Shape Of Water, Dunkirk, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Lead 2018 Oscars Nominations
– The Nominations for the 90th Oscar Awards has been released 6 weeks to the prestigious event
– Leading the nominations is Fantasy film ‘The Shape Of Water’ with 13 nods, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri followed with seven.
– Singer Mary J Blige got a shock Oscar Nomination for Mudbound and became the first person to to be recognised in an acting category and a musical category in the same year
– Girl Trip star Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis revealed the full list live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater
-The 2018 Academy Awards will be held live from the Dolby Theater in LA on March 4, 2018
-The prestigious event will be hosted by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel for the second time in a row
The Nominations for the 90th Oscar Awards has been released and it was not without its own surprises and snubs.
Fantasy film The Shape Of Water got a total of 13 nods, tying the record set by Titanic in 1998, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri followed with seven.
British wartime films Dunkirk and Darkest Hour were also recognised eight and six times, respectively.
Angelina Jolie was noticeably snubbed along with All The Money In The World star Michelle Williams and actor James Franco. Franco has of late been the subject of multiple sexual harassment claims in Hollywood.
Directors Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott were also missed.
Shock nominations went to US musician Mary J. Blige, who is the first person to be recognised in an acting category and a musical category in the same year for Mudbound.
Actress Octavia Spencer also became the first black actress to get multiple follow-up Oscar nominations, following her win in 2012.
Get out, one of the most successful movies of 2017 also got four nominations, including one for the lead actor role. This came as a pleasant surprise to many as it was doubted the movie would earn any nod at all due to unpredictable nature of the Oscars. English actor Daniel Kaluuya played the lead male.
Girl Trip star Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis revealed the full list live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, just under six weeks before the ceremony is due to take place.
The 90th annual Academy Awards will be held live from the Dolby Theater in LA on March 4, 2018 and hosted by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel for the second time in a row.
Full list of Nominations below:
ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATIONS 2018
BEST ACTOR
Timothee Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary OIdman – Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Meryl Streep – The Post
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary J Blige – Mudbound
Alison Janney – I, Tonya
Lesley Manville – Phanton Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Ladybird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape Of Water
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Edith + Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Mighty River – Mudbound
Mystery Of Love – Call Me by Your Name
Remember Me – Coco
Stand Up For Something – Marshall
This Is Me – The Greatest Showman
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
BEST ADAPTATED SCREENPLAY
Call Me By Your Name – James Ivory
The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber
Logan – Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green
Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Big Sick – Emily V Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out – Jordan Peele
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (story by Guillermo del Toro)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
BEST PICTURE
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bladerunner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
Shape of Water
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul
BEST SOUND EDITING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmet
The Silent Child
Watu Wota / All of Us
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049
Guardian of the Galaxy vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
BEST FILM EDITING
Baby Driver
I,Tonya
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST SOUND MIXING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
BEST MAKE UP AND HAIR STYLING
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder
I’m particularly happy for Daniel Kaluuya who I think did a fantastic job in Get Out but never in my wildest dreams thought would get an Oscar nod. Even better, Get Out didn’t just get a best Oscar nod, it got three other nominations! The last time I was this excited was when Slum-dog Millionaire, dominated at the Oscars. Oh, also when Leonardo Dicarprio won best actor…lol.
So far, Darkest Hour actor Gary Oldman has won the Golden Globe award and the Screen Actors Guild for his role as Winston Churchill and is therefore hotly tipped for Oscars victory, so Kaluuya’s chances are slim. But still, he got a BEST ACTOR nod alongside Timothee Chalamet, Gary Oldman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington that’s a BIG DEAL!!!
