Nadine Labaki is the first Lebanese female filmmaker to ever be nominated for an Oscar

Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki has made history again today as the first female Arab filmmaker ever to be nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for her moving refugee drama Capernaum . Egyptian director Jehane Noujaim was previously nominated in the Best Feature Documentary category for 2013's The Square . Labaki entered the record books last May as the first Arab woman to pick up a major prize at Cannes when she won the Jury Prize following a premiere screening that earned a 15-minute-plus standing ovation. She did so again in December when she was the first to be shortlisted for the nomination, alongside another eight films from around the world. Today, she moved onto the next level with the announcement that her film had made the final nomination list – the second successive year a Lebanese film made the cut following the nomination for Ziad Doueri's The Insult at last year's awards. She certainly has some high profile supporters. None other than chat show queen, and Academy voting member, Oprah Winfrey, tweeted her support for the film on January 13 – the day before Oscars voting closed. Winfrey's tweet attracted 10,000 likes, with Selma director Ava DuVernay among those replying to agree with Winfrey's sentiments. The film has also been nominated for a foreign language BAFTA, as well as a Golden Globe – where it lost out to Alfonso Cuaron's hotly fancied Roma recently . That film could prove Labaki's nemesis. At the same time as Labaki was celebrating her own nomination, Cuaron was celebrating becoming only the 10th director to have a film not in the English language nominated in the Best Picture category, and the movie is among the favourites to pick up that award. If it does, it would be the first foreign language film ever to do so. Simple logic would dictate that if Roma is among the best films in any language of the year, it is by default the best in a foreign language, since none of its Foreign Language competitors have been nominated for Best Picture. Voting doesn't always follow a logical pattern, however – just look to either side of the Atlantic for evidence – and voters who give Cuaron the nod for Best Picture may well feel that they should give something else a chance in the Foreign section. Best Picture: Black Panther BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody Green Book The Favourite Roma A Star is Born Vice _______________ Best Director: Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite Alfonso Curaron, Roma Adam McKay, Vice _______________ Best Actor: Christian Bale ( Vice ) Bradley Cooper ( A Star is Born ) Willem Dafoe ( At Eternity's Gate ) Rami Malek ( Bohemian Rhapsody ) Viggo Mortensen ( Green Book ) _______________ Best Actress: Yalitza Aparicio ( Roma ) Glenn Close ( The Wife ) Lady Gaga ( A Star Is Born ) Melissa McCarthy ( Can You Ever Forgive Me? ) Olivia Colman ( The Favourite ) _______________ Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali ( Green Book ) Sam Elliott ( A Star is Born ) Adam Driver ( BlacKkKlansman ) Richard E. Grant ( Can You Ever Forgive Me? ) Sam Rockwell ( Vice ) _______________ Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams ( Vice ) Marina De Tavira ( Roma ) Regina King ( If Beale Street Could Talk ) Emma Stone ( The Favourite ) Rachel Weisz ( The Favourite ) _______________ Best Adapted Screenplay: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs BlacKkKlansman Can You Ever Forgive Me? If Beale Street Could Talk A Star is Born _______________ Best Original Screenplay: The Favourite First Reform Green Book Roma Vice _______________ Best Original Song: All the Stars ( Black Panther ) I'll Fight ( RBG ) The Place Where Lost Things Go" ( Mary Poppins Returns ) Shallow ( A Star is Born ) When a Cowboy Trades his Spurs for Wings ( The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ) _______________ Best Costume Design: Ballad of Buster Scruggs Black Panther The Favourite Mary Poppins Returns Mary Queen of Scots _______________ Best Film Editing: BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Green Book Vice _______________ Best Original Score: Black Panther BlacKkKlansman If Beale Street Could Talk Isle of Dogs Mary Poppins Returns _______________ Best Animated Short Film: Animal Behavior Bao Late Afternoon One Small Step Weekends _______________ Best Live Action Short Film: Detainment Fauv Margarite Mother Skin _______________ Best Sound Editing: Black Panther Bohemian Rhapsody First Man A Quiet Place Roma _______________ Best Sound Mixing: Black Panther Bohemian Rhapsody First Man Roma A Star is Born _______________ Best Animated Feature: Incredibles 2 Isle of Dogs Mirai Ralph Breaks the Internet Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse _______________ Best Cinematography: Cold War The Favourite Roma Never Look Away A Star is Born _______________ Best Documentary Feature: Free Solo Hale County This Morning, This Evening Minding the Gap Of Fathers and Sons RBG _______________ Best Documentary Short Subject: Black Sheep End Game Lifeboat A Night at the Garden Period. End of Sentence. _______________ Best Makeup & Hairstyling: Border Mary Queen of Scots Vice _______________ Best Visual Effects: Avengers: Infinity War Christopher Robin First Man Ready Player One Solo _______________ Best Production Design: Black Panther The Favourite First Man Mary Poppins Returns Roma _________________ Read more: 15 of the best dressed stars on the 2019 Producers Guild Awards red carpet Gaga and Close, Adams and Arquette: Is it common for winners to tie at award shows? Critics' Choice Awards 2019: Roma wins big, as Glenn Close and Lady Gaga tie Golden Globes winners 2019: Lady Gaga, Rami Malek, Roma and Sandra Oh Nadine Labaki's 'Capernaum' nominated for a Bafta Oscars 2019 set to go host free? Here's who we'd like to see in the job

Nadine Labaki is the first Lebanese female filmmaker to ever be nominated for an Oscar

Latest nomination follows nods for Golden Globes and BAFTAs for refugee street kid drama