Bradley Cooper snubbed by the Academy Awards after not receiving a well-deserved Best Director nod for A Star is Born.
Sure, Bradley Cooper has very little to complain about today. His film A Star is Born was nominated for an impressive eight Oscars including Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Picture and as the film’s director, he is probably rightly pleased. Except there was one glaring omission in the nominations and it’s kind of an insult to Cooper.
The debut director was noticeably left out of the Best Director nominations, despite being what many fans and critics thought would be a shoo-in. He was nominated at the Golden Globes (though he didn’t win) and that’s usually the marker for the Oscar ceremonies.
The directors who did get the nod were Spike Lee, Pawel Pawlikowski, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alfonso Cuarón, and Adam McKay. The front-runner for Best Director is Cuarón who won the Golden Globe for the film Roma which is nominated for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film.
Cooper’s version of A Star Is Born is the fourth installment of the film to receive Oscar nominations, the film as a whole has received a whopping 26 Oscar nominations throughout the years.
View all of the categories that A Star is Born is nominated for and who they are up against, plus picks to take home the award on Oscars night.
Best Picture
- Black Panther
- BlacKkKlansman
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Favourite
- Green Book
- Roma
- A Star Is Born
- Vice
My pick: “Roma”
Actor in a Supporting Role
- Mahershala Ali, Green Book
- Adam Driver, BlackKKlansman
- Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
- Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me
- Sam Rockwell, Vice
My pick: Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Original Song
- “All The Stars” – Black Panther
- “I’ll Fight” – RBG
- “Shallow” – A Star Is Born
- “The Place Where Lost Things Go” – Mary Poppins Returns
- “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
My pick: “Shallow” – A Star Is Born
Adapted Screenplay
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- BlacKkKlansman
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- A Star Is Born
Pick: If Beale Street Could Talk
Actor in a Leading Role
- Christian Bale, Vice
- Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
- Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
- Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
- Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Pick: Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Actress in a Leading Role
- Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
- Glenn Close, The Wife
- Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
- Olivia Colman, The Favourite
- Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Pick: Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Cinematography
- Cold War
- The Favourite
- Never Look Away
- Roma
- A Star Is Born
Pick: The Favourite
Sound Mixing
- Black Panther
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- First Man
- Roma
- A Star Is Born
Pick: Bohemian Rhapsody
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