Aunjanue Ellis, Will Smith, Denzel Washington Earn Oscar Nominations
essence.comTracee Ellis Ross announced the nominees for the 94th Annual Academy Awards with Leslie Jordan via a live-stream hosted on Youtube Tuesday morning.The actors revealed the on-screen performances, directing turns, set design choices, musical selections, and styling executions that snatched the attention and respect of the filmmaking community.
The nominees this year were firmly planted in the usual genres of gripping biopics and big budget musicals with one major surprise upsetting the status quotient.
Ross and Jordan enlisted help from a number of extraordinary people helping their communities to reveal the nominees including wrestling star turned magnet school founder Titus O’Neil, 8th grader and Twilight devotee Kourtney Anderson, Beaumont Hospital Physician and Assistant Chantia Harden.
Howard lent a hand by allowing Phylica Rashad Dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts and a few of her students to share a few names who earned the spotlight.
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