However, Irish film production company Tailored Films is celebrating two Academy Award nominations for The Apprentice in the categories of Leading Actor (Sebastian Stan) and Supporting Actor (Jeremy Strong).
The controversial Donald Trump biopic was also shortlisted in the Best Make-Up and Hairstyling category but did not receive a nomination.
Kneecap the movie, which centres around a fictionalised story about saving the Irish language, was the main hope ahead of today’s nominations.
Belfast rap trio Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh; Naoise Ó Cairealláin; and JJ Ó Dochartaigh saw their film shortlisted across several categories.
It was just the second film ever in the Irish language to be shortlisted in the Best International Feature Film category – the first being An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) in 2022.
Kneecap | Official Trailer
However, it lost out to I’m Still Here from Brazil, The Girl with the Needle from Denmark, Emilia Pérez from France, The Seed of the Sacred Fig from Germany and Flow from Latvia.
It was also shortlisted for Best Original Song for Sick In The Head, however it also lost out.
There were groans of disappointment in a Belfast bar after Kneecap failed to gain any Oscar nominations.
Dozens of fans, as well as cast and crew of the Kneecap movie, had crammed into a tiny upstairs room in Madden’s Bar to watch the nominations ceremony live.
Fans were left to drown their sorrows while members of the band watched from a live link in London.
Following the livestreamed nominations from the Oscars, Kneecap posted on Instagram: “F**k the Oscars. Free Palestine.”
The film is set in west Belfast in 2019, chronicling how fate brings the trio together and how they then go on to “change the sound of Irish music forever”.
The film received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January last year, where it became the first Irish-language film to win the Audience Award in the festival’s NEXT strand, and was then released in Irish and international cinemas to critical acclaim.
Room Taken was shortlisted in the Live Action Short category, as well as Clodagh, directed by Portia A Buckley, but both lost out.
The full shortlist, covering 23 Academy Award categories was aired live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles this afternoon.
Announcing the nominees, were Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang alongside US actress and comedian Rachel Sennott, who featured in Bodies Bodies Bodies.
Outside of the Irish, musical crime comedy Emilia Pérez, the epic The Brutalist, and the musical Wicked received multiple nominations across several categories.
The nominations had been postponed twice earlier this month due to the wildfires in Los Angeles.
The 97th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O’Brien, will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 2.
Here is the full list of nominees up for awards:
Best Picture
Anora The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez The Substance Wicked I’m Still Here Nickel Boys
Best Director
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez Sean Baker, Anora Brady Corbet, The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat, The Substance James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Best Actor
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown Colman Domingo, Sing Sing Ralph Fiennes, Conclave Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best Actress
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez Mikey Madison, Anora Demi Moore, The Substance Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Best Supporting Actor
Yura Borisov, Anora Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown Guy Pearce, The Brutalist Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Best Supporting Actress
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown Ariana Grande, Wicked Felicity Jones, The Brutalist Isabella Rossellini, Conclave Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Best Original Screenplay
Sean Baker, Anora Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain Coralie Fargeat, The Substance Moritz Binder and Tim Fehlbaum, September 5
Best Adapted Screenplay
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez Joslyn Barnes and RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing Jay Cocks and James Mangold, A Complete Unknown Peter Straughan, Conclave
Animated Feature
Flow Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl The Wild Robot
Production Design
The Brutalist Conclave Dune: Part Two Nosferatu Wicked
Cinematography
The Brutalist Emilia Pérez Maria Nosferatu Dune: Part Two
Costume Design
A Complete Unknown Conclave Gladiator II Nosferatu Wicked
Film Editing
Anora Emilia Pérez Wicked, Myron Kerstein Conclave Emilia Pérez
Makeup and Hairstyling
Emilia Pérez Nosferatu The Substance Wicked A Different Man
Sound
A Complete Unknown Dune: Part Two Wicked The Wild Robot Emilia Pérez
Visual Effects
Better Man Dune: Part Two Wicked Alien: Romulus Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Original Score
The Brutalist Conclave Emilia Pérez The Wild Robot Wicked
Original Song
Never Too Late, from Elton John: Never Too Late Mi Camino, from Emilia Pérez The Journey, from The Six Triple Eight Like A Bird, from Sing Sing The Journey, from Six Triple Eight
Documentary Feature
Black Box Diaries No Other Land Porcelain War Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Sugarcane
International Feature
Emilia Pérez Flow I’m Still Here The Girl with the Needle The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Animated Short
In the Shadow of Cypress Wander to Wonder Yuck! Beautiful Men Magic Candies
Documentary Short
Death by Numbers I Am Ready, Warden Incident Instruments of a Beating Heart Once Upon a Time in Ukraine
Live Action Short
Anuja The Last Ranger A Lien The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent I’m Not a Robot
