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2018: 90th Academy Award Nominations

2018: 90th Academy Award Nominations

On Tuesday, January 23, 2018, the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences announced its nominations for the best movies of 2017. Here is a list of the movies vying for an Oscar at the 90th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony that will be held Sunday, March 4, 2018.

FILM NOMINATIONS FOR THE 90d ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS

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

LEAD ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya –Get Out
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington—Roman J. Israel, Esq

LEAD 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

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe –The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf – Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water

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

ANIMATED FEATURE
The Boss Baby—Tom McGrath, Ramsey Ann Naito
The Breadwinner —Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo
Coco —Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson
Ferdinand—Carlos Saldanha
Loving Vincent —Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Sean Bobbitt, Ivan Mactaggart, Hugh Welchman

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor – The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jordan Peele – Get Out

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
James Ivory – Call Me by Your Name
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber – The Disaster Artist
Dee Rees and Virgil Williams – Mudbound
Aaron Sorkin – Molly’s Game
Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green— Logan

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

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More details about the movies mentioned in this post…

Call Me By Your Name

Call Me By Your Name

A budding gay romance blooms in the Italian sunshine.

Darkest Hour (2017)

Darkest Hour (2017)

Winston Churchill becomes Britian's Prime Minster during WWII's darkest hour.

Dunkirk

Dunkirk

No place to go.

Get Out

Get Out

Meeting the parents achieves a whole new level of awkward.

Lady Bird

Lady Bird

Too young (and dysfunctional) to fly the coop.

Phantom Thread

Phantom Thread

An unassuming woman unravels the plans of a fashion designer.

The Post

The Post

Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech or of the press...

The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water

Love sees beyond the outward appearance.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

A billboard is worth a thousand words.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

It doesn't pay to be a nice guy.

I, Tonya

I, Tonya

Can't cut the competition.

The Florida Project

The Florida Project

Life is a bright as you pretend it to be.

All the Money in the World

All the Money in the World

What matters most? Love or money?

The Boss Baby

The Boss Baby

Never too young to take on the establishment.

The Breadwinner

The Breadwinner

Doing whatever it takes to provide for her family.

Coco (2017)

Coco (2017)

Being dead never felt more alive.

Ferdinand

Ferdinand

Looks tough on the outside, but is soft on the inside.

Loving Vincent

Loving Vincent

The life of the artist is told through his paintings.

The Big Sick

The Big Sick

East meets West.

The Disaster Artist

The Disaster Artist

So bad -- it's good.

Molly’s Game

Molly’s Game

The stakes are high.

Logan

Logan

This first movie to get an R-rating in the X-Men franchise is supposed to show Wolverine's softer side.

Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049

The cutting edge of technology.