Oscars to be held at Dolby theatre in Hollywood

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced shortlists in consideration for the 91st Oscars in nine categories, weeks before the nominations in other categories go live.

Nominations for the awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.

The Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.

Semi-finalists in Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film and Visual Effects are as follows:

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

"Charm City"

"Communion"

"Crime + Punishment"

"Dark Money"

"The Distant Barking of Dogs"

"Free Solo"

"Hale County This Morning, This Evening"

"Minding the Gap"

"Of Fathers and Sons"

"On Her Shoulders"

"RBG"

"Shirkers"

"The Silence of Others"

"Three Identical Strangers"

"Won't You Be My Neighbor?"

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

"Black Sheep"

"End Game"

"Lifeboat"

"Los Comandos"

"My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes"

"A Night at the Garden"

"Period. End of Sentence."

"'63 Boycott"

"Women of the Gulag"

"Zion"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Colombia, "Birds of Passage"

Denmark, "The Guilty"

Germany, "Never Look Away"

Japan, "Shoplifters"

Kazakhstan, "Ayka"

Lebanon, "Capernaum"

Mexico, "Roma"

Poland, "Cold War"

South Korea, "Burning"

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

"Black Panther"

"Bohemian Rhapsody"

"Border"

"Mary Queen of Scots"

"Stan & Ollie"

"Suspiria"

"Vice"

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

"Annihilation"

"Avengers: Infinity War"

"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"

"Black Panther"

"BlacKkKlansman"

"Crazy Rich Asians"

"The Death of Stalin"

"Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald"

"First Man"

"If Beale Street Could Talk"

"Isle of Dogs"

"Mary Poppins Returns"

"A Quiet Place"

"Ready Player One"

"Vice"

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

"When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" from "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"

"Treasure" from "Beautiful Boy"

"All The Stars" from "Black Panther"

"Revelation" from "Boy Erased"

"Girl In The Movies" from "Dumplin'"

"We Won't Move" from "The Hate U Give"

"The Place Where Lost Things Go" from "Mary Poppins Returns"

"Trip A Little Light Fantastic" from "Mary Poppins Returns"

"Keep Reachin'" from "Quincy"

"I'll Fight" from "RBG"

"A Place Called Slaughter Race" from "Ralph Breaks the Internet"

"OYAHYTT" from "Sorry to Bother You"

"Shallow" from "A Star Is Born"

"Suspirium" from "Suspiria"

"The Big Unknown" from "Widows"

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

"Age of Sail"

"Animal Behaviour"

"Bao"

"Bilby"

"Bird Karma"

"Late Afternoon"

"Lost & Found"

"One Small Step"

"Pépé le Morse"

"Weekends"

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

"Caroline"

"Chuchotage"

"Detainment"

"Fauve"

"Icare"

"Marguerite"

"May Day"

"Mother"

"Skin"

"Wale"

VISUAL EFFECTS

"Ant-Man and the Wasp"

"Avengers: Infinity War"

"Black Panther"

"Christopher Robin"

"First Man"

"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom"

"Mary Poppins Returns"

"Ready Player One"

"Solo: A Star Wars Story"

"Welcome to Marwen"