LOS ANGELES – Mel Gibson climbed back into Hollywood’s good graces, while Amy Adams and Martin Scorsese were edged out at Tuesday’s Oscar nominations, a list that served up some notable surprises.
Whimsical musical romance “La La Land,” the awards front-runner about two struggling artists who fall in love in Los Angeles, led the race with 14 nominations, including best actor, actress, director and picture.
Among the most notable absences was Oscar-winning filmmaker Scorsese’s new passion project “Silence,” which stars Andrew Garfield. The story of two missionaries in 17th-century Japan missed out on all the major categories and only landed a nod for cinematography.
Garfield instead was nominated for best actor for his role in war drama “Hacksaw Ridge,” whose six nods, including best picture and director for Gibson, are an apparent welcome back a decade after his drunken anti-Semitic rant made him a Hollywood outcast.
In the acting categories, awards favorite Amy Adams missed out on a best actress nod for her role as a linguist in sci-fi alien film “Arrival,” which has earned her critical praise. (Reuters)