Which Studios Nabbed the Most Academy Awards Nominations?
Films backed by a handful of publicly traded companies dominated the 2016 Academy Awards nominations in four top categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director.
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The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its Academy Award nominations Tuesday morning. In all, nine films were nominated for the award as Best Picture, and five nominees were named in each of the Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director categories.
The winners will be announced on February 26, and between now and then everyone has a chance to become an expert and to judge for himself or herself which were 2016’s best.
Behind each of these nominations is a studio, and we wondered how the big studios fared in these four top categories. As it turns out, 20 nominations went to major publicly traded studios and just four went to independents.
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Here’s our list of nominees in each of four categories along with the name of the studio:
Best Picture
Arrival: Paramount, a division of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB)
Fences: Paramount
Hacksaw Ridge: Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE: LGF)
Hell or High Water: Lions Gate
Hidden Figures: Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. (NASDAQ: FOXA)
La La Land: Lions Gate/Summit
Lion: Weinstein Company
Manchester by the Sea: Roadside Attractions, a Lions Gate company
Moonlight: A24
Best Actor
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea: Lions Gate
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge: Lions Gate
Ryan Gosling, La La Land: Lions Gate
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic: Bleeker Street
Denzel Washington, Fences: Paramount
Best Actress
Isabelle Huppert, Elle: Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE)
Ruth Negga, Loving: Focus Features, a subsidiary of Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA)
Natalie Portman, Jackie: Fox
Emma Stone: La La Land: Lions Gate
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins: Paramount
Best Director
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival: Paramount
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge: Lions Gate
Damien Chazelle, La La Land: Lions Gate
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea: Lions Gate
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight: A24
Lions Gate has at least one nomination in every category and a total of 11 in all four. That’s nearly half the 24 total available. February 26 should be a big night for the company.
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Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.
He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.
