The Revenant, while it may still be rocking the box office, also missed an opportunity here to claim its post as frontrunner after its
hefty nomination tally and Globes success.
For every Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf you get a Revolutionary Road, a movie with a great on - screen couple that manages to disappoint and come up with a
small nomination tally.
And the
meager nomination tally won't merely be a fault of the Academy, either, as there certainly wasn't a wealth of baity work available for people of color this year, a year in which the only high - profile part that recent Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe can boast is, yes, a maid — in a Brett Ratner movie.
Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades» worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously not being nominated for its director, not having even remotely close to the year's
highest nomination tally (it trails behind four other films), and not having even a halfway plausible shot at winning more than two other categories aside from this one.
The nomination tally is led by two Cannes winners (Stranger By the Lake in 2013, Mommy in 2014) and both French - language films.
Although The Boxtrolls lead
the nomination tally going into the awards, How to Train Your Dragon 2 won six awards at the 42nd ANNIE Awards this weekend, including Directing, Editing, Music, Storyboarding, Character Animation in an Animated Feature as well as the big one itself, Best Animated Feature.
led
the nominations tally with four mentions each.
And networks ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC all saw
their nomination tally dip, too.
TRADITIONAL CATEGORIES: PICTURES ACTING VISUALS AURALS (plus: traditional
nomination tallies) EXTRA CATEGORIES: SPECIAL ACTING REAL CHARACTERS BEST SCENES (plus: all nomination tallies)