"final nominees" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when referring to the last or ultimate group of nominees in a selection process. Example: After careful consideration, the committee announced the final nominees for the Best Picture category at the awards ceremony. The nominees include some of the biggest names in the industry, making it a highly competitive race.
The final nominees received support from different member countries, which reflected the high calibre of the candidates".
The five final nominees will be announced on Jan . 24 along with nominees in other categories, and the full Academy membership gets to vote.
The final nominees, many believe, will come from among Meryl Streep in "Music of the Heart," Julianne Moore in "End of the Affair," Reese Witherspoon in "Election" and Sigourney Weaver in "A Map of the World".
Within the present framework, the only other solution I can think of is scrapping the country-submissions route – to promote more co-productions and avoid flag-waving about who is more "Albanian", or whatever – then widening the final nominees list, as with the best picture award.
The Academy seemed to be championing such overlooked and difficult cases when it added an executive committee to the foreign-language selection process in 2007, to "rescue" three films from the longlist (one of this year's final nominees, broad-shouldered Belgian thriller Bullhead, was rumoured to have made it in this way).
Fifa has also confirmed the final nominees for the FIFPro World XI 2013, a team of the year.
(The final nominee is "Man of La Mancha").
The final nominee looks to be Mercedes Ruehl, for "The Goat".
The final nominee will also face a hearing before the Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, which will issue a report either recommending or rejecting him.
"By closing the ranks of who can participate in the primary, the party base has more control over the final nominee," said Bruce Cain, director of the University of California Washington Center.
The final nominee, "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," earned strong reviews and has the added appeal of its playwright, Christopher Durang, a longtime fixture of New York theater who has never won a Tony.
