On Tuesday morning, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences John Bailey with Tiffany Haddish, and Andy Serkis revealed the nominees for the 90th annual awards from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Shape of Water leads the race with 13 Nominations, followed by Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Dunkirk with seven. The Post, Darkest Hour, Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, and The Phantom Thread complete the list of the big players in this year's race. Greta Gerwig is nominated as best director and Daniel Kaluuya for his performance in Get Out.
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 are nominated for Best Picture.
Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out and Denzel Washington for Roman J. Israel, Esq. are the big surprises in this year’s nomination for Lead Actor. The rest nominees are Timothée Chalamet for Call Me by Your Name, Daniel Day-Lewis for Phantom Thread, and Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour.
Without surprises, the Lead Actress nominees are Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water, Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Margot Robbie for I, Tonya, Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird, and Meryl Streep for The Post.
Big Hollywood names are nominated for 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, and Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
For Supporting Actress are nominated; Mary J. Blige for Mudbound, Allison Janney for I, Tonya, Lesley Manville for Phantom Thread, Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird, and Octavia Spencer for The Shape of Water.
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), Jordan Peele (Get Out), Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird), Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), and Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape of Water) are this year’s nominees for best direction.
The nominees for Best Animated Feature are The Boss Baby, The Breadwinner, Coco, Ferdinand, and Loving Vincent. For Animated Short, Dear Basketball, Garden Party, Lou, Negative Space, and Revolting Rhymes.
The Adapted Screenplay category has big names; James Ivory for Call Me by Your Name, Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber for The Disaster Artist, Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green for Logan, Aaron Sorkin for Molly’s Game, and Virgil Williams and Dee Rees for Mudbound. For Original Screenplay; Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani for The Big Sick, Jordan Peele for Get Out, Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird, Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor for The Shape of Water, and Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. For 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 Documentary Feature: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, Faces Places, Icarus, Last Men in Aleppo, and Strong Island. Best Documentary Short Subject: Edith+Eddie, Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405, Heroin(e), Knife Skills, and Traffic Stop. Best Live Action Short Film: DeKalb Elementary, The Eleven O’Clock, My Nephew Emmett, The Silent Child, and Watu Wote/All of Us.
Best Foreign Language Film: A Fantastic Woman from Chile, The Insult from Lebanon, Loveless from Russia, On Body and Soul from Hungary, and The Square from Sweden.
Film Editing: Baby Driver, Dunkirk, I, Tonya, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Sound Editing: Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Sound Mixing: Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Production Design: Beauty and the Beast, Blade Runner 2049, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, and The Shape of Water.
Original Score: Hans Zimmer (Dunkirk), Jonny Greenwood (Phantom Thread), Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water), John Williams (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), and Carter Burwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). Original Song: “Mighty River” from Mudbound, (Mary J. Blige), “Mystery of Love” from Call Me by Your Name (Sufjan Stevens), “Remember Me” from Coco (Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez), “Stand Up for Something” from Marshall (Diane Warren, Common), and “This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman (Benj Pasek, Justin Paul).
Makeup and Hair: Darkest Hour, Victoria and Abdul, and Wonder. Costume Design: Beauty and the Beast, Darkest Hour, Phantom Thread, The Shape of Water, and Victoria and Abdul. Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Kong: Skull Island, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and War for the Planet of the Apes.
Jimmy Kimmel will host the Academy Awards for a second time on March 4.
