With the 2017 Academy Awards premiering this weekend the coveted golden Oscars will be dished out to the elites of Hollywood. 2017 looks to begin several new records and break old holders, while creating diversity within its nominated films.

La La Landing Nominations

Tying Titanic’s recording breaking 14 Academy nominations along with All About Eve, director Damien Chazelle’s La La Land has the chance to make Oscar history. Not only could the Hollywood throwback set the record for the most wins in a single night, beating out Titanic, but could also create a new record for largest Oscar sweep.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 of it nominations back in 2003, with enough luck that number could be pushed all the way to 14.

Given the success of nominated films set within Hollywood, The Artist in 2011 and 2014’s Birdman, it’s possible for La La Land to net best picture along with several other awards.

Snubs and Flubs

Despite his last seven films being nominated by the Academy, director Martin Scorsese will only receive a single nomination for his Christianity epic Silence. Recognized for Rodrigo Prieto’s cinematography, Shutter Island is the only other film in Scorsese’s filmography of the past 15 years to only receive a single Oscar nod.

This comes despite Silence receiving generally positive reviews, a 79 overall on Metacritic, with the LA Times claiming “the story is as simple as its underlying ideas are endlessly complex”.

With a total of 26 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, David Ayer’s Suicide Squad marks the most critically panned film nominated out of the total 17 nomination categories. The latest DC cinematic universe film is recognized for its achievement in makeup and hairstyling.

Animated Diversity

With a total of five nominations for best animated feature film, 2017 may turn to out to be one of the most diversely creative categories of the night. Though Disney holds much clout in the fight, both Moana and Zootopia grossed nearly $1.57 billion worldwide, it’s the other three nominees that may turn heads.

The Red Turtle is unique due it’s dialogue less plot line involving a castaway on a deserted island. The first feature film for director Michael Dudok de Wit, the nomination marks the first time Studio Ghibli (known best for Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle) has produced a non-Japanese animated film. With less than $500,000 in box office revenue, The Red Turtle is the smallest of all five films.

Leading the charge of the stop motion revival, Laika Entertainment’s Kubo and the Two Strings and Sweden’s My Life as a Zucchini continue the trend of claymation being awarded during Oscar season.

With films such as Frankenweenie, Shaun the Sheep and the Boxtrolls being nominated in years past a stop motion win would be the first of it’s kind.