Both Hell or High Water and Hidden Figures proved unable to secure Best Director Oscar nominations, signaling that both films are underdogs and landed an additional three in technical categories.
The 89th Annual Academy Awards ceremony is going to be telecast on Sunday, February 26th, 2017 on ABC, starting at 8:30 p.m. EST.
La La Land may have gotten a lot of love from the Academy in terms of the sheer number of Oscar nominations that it received, but its competition didn’t fare poorly by comparison.
Moonlight picked up eight Oscar nominations total for itself, including nods in both the supporting actor and actress categories for Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris, respectively.