In a year where the awards race is more unpredictable than usual, it comes as no surprise that this morning’s Oscar nominations were filled with several surprises. “The Shape of Water” led the field with thirteen nominations followed by eight for “Dunkirk,” seven for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri,” six for “Darkest Hour” and “Phantom Thread,” five for “Lady Bird” and “Blade Runner 2049,” and four for “Call Me By Your Name,” “Get Out,” “Mudbound” and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”. Surprises? “The Boss Baby,” “Kong Skull Island” and ‘Logan” are officially Oscar nominees. Other individual nominations of recognition were most welcome – Roger Deakins for “Blade Runner 2049” and Mary J. Blige for “Mudbound”. Check out the full list 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 for “Dunkirk” Jordan Peele for “Get Out” Greta Gerwig for “Lady Bird” Paul Thomas Anderson for “Phantom Thread” Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water” Best Actor Timothee Chalamet for “Call Me By Your Name” Daniel Day-Lewis for “Phantom Thread” Daniel Kaluuya for “Get Out” Gary Oldman for “Darkest Hour” Denzel Washington for “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” Best Actress Sally Hawkins for “The Shape of Water” Frances McDomand for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Margot Robbie for “I, Tonya” Saoirse Ronan for “Lady Bird” Meryl Streep for “The Post” Best Supporting Actress Mary J. Blige for “Mudbound” Allison Janney for “I, Tonya” Lesley Manville for “Phantom Thread” Laurie Metcalf for “Lady Bird” Octavia Spencer for “The Shape of Water” Best Supporting Actor Willem Dafoe for “The Florida Project” Woody Harrelson for “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” Richard Jenkins for “The Shape of Water” Christopher Plummer for “All the Money in the World” Sam Rockwell for “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” Best Animated Feature “The Boss Baby” “The Breadwinner” “Coco” “Ferdinand” “Loving Vincent” Best Foreign Language Feature “A Fantastic Woman” (Chile) “The Insult” (Lebanon) “Loveless” (Russia) “On Body and Soul” (Hungary) “The Square” (Sweden) Best Documentary Feature “Abbacus: Small Enough to Jail” “Faces Places” “Icarus” “Last Men In Alepopo” “Strong Island” Best Adapted Screenplay James Ivory for “Call Me By Your Name” Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber for “The Disaster Artist” Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green for “Logan” Aaron Sorkin for “Molly’s Game” Virgil Williams and Dee Rees for “Mudbound” Best Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for “The Big Sick” Jordan Peele for “Get Out” Greta Gerwig for “Lady Bird” Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor for “The Shape of Water” Martin McDonagh for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Best Cinematography Roger Deakins for “Blade Runner 2049” Bruno Delbonnel for “Darkest Hour Hoyte van Hoytema for “Dunkirk” Rachel Morrison for “Mudbound” Dan Laustsen for “The Shape of Water” Best Film Editing “Baby Driver” “Dunkirk” “I, Tonya” “The Shape of Water” “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” Best Production Design “Beauty and the Beast” “Blade Runner 2049” “Darkest Hour” “Dunkirk” “The Shape of Water” Best Costume Design “Beauty and the Beast” “Darkest Hour” “Phantom Thread” “The Shape of Water” “Victoria and Abdul” Best Score Hans Zimmer for “Dunkirk” Johnny Greenwood for “Phantom Thread” Alexandre Desplat for “The Shape of Water” John Williams for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Carter Burwell for “Three BillboardsOutside Ebbing, Missouri” Best Song “Mighty River” from “Mudbound” “Mystery of Love” from “Call My By Your Name” “Remember Me” from “Coco” “Stand Up for Something” from “Marshall” “This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman” Best Makeup and Hairstyling “Darkest Hour” “Victoria and Abdul” “Wonder” Best Visual Effects “Blade Runner 2049” “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2” “Kong: Skull Island” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” “War for the Planet of the Apes” Best Sound Editing “Baby Driver” “Blade Runner 2049” “Dunkirk” “The Shape of Water” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Best Sound Mixing “Baby Driver” “Blade Runner 2049” “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 Emmett” “The Silent Child” “Watu Wote/All of Us” Best Documentary Short Film “Edith+Eddie” “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405” “Heroin(e)” “Knife Skills” “Traffic Stop” The 90th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 4th at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. http://www.darkhorizons.com/the-2018-oscar-nominations/
No noms for Windriver and nothing for the young non twin Olsen sister. Nothing for Michelle Williams on All the money in the world. Yet the obsession with Margot Robbie and Allison Janney in the movie about that $hit person and her $hitty mother continues. Way too much love for Get Out. It was a good movie but Best Picture worthy? Otherwise the list of Best Picture nominees was predictable.
I think its overrated at this point. I don't get the love for ladybird. There is nothing special about the movie. The plot is pretty cliched. Was 16 candles or any other john huges movie nominated for an oscar?
It has 99% on RT, made 250 million without hype, and was just nominated for multiple oscars including best picture. I'm not sure how it could possibly be rated any more highly.
They needed a token to avoid more of this BS. Not that it wasn't a good film, but it's over nominated to give the "I'm rooting for everybody black" crowd someone to pull for in some of the major categories and to silence the whining by certain people before they even get a chance to start.
The female category is so predictable. Frances McDormand and Allison Janney will win easily, as well they should. Cool to see a black director nominated. No black women in best actress category though. #MeTooSoWhite Denzel just kind of seems like a throw-in. Franco was AMAZING in The Room and these bullshit sluts are ruining what should be his shining moment.
Glad that Logan got a nomination, if only because it might further convince studios that a good, serious-(ish), hero/comic book/scifi movie - even rated R - can be a worthwhile investment. We obviously are overloaded with superhero films but sometimes certain characters played by certain actors can be something special, if they are given the opportunity and freedom to show it. (In the case of Jackman/Wolverine, it only took like 10 movies to get it right!) On the other end of the spectrum is Wonder Woman, which wasn't a bad movie but was very by-the-book and safe in its approach. That's why it didn't get any nods despite all of the (undue) praise it got.
To be fair, none of these other movies excite me that much . Only other one I've seen other than Get Out is Dunkirk, which I liked a lot from a technical perspective, but didn't really stick with me. I really want to see Three Billboards due to Frances McDormand and the In Bruges Director. All the other ones kind of seem like rehashes of other movies and not that original. I've pretty much loved every PTA movie, but this one looked so pretentious I'm not sure I could make it through. Maybe there's just no other strong contenders, so as a result you have a kind of silly, fun movie like "Get Out" nominated. As I think about it, I'm struggling to think of other movies release this year that I'd definitely nominate over it. Just a weak year for movies maybe?
Get Out might not win anything because of the Natalie Portman comment on the all male directors I loved Streep in " I didn't know anything about Harvey Weinstein"
