The 2017 Oscar nominations are out, with La Land a frontrunner. Here’s a round-up of a surprises and articulate points from this year’s list. La Land is one of a best 3 films in history
That’s if we use a Oscar nominations as a beam – a enchanting low-pitched is usually one of 3 films to ever get 14 (with Titanic and All About Eve).
By that theory, it is also a biggest low-pitched ever, given that it has surpassed a 13 nominations given to Mary Poppins in 1965 and Chicago in 2003.
We’ll see if La Land can opposition a biggest ever winners – Titanic, Ben-Hur and The Lord of a Rings: The Return of a King, that all scooped 11 golden statuettes.
The many successful low-pitched in Academy Awards story was West Side Story, that won 10. It’s not a selected year for Brits
But not a terrible year – Andrew Garfield, Naomie Harris and Dev Patel are drifting a dwindle in a behaving categories.
But that’s down on a 6 British behaving nominees we saw final year.
Hugh Grant would have been a renouned choice for his initial Oscar assignment for Florence Foster Jenkins, and there was no room for Emily Blunt (The Girl on a Train), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals) or Felicity Jones (A Monster Calls).
The heading British film of a year, if a Bafta nominations are anything to go by , was Ken Loach’s hard-hitting play I, Daniel Blake. Oscar seems to like British films when they are unconditional chronological epics or when they underline kingship or Dame Judi Dench. Perhaps I, Daniel Blake was usually too gritty. Hollywood hearts Meryl (but not Donald)
Overrated?
Meryl Streep was distant from a passed cert to be nominated, though has crept into a best singer battle, earning a 20th Oscar nomination.
She has gained Oscar movement given a Golden Globes, when she finished a debate aggressive US President Donald Trump – before he dismissed back that she was “overrated”.
That finished her even some-more of a heroine in Hollywood, if such a thing is possible. And it’s satisfactory to advise a couple between a debate and a Oscar nomination.
She’s an alien to win – though could Hollywood offer her a possibility to make a identical debate on a biggest theatre of all? Amy Adams won’t have to rehearse her losing face again
The biggest warn in a behaving categories was Amy Adams blank a cut for best singer for Arrival, that got 8 other nominations. But maybe it’s a blessing in disguise.
Amy has been nominated 5 times before – and never won. And if she had been nominated this year, she substantially wouldn’t have won (again), and would have turn corner record hilt for actresses who have mislaid a many Oscars.
This year, best singer is a many rival difficulty – there was also many adore though no room for Annette Bening (20th Century Women) or Taraji P Henson (Hidden Figures). Mel Gibson is behind in a fold
Mel Gibson became persona non grata in Hollywood after tapes emerged of him verbally abusing his partner in 2010, and after he finished anti-Semitic comments to a military officer in 2006.
Now, it seems, all is forgiven.
His fight film Hacksaw Ridge has 6 nominations, including one for Mel for best executive – his initial assignment given 1996.
He has been given a best executive assignment above Denzel Washington, who finished Fences (although Denzel has been nominated for best actor for a same film). Tom Hanks contingency have finished something unequivocally bad
Unlike Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks has not embarked on any extremist or sexist rants. In fact he is certainly a nicest, slightest offensive, many reputable male in Hollywood.
Yet he contingency have finished something to provoke a Academy. He was an Oscars favourite once – nominated 5 times between 1989-2001 and winning twice (for Forrest Gump and Philadelphia).
But given then, nothing. And a Academy has abandoned him again – giving him zero for his purpose in Sully as real-life all-American favourite Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who landed a craft in a Hudson River in New York in 2009. #OscarsNotQuiteSoWhite
After dual years with no non-white behaving nominees, there are seven this year out of 20 slots , including Ruth Negga and Denzel Washington (above).
So we won’t see identical protests to final year. Is this a pointer that a Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ attempts to remodel a membership have been successful?
Or were some-more good films with different casts expelled final year than in a prior two? And will this unequivocally be a branch point? There’s reduction farrago among directors
Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins (above) has turn usually a fourth black hopeful for best executive in Oscars history. If he triumphs, he’ll be a initial black winner.
But there were no women nominated again – in fact, usually 4 womanlike directors have been nominated in 89 years of a Oscars. Let’s contend that again – 4 in 89 years. There has usually ever been one womanlike leader – Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010.
There has been some clarity of farrago in a best executive difficulty in new years – despite a somewhat peculiar one. Basically, you’re OK as prolonged as you’re a foreign-born man. No American-born directors have won given Bigelow. The Oscars still don’t do superheroes
There was a groundswell of support for Deadpool to turn a initial superhero film to be nominated for best picture.
It was nominated for Golden Globes and Producers Guild of America Awards, among others, and valid that a grown-up superhero crack could be a vicious and blurb success.
But it didn’t happen. But Oscar does cite a good guy
British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson (above right) won a Golden Globe for best ancillary actor for personification a really nasty male in Nocturnal Animals.
But now he has turn a initial Golden Globe best ancillary actor to destroy to be nominated for a same esteem during a Oscars given 1975.
Instead, a chairman who has snuck into that Oscars difficulty in his place is Michael Shannon (above left) – who played a policeman obliged for tracking down Taylor-Johnson’s knave in Nocturnal Animals.
This year’s Oscar winners will be named on 26 February.
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Veteran pop-rock band Aegis
For music purists, the unthinkable will happen on Feb. 11 at Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).
CCP president and acclaimed pianist, Raul Sunico, also dean of the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music, will play the piano with veteran pop-rock band Aegis as one of the guest performers in a pre-Valentine’s Day concert, “Aegis in Symphony, Symphonic Aegis: The Repeat, Hugot Pa More!”
It is a repeat of the fund-raising concert presented by the CCP Complex Employees Organization on Nov. 13 last year, which had the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) playing with Aegis. It earned rave reviews and broke records in audience attendance for the PPO.
“Last year, Raul Sunico watched the show and he liked it a lot. He even requested a photo-op with the band. So now, he’s part of the repeat but I won’t give any details about what songs he’ll play with Aegis. Surprise na lang,” said concert director Ariel Yonzon, who conceptualized the show with PPO resident conductor Herminigildo Ranera.
Raul Sunico
The “hugot” in the title has something to do with Valentine’s Day and Aegis.
“ Hugot ,” loosely translated as “pulling out,” has been given new meanings, like “drawing emotions from” or any of those witty lines on love and romance.
Known for their hits “Halik” (Kiss), “Basang-Basa sa Ulan” (Drenched in the Rain), “Luha” (Tears), Aegis has mastered the “ hugot ” songs predating its contemporary meaning.
“Halik” has a classical arrangement that perfectly melds electric guitars and PPO’s string section, not drowning each other. What brought the house down was “Nessun Dorma” interpreted by the three lady singers of Aegis, the Sunot sisters Mercy, Juliet and Ken, with the PPO.
“We were nervous when we did that because it’s our first time to do classical music,” said Mercy. “We’re used to basagan ng boses, rak-rakrakan [rock songs that seemingly break vocal cords],” said Juliet.
For effortlessly hitting the high notes, the Sunot sisters were once described by Regine Velasquez as vocalists with bionic lungs.
“I love their honesty, humility and raw talent. From the start, they admitted they were not note readers. But they are excellent singers, very natural,” said Ranera.
With PPO, he said they were used to the preconcert tuning and conditioning.
“But with Aegis, at the drop of a hat, they are ready to perform. The PPO actually learned something from them,” he added.
Since it’s Valentine’s weekend, Yonzon said he divided the show in three parts. “First is para sa mga sawi, may pinagdadaanan [broken-hearted, those going through rough times]. Second is for those in love, floating on cloud nine. Third is sa mga iibig pang muli, para sa umaasa [those who hope to love again, or still longing for someone],” Yonzon said. —CONTRIBUTED
Concert is at 8 p.m., Feb. 11, CCP Main Theater. Call Ticketworld at 8999999; visit www.culturalcenter.gov.ph

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