The race to the Oscar just got real. This morning, the Academy announced its nominees for the 90th Oscars from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles. As per tradition, this list of nominations gives us plenty of things to argue about until the March 4 ceremony.
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water leads the pack with a whopping 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director. The Academy also showed a ton of love to awards season favorites like Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri, Lady Bird and Get Out. Some surprises include Mudbound nabbing four nominations for Adapted Screenplay, Song, Supporting Actress, and Cinematography. The Darkest Hour earned itself a Best Picture spot, despite middling reviews overall, and Phantom Thread made a bigger showing than expected, earning nominations of some of the biggest categories, including Best Picture.
What really sets this year’s nominations apart from previous years is the number of notable “firsts” as a result of these picks.
- Rachel Morrison (Mudbound) is the first woman ever to be nominated for Best Cinematography.
- Dee Rees (Mudbound) is the first black woman ever to be nominated in the Adapted Screenplay category.
- Believe it or not, this is Christopher Nolan’s (Dunkirk) first time being nominated for Best Director.
- Logan is the first comic book ever to be nominated for writing.
- Mary J. Blige (Mudbound) is the first actor to be nominated for a film directed by a woman of color.
- Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) is the first female director to be nominated for her directing debut.
I’m sure there are more that I’m missing, but even if these nominations were pretty predictable if you’ve been paying attention this awards season, it’s nice to see the tide turning in terms of who is being recognized for some of film’s greatest achievements.
As for who didn’t get recognized, we aren’t surprised to see that James Franco (The Disaster Artist) didn’t make the cut, given the recent sexual harassment allegations against him. That’s a snub we don’t mind much. However, I do mind Michael Stuhlbarg not being recognized for his work in Call Me By Your Name; his monologue in that film is performed so exquisitely it brings a tear or two to my eye when I remember it. Despite some early buzz this season, Tiffany Haddish missed the cut for Girls Trip, which is sad but not surprising knowing Oscar’s prejudice against comedy. The snub that hurts the most though is Wonder Woman, one of the year’s most loved films, getting completely ignored. I didn’t expect to be a big player in the top categories, but no showing for the technical categories is totally crazy.
We all remember the huge mishap last year at the Oscars, do you think you can predict this year’s Best Picture? Let us know your thoughts on the nominees and who you predict will be going home winners.
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”
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Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread”
Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”
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ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”
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Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“A Fantastic Woman”
“The Insult”
“Loveless”
“On Body and Soul”
“The Square”
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
“Edith + Eddie”
“Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405”
“Heroin(e)”
“Knife Skills”
“Traffic Stop”
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”
“Faces Places”
“Icarus”
“Last Men in Aleppo”
“Strong Island”
ORIGINAL SONG
“Mighty River,” “Mudbound”
“Mystery of Love,” “Call Me by Your Name”
“Remember Me,” “Coco”
“Stand Up for Something,” “Marshall”
“This is Me,” “Greatest Showman”
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“The Boss Baby”
“The Breadman”
“Coco”
“Ferdinand”
“Loving Vincent”
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“Call Me by Your Name”
“The Disaster Artist”
“Logan”
“Molly’s Game”
“Mudbound”
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“The Big Sick”
“Get Out”
“Lady Bird”
“The Shape of Water”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name”
Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
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”
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”
PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Beauty and the Beast”
“Blade Runner 2049”
“Darkest Hour”
“Dunkirk”
“The Shape of Water”
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Blade Runner 2049”
“Darkest Hour”
“Dunkirk”
“Mudbound”
“The Shape of Water”
COSTUME DESIGN
“Beauty and the Beast”
“Darkest Hour”
“Phantom Thread”
“The Shape of Water”
“Victoria and Abdul”
SOUND EDITING
“Baby Driver”
“Blade Runner 2049”
“Dunkirk”
“The Shape of Water”
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
SOUND MIXING
“Baby Driver”
“Blade Runner 2049”
“Dunkirk”
“The Shape of Water”
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“Dear Basketball”
“Garden Party”
“Lou”
“Negative Space”
“Revolting Rhymes”
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
“Dekalb Elementary”
“The Eleven O’Clock”
“My Nephew Emmett”
“The Silent Child”
“Watu Wote/All of Us”
ORIGINAL SCORE
“Dunkirk”
“Phantom Thread”
“The Shape of Water”
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
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”
FILM EDITING
“Baby Driver”
“Dunkirk”
“I, Tonya”
“The Shape of Water”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“Darkest Hour”
“Victoria and Abdul”
“Wonder”
The 90th annual Academy Awards airs live on Sunday, March 4 on ABC.
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