2018 Oscar Nominations: ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Three Billboards’ Lead

The march towards the 2018 Oscars continue. Over the weekend we got our very first guild winners, with the PGA Awards and SAG Awards, giving us a little more insight into this year’s Oscar frontrunners. Yesterday we cast our nominations predictions, and this morning the Academy finally announced the nominees.

Beginning bright and early at 8:22 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis announced the nominees, and there were tons of highlights and surprises. Guillermo del Toro’s fish-man romance The Shape of Water came out on top with 13 nominations – is this our sneaky Best Picture winner? (I’m calling it now…) – followed by Dunkirk and Call Me By Your Name with eight apiece, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with seven.

One of the biggest surprises was Denzel Washington’s Roman J. Israel, Esq Best Actor nomination over James Franco, who was more predicted to get in. But it looks like the recent allegations of sexual misconduct against of The Disaster Artist actor (which came out just before Academy voting closed) may have pushed him out of the running. And the Academy’s love for Phantom Thread, giving it surprise nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Lesley Manville (and so very well deserved, by the way), was a wonderful surprise.

The nominations were also fairly diverse, with a director’s category not dominated by all men, or all white men. Mudbound‘s Rachel Morrison became the first woman in Oscars history to be nominated for Best Cinematography, and black trans filmmaker Yance Ford had his documentary Strong Island earn a nomination. John Williams also just broke his own record, earning his 51st nomination, this year for his score for The Post.

See the full list of nominees below. The 90th Academy Awards will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel yet again, and air on ABC on March 4 at 8:00 p.m. ET. Keep checking back here for the next several weeks as ScreenCrush keeps you updates on all the awards season news and Oscar predictions.

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 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
Ocatvia 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 Original Screenplay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name
Scott Neustadter, The Disaster Artist
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound
Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game
Scott Frank, James Mangold, Michael Green, Logan

Best Animated Feature

The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best Documentary Feature

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Man in Aleppo
Strong Island

Best Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square

Best Score

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

Best Original Song

“A Mighty River,” Mudbound
“Mystery of Love,” Call Me By Your Name
“Remember Me,” Coco
“Stand Up for Something,” Marshall
“This Is Me,” The Greatest Showman

Best Cinematography

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

Best Film Editing

Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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 Production Design

Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
The Shape of Water
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk

Best Costume Design

Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
Victoria & Abdul
The Shape of Water

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

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 Documentary Short Subject

Edith+Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop

Best Live-Action Short

DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote / All of Us

Best Animated Short

Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

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