The nominees for this year's Academy Awards will be announced in Beverly Hills at lunchtime, with Irish hopes high in a number of Oscar categories.
Irish attention will focus on Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor categories, respectively.
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Hamnet is among the films set to receive multiple nominations, with Coleraine-born author Maggie O'Farrell expected to be shortlisted alongside director Chloé Zhao for their screenplay of O'Farrell's bestseller.
Buckley and Mescal's fellow Irish actor Andrew Scott could earn a surprise nomination on the Best Supporting Actor shortlist for his performance in the comedy-drama Blue Moon, which was made in Ireland and produced in association with the Dublin-based Wild Atlantic Pictures. Costume designer Consolata Boyle, a three-time Oscar nominee for Victoria & Abdul, Florence Foster Jenkins, and The Queen, may also be in contention for her work on Blue Moon.
The Emma Stone-starring dark sci-fi comedy Bugonia, which includes the Dublin-based Element Pictures among its producers, is also expected to feature in a number of categories when the nominations are announced. Irish cinematographer Robbie Ryan, who was previously nominated for his work on director Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things and The Favourite, is also behind the lens for the Greek filmmaker's latest.
Dubliner Richard Baneham, a double Oscar winner for his visual effects work on the James Cameron blockbusters Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water, is a lynchpin in the behind-the-scenes team of the recently released Avatar: Fire and Ash - the favourite to win the Visual Effects Oscar in March.
In the Animated Short Film category, two Irish shorts are vying for places among this year's nominees: Retirement Plan, directed by Dublin-based filmmaker John Kelly and voiced by Domhnall Gleeson; and Éiru from Kilkenny's Cartoon Saloon, directed by Giovanna Ferrari and with Coco Teehan Roche voicing the title role.
Cartoon Saloon has an illustrious history at the Oscars, with its features The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, WolfWalkers, and The Breadwinner all having been previously nominated, with a fifth nomination for the short Late Afternoon.
The nominations will be announced by actors Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills at 1:30pm Irish time.
The Oscars, hosted by Conan O'Brien, will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, 15 March.
