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18 Horror Films Appear On List of Movies Eligible for 89th Academy Awards

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Of course, it’s likely none of them will actually get nominated.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just released the complete list of films eligible to be nominated for awards at the 89th Academy Awards this coming year, and a whopping 336 features made the cut. To qualify, as Deadline notes, films must be feature length (over 40-minutes long) and have been released in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by midnight on December 31st, and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days.

Though it’s not very common for the Academy to recognize horror films, it’s worth noting that 18 horror movies did make the list this year. It’s possible that some of them will get nominations in the lesser categories, so to speak, but we certainly don’t expect any of them to be nominated for Best Picture. Our best chance for horror representation at the 2017 ceremony is probably John Goodman grabbing a nomination for 10 Cloverfield Lane, but we’re not holding our breath.

Here are the horror films eligible for nominations:

  • The Boy
  • The Conjuring 2
  • Don’t Breathe
  • The Forest
  • Ghostbusters
  • Green Room
  • The Invitation
  • Lights Out
  • The Love Witch
  • Morgan
  • The Neon Demon
  • The Other Side of the Door
  • Ouija: Origin of Evil
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  • The Purge: Election Year
  • The Shallows
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • The Witch

The nominees will be announced on January 24th, ahead of the February 26th ceremony.

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Julia Garner Joins Horror Movie ‘Weapons’ from the Director of ‘Barbarian’

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In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.

Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).

The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.

The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”

Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”

Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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