The nominations were announced this morning, and the winners will be revealed live during the March 12, 2023 telecast on ABC-TV. Some surprises included a nomination for Andrea Riseborough as best actress in the little-seen alcohol recovery dramaTo Leslie (now available for rent on Amazon Prime) and Brian Tyree Henry in supporting actor opposite Jennifer Lawrence in the Apple TV+ drama Causeway.
Here are the ten nominations for Best Picture, with links to my reviews:
Get ready for the biggest party in Hollywood—The Academy Awards telecast is Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC. For many of us, the best part of the evening is pre-gaming to red carpet arrivals (E! Entertainment is the place for stargazing). Be on the lookout for fashion plates like nominees Emma Stone, Michael B. Jordan and Regina King. But, the movies are the main event, so here’s a look at what to expect as you prepare to win your own preferential ballots.
Oscars So Woke
This year’s Oscars ceremony is infamously host-free (there are rumors of Whoopi Goldberg gearing up to be a stealth emcee) and promises to tickle and tick off just about everybody as both Hollywood hits and artier indie fare compete for top prizes in a year when representation on screen has been paramount. This juried juggernaut is the culmination of a prolonged awards season in which anything is possible, and surprises and snubs will undoubtedly own the night.
And the Winner Might Be…
Many films and featured artists are sure to blow up your Twitter feed to “Grammy Michelle Obama proportions,” so you’ll want to binge up on any movies you’ve missed. Expect to hear the swirling sounds of Gaga – the Radio Gaga variety, as Rami Malek is a frontrunner for his flamboyant frontman role as Freddie Mercury in the Queen music biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and the Lady Gaga type as she sings her A Star Is Born hit single “Shallow” opposite co-star and snubbed first-time director Bradley Cooper. Both in this romantic duo are nominated for their searing performances in the hit remake. Black Panther was the $700 million juggernaut of 2018 and blew peoples’ minds with its Afrofuturist take on the epic action odyssey. The first comic book adaptation ever to compete for best picture, it’s a long shot for the top prize but wouldn’t surprise anyone as Wakanda has forged its forever place in cinematic history. Spike Lee is also making history with his latest joint, finally up for competitive prizes after a sterling career as a cinematic trailblazer. He’s vying in directing, writing and best picture categories for BlacKkKlansman, a winning real-life story with John David Robinson (Denzel’s son) and the nominated Adam Driver infiltrating a hate group in Colorado. The film is alternately funny, ferocious and fascinating. You’ll also hear lots about Roma, a black and white film set in 1970s Mexico City about a housekeeper (newcomer Yalitza Aparicio) who quietly watches over the family she lives with during a time of contemporary revolutions. Expect Alfonso Cuarón’s deeply personal Spanish-language film – which premiered on and is now streaming on Netflix – to get mucho praise come Oscar night. The sleeper film still charming multiplex audiences is Green Book, a real-life buddy comedy with Viggo Mortensen of Lord of the Rings as a Brooklyn bouncer who must transport a classical pianist played by True Detective’s Mahershala Ali through the late-‘60s Deep South with only their emerging friendship and a race relations guidebook to steer their destiny. Expect Ali, a recent Oscar winner for Moonlight, to score a second trophy for this classic Hollywood road picture with an acting pair reminiscent of Shawshank Redemption. Also worth viewing before the big show are Glenn Close as a spouse with a secret in The Wife, Sam Rockwell and Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in the political satire Vice, and Olivia Colman as a droll and debauched queen in the offbeat dark comedy The Favourite. My predictions: Black Panther upsets Roma for Best Picture with Cuarón winning director and best foreign film, Glenn Close and Rami Malek take first-time featured role wins and Mahershala Ali and The Favourite‘s Rachel Weisz land second-time supporting wins. There will be lots of awards to go around and the movie faithful will watch until the very end to see if their predictions hold true.
My sentimental favorite and the prohibitive favorite through most of the awards season until the past few weeks, the true-life journalism cracklerSpotlight, wins in an upset. First journalism film to ever claim the prize! And the producers proclaim they hope the Pope gets the message that abuse must end.
After winning last year for Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu scores for a second year in a row for The Revenant. An epic story well-told and a move well-made by a beloved auteur of Hispanic descent stands out among the smaller dramas. Plus, he makes moviemaking look incredibly exciting!
Although he got to flex his acting muscles even more in The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio suffered for his art this year and wins his belated Oscar for The Revenant. The biggest roar of excitement and in the Dolby Theatre happened for this long-awaited victory.
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Carol Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan,Brooklyn
Brie Larson, absolutely the favorite for Room with no close second, wins! Brie is great in the role and beloved on the Hollywood scene. Did you know she also played Amy Schumer’s sister in this year’s summer comedy hit Trainwreck?
Mark Rylance pulls off one of the great upsets in Oscar history with a wonderful performance that is the elegant definition of a perfect supporting performance. Sly fans across the world gasped, and Mark Rylance became a much-Googled phrase.
It-Girl Alicia Vikander wins for The Danish Girl. Her role in the film was actually the female lead plus there are many fans of her work in the sci-fi film Ex Machina, also released this past year. She does a lovely, dare I say fierce job in both.
Folks were impressed with the topical dark comedy The Big Short and the ability of a comedy writer/director – Adam McKay – to bring such panache to a story about the housing crash. This is the buzzy film’s only win.
Best Original Screenplay Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight
Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen, Bridge of Spies
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Ronnie del Carmen, Inside Out
Alex Garland, Ex Machina
Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus, Andrea Berloff, Straight Outta Compton
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer developed the true story Spotlight without any source material, which is unusual for a film of this type. It is a great film and will at least be rewarded in this category. This is one of just two wins for the Best Picture.
Best Foreign Language Film Son of Saul (Hungary) Mustang (France) A War (Denmark) Embrace the Serpent (Colombia) Theeb (Jordan)
Son of Saulis a searing masterpiece that could have easily snuck into the overall Best Picture race. Hopefully this win raises visibility for a great film.
Best Documentary Feature Amy Cartel Land The Look of Silence What Happened, Miss Simone? Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Amy, the documentary about Amy Winehouse, captured the most acclaim and buzz this year and won.
Best Animated Feature Inside Out Anomalisa Shaun of the Sheep When Marnie Was There Boy and the World
Inside Out, an expected candidate for Best Picture that didn’t make that cut, prevails. And its makers challenge everyone to channel emotions into writing and art!
Mad Max: Fury Roadis the adrenaline-soaked action spectacular of the year. Its editing was fast and, well, furious.
Best Original Song
“Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey
Music and lyrics by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville, and Stephan Moccio
“Manta Ray” from Racing Extinction
Music by J. Ralph and lyrics by Antony Hegarty
“Simple Song #3” from Youth
Music and lyrics by David Lang
“Til It Happens to You” from The Hunting Ground
Music and lyrics by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga “Writing’s on the Wall” from Spectre
Music and lyrics by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
Sam Smith follows a recent Adele win for a song for James Bond. He invokes a little bit of revisionist history about what a pioneer he is that Dustin Lance Black and Elton John might dispute.
Score one for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight with veteran composer Ennio Morricone taking home the prize for the writer/director’s peculiar revisionist western.
For wide open expanses, bear attacks and generally amazing cinematography, Emmanuel Lubezki wins for The Revenant. Plus, he makes history as the first cinematographer to win three years in a row after Gravity and Birdman.
Despite the beauty of many of the period costumes, it’s Jenny Beavan’s renegade post-apocalyptic couture of Mad Max: Fury Road that’s the stuff of pure imagination.
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The ruggedness and bear-inflicted wounds of The Revenantare one-upped by the gonzo desert ampitheatre of Mad Max denizens. Prediction here is Mad Max: Fury Road.
Best Production Design Bridge of Spies, Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich The Danish Girl, Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish Mad Max: Fury Road, Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson The Martian, Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak The Revenant, Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy
Let’s give another to Mad Max, you know, “because.” The “below-the-line” technical awards nearly all go to Mad Max.
And how Mad Max blended breakneck noises into one of the most singular sonic soundscapes of the year!
Visual Effects Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett, Ex Machina
Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams, Mad Max: Fury Road
Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner, The Martian
Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer, The Revenant
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ex Machina wins in an upset! Also a rare female winner in this category. Shows how much the Academy wanted to reward this visionary android romance thriller with Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander.
Best Short Film, Live Action
Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont, Ave Maria
Henry Hughes, Day One
Jamie Donoughue, Shok Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage, Stutterer
Patrick Vollrath, Everything Will Be Okay (Alle Wird Gut)
Stutterer prevails.
Best Short Film, Animated Bear Story Prologue Sanjay’s Super Team We Can’t Live Without Cosmos World of Tomorrow
Bear Story! Some voters will think this is about The Revenanttoo. Great speech by the winners.
Best Documentary, Short Subject Body Team 12, David Darg and Bryn Mooser Chau, Beyond the Lines, Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, Adam Benzine A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Last Day of Freedom, Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
A Girl in the River prevails. Great spotlight on justice for women, and it caused a law to be changed in Pakistan.
Look forward to covering the movies of the year ahead! Thanks for reading, and I’m signing off from Hollywood! Thanks to Dolby for sponsoring my trip to the Oscars.
Oscar weekend has arrived, and starting tomorrow I’ll be reporting live from Hollywood thanks to Dolby Laboratories, who is sending me on my first official press junket and Academy Awards experience. I look forward to sharing technology, stars and events here on the blog and will Tweet from my handle @StephenATL.
This is the biggest weekend for the movies all year; and despite the lack of diversity in the nominations, people are expecting to see pomp and pageantry and host Chris Rock to skewer the establishment when televised proceedings begin on ABC Sunday night.
But the real question everyone’s asking (other than what will Lady Gaga wear?) is who will win the awards? There are many rules when filling out your mock-ballot; and there are always head-scratching surprises, but it’s Friday, so I better commit these to pixels.
Although my sentimental favorite is the true-life journalism cracklerSpotlight, my prediction is The Revenant, because the Oscar voters have just discovered it in the past two months, because it is epic and sprawling and because it looks like it was hard to make. The story behind the story – about director Alejandro González Iñárritu and star Leonardo DiCaprio braving the wilderness to make this passion project on the brink of madness – is just what Hollywood loves. The topical message movies that don’t “appear” as “directed” as the outdoor epic will likely split the vote, and then only cult favorite Mad Max: Fury Road could sneak in as a dark horse. All the rest in this category should consider the nomination their reward.
After winning last year for Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu will score for a second year in a row for The Revenant. An epic story well-told and a move well-made by a beloved auteur of Hispanic descent stands out among the smaller dramas. Plus, he makes moviemaking look incredibly exciting! Again, veteran director George Miller is a close second!
Although he got to flex his acting muscles even more in The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio suffered for his art this year and will get his belated Oscar for The Revenant. There’s not even a strong second, although it’s disappointing the superb Michael B. Jordan in the audience and critical favorite Creedor Will Smith as the real-life doctor in the underappreciated Concussion didn’t make the short list.
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Carol Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan,Brooklyn
Brie Larson is absolutely the favorite for Room, with no close second, because two of the year’s best actresses are in the supporting category. Brie is great in the role and beloved on the Hollywood scene. Did you know she also played Amy Schumer’s sister in this year’s summer comedy hit Trainwreck?
Sylvester Stallone in Creed will narrowly defeat Bale and Hardy for the nifty performances in films released in the past two months. Stallone has one of those classic Hollywood stories, and it’s nice to see him return to his roots and return to form after a multi-decade acting wasteland.
This is the biggest wild-card race of the night, but It-Girl Alicia Vikander is the likely winner for The Danish Girl. Her role in the film was actually the female lead plus there are many fans of her work in the sci-fi film Ex Machina, also released this past year. She does a lovely, dare I say fierce job in both. This could also be one of those colossally split votes that somehow lifts the ship of Kate Winslet in Steve Jobs to join her Titanic star in the night’s bounty. But Vikander has the edge.
Folks were impressed with the topical dark comedy The Big Short and the ability of a comedy writer/director – Adam McKay – to bring such panache to a story about the housing crash. This could be its only win of the night.
Best Original Screenplay Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight
Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen, Bridge of Spies
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, Ronnie del Carmen, Inside Out
Alex Garland, Ex Machina
Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus, Andrea Berloff, Straight Outta Compton
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer developed the true story Spotlight without any source material, which is unusual for a film of this type. It is a great film and will at least be rewarded in this category. This will likely be the consolation prize for what was believed to be the Best Picture front-runner for most of the awards season.
Best Foreign Language Film Son of Saul (Hungary) Mustang (France) A War (Denmark) Embrace the Serpent (Colombia) Theeb (Jordan)
Son of Saulis a searing masterpiece that could have easily snuck into the overall Best Picture race.
Best Documentary Feature Amy Cartel Land The Look of Silence What Happened, Miss Simone? Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Amy, the documentary about Amy Winehouse captured the most acclaim and buzz this year.
Best Animated Feature Inside Out Anomalisa Shaun of the Sheep When Marnie Was There Boy and the World
Inside Out, an expected candidate for Best Picture that didn’t make that cut, seems destined to take the animated glory.
Mad Max: Fury Roadcould actually win the most Oscars as the adrenaline-soaked action spectacular of the year. Its editing was fast and, well, furious.
Best Original Song
“Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey
Music and lyrics by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville, and Stephan Moccio
“Manta Ray” from Racing Extinction
Music by J. Ralph and lyrics by Antony Hegarty
“Simple Song #3” from Youth
Music and lyrics by David Lang “Til It Happens to You” from The Hunting Ground Music and lyrics by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
“Writing’s on the Wall” from Spectre
Music and lyrics by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
“Til It Happens to You” from a documentary about sexual assault called The Hunting Ground, is the likely winner. It’s chanteuse, Lady Gaga, has become the unlikely celebrant of the awards season.
Score one for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight with veteran composer Ennio Morricone taking home the prize for the writer/director’s peculiar revisionist western. Star Wars: The Force Awakens will get locked out of all categories, with the billions it has made its consolation prize.
For wide open expanses, bear attacks and generally amazing cinematography, Emmanuel Lubezki will win for The Revenant. Plus, he will make history as the first cinematographer to win three years in a row after Gravity and Birdman.
Despite the beauty of many of the period costumes, it’s Jenny Beavan’s renegade post-apocalyptic couture of Mad Max: Fury Road that’s the stuff of pure imagination.
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The ruggedness and bear-inflicted wounds of The Revenantare one-upped by the gonzo desert ampitheatre of Mad Max denizens. Prediction here is Mad Max: Fury Road.
Best Production Design Bridge of Spies, Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich The Danish Girl, Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish Mad Max: Fury Road, Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson The Martian, Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak The Revenant, Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy
Let’s give another to Mad Max, you know, “because.” I do think the “below-the-line” technical awards will nearly all go to Mad Max or The Revenant, with the slight edge on some to Mad Max since voters know they’re giving Revenant lots of the top prizes.
And how Mad Max blended breakneck noises into one of the most singular sonic soundscapes of the year!
Visual Effects
Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett, Ex Machina Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams, Mad Max: Fury Road
Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner, The Martian
Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer, The Revenant
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
We loved the practical sets and stunts of both the Star Warsand Mad Max sequels, but Mad Max gets the edge as the “artier” choice.
Best Short Film, Live Action
Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont, Ave Maria
Henry Hughes, Day One
Jamie Donoughue, Shok Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage, Stutterer
Patrick Vollrath, Everything Will Be Okay (Alle Wird Gut)
Let’s go with Stutterer.
Best Short Film, Animated Bear Story Prologue Sanjay’s Super Team We Can’t Live Without Cosmos World of Tomorrow
Let’s go with Bear Story. Some voters will think this is about The Revenanttoo.
Best Documentary, Short Subject Body Team 12, David Darg and Bryn Mooser Chau, Beyond the Lines, Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, Adam Benzine A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Last Day of Freedom, Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
Let’s go with Body Team 12 since the subject of the Holocaust is already covered in Best Foreign Language films.
Expect pedigreed delights Carol, Brooklyn,The Martian and Bridge of Spiesto go home empty-handed. The earthier epics and modern message pics appear to dominate!
Hope you have a great time catching up on Oscar movies and tune in Sunday night for the ABC telecast. Many of you will likely be watching online and all weekend, so thanks for making my blog part of your ritual!
One of the most acclaimed Hungarian films in recent years tells the tale of a father endeavoring to bury his son, but there’s so much more to the story. László Nemes’s chilling you-are-there style Holocaust drama Son of Saul (A-) takes viewers deep into horror and chaos where a heroic dad’s singleminded mission to provide a proper burial for his offspring is complicated by his role as a Jewish prisoner inside a WWII Auschwitz Concentration Camp where he serves as part of the “Sonderkommando” unit that disposes of the dead. Told within stifling quarters over the course of less than two days in 1944, the story is focused on Saul’s leviathan task while he fends off SS-guards and smugglers in his midst as the burial and even overall escape becomes either elusive or imminent. Much falls on the shoulder of lead actor Géza Röhrig, and he is magnificent in a muscular role requiring few words. Nemes’ direction often relies on tight close-ups and sound effects that prompt viewers to fill in an even more terrifying complete picture. Told with the propulsion of near-constant motion, it is an extraordinarily effective glimpse into history. Due to some of the labyrinthine plot details that undergird the narrative, the emotional core occasionally gets short shrift. It is essential viewing in this historical sub-genre and a harrowing, insightful experience.
As both a cinema and technology enthusiast, I am thrilled that Dolby Laboratories is sponsoring my trip to cover The Oscars in Hollywood the weekend of February 27-28, 2016 culminating in the February 28 ABC telecast. Here are some technology trivia facts — and links to my reviews – for some of the most celebrated films of the past year. These are the films nominated for Academy Awards,using Dolby technology:
The Academy Awards® issue historic announcement to increase diversity.
Breaking News: Academy Takes Historic Action
Lifetime voting rights re-framed; new governor seats added and committees restructured
Goal to double number of diverse members by 2020
In a unanimous vote Thursday night (1/21/16), the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved a sweeping series of substantive changes designed to make the Academy’s membership, its governing bodies and its voting members significantly more diverse. The Board’s goal is to commit to doubling the number of women and diverse members of the Academy by 2020.
“The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition.”
Beginning later this year, each new member’s voting status will last 10 years and will be renewed if that new member has been active in motion pictures during that decade. In addition, members will receive lifetime voting rights after three 10-year terms; or if they have won or been nominated for an Academy Award. We will apply these same standards retroactively to current members. In other words, if a current member has not been active in the last 10 years they can still qualify by meeting the other criteria. Those who do not qualify for active status will be moved to emeritus status. Emeritus members do not pay dues but enjoy all the privileges of membership, except voting. This will not affect voting for this year’s Oscars.
At the same time, the Academy will supplement the traditional process in which current members sponsor new members by launching an ambitious, global campaign to identify and recruit qualified new members who represent greater diversity.
In order to immediately increase diversity on the Board of Governors, the Academy will establish three new governor seats that will be nominated by the President for three-year terms and confirmed by the Board.
The Academy will also take immediate action to increase diversity by adding new members who are not Governors to its executive and board committees where key decisions about membership and governance are made. This will allow new members an opportunity to become more active in Academy decision-making and help the organization identify and nurture future leaders.
Along with Boone Isaacs, the Board’s Membership and Administration Committee, chaired by Academy Governor Phil Robinson, led the efforts to enact these initiatives.
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One of the most acclaimed Hungarian films in recent years tells the tale of a father endeavoring to bury his son, but there’s so much more to the story. László Nemes’s chilling you-are-there style Holocaust drama Son of Saul (A-) takes viewers deep into horror and chaos where a heroic dad’s singleminded mission to provide a proper burial for his offspring is complicated by his role as a Jewish prisoner inside a WWII Auschwitz Concentration Camp where he serves as part of the “Sonderkommando” unit that disposes of the dead. Told within stifling quarters over the course of less than two days in 1944, the story is focused on Saul’s leviathan task while he fends off SS-guards and smugglers in his midst as the burial and even overall escape becomes either elusive or imminent. Much falls on the shoulder of lead actor Géza Röhrig, and he is magnificent in a muscular role requiring few words. Nemes’ direction often relies on tight close-ups and sound effects that prompt viewers to fill in an even more terrifying complete picture. Told with the propulsion of near-constant motion, it is an extraordinarily effective glimpse into history. Due to some of the labyrinthine plot details that undergird the narrative, the emotional core occasionally gets short shrift. It is essential viewing in this historical sub-genre and a harrowing, insightful experience.
As both a cinema and technology enthusiast, I am thrilled that Dolby Laboratories is sponsoring my trip to cover The Oscars in Hollywood the weekend of February 27-28, 2016 culminating in the February 28 ABC telecast. Here are some technology trivia facts — and links to my reviews – for some of the most celebrated films of the past year. These are the films nominated for Academy Awards,using Dolby technology: