This year’s 90th annual Academy Awards nominations have finally been announced and this year’s nominees are breaking all kinds of records. Lady Bird nabbed 5 nominations with Greta Gerwig receiving a nomination for Best director, becoming only the fifth woman to earn the coveted directing nod.
This years stand out horror Get Out, racked up four nominations with writer/director Jordan Peele being the first African American to receive nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. Star Daniel Kaluuya rounding out the four with a nomination for Best Actor. Octavia Spencer also made history becoming the only African American actress to follow up an Oscar victory with two nominations for her role in Shape Of Water.
2018 OSCAR NOMINATIONS:
Best Motion 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 Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
- Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
- Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
- Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
- Jordan Peele, Get Out
Best Leading 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 Leading Actor
- Daniel Day-Lewis, The Phantom Thread
- Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
- Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
- Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
- Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Best Supporting Actress
- Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
- Allison Janney, I, Tonya
- Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
- Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
- 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 Animated Feature Film
- Coco
- Ferdinand
- Loving Vincent
- The Breadwinner
- The Boss Baby
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game
- James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name
- Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green, Logan
- Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
- Dee Rees, Virgil Williams, Mudbound
Best Original Screenplay
- Guillermo Del Toro & Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water
- Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
- Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
- Jordan Peele, Get Out
- Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Achievement In Cinematography
- Roger A. Deakins, Blade Runner 2049
- Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour
- Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water
- Rachel Morrison, Mudbound
- Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk
Achievement In Costume Design
- Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread
- Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour
- Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast
- Consolata Boyle, Victoria and Abdul
- Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water
Best Documentary Feature
- Faces Places
- Last Men in Aleppo
- Strong Island
- Abacus: Small Enough To Jail
- Icarus
Best Documentary Short
- Edith + Eddie
- Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
- Heroin(e)
- Knife Skills
- Traffic Stop
Achievement In Film Editing
- Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss, Baby Driver
- Jon Gregory, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya
- Lee Smith, Dunkirk
- Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water
Best Foreign Language Film
- A Fantastic Woman, Chile
- Loveless, Russia
- On Body and Soul, Hungary
- The Insult, Lebanon
- The Square, Sweden
Achievement In Makeup and Hairstyling
- Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard, Victoria and Abdul
- Arjen Tuiten, Wonder
- Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinkowski, Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour
Best Original Score
- Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water
- Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
- Carter Burwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
- John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk
Best Original Song
- ‘Mighty River’ from Mudbound by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, and Taura Stinson
- ‘Remember Me’ from Coco by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
- ‘Stand Up for Something’ from Marshall by Lonnie R. Lynn (Common), Andra Day, and Diane Warren
- ‘The Mystery of Love’ from Call Me by Your Name by Sufjan Stevens
- ‘This Is Me’ from The Greatest Showman by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Achievement In Production Design
- Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis, Dunkirk
- Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, and Jeff Melvin, The Shape of Water
- Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer, Darkest Hour
- Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer, Beauty and the Beast
- Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola, Bladerunner 2049
Best Animated Short
- Dear Basketball
- Garden Party
- Negative Space
- Lou
- Revolting Rhymes
Best Live Action Short
- DeKalb Elementary
- My Nephew Emmett
- The Silent Child
- Watu Wote/All of Us
- The Eleven O’clock
Achievement In Sound Editing
- Richard King, Alex Gibson, Dunkirk
- Mark A. Mangini, Theo Green, Blade Runner 2049
- Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, The Shape of Water
- Julian Slater, Baby Driver
- Matthew Wood, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Achievement In Sound Mixing
- Ron Bartlett, Dough Hemphill, Mac Ruth, Blade Runner 2049
- Tim Cavagin, Julian Slater, Mary H. Ellis, Baby Driver
- Christian T. Cooke, Filip Hosek, Brad Zoern, The Shape of Water
- Gregg Landaker, Gary Rizzo, Mark Weingarten, Dunkirk
- David Parker, Michael Semanchick, Ren Klyce, and Stuart Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Achievement In Visual Effects
- Ben Morris, Michael Mulholland, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, Joel Whist, War for the Planet of the Apes
- Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Mike Meinardus, Kong: Skull Island
- John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer, Blade Runner 2049
- Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, Dan Sudick, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
