the BAFTAs.
The Oscar hopefuls are chosen by the 6028 voting members of the Academy. Actors wanting to be part of the coveted group must have credited roles in at least three films while directors must have more than two screen credits to their names.
Best Picture:
Moonlight
La La Land
Lion
Manchester By the Sea
Fences
Arrival
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
Hacksaw Ridge
Best Director:
Damien Chazelle – La La Land
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester By the Sea
Denis Villeneuve – Arrival
Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge
Best Actress:
Natalie Portman – Jackie
Emma Stone – La La Land
Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins
Isabelle Huppert – Elle
Ruth Negga – Loving
Best Actor:
Casey Affleck – Manchester By the Sea
Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge
Denzel Washington – Fences
Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic
Ryan Gosling – La La Land
Best Supporting Actress:
Viola Davis – Fences
Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures
Nicole Kidman – Lion
Naomie Harris – Moonlight
Michelle Williams – Manchester By the Sea
Best Supporting Actor:
Dev Patel – Lion
Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea
Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals
Best Original Screenplay:
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester By the Sea
Damien Chazelle – La La Land
Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water
Mike Mills – 20th Century Women
Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou – The Lobster
Best Adapted Screenplay:
August Wilson – Fences
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Luke Davies – Lion
Allison Schroeder,Theodore Melfi – Hidden Figures
Eric Heisserer – Arrival
Best Cinematography:
Linus Sandgren – La La Land
Grieg Fraser – Lion
Bradford Young – Arrival
James Laxton – Moonlight
Rodrigo Prieto – Silence
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Best Animated Film:
Zootopia
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
The Red Turtle
My Life as a Zucchini
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Sound Editing:
Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully
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Sound Mixing:
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Best Visual Effects:
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Jungle Book
Doctor Strange
Kubo and the Two Strings
Deepwater Horizon
Costume Design:
Colleen Atwood – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Consolata Boyle – Florence Foster Jenkins
Madeline Fontaine – Jackie
Johanna Johnston – Allied
Mary Zophres – La La Land
Documentary (feature):
13th, Ava DuVernay
O.J.: Made in America,
Fire At Sea,
Life, Animated,
I am not Your Negro.
Documentary (short subject):
Extremis
4.1 Miles,
Joe’s Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets
Film editing:
La La Land – Tom Cross,
Arrival – Joe Walker
Hacksaw Ridge – John Gilbert
Hell or High Water – Jake Roberts
Moonlight – Joi McMillon, Nat Sanders
Foreign language film:
The Salesman – Iran – Asghar Farhadi
Toni Erdmann – Germany – Maren Ade
Land of Mine – Denmark – Martin Zandvliet
A Man Called Ove – Sweden – Hannes Holm
Tanna – Australia – Bentley Dean, Martin Butler
Makeup and hairstyling:
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad
Music (original score):
Nicholas Britell – Moonlight
Thomas Newman – Passengers
Justin Hurwitz – La La Land
Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka – Lion
Mica Levi – Jackie
Production design:
La La Land – David Wasco
Passengers – Guy Hendrix Dyas
Arrival – Patrice Vermette
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Stuart Craig
Hail, Caesar! – Jess Gonchor
Live Action Short Film
Ennemis Interieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing
Timecode
Original Song:
Audition (The Fools Who Dream) – La La Land
Can’t Stop The Feeling – Trolls
City of Stars – La La Land
The Empty Chair – The James Foley Story
How Far I’ll Go – Moana
Animated Short:
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper
The award will take place on February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, 5:30 p.m.
