Oscars overload

On Tuesday morning the Academy announced the list of Oscar nominations in all 24 categories. What follows are some hot takes from yours truly, as well as fun facts and firsts for this year’s list.

• Christopher Nolan finally got an Oscar nom! After “Interstellar,” “The Dark Night” and “Inception,” he’s done it!
• Rachel Morrison is the first female cinematographer to be nominated … EVER.
• Octavia Spencer is tied with Viola Davis with three Oscar noms as a black actress, the highest of all time.
• No February release has been nominated for best picture since “Silence of the Lambs” in 1991.
• Michael Stuhlbarg is the first actor since John C. Reilly in 2001 to have a major role in three Best Picture noms in the same year.
• Saoirse Ronan received her third Oscar nom for “Lady Bird” at age 23.
• Meryl Streep beat her own record. Wooo … what a shocker.
• Denzel joins the eighth nom club with Marlon Brando, Peter O’Toole, Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino.
• The Academy did not snub James Franco. He can take his Golden Globe, and be happy.
• Woody Harleson had a better performance in “The Glass Castle” than “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
• “The Florida Project” did not get snubbed from the best picture category. The same goes for “Wonder Woman” in any category besides possibly visual effects.
• I’m a firm believer of the vastly under-discussed anti-ginger movement in Hollywood. Amy Adams was ignored last year for her phenomenal performance in “Arrival” and now Jessica Chastain in “Molly’s Game.”
• Yes, it is weird “The Shape of Water” didn’t get nominated in the makeup category. However, I’m OK with it because it still ended up with the most noms, rounding out at 13.
• Here are 13 movies from 2017, some of which were not nominated at all, that are far less atrocious than “The Shape of Water”: “Stronger,” “Battle of the Sexes,” “The Big Sick,” “Baby Driver,” “mother!,” “All the Money in the World,” “Atomic Blonde,” “The Disaster Artist,” “Kong: Skull Island,” “Call Me By Your Name,” “Gifted,” “The Mountain Between Us” and “To The Bone.”