At last we have the list of nominees for the 90th annual Academy Awards that will be held on March 4th, 2018. Some surprised me and some disappointed me (by their absence). The Shape of Water leads with a whopping 13 nominations; Dunkirk has 8; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has 7; Phantom Thread and Darkest Hour both have 6; Blade Runner 2049 and Lady Bird have 5; Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, Mudbound and Star Wars: The Last Jedi have 4; Logan has 1 and Wonder Woman wasn’t nominated at all! This last snub upsetst me because if any superhero film deserved to be nominated for at least ONE Oscar, it was Wonder Woman (even Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 picked up a nomination, albeit just for Best Visual Effects). I’m also disappointed that only one female director was nominated for Best Director (Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird). Some might say that’s an improvement but I can’t agree (because if it were REALLY fair there would be an equal mix of men and women nominated in the category, but I digress.) At any rate, enjoy reading through the list of nominees and let me know who you think will win in each category in the comments below!

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 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 Actor

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name as Elio Perlman
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread as Reynolds Woodcock
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq. as Roman J. Israel

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water as Elisa Esposito
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson
Meryl Streep – The Post as Katharine Graham

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project as Bobby Hicks
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Chief Bill Willoughby
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water as Giles
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World as J. Paul Getty
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Officer Jason Dixon

Best Supporting Actress

Mary J. Blige – Mudbound as Florence Jackson
Allison Janney – I, Tonya as LaVona Golden
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water as Zelda Fuller

Best Original Screenplay

The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Adapted Screenplay

Logan
Call Me By Your Name
Molly’s Game
Mudbound
The Disaster Artist

Best Animated Feature Film

The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic Woman (Chile) in Spanish – Directed by Sebastian Lelio
On Body and Soul (Hungary) in Hungarian – Directed by Ildikó Enyedi
The Insult (Lebanon) in Arabic – Directed by Ziad Doueiri
The Square (Sweden) in Swedish – Directed by Ruben Östlund
Loveless (Russia) in Russian – Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Best Original Score

Dunkirk – Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Carter Burwell

Best Original Song

“Mystery of Love” from Call Me By Your Name

“This is Me” from The Greatest Showman

“Stand Up For Something” from Marshall

“Remember Me” from Coco

“Mighty River” from Mudbound

Best Sound Editing

Baby Driver – Julian Slater
Blade Runner 2049 – Mark Mangini and Theo Green
Dunkirk – Richard King and Alex Gibson
The Shape of Water – Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce

Best Sound Mixing

Baby Driver – Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
Blade Runner 2049 – Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
Dunkirk – Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo
The Shape of Water – Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson

Best Production Design

Beauty and the Beast – Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Blade Runner 2049 – Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola
Darkest Hour – Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Dunkirk – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
The Shape of Water – Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin

Best Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins
Darkest Hour – Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk – Hoyte van Hoytema
Mudbound – Rachel Morrison
The Shape of Water – Dan Lausten

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Darkest Hour
Wonder
Victoria & Abdul

Best Visual Effects

Kong: Skull Island

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

War for the Planet of the Apes

Blade Runner 2049

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Film Editing

Baby Driver – Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
Dunkirk – Lee Smith
I, Tonya – Tatiana S. Riegel
The Shape Of Water – Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Jon Gregory

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For previous Oscar thoughts, see also

Oscars 2017: And the Winners Are…

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