‘La La Land’ ties record with 14 Oscar nominations

Romantic showbiz musical “La La Land” topped the Oscars nominations list on Tuesday with a whopping 14 nods, tying the all-time record set by “Titanic” and “All About Eve.”
It will vie for best picture honors with eight other films (current rules allow for up to 10 nominees in this category) including “Arrival,” grim family drama “Manchester by the Sea” and “Moonlight.”
Others in the coveted top category are the film adaptation of August Wilson’s play “Fences,” Mel Gibson’s bloody WWII drama “Hacksaw Ridge,” the western “Hell or High Water,” the real-life tale of NASA’s black female mathematicians “Hidden Figures” and Garth Davis’s family drama “Lion.”
For best actor, Ryan Gosling will be vying for a golden statuette along with Golden Globe winner Casey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea“), Andrew Garfield (“Hacksaw Ridge“), Viggo Mortensen (“Captain Fantastic“) and Denzel Washington (“Fences“).
In the best actress category, France’s Golden Globe winner Isabelle Huppert was nominated for her performance in the rape-revenge thriller “Elle,” along with Emma Stone, Ruth Negga (“Loving“), Natalie Portman (“Jackie“) and Meryl Streep, who earned her 20th nomination for “Florence Foster Jenkins.”
The following are the nominees for the best foreign film Oscar: “Land of Mine” (Denmark), “A Man Called Ove” (Sweden), “The Salesman” (Iran), “Tanna” (Australia) and “Toni Erdmann” (Germany).

Source: Arab News