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Jan 24, 2017 6:08 PM UTC  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Jan 24, 2017 6:08 PM UTC If [Oscar prognostication](http://time.com/4586185/oscar-awards-guide/) is a sport, then [nominations](http://time.com/4635815/2017-oscars-nominations-list/) morning is the playoff game. And of course, as gratifying as it may be to find that you’ve accurately predicted the outcomes, it’s even more satisfying to decry the injustice of the names that went unnamed and debate the merits of those that made the cut. For all the certainty of nods to [Viola Davis](http://time.com/4626323/golden-globes-2017-viola-davis-best-supporting-actress-fences/) and [_La La Land_‘s](http://time.com/4474968/la-la-land-venice-film-festival/) left pinky toe, here are all the unexpected decisions the Academy had in store this morning: ### Surprise: Michael Shannon  Michael Shannon in "Nocturnal Animals." Artina Films There’s no debating that Michael Shannon deserves all the awards, all the time. But his performance as a Texas sheriff in _Nocturnal Animals_ has gotten minimal play in awards season thus far. It was his costar, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, whose Golden Globe win upset the expected win for Mahershala Ali; it remains to be seen whether Shannon will do the same on Oscar Sunday, but his presence among the pack is a nice surprise. ### Snub: Annette Bening  Annette Bening in "20th Century Women." Annapurna Pictures Bening has been nominated for four Academy Awards, and many believed that her nuanced turn as the mother of a teenaged boy in the late ’70s in _20th Century Women_ might land her her first win. Alas, she was edged out by a competitive field. At least she and husband Warren Beatty, whose decades-in-the-making _Rules Don’t Apply_ failed to register with voters, can commiserate together. ### Surprise: Viggo Mortensen  Viggo Mortensen in "Captain Fantastic." Erik Simkins/ Electric City Entertainment The star of Matt Ross’ quirky summer indie _Captain Fantastic_ was an outside choice throughout the run-up to nominations for Best Actor. But the absence of Tom Hanks (_Sully_) and Joel Edgerton (_Loving_), and the fact that Andrew Garfield was unlikely to be nominated for both _Hacksaw Ridge_ and _Silence_ (he was nominated for the former) made room for recognition of Mortensen’s memorable performance. ### Snub: Tom Ford  Tom Ford attends the New York Premiere "Nocturnal Animals" at The Paris Theatre in N.Y., on Nov. 17, 2016. Kevin Mazur—Getty Images for Focus Features After Golden Globe nominations for both directing and screenwriting, it was a surprise not to hear Ford’s name mentioned for _Nocturnal Animals_. But at least the movie got some love, in the form of Michael Shannon’s Best Supporting Actor nod. ### Surprise: Lucas Hedges  Lucas Hedges in "Manchester by the Sea." Claire Folger/ K Period Media Lucas Hedges’ nomination for Best Supporting Actor for _Manchester by the Sea_ is not exactly a shock, given the now-20-year-old’s breakout performance, and the fact that the Academy likes to recognize talent on the rise. But it wasn’t a given, either, considering the number of pundits who expected _Florence Foster Jenkins’_ Hugh Grant to box out the newcomer. ### Snub: Hugh Grant  Hugh Grant in "Florence Foster Jenkins." Qwerty Films _Florence Foster Jenkins_ ended up getting more love at the Golden Globes than at the Oscars this year, in part due to the former ceremony’s split categories for comedies and comedic performances. So Hugh Grant will sit out this year while his costar Meryl Streep collects her 20th nomination. ### Surprise: Mike Mills  Mike Mills attends "20th Century Women" New York Screening at Florence Gould Hall on Dec. 5, 2016. John Lamparski—Getty Images The existence of two separate screenwriting categories at the Oscars (adapted and original, as opposed to the Golden Globes’ jamming everything into one bunch) allows more room to recognize deserving screenwriters. This year, one of those writers is Mike Mills, whose nomination is the only nod for _20th Century Women_, a charming gem of an indie whose total exclusion would have been a disappointment. ### Snub: Amy Adams  Amy Adams in "Arrival." Jan Thijs—Paramount Pictures Amy Adams has been nominated for five Oscars and come up short each time, but 2017 is not going to be the year she breaks the streak. The Best Actress field was among the most crowded this year, and the _Arrival_ star ended up on the outside this time around. ### Surprise: Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou  (L-R) Writer Efthymis Filippou and filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos of "Alps" accept the Best Screenplay Award during the Closing Ceremony during the 68th Venice Film Festival at Palazzo del Cinema in Venice, Italy, on Sept. 10, 2011. Gareth Cattermole—Getty Images _The_ _Lobster_‘sdystopian tale of love in a time of forbidden singledom was one of the year’s most inventive stories, and thankfully its non-autumnal release (all the way back in May!) was not so long ago that voters forgot to recognize its deserving screenwriters. ### Snub: Martin Scorsese  Martin Scorsese attends the premiere of Paramount Pictures' 'Silence' in Los Angeles, California, on Jan. 5, 2017. JB Lacroix—WireImage/Getty Images _Silence_, the director’s long-gestating passion project about 17th-century Jesuit missionaries in Japan, has been conspicuously absent throughout awards season, despite overwhelmingly [positive reviews](http://time.com/4605641/silence-martin-scorsese-review/). Though it failed to land nominations for Best Picture, Director and Leading Actor (Andrew Garfield), it did receive one much-deserved nod for Rodrigo Prieto’s stunning cinematography. ### Snub: Pharrell Williams  Pharrell Williams attends the "Hidden Figures" New York special screening on Dec. 10, 2016. Noam Galai—WireImage/Getty Images Pharrell technically got a nomination this year, as a producer of _Hidden Figures_. But Pharrell the musician and Pharrell the composer didn’t make the cut, despite buzz around several of the original songs he wrote for the soundtrack, as well as the score he cowrote with Hans Zimmer. ### Snub: Deadpool  Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation After it nabbed Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Best Actor (Ryan Reynolds), it looked like there might be a chance for the pottymouthed superhero to make an appearance at Hollywood’s main event. But superheroes, it appears, are still too middle-brow for the distinguished Academy’s tastes. ### Honorable Mentions **Snub – Janelle Monáe (** **_Hidden Figures_** **):** 2016 was the year Monáe proved herself as an actress, in both _Moonlight_ and _Hidden Figures_, and she deserved the Supporting Actress nomination as much as costar Octavia Spencer. **Snub – Denzel Washington (** **_Fences_** **):** Though he got an acting nomination, Washington was on the bubble for a directing nomination, as well. **Snub – Aaron Taylor-Johnson (** **_Nocturnal Animals_** **):** His surprising win at the Golden Globes had some wondering whether he’d crack the Oscar bubble, too. But the honor went to his costar, Michael Shannon. **Snub – Tom Hanks (** **_Sully_** **):** America’s dad-slash-[David S. Pumpkins](http://time.com/4552158/tom-hanks-david-s-pumpkins-halloween/) didn’t make the cut this year for his performance as pilot Chesley Sullenberger, making it 17 years and counting since we’ve seen him nominated. **Snub – Sunny Pawar (** **_Lion_** **):** He may be only 8 years old, but the young actor carried the first half of _Lion_. **Snub –** **_Finding Dory_** **:** Pixar’s one film in 2016 proved that some sequels are as worthy as the original. If only the Academy had a category for most adorable baby blue tang fish, it would certainly have gone unopposed. **Snub –** **_Weiner_** **:** When it was released at Sundance a year ago, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s Anthony Weiner documentary had the distinct, metallic scent of an Oscar. But in a particularly strong year for docs, it didn’t end up among the gilded five. **Surprise – Mel Gibson (** **_Hacksaw Ridge_** **):** Though the director’s name has been present throughout the lead-up to the announcement of nominations, the Academy’s decision to recognize him represents a definitive and unexpected comeback after years of [negative attention](http://variety.com/2016/film/news/mel-gibson-interview-anti-semitic-2006-arrest-podcast-1201902552/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4644540/oscar-nominations-2017-snubs-surprises/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4644540/oscar-nominations-2017-snubs-surprises/"},"headline":"The 20 Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2017 Oscar Nominations","datePublished":"2017-01-24T18:08:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:42:00.465Z","description":"The names we were surprised to see—and not to see—when the 2017 Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning.","url":"https://time.com/4644540/oscar-nominations-2017-snubs-surprises/","keywords":["awards season","Oscars","Academy Awards","Oscars 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/awards-season/","name":"awards season"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4644540/oscar-nominations-2017-snubs-surprises/","name":"The 20 Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2017 Oscar Nominations"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Here Are the 2017 Oscar Nominations","description":"The nominations for the 89th Annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning – and La La Land led charge with 14 nominations, making it the most nominated musical of all time.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/BXgyToYn/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-01-24T15:22:58.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/BXgyToYn.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4644540/oscar-nominations-2017-snubs-surprises/","duration":"PT2M38S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4644540/oscar-nominations-2017-snubs-surprises/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```