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Nominations Announced for the 91st Academy Awards

This morning, the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced at 5:30 by Tracee Ellis Ross and Kumail Nanjiani in 24 categroies. Here is the list of this year’s animation and vfx-related nominees:
Best Animated Feature
Best Animated Short
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Score
Last year, Disney/Pixar’s Coco won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Glen Keane’s Dear Basketball received the Best Animated Short trophy and Blade Runner 20149 took home the Oscar for Best VFX. Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water was the Best Picture Oscar honoree.
The 91st Academy Awards will take place at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, February 24th at 5 p.m. (PT) and telecast on ABC. You can see the complete list of nominations at www.oscars.org.
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