Oscar nominations 2019 – live updates: The Favourite and Roma lead nods with UK's Olivia Colman and Christian Bale shortlisted for best actor categories

The announcement follows what has been one of the tightest Oscar races in years

The Oscars: Who are the Brits vying for nominations?

This year’s Oscar nominations have been announced in Los Angeles bringing the 2019 awards season into its final stages.

The films vying for success at the annual awards ceremony were named by Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) and Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross.

In contention are Yorgos Lanthimos’s periood comedy The Favourite, Netflix film Roma and the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga mudsical drama, A Star is Born.

Catch up with all the action has it happened in our live blog below – and scan your eyes over the full list of nominations here.

The 91st Academy Awards ceremony will take place at the Dolby Theatre on 24 February.

There will be no host and will instead have a selection of guests introducing special segments throughout the evening.

Kevin Hart dropped out of hosting the ceremony after refusing to apologise for resurfaced homophobic tweets he made between 2009 and 2011.

[22 January 2019 08:30 · Jacob Stolworthy]

It's the big one – the 2019 Oscar nominations.

Follow along with our live blog detailing everything you need to know in the run-up to the announcement.

[22 January 2019 08:51 · Jacob Stolworthy]

It goes without saying this has been one of the tightest races in years – former frontrunners (*cough*First Man*cough*) have fallen by the wayside with outsiders becoming firm favourites in the past month (here's looking at you, Green Book).

[22 January 2019 09:06 · Jacob Stolworthy]

Green Book is now a firm frontrunner after the weekend's PGAs, which have predicted the eventual Best Picture winner 21/29 times.

[22 January 2019 09:12 · Jacob Stolworthy]

It's fair to say the film – released in the UK in February – has received something of a backlash. 

[22 January 2019 09:20 · Jacob Stolworthy]

But it has its fair share of supporters too.

[22 January 2019 09:30 · Jacob Stolworthy]

Another film that is expected to get nommed is Bohemian Rhapsody, which won big at the Golden Globes earlier this month. 

[22 January 2019 09:45 · Jacob Stolworthy]

Want to know our nomination predictions? This'll sort you out.

[22 January 2019 09:53 · Jacob Stolworthy]

The below hope will almost certainly be granted.

[22 January 2019 09:55 · Jacob Stolworthy]

A nomination for BlacKkKlansman today would be historic considering a Spike Lee film has *never* been nominated for Best Picture.

[22 January 2019 10:00 · Jacob Stolworthy]

Here's hoping he gets a Best Director nomination also, although other uncertain bets – Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk) and Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) – would also be welcome.