Oscars 2017: Complete List of Nominations

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Adapted Screenplay

• Arrival, Eric Heisserer
• Fences, August Wilson
• Hidden Figures, Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
• Lion, Luke Davies
• Moonlight, Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney

Original Screenplay

• 20th Century Women, Mike Mills
• Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan
• La La Land, Damien Chazelle
• The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
• Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan

The movies can only happen with the screenplays – it may be the crews and actors that bring those words to life, but it’s the scribes who get it down, down to the last detail. This year’s contenders were all moving and powerful, adapted and original.

Lion, as the story of a lost boy, being found and later searching for his family. Moonlight, a story of growing up struggling, with life, with school, with sexuality and love. Hidden Figures, the real inspiring story of the women to thank for one of NASA’s most historic missions. Fences, the story of a black family in the mid-20th century, and tough loving. La La Land, about love and hope in a city for dreamers that can break your heart. We got stories of heartbreak with Manchester By The Sea, of tough women with 20th Century Women, and more.

Stories of all kinds were told this year, and that matters.