2018 Academy Award Nominations Announced

The much-awaited 90th Academy Award nominations for 2018 are finally announced


The nominations were announced by Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson, Rebel Willson, Michelle Yeoh and Michelle Rodriguez.

'The Shape of Water' has 13 nominations in its kitty including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Another film that wasn't far behind was Christopher Nolan's 'Dunkirk'. The war drama holds eight nominations including, Best Director, Best Picture and Best Cinematography. 

A few other films that made the mark on the list of nominations were 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' with seven, 'Phantom Thread' and 'Darkest Hour' with six respectively.

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 Actor:

Timothee Chalamet for Call Me By Your Name 
Daniel Day-Lewis for Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out
Gary Oldman for  Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington for Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Best Actress:

Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie for I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronnan for Lady Bird
Meryl Streep for The Post

Best 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
Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actress:

Mary J. Blige in Mudbound
Allison Janney in I,Tonya
Lesley Manville in Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer in The Shape of Water

Best Director:

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

Best Original Screenplay:

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

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 Film Editing:

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

Best Production Design:

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

Best Costume Design:

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

Best Makeup & Hairstyling:

Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

Best Cinematography:

Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water

Best Visual Effects:

Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
Kong: Skull Island 

Best Documentary Short:

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

Best Documentary Feature:

Abacus: Small Enough To Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men In Aleppo
Strong Island

Best Original Song:

Mighty River from Mudbound
Mystery of Love from Call Me By Your Name
Remember Me from Coco
Stand Up for Something from Marshall
This is Me from The Greatest Showman

Best Original Score:

Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Animated Feature:

The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best Sound Editing:

Baby Driver
Blade Driver 2049
Dunkirk
Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Sound Mixing:

Baby Driver
Blade Driver 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Foreign Language Film:

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

Best Animated Short Film

Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

Best Live Action Short Film:

DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O'Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Wotu Wote