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7 Surprising Twists in the 90th Academy Award Nominations
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- Published: Tuesday, 23 January 2018 12:55
The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards have been announced, and like a movie there were lots of twists and turns many didn't predict. Below is the full list of movies and names nominated for the top prize. Many were first timers who made Academy Awards history.
The first shock was the omission of James Franco in the Best Actor category for his role in THE DISASTER ARTIST.
Jessica Chastain was also snubbed for Best Actress for her work in MOLLY'S GAME, easily the best performance in 2017 and the most complex female character in any of the movies last year.
GET OUT is Jordan Peele's directoral debut, and now he is a first-time nominee wth three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Best Film (as one of the producers) and Best Original Screenplay (as the screenwriter). He is the 5th African-American to be nominated for Best Director at the Oscars. First was John Singleton for BOYZ N THE HOOD, Steve McQueen (12 yYEARS A SLAVE), Barry Jenkins (MOONLIGHT) but no one took home a statue yet 12 YEARS and MOONLIGHT won Best Picture. (INSERT HEADSCRATCHING GIF HERE)
Greta Gerwig is only the 5th woman to be nominated for Best Director for directorial debut with LADY BIRD. She also received a Best Original Screenplay nomination for Others were Jane Campion (The Piano), Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties), Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) & Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) - the only woman to win Best Director in 2010.
MUDBOUND cinematographer Rachel Morrison made Academy Award history as the first woman nominated in the cinematography category.
Mary J. Blige also became a first-time nominee for her work in MUDBOUND. She garnered a Best Supporting Actress nomination as well as one for Original Music with her song, "Mighty River."
Guillermo del Toro also received his first directing nomination for THE SHAPE OF WATER and the film leads the Oscars with 13 nominations including three for himself as the director, co-writer and producer. He was previously nominated for an Academy Award for PAN'S LABYRINTH in the Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film.
At least this year, people can't claim the #OscarsSoWhite tag with a varied group of people nominated.
OSCAR NOMINATIONS
Best Picture
Call Me by Your Name
Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito, Producers
Darkest Hour
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski, Producers
Dunkirk
Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
Get Out
Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele, Producers
Lady Bird
Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O'Neill, Producers
Phantom Thread
JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi, Producers
The Post
Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
Directing
Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan
Get Out
Jordan Peele
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig
Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
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.
Actor in a Supporting Role
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
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
Actress in a Supporting Role
Mary J. Blige
Mudbound
Allison Janney
I, Tonya
Lesley Manville
Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf
Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer
The Shape of Water
Writing (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
Writing (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
Animated Feature Film
The Boss Baby
Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito
The Breadwinner
Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo
Coco
Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
Ferdinand
Carlos Saldanha
Loving Vincent
Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart
Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049
Roger A. Deakins
Darkest Hour
Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk
Hoyte van Hoytema
Mudbound
Rachel Morrison
The Shape of Water
Dan Laustsen
Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour
Jacqueline Durran
Phantom Thread
Mark Bridges
The Shape of Water
Luis Sequeira
Victoria & Abdul
Consolata Boyle
Documentary (Feature)
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman
Faces Places
Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda
Icarus
Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
Last Men in Aleppo
Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen
Strong Island
Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes
Documentary (Short Subject)
Edith+Eddie
Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Frank Stiefel
Heroin(e)
Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon
Knife Skills
Thomas Lennon
Traffic Stop
Kate Davis and David Heilbroner
Film Editing
Baby Driver
Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
Dunkirk
Lee Smith
I, Tonya
Tatiana S. Riegel
The Shape of Water
Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jon Gregory
Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)
Makeup and Hairstyling
Darkest Hour
Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
Victoria & Abdul
Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
Wonder
Arjen Tuiten
Music (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
Music (Original Song)
Mighty River
from Mudbound; Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson
Mystery Of Love
from Call Me by Your Name; Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens
Remember Me
from Coco; Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Stand Up For Something
from Marshall; Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren
This Is Me
from The Greatest Showman; Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Blade Runner 2049
Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola
Darkest Hour
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Dunkirk
Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
The Shape of Water
Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin
Short Film (Animated)
Dear Basketball
Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant
Garden Party
Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon
Lou
Dave Mullins and Dana Murray
Negative Space
Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata
Revolting Rhymes
Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
Short Film (Live Action)
Nominees
DeKalb Elementary
Reed Van Dyk
The Eleven O'Clock
Derin Seale and Josh Lawson
My Nephew Emmett
Kevin Wilson, Jr.
The Silent Child
Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
Watu Wote/All of Us
Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen
Sound Editing
Nominees
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
Sound Mixing
Baby Driver
Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
Blade Runner 2049
Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
Dunkirk
Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo
The Shape of Water
Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson
Visual Effects
Nominees
Blade Runner 2049
John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
Kong: Skull Island
Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
War for the Planet of the Apes
Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist