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By the time the [nominations for the 91st Academy Awards](http://time.com/5506988/91st-academy-award-nominations/) were announced on Jan. 22, controversies were roiling around the [ceremony’s host](http://time.com/5497943/kevin-hart-confirms-not-hosting-academy-awards-controversy/), several contenders for Best Picture (see: [_Green_](http://time.com/5498818/green-book-peter-farrelly-genital-flashing/)[_Book_](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/green-book-is-one-awards-seasons-contentiously-debated-films-1174333), [_Bohemian Rhapsody_](http://time.com/5495937/bohemian-rhapsody-bryan-singer-controversy/)) and an allegation the Screen Actors Guild lodged against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over [presenters](https://deadline.com/2019/01/oscar-presenters-awards-show-controversy-screen-actors-guild-academy-pressure-1202534838/). With about a month to go until the 2019 Oscars take place on Feb. 24, it remains to be seen whether all these contentious feelings will dwindle or intensify, and how all of it will affect both Oscar voting and the ceremony itself. In the meantime, now that we officially know who is included among the 2019 Oscar nominees and who didn’t make the cut, we at least have enough information for the annual sport of both celebrating and grumbling about the choices. _Roma_ and _The Favourite_ lead the pack of 2019 Oscar nominees, with 10 nominations each, followed by _A Star Is Born_ and _Vice_, each of which nabbed eight. _Black Panther_ had a strong showing with seven nominations, _BlacKkKlansman_ received six, and both _Bohemian Rhapsody_ and _Green Book_ earned five apiece. Here are the biggest snubs, and a few surprises, among the crop of 2019 Oscar nominations. ## Best Picture ### Snub: _First Man_ After sweeping the Oscars in 2017 with _La La Land_, Damien Chazelle had no such luck this year. His [Neil Armstrong drama](http://time.com/5421573/first-man-damien-chazelle/) failed to register not only in this category but in Best Score, for which it won a Golden Globe weeks ago. ### Snub: _If Beale Street Could Talk_ Though it was arguably on the bubble, the follow-up to another successful 2017 film, Barry Jenkins’ Best Picture-winning _Moonlight_, didn’t quite creep into the top group this year. **MORE:** [Barry Jenkins Wants You to Read James Baldwin](http://time.com/5472338/barry-jenkins-james-baldwin/) ### Firsts: _Black Panther_ and _BlacKkKlansman_ [_Black Panther_ ](http://time.com/black-panther/)became the first superhero movie ever nominated for Best Picture, and [Spike Lee received his first ever nomination](http://time.com/longform/blackkklansman-spike-lee/) in this category—some would argue three decades too late. > [](https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/1087730744900804608) ## Best Actor ### Snub: Ethan Hawke, _First Reformed_ To many of those who follow awards season like a sport, Ethan Hawke’s turn as a small-town pastor in turmoil was an MVP performance worthy of Hollywood’s highest honor. The film is, at least, represented in the Best Original Screenplay category, for writer-director Paul Schrader. ### Snub: John David Washington, _BlacKkKlansman_ Though he was certainly not a shoo-in, Washington did receive a nomination at the Golden Globes. His costar Adam Driver was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. ### Surprise: Willem Dafoe, _At Eternity’s Gate_ Though his performance as [Vincent Van Gogh in the painter’s final years](http://time.com/5460581/at-eternitys-gate-true-story/) has earned a steady stream of quiet critical accolades, Dafoe has mostly been considered an outside shot for a nomination. ## Best Actress ### Snub: Emily Blunt, _Mary Poppins Returns_ Blunt, who also earned favorable reviews for her supporting role in _A Quiet Place_ last year, took an [iconic Julie Andrews character](http://time.com/5481538/mary-poppins-evolution/) and made it her own. But the field was too tight to make room for what would have been her first Oscar nomination. ### Snub: Rosamund Pike, _A Private War_ Pike, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as [real-life war correspondent Marie Colvin](http://time.com/5441436/rosamund-pike-private-war/), may have been hurt by the movie’s relatively low profile (it has earned $2.4 million at the box office to date). ### Surprise: Yalitza Aparicio, _Roma_ The inclusion of the first-time actress, who plays a character based on filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón’s real-life housekeeper and nanny when he was a child in Mexico City, was a happy surprise for fans of the Netflix drama. ## Best Supporting Actor ### Snub: Timothée Chalamet, _Beautiful Boy_ After earning a Golden Globe nomination and a SAG nomination, Chalamet’s exclusion from this field might sting a little. **MORE:** [Addiction Is Hard to Talk About. That’s Why Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet Wanted to Make _Beautiful Boy_](http://time.com/5413761/beautiful-boy-film/) ### Snub: Michael B. Jordan, _Black Panther_ _Black Panther_ had a strong showing Tuesday morning, but it was disappointing not to see Jordan recognized for his work as Erik Killmonger, one of the most complex Marvel villains—just plain _villains_, in fact—we’ve seen in some time. ### Surprise: Sam Elliott, _A Star Is Born_ _Surprise_ may be stretching it—Elliott’s performance as the put-upon older brother of [Bradley Cooper’s hard-living musician](http://time.com/5407925/bradley-cooper-lady-gaga/) has been much loved since the movie’s release in October. But he was shut out of the Golden Globes, leading some to wonder whether his Oscar chances had dimmed. ## Best Supporting Actress ### Snub: Claire Foy, _First Man_ Foy has long been seen, alongside composer Justin Hurwitz, as one of _First Man_‘s best opportunities to be represented at the 2019 Oscars, but her presumed spot went to an unexpected choice. ### Surprise: Marina de Tavira, _Roma_ One of the biggest surprises of the morning was Marina de Tavira’s nomination for _Roma_, given that most of the awards discussion around the movie has circled around her costar Yalitza Aparicio, who was also nominated. ## Best Director ### Snub: Bradley Cooper, _A Star Is Born_ He’ll be fine, though: Cooper was nominated for Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Picture. > [](https://twitter.com/RaminSetoodeh/status/1087706746720870406) ### Finally: Spike Lee Along with his Best Picture nomination for _BlacKkKlansman_, this is Spike Lee’s first time nominated as Best Director, which feels like a correction to a 30-year snub. ### Unfortunately: No Women Last year saw Greta Gerwig become the fifth woman ever nominated for Best Director. This year, we are back to that familiar all-male field, despite the fact that there was no shortage of viable options: Marielle Heller (_Can You Ever Forgive Me?_)_,_ Debra Granik _(Leave No Trace_)_,_ Chloe Zhao _(The_ _Rider_) and Lynne Ramsay (_You Were Never Really Here_) all made worthy films in 2018. ### Of Note: A Refreshingly International Group Three of the five nominees are from outside the United States: Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico), Paweł Pawlikowski (Poland) and Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece). Two of their films, _Roma_ and _Cold War_, are foreign language films. ## Best Score ### Snub: _First Man_ Fresh off of winning a Golden Globe for Best Score, composer Justin Hurwitz felt like a particularly glaring omission Tuesday morning. Between him and Claire Foy, the Academy really just did not go for _First Man_. ### Snub: _A Quiet Place_ John Krasinski’s sophisticated horror film has been an outside pick in general, but had it managed to nab another nomination aside from Sound Editing, it likely would have been here. ## Best Documentary ### Snub: _Won’t You Be My Neighbor?_ Focus Features’ heartwarming look at the life of Fred Rogers won over critics and viewers alike, becoming the [top-grossing biographical documentary](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-is-top-grossing-biodoc-all-time-1130122) of all time. ## Odds and Ends **_The Ballad of Buster Scruggs_** **is heard:** Though the Coen Brothers’ Netflix Western anthology film has not been at the top of many Oscar prognostication lists, it managed to eke out three nominations, for Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design and Original Song. **Netflix has a big day:** With _Roma_, Netflix received its first Best Picture nomination, one of 14 total nominations for the streaming service this year. That number is up from eight in 2018. **Hulu makes a play:** The streaming service got its first Oscar nomination Tuesday, for _Minding the Gap_, a documentary about skateboarding friends in Rockford, Ill. **Correction:** The original version of this story misstated that _Cold War_ received a nomination for Best Picture. It was not nominated in this category. The Biggest Snubs of the 2019 Oscar Nominations ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5506895/2019-oscar-nominations-snubs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5506895/2019-oscar-nominations-snubs/"},"headline":"The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2019 Oscar Nominations","datePublished":"2019-01-22T15:33:57.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T01:15:11.000Z","description":"From Michael B. 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