Nominations for the 94th Oscars were announced on Tuesday with films from across The Walt Disney Company combining to earn 23 Academy Award nominations.
‘West Side Story’received seven nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Directing, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design.
‘With Nightmare Alley’, Searchlight Pictures has now garnered 20 Best Picture Oscar nominations and a grand total of 172 Academy Award nominations. In addition to Best Picture, the film received nominations for Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design, the Mouse House said in a press statement.
Disney’s Onyx Collective secured its first Academy Award nomination with ‘Summer of Soul Soul’(…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), in partnership with Searchlight Pictures and Hulu.
Jessica Chastain was nominated for Best Actress in a leading role for her performance in Searchlight Pictures’ ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’. The film also garnered a nomination for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
Pixar Animation Studios’ ‘Luca’earned a Best Animated Feature nomination, as did Walt Disney Animation Studios’ ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’. The latter studio’s film ‘Encanto’ received three nominations: Best Animated Feature, Best Original Score and Best Original Song.
Seven of the nominated films are available to stream now on Disney+ and Hulu.
“On behalf of our entire production, we are honored that the Academy has recognized our film,” Spielberg and Macosko Krieger said in a statement.
“Filmmaking is, by nature, a collaborative experience and we learned first-hand that musicals require a special kind of team effort. We share today’s excitement with the families and estates of ‘West Side Story’s creators; our fellow nominees; our incredible screenwriter Tony Kushner; our much-missed friend and cheerleader, Stephen Sondheim; and fans all over the world who celebrate West Side Story’s singular music and timeless story of intolerance, love and, ultimately, hope,” they added.
“We want to thank the Academy for this tremendous recognition of so many artists’ hard work,” del Toro, Dale and Cooper said, “To see ‘Nightmare Alley’ nominated for Best Picture alongside so many terrific, artistic, unforgettable films is a testament to the entire cast and crew on the production. It took nearly four years to bring this project together, and to see the commitment, creativity and determination of the artisans come to life with nominations for Tamara and Shane for their immersive and inventive production design; Luis for his spectacular and sumptuous costume design; and Dan for his incomparable cinematography is truly gratifying. We thank Searchlight for never giving up on this film and want to express our appreciation to the wonderful cast for making Nightmare a dream come true.”