OPINION: The 2017 Academy Award nominations have been announced and, as always, there are some weird choices in there.
Below is a list of the most surprising and notable moves the Oscars voting body made with its shortlist.
Snub - Amy Adams
The biggest snub this year is Amy Adams, who was not nominated for Best Actress.
Denis Villeneuve's Arrival is up for eight awards, including Best Picture; but the film's lead performance was overlooked.
Anyone who has seen Arrival will agree that the movie is largely driven by Adams. She's thoroughly deserving of an Oscars nod for it, following her nominations for the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild.
What made this snub even worse is that the official Oscars website accidentally listed Adams and Tom Hanks as nominees, when in fact they weren't. They apologised for the error, but not the more significant error of judgement in not nominating her.
Snub - Hunt for the Wilderpeople
You may be able to file this one under national pride, but I think Taika Waititi's acclaimed 2016 charmer should've gotten a nod.
I realise the Oscars aren't really an accurate reflection of the year's best films and the nominees are only chosen from a pool of films with costly marketing campaigns to put them in the running. But still, the brilliance of Wilderpeople's script, direction and performances should've earned a nod or two.
Oddity - Dev Patel
Posters for Lion feature Dev Patel's face and not a lot else - rightfully so, as he's the film's leading star and delivered a fantastic performance with it.
So why is he nominated for Best Supporting Actor? Because the folks who own the film reckon he has a better chance of winning that category. And they're right. They put him forward for the category and the Academy nominated him for it, not Best Actor, where his performance would make more sense.
It could be argued that he isn't the lead for the entire movie, but that's a weak argument.
Comeback - Mel Gibson
Mad Mel has served his time in Hollywood purgatory and is now completely welcomed back into the A-list of filmmakers, it seems - his Hacksaw Ridge has Best Director and Best Film nods.
Following his infamous drunken anti-Semitic rant at a police officer and his awfully racist, misogynistic abuse of then-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, it seemed the Lethal Weapon star was on an indefinite blacklist.
Hacksaw Ridge isn't even all that good, but this may be a case of the Academy honouring his body of work, rather than solely the film they've actually nominated - or voters just overlooked the film's ridiculously on-the-nose cheesiness more than I did.
How well his comeback film is doing looks certain to provide Gibson with plenty more work - here's hoping he does something as amazing as Apocalypto again next.
False snub - Deadpool
I really liked Deadpool and Ryan Reynolds' performance in it - but sorry, it's not Oscar-worthy.
It's cute that he got a Golden Globe nod for it, but in terms of thespian achievements, it would be a bit of a joke if he was nominated for Best Actor alongside the others on the Oscars shortlist.
As far as visual effects goes - again, lovely work in Deadpool, but it's not of the same calibre as the actual nominees. The Academy got this one right.
Snub - Captain America: Civil War
Deepwater Horizon got a visual effects nod, but this didn't? Surely, this is the work of Hydra.
Snub - Elle
The winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film hasn't even gotten a nod at the Oscars, despite its lead star Isabelle Huppert's for Best Actress.
Just as it's odd that Amy Adams didn't get a nod for her role in Arrival when the film itself got so many, it'd stand to reason that Elle would get the only other nomination it feasibly has a chance at, in addition to Huppert's.
Snub - Wiener
A favourite since Sundance last January for Best Documentary, this fascinating look into Anthony Weiner's failed New York mayoral race really should've gotten one.
Easily one of the year's best documentaries, it feels as though real-life political happenings over the last year left such a bad taste in people's mouths, the Academy simply couldn't bring themselves to nominate it. Sad!
Snub - Martin Scorsese
A sneeze from Scorsese would normally earn an Oscar nomination, so it's truly odd that they've overlooked his latest, which was named the American Film Institute's best film of 2016.
And it is an astonishing film - a passion project that took him decades to achieve and arguably a greater accomplishment than some of his other recent works that did earn Oscars glory.
It did get a well-deserved nod for Best Cinematography, but this should've gotten Best Film and Best Director nods over, say, Hacksaw Ridge, for example.
The awards will be handed out at a ceremony in Los Angeles on February 26.
Daniel Rutledge is Newshub's entertainment editor.
