San Francisco Film Critics Nominations: Arrival, La La Land, Moonlight, Hell or High Water Get Bay Area Love
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The San Francisco Film Critics Circle nominations are in, including a shocking snub for Emma Stone in La La Land despite her co-star Ryan Gosling getting in. Also, a double citation for Hell or High Water in Supporting Actor.
Arrival, Hell or High Water, La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight are their picks for Best Picture of 2016. Their director choices almost follow suit with Loving‘s Jeff Nichols replacing Hell or High Water‘s David Mackenzie. Both films still performed very well today with two acting nominations apiece and with Hell or High Water also picking up a screenplay mention.
Moonlight, Arrival and La La Land were the group’s top picks, with 8 nominations apiece. Next were Hell or High Water and Manchester by the Sea both of which grabbed six. Jackie earned four.
The Handmaiden picked up three nominations – in Adapted Screenplay, Production Design and Foreign Language Film. It is only eligible for the former at the Oscars as it was not South Korea’s pick for FLF there.
Special Citations were given to The Fits, Krisha and Pushing Dead.
Winners will be announced on Sunday, December 11th.
Here is the full list of nominees:
BEST PICTURE
ARRIVAL
HELL OR HIGH WATER
LA LA LAND
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
MOONLIGHT
BEST DIRECTOR
Damien Chazelle – LA LA LAND
Barry Jenkins – MOONLIGHT
Kenneth Lonergan – MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Jeff Nichols – LOVING
Denis Villeneuve – ARRIVAL
BEST ACTOR
Casey Affleck – MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Joel Edgerton – LOVING
Ryan Gosling – LA LA LAND
Tom Hanks – SULLY
Denzel Washington – FENCES
BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams – ARRIVAL
Annette Bening – 20th CENTURY WOMEN
Isabelle Huppert – ELLE
Ruth Negga – LOVING
Natalie Portman – JACKIE
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali – MOONLIGHT
Jeff Bridges – HELL OR HIGH WATER
Ralph Fiennes – A BIGGER SPLASH
Ben Foster – HELL OR HIGH WATER
Michael Shannon – NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Viola Davis – FENCES
Greta Gerwig – 20th CENTURY WOMEN
Lily Gladstone – CERTAIN WOMEN
Naomie Harris – MOONLIGHT
Michelle Williams – MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
BEST SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL
HELL OR HIGH WATER – Taylor Sheridan
LA LA LAND – Damien Chazelle
THE LOBSTER – Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA – Kenneth Lonergan
MOONLIGHT – Barry Jenkins
BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED
ARRIVAL – Eric Heisserer
ELLE – David Birke
THE HANDMAIDEN – Park Chan-wook and Jeong Seo-Gyeong
FENCES – August Wilson
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS – Tom Ford
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
ARRIVAL – Bradford Young
JACKIE – Stephane Fontaine
LA LA LAND – Linus Sandgren
MOONLIGHT – James Laxton
SILENCE – Rodrigo Pietro
PRODUCTION DESIGN
ARRIVAL – Patrice Vermette
THE HANDMAIDEN – Ryu Seong-hee
JACKIE – Jean Rabasse
LA LA LAND – David Wasco
THE WITCH – Craig Lathrop
ORIGINAL SCORE
ARRIVAL – Johann Johannsson
HELL OR HIGH WATER – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
JACKIE – Mica Levi
LA LA LAND – Justin Hurwitz
MOONLIGHT – Nicholas Britell
FILM EDITING
ARRIVAL – Joe Walker
HELL OR HIGH WATER – Jake Roberts
LA LA LAND – Tom Cross
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA – Jennifer Lame
MOONLIGHT – Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
FINDING DORY
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
MOANA
THE RED TURTLE
ZOOTOPIA
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
ELLE
THE HANDMAIDEN
NERUDA
THE SALESMAN
TONI ERDMANN
BEST DOCUMENTARY
13TH
CAMERAPERSON
FIRE AT SEA
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
OJ: MADE IN AMERICA
SPECIAL CITATION
THE FITS
KRISHA
PUSHING DEAD
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