The Oscars 2018 | 90th Academy Awards

[RealGunner]

Oscars 2018: The list of nominees in full


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 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 actor

Timothee 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

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 director

Dunkirk - Christopher Nolan
Get Out - Jordan Peele
Lady Bird - Greta Gerwig
Phantom Thread - Paul Thomas Anderson
The Shape of Water - Guillermo Del Toro

Best adapted screenplay

Call Me By Your Name - screenplay by James Ivory
The Disaster Artist - screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H Weber
Logan - screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; story by James Mangold
Molly's Game - written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound - screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

Best original screenplay

The Big Sick - written by Emily V Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out - written by Jordan Peele
Lady Bird - written by Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water - screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; story by Guillermo del Toro
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - written by Martin McDonagh

Best foreign language film

A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)

Best original song

Mighty River - Mudbound (Mary J Blige, Raphael Saadiq & Taura Stinson)
The Mystery of Love - Call Me By Your Name (Sufjan Stevens)
Remember Me - Coco (Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez)
Stand Up for Something - Marshall (Common & Diane Warren)
This Is Me - The Greatest Showman (Benji Pasek & Justin Paul)

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 animated feature

The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best documentary feature

Abacus
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island

Best cinematography

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

Best costume design

Beauty and the Beast - Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour - Jacqueline Durran
Phantom Thread - Mark Bridges
The Shape of Water - Luis Sequeira
Victoria and Abdul - Consolata Boyle

Best visual effects

Blade Runner 2049 - John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert & Richard R Hoover
Guardian of the Galaxy Vol 2 - Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner & Dan Sudick
Kong: Skull Island - Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza & Mike Meinardus
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan & Chris Corbould
War for the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon & Joel Whist

Best film editing
Baby Driver - Paul Machliss & Jonathan Amos
Dunkirk - Lee Smith
I, Tonya - Tatiana S Riegel
The Shape of Water - Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Jon Gregory

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

[Freeza]

Paul Thomas Anderson is the greatest auteur working today. Hopefully he gets his Oscar.

If they had any respect for comedy they’d have nominated Haddish, but I guess there’s not a lot of comedic actors in the academy that votes for their own.

[RealGunner]

Really don't see the appeal behind The shape of water. I'll watch it when it comes on sky or netflix but it really doesn't sound anything special.


Best actor nominations look so weak

[M99]

Damn have not seen any of the Best Picture nominees except for Dunkirk.

Happy to see Logan, Big Sick and Get Out get significant noms.

[RealGunner]

Didn't even hear about Roman J. Israel, Esq. till now. Jackman should have been nominated for Logan imo

[Freeza]

Really don't see the appeal behind The shape of water. I'll watch it when it comes on sky or netflix but it really doesn't sound anything special.


Best actor nominations look so weak

Yeah. Just hoping Oldman doesn’t win. Seems like there’s no question.

Not a lot of great male lead roles this year from what I’ve seen.

Farrell in The Beguiled is probably my favourite so far. Only seen Dunkirk, Get Out and Three Billboards of the nominates films. Get Out is by far the best of those in every single way.

[Freeza]

Tatiana Maslany was incredible in Stronger also.

Absolutely ridiculous actress. So good.

[Freeza]

Didn't even hear about Roman J. Israel, Esq. till now. Jackman should have been nominated for Logan imo

He’s turning into Black Meryl Streep. Getting all these noms for undeserved work.

[M99]

Didn't even hear about Roman J. Israel, Esq. till now. Jackman should have been nominated for Logan imo

Wow just realized James Franco got snubbed.

[El Gunner]

Really glad Mudbound is getting recognition. I really liked it a lot. Top 5 film of the year for me thus far.

Will go see The Shape of Water when I get back to Joburg this weekend. Hopefully I can catch Molly's Game as well. And then Three Billboards, Lady Bird and Call Me By Your Name right before the Oscars. Btw this whole time ive been thinking Call Me By Your Name is a foreign film?

Anyway. I think Florida Project's DVD is also coming out mid-Feb. I have a feeling out of all of these it will be my favourite. Really liked Sean Baker's Tangerine.

[Firenze]

One of the WOAT Oscar lineups IMO, at least since I've been keeping track. Terrible year for prestige movies. Should have just nominated Vin Diesel for FF instead or something.

[CBarca]

Bladerunner 2049 not getting a best picture nomination is a joke.

Also probably my worst year for seeing best picture noms. Have seen just Dunkirk. Btw, Dunkirk over Bladerunner? Absolutely no reason for that. Think the narrative of BR's weak office performance has hurt it here. It's a sci fi movie too which doesn't help, but Arrival managed to get over that hump with successful box office performance.

[El Gunner]

Blade Runner 2049 | let's see
A thought provoking sci-fi film
Techno/retro sci-fi visuals
A franchise reboot/sequel
A dense/layered storyline

Nothing else but the academy members being old-fashioned drama lovers as usual. We all know 2049 is the second best film of the decade thus far. It's getting multiple reviews and analysis from YouTube film students/critics/lovers. Sometimes I feel these kids know better than that old scrapmetal junkyard geriatrics at the Academy.

[El Gunner]

Oh and pls don't get me started on their love for big names.

Basically every year Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington will get a nomination even if there are others who clearly deserves it more. I think Nolan and PTA as directors will move into that clan soon as well.

[Freeza]

Blade Runner 2049 | let's see
A thought provoking sci-fi film
Techno/retro sci-fi visuals
A franchise reboot/sequel
A dense/layered storyline

Nothing else but the academy members being old-fashioned drama lovers as usual. We all know 2049 is the second best film of the decade thus far. It's getting multiple reviews and analysis from YouTube film students/critics/lovers. Sometimes I feel these kids know better than that old scrapmetal junkyard geriatrics at the Academy.

“We all know it’s the second best film of the decade”

Pretty sure we don’t all know that. Like at all.

Agree on the Meryl Streep and Denzel thing. It’s getting ridiculous at this point. New blood please.

I’m hoping DDL takes it again at this point.

[RealGunner]

Nolan's worst film IMO and he is getting nominated just because it's a war film lmao.

[M99]

It was far better than Interstellar. His best movie since Inception.

[Freeza]

Interstellar was better tbh.

[McLewis]

Big Boss Baby

Coco got this.

[Freeza]

Big Boss Baby

Coco got this.

The Academy hates LEGO...

Lego Batman is an incredible movie. So ridiculous it isn't nominated.

[El Gunner]

Blade Runner 2049 | let's see
A thought provoking sci-fi film
Techno/retro sci-fi visuals
A franchise reboot/sequel
A dense/layered storyline

Nothing else but the academy members being old-fashioned drama lovers as usual. We all know 2049 is the second best film of the decade thus far. It's getting multiple reviews and analysis from YouTube film students/critics/lovers. Sometimes I feel these kids know better than that old scrapmetal junkyard geriatrics at the Academy.


“We all know it’s the second best film of the decade”

Pretty sure we don’t all know that. Like at all.

Then get with the knowledge.

[Freeza]

It hasn’t been nominated for a single best picture award though.

And critics aren’t as overjoyed with it as you make it out to be. Seems like a very specific demographic absolutely adore it. Our demo especially. Even then I doubt it’ll as high on my list when I’ve watched more Oscar movies.

Considering I, Tonya tonight.

Call me By Your Name next week.

[El Gunner]

Of course. I gave you some potential reasons of why it wasn't nominated.

2049 was such a carefully constructed beautiful sci-fi film. Add to how it incorporated the legacy and unanswered questions of the original film, so much could have gone wrong, however it smashed it with total flying colours. My only gripe was the reintroduction of Deckard scene. But that was minute. It blew me away minute by minute, scene by scene with the amount of strong filmmaking execution exhibited.

[Freeza]

The only valid argument is the sequel line.
I think it has a lot to do with Get Out especially stealing votes from the younger voters.
Also the fact that 2049 was an absolute bomb.

Arrival was nominated last year so I don’t think it was because it was a thought provoking sci-if film.

There’s just not a lot of spots for the film to be nominated.

Darkest Hour and The Post were the old voters’ choice most likely.

Get Out, Last Bird and CMBYN the younger

Shape of Water, Phantom Thread and Three Billboards seems to be in the middle age demo

[M99]

Call Me By Your Name soundtrack is incredible. Has taken over my Spotify.

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