Moana nominated for Best Animated Feature film at the Oscars

Moana nominated for Best Animated Feature film at the Oscars

By Semi Turaga
27/02/2017

The 2017 Academy Awards is just moments away with 24 awards up for grabs.

Nine films are nominated for Best Picture.

They are Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight.

Denzel Washington leads the nominations for Actor in a Leading Role for his role in the film, Fences.

Others nominated for Actor in a Leading Role are Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea, Andrew Garfield for Hacksaw Ridge, Ryan Gosling for La La Land and Viggo Mortensen for Captain Fantastic.

The nominations for Actress in a Leading Role are Isabella Huppert for Elle, Ruth Negga for Loving, Natalie Portman for Jackie, Emma Stone for La La Land and veteran Meryl Streep for Florence Foster Jenkins.

If Meryl Streep wins the Best Actress award for her role in Florence Foster Jenkins she will tie the legendary Katharine Hepburn for the most acting awards at four.

Streep's nomination alone has made history; she broke her own record for most nominations for a single person with 20 nominations.

Moana, the animated film that tells the story of a strong‑willed daughter of the chief of a Polynesian tribe is nominated for Best Animated Feature film at the Oscars.

It is nominated alongside Kubo and the Two Strings, My Life As a Zucchini, The Red Turtle and Zootopia.

Now, the song "How Far I'll Go" from Moana is also nominated for Best Original Song.

"Can't Stop The Feeling" from Trolls is also nominated for Best Original Song alongside "City of Stars" from La La Land.

Vanuatu based film, Tanna has also been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

The 2017 Academy Awards will start at 1.30pm. 

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