Star Wars: The Force Awakens Garners Five Oscar Nominations

Though snubbed as usual for the major awards, Star Wars: The Force Awakens still garners five Oscar nominations in the design categories.

The Oscar Nominations were announced this morning at 5:30am, PST. And though we had hoped for a sweep across the board for everyone, Star Wars still managed to garner a decent amount of Oscar love with five nominations, including Original Score for composer John Williams.

Here are the categories Star Wars: The Force Awakens was nominated in, and who they are competing against.

Best Original Score
“Bridge of Spies”
“Carol”
“The Hateful Eight”
“Sicario”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

Visual Effects
“Ex Machina”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

Achievement in Sound Mixing

“Bridge of Spies”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

Achievement in Sound Editing
“Mad Max: Fury Road”“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
“The Martian”
“Sicario”
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”

Star Wars: The Force Awakens was half-heartedly suggesting that Harrison Ford might get an Oscar nod for his final turn as Han Solo, but the odds were always stacked against that. The Oscars are famously snobbish when it comes to genre movies, especially Science Fiction and Fantasy. The last time they were willing to do a major overlook of those prejudices was at the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Chances are, if the academy is planning on honoring Star Wars, it won’t be until after Episode IX, at best. And even with the Best Picture category expanded from five to “more than five” to include more “popular fare.” (Read: made a lot of money, and everyone loved it, but not going to win), there wasn’t room for The Force Awakens for a nod.

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Congrats to all who were nominated! The Oscars airs February 28th, 2016, at 7am on ABC.