News: Oscars 2017 Nominations: The Full List of Nominees

January 25, 2017planet akinade Leave a comment

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The Academy Awards, no doubt, is the most anticipated event in Hollywood, considering the fact that the Oscars are regarded as the highest honours when it comes to film. The anticipation for the 89th Academy Awards has been heightened by the announcement of the Oscars 2017 nominations.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the nominations were announced on Tuesday by Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs who presented all the 24 categories. La La Land leads with a total of 14 nominations, rubbing shoulders with Oscars biggest winners in history like James Cameron’s Titanic and the All About Eve movie.

‘La La Land’ | via HollywoodNews.com

Below is the full list of nominees retrieved from THR’s website:

Best Picture

Arrival (Produced by Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder and David Linde)

Fences (Produced by Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington and Todd Black)

Hacksaw Ridge (Produced by Bill Mechanic and David Permut)

Hell or High Water (Produced by Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn)

Hidden Figures (Produced by Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams and Theodore Melfi)

La La Land (Produced by Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz and Marc Platt)

Lion (Produced by Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder)

Manchester by the Sea (Produced by Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck and Kevin J. Walsh)

Moonlight (Produced by Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner)

Best Director

Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)

Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)

Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)

Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Best Actor

Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)

Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)

Ryan Gosling (La La Land)

Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)

Denzel Washington (Fences)

Best Actress

Isabelle Huppert (Elle)

Ruth Negga (Loving)

Natalie Portman (Jackie)

Emma Stone (La La Land)

Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)

Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)

Dev Patel (Lion)

Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)

Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis (Fences)

Naomie Harris (Moonlight)

Nicole Kidman (Lion)

Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)

Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Arrival (Eric Heisserer)

Fences (August Wilson)

Hidden Figures (Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi)

Lion (Luke Davies)

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney)

Best Original Screenplay

Hell or High Water (Taylor Sheridan)

La La Land (Damien Chazelle)

The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou)

Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)

20th Century Women (Mike Mills)

Best Animated Feature

Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner)

Moana (John Musker, Ron Clements and Osnat Shurer)

My Life as a Zucchini (Claude Barras and Max Karli)

The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki)

Zootopia (Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer)

Best Documentary Feature

Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo)

I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, Remi Grellety and Hebert Peck)

Life, Animated (Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman)

O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow)

13th (Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick and Howard Barish)

Best Foreign-Language Film

Land of Mine (Denmark)

A Man Called Ove (Sweden)

The Salesman (Iran)

Tanna (Australia)

Toni Erdmann (Germany)

Best Cinematography

Arrival (Bradford Young)

La La Land (Linus Sandgren)

Lion (Greig Fraser)

Moonlight (James Laxton)

Silence (Rodrigo Prieto)

Best Film Editing

Arrival (Joe Walker)

Hacksaw Ridge (John Gilbert)

Hell or High Water (Jake Roberts)

La La Land (Tom Cross)

Moonlight (Joi McMillon, Nat Sanders)

Best Costume Design

Allied (Joanna Johnston)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Colleen Atwood)

Florence Foster Jenkins (Consolata Boyle)

Jackie (Madeline Fontaine)

La La Land (Mary Zophres)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

A Man Called Ove (Eva von Bahr and Love Larson)

Star Trek Beyond (Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo)

Suicide Squad (Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson)

Best Original Score

Jackie (Mica Levi)

La La Land (Justin Hurwitz)

Lion (Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka)

Moonlight (Nicholas Britell)

Passengers (Thomas Newman)

Best Original Song

“Audition (The Fools Who Dream),” from La La Land (Music by Justin Hurwitz, lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul)

“Can’t Stop the Feeling,” from Trolls (Music and lyrics by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster)

“City of Stars,” from La La Land (Music by Justin Hurwitz, lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul)

“The Empty Chair,” from Jim: The James Foley Story (Music and lyrics by J. Ralph and Sting)

“How Far I’ll Go,” from Moana (Music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda)

Best Production Design

Arrival (Production design: Patrice Vermette; Set decoration: Paul Hotte)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Production design: Stuart Craig; Set decoration: Anna Pinnock)

Hail, Caesar! (Production design: Jess Gonchor; Set decoration: Nancy Haigh)

La La Land (Production design: David Wasco; Set decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco)

Passengers (Production design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set decoration: Gene Serdena)

Best Sound Editing

Arrival (Sylvain Bellemare)

Deepwater Horizon (Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli)

Hacksaw Ridge (Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright)

La La Land (Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan)

Sully (Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman)

Best Sound Mixing

Arrival (Bernard Gariepy Strobl and Claude La Haye)

Hacksaw Ridge (Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace)

La La Land (Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steve A. Morrow)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson)

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth)

Best Visual Effects

Deepwater Horizon (Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington and Burt Dalton)

Doctor Strange (Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould)

The Jungle Book (Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon)

Kubo and the Two Strings (Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean and Brad Schiff)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel and Neil Corbould)

Best Animated Short

Blind Vaysha (Theodore Ushev)

Borrowed Time (Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj)

Pear Cider and Cigarettes (Robert Valley and Cara Speller)

Pearl (Patrick Osborne)

Piper (Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer)

Best Documentary Short

Extremis (Dan Krauss)

4.1 Miles (Daphne Matziaraki)

Joe’s Violin (Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen)

Watani: My Homeland (Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis)

The White Helmets (Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara)

Best Live-Action Short

Ennemis Interieurs (Selim Azzazi)

La Femme et le TGV (Timo von Gunten and Giacun Caduff)

Silent Nights (Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson)

Sing (Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy)

Timecode (Juanjo Gimenez)

According to THR, the 2017 Academy Awards, to be broadcast live on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 5:30 p.m. PT by ABC, will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. The venue is the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.

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Margot Robbie to Produce and Star in ‘Gotham City Sirens’

December 23, 2016planet akinade Leave a comment

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Harley Quinn is returning to the big screen in Gotham City Sirens, a movie which is presently being developed by Warner Bros. The film is based on the DC Comics comic book series of the same name written by Paul Dini. The first issue of the comic series was reportedly released in June 2009.

Harley Quinn | Batman: Arkham City

Margot Robbie will reprise her Harley Quinn role in Gotham City Sirens and she will be an executive producer of the movie. Suicide Squad director David Ayer will direct the film which also features popular female DC villains: Catwoman and Poison Ivy, while, Geneva Dworet – Robertson (Sherlock Holmes 3) will write the screenplay.

Harley Quinn | Batman: Arkham City

Warner Bros is also planning a Suicide Squad sequel, as well as, a Deadshot stand-alone film. It was announced earlier this month that Gotham City Sirens will form a part of the DC Extended Universe. However, the release date for the movie has not been announced.

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Akinadé Bombshell Curves: Lucia ‘Drew’ Ondrisova (Swimsuit Photoshoot)

November 6, 2016planet akinade 1 Comment

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Make up – Daniela Make-Up and Styling.

Slovak curvy model and fashion/beauty blogger, Lucia Ondrisova (Drew) has released a number of steamy hot photos from her recent swimsuit photoshoot.

Drew is the first model to reach out to and to be featured by Planet Akinadé. Said photos were posted to her Facebook page facebook.com/drew.plusizemodel on Friday and they are just as delicious as her luscious curves.

Visit Lucia’s Facebook page to see more photos of hers.

Models who would like to be featured in our Akinadé Hottie or Akinadé Bombshell Curves category may email their portfolios with photos attached to emailsforakinade@gmail.com

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Annalise Keating Returns as ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ Season 3 Hit TV Screens Last Night.

September 24, 2016planet akinade Leave a comment

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The third season of the ABC hit TV drama series How to Get Away with Murder returned last night. It was reported that the TV series was renewed for a third season on March 3, 2016. Created by Peter Nowalk and produced by Shonda Rhimes, How to Get Away with Murder Season 3 has 15 episodes and each episode will be aired every Thursday night at 10.00pm ET/PT.

Award-winning actress, Viola Davis reprises her lead role as Annalise Keating, criminal defense attorney and law professor at Middleton University whose cheating husband Sam and his mistress Lila, were murdered in the first season.

Also returning with Keating are the five students she hired as interns in her law firm: Wesley Gibbons (Alfred Enoch), Michaela Pratt (Aja Naomi King), Asher Millstone (Matt McGorry), Connor Walsh (Jack Falahee) and the idealistic Laurel Castillo (Karla Souza). The third season cast also includes Oliver Hampton as Conrad Ricamora, Walsh’s partner who doubles as a computer technician and hacker, Charlie Weber as Frank Delfino, Keating’s special employee, among others.

Davis shared a promotional poster of the third season last month on Facebook with the caption “Are you all caught up yet? #HTGAWM Season 3 premieres on Thursday, Sept 22nd at 10PM! #AnnaliseKeating #TGIT”.

via Viola Davis | Facebook

The premiere episode is titled “We’re Good People Now” and was directed by Bill D’Elia.

‘Suicide Squad’ Could Be Successful Despite Negative Reviews

August 4, 2016planet akinade Leave a comment

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The anti-superhero movie hits movie theatres on August 5, 2016. Written & directed by David Ayer and based on the DC Comics anti-hero team Suicide Squad, Suicide Squad stars Will Smith, Viola Davis, Margot Robbie, James Leto, Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, Cara Delevingne, Joel Kinnaman among others.

‘Suicide Squad’ cast | via Viola Davis (Facebook)

It is projected to gross over $100 million in its debut weekend and eventually one of the highest grossing films of 2016 despite negative reviews. However, some box office analysts like Forbes‘ Scott Mendelson believe that the movie does not have to earn big worldwide to be considered a success. In Mendelson’s opinion Suicide Squad “which isn’t exactly cheap (at least $175m), could gross less than Batman v Superman and still be considered a ‘bigger’ success.”

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Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ Sequel is in the Works

June 11, 2016planet akinade Leave a comment

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A follow-up to Mel Gibson’s 2004 hit biblical drama ‘The Passion of the Christ’ which will focus on Christ’s resurrection is being developed. This was confirmed by Gibson’s filmmaking partner of many years, Randall Wallace, who reluctantly revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he has started writing a script for a sequel to the original movie, which THR referred to as the “most successful independent movie of all-time”.

The faith-based indie movie was reportedly the third highest grossing film of its year of release after ‘Shrek’ and ‘Spider Man’, earning $612 million worldwide off a $30 million budget.

Randall Wallace | IMDb

Wallace, who confessed that the project is becoming too difficult to keep under wraps revealed that he and Gibson decided to start working on a sequel to ‘The Passion of the Christ’ while making ‘Hacksaw Ridge’, a World War II drama about military medic Desmond Doss. Wallace wrote the screenplay for ‘Braveheart’, ‘We Were Soldiers’ among others. He studied Religion at Duke University and says the resurrection is his specialty “I always wanted to tell this story”, he says. “The Passion is the beginning and there’s a lot more to tell”.

Mel Gibson | indwire.com

A sequel to ‘The Passion of the Christ’, 12 years later may make Mel Gibson resurrect like a phoenix from the ashes of his widely documented setbacks, according to some quarters. Neither Gibson nor his representative has commented on his involvement concerning the planned sequel. However, he reportedly stated during Liberty University’s commencement ceremony that he is interested in making a sequel to the original movie.

Muhammad Ali biopic ‘Ali’ to be re-released.

June 8, 2016planet akinade Leave a comment

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The Muhammad Ali biopic, ‘Ali’, starring Will Smith in the role of the boxing legend, is coming back to US cinemas, in honour of Muhammad Ali. The movie’s re-release by Sony Pictures will see it get screened this weekend in a few movie theatres, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“With the passing of Muhammad Ali, we have received many requests for this film to return to theaters, in celebration of his life,” said Rory Bruer, president of Worldwide Distribution for Sony Pictures. “The film truly honors everything that made Ali one of the central figures of our time, a man who commanded his sport but whose personal faith and principles made him mean so much more.”

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It’s been reported that Smith will be a pallbearer at Muhammad Ali’s memorial service to be held this week in Ali’s hometown, Louisville, KY. Muhammad Ali, also known as ‘The Greatest’, passed away last week at the age of 74. He was a three-time boxing heavyweight champion.

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