Jonathan Pryce

this year's Oscar nominations have inflamed the dispute over representation in Hollywood, as well as some high-profile omissions.

Here are nine of the big topics of conversation this year are to see.

no women were nominated for Best Director. This means that in The Last 10 years, and 49 out of 50 were The Best Director nominees are men.

This is despite the large support for the " Greta Gerwig for her brilliant adaptation of Little Women , although there were also hopes for Lulu Wang (The farewell) and Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood ).

It is an extremely competitive category this year, But that will not do much to alleviate those, which is not enough to say that The Oscars do still for equality, in spite of the reforms from its members with voting rights in The Last few years.

After the announcement of The Shortlist , actress Issa Rae pointed congratulations, remarked: "to all men. "

A commentary in the widely welcomed in the Social Media .

nineteen of the 20 acting nominees in this year, the highest number since the #OscarsSoWhite outcries of 2015 and 2016 are white, if there is a total whitewashing.

After three actors of color Golden statuettes won in 2019, this year the most important films in the awards race are largely not those was, to tell different stories with different casts.

The Oscar nominations get announced a week After the Baftas, an all-white line-up-acting-nominations. Embarrassing for the Bafta, which is a black star for an Oscar, a Brit.

This is Cynthia Erivo , which has its name across The Atlantic to Broadway and now is nominated for playing a slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Harriet .

But there are still a lot of unrest, that this year the list was not more diverse. It was, apparently, no place for Lupita Nyong'o for Us, Golden-Globe-award Winner Awkwafina for The farewell, or Eddie Murphy for Dolemite Is My Name, to mention only three. In fact, all three movies were closed completely.

Meanwhile, some have to nominate that place, Scarlett Johansson , twice for The Best actress for the marriage-story and Best supporting actress for Jojo Rabbit - their first Oscar nominations.

If Erivo not win, only the second black Best actress Winner is - After Halle Berry in 2002.

Not only that, But at 33, she is the youngest person to EGOT - Winner of the Emmy -, Grammy -, Oscar-and Tony Award -

she won the Tony in 2016 for The main role in the color Purple on Broadway and the Grammy for The Show 's cast recording. You got a Daytime Emmy for a cast of the performance on NBC's Today (although The Paper points out, some people don ' T count Daytime Emmys in the direction of an EGOT).

And she has two shots at an Oscar this year. As well as for Best actress, is nominated for Best song for writing Stand-Up, which is displayed in Harriet .

Jennifer Lopez , it is not from "The Block " (somewhere night in The Bronx ) to the Hollywood Boulevard to The Oscars .

she was among the favorites for the nomination for The Best supporting actress for hustlers, the True Story of a ring of women drugged and swindled rich men in strip clubs.

It would also be a rare recognition for a Latin-American actor.

Instead, Kathy Bates - who had been a relative outsider - was strong for Clint Eastwood 's controversial film, Richard Jewell . It is her fourth nomination and her first since 2003.

Still, at least all of the praise J-Lo received for their role, that probably means that you have to face to add to the disgrace, to your points account of 10 nominees for the Golden raspberry for the worst movies of the year.

According to Rami Malek won Best actor for playing Queen singer Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody last year, it looked like Taron Egerton could follow the path with a " Best actor nomination for playing Sir Elton John in Rocketman.

But has missed out despite winning a Golden Globe last week, The British actor a Chance at an Oscar nod. In fact, it looks like he was framed by a fellow Welshman, with Jonathan Pryce to sneak to his first Oscar nomination at the age of 72 years for The Two popes.

Rocketman got a nomination for Sir Elton himself and Bernie Taupin for Best original song (I'm Gonna) love Me Again - But categories such as costumes, make-up and hair, and the sound missed-mixing, for which it is tilted did.

Not only are The Oscars missed a chance to give Jennifer Lopez on the Red Carpet , But they also have passed the opportunity to, Beyonce ticket.

she believed probably in the running for The Best song for the spirit of The Lion king, But it was not to be.

this category is also a hope for a song called Glasgow, sung by rising Irish star Jessie Buckley in the Wild Rose . This was also excluded. But you will certainly get to The Oscars in an acting capacity before too long.

Six years ago, Frozen for two Oscars - Best animated film and Best song for Let It Go (of course won).

This Time , the sequel is nominated for Best song, Into the Unknown , But it is left out in the cold when It Comes to The Best animation category.

this category includes Toy Story 4, Missing Link , How To Train your Dragon: The Hidden world, I Lost My body and Klaus. The latter is a Netflix-Christmas-animation, and their inclusion is a big surprise.

were welcomed back A Number of past Oscar favorites in the herd.

Al Pacino now has nine career nominations, with the latest coming for his turn as a union-king Jimmy Hoffa in Martin Scorsese 's The Irishman . It is his first since 1993, when he was twice (and won for scent of a woman).

Sir Anthony Hopkins has his first nomination since 1998, and his fifth in total, for The Two popes.

Tom Hanks was once Mr Oscar and won twice, But remarkable for its nomination for A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood is his first final, the since 2001 (for Cast Away).

Renee Zellweger is favourite to scoop Best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy - your first nomination, as she was on The Shortlist for three years in a row from 2002-04.

And Charlize Theron is nominated for the bomb - her first vigorous the North of the country since 2006.

In The Best Supporting Actor category, the average age of the candidate 71. Brad Pitt is The Baby in 56, and go up against Hanks (63), Joe Pesci (76), Al Pacino (79) and Sir Anthony (82).

Also, the two male categories, the average age is 60, whereas the average age of the nominated Actresses is 40. This follows previous research that Hollywood prefers its female characters are younger than in men.

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