The Shape of Water joins films like From Here to Eternity, Gone with the Wind, with an Academy Awards Nominations tally of 13. Steven Spielberg directs yet another Best Picture nominee with The Post.
Women land deserved nods. Tatiana S. Riegel for Film Editing on I, Tonya. Rachel Morrison, for Mudbound, the first woman shortlisted for Best Cinematography. And of course, Greta Gerwig joins the illustrious ranks of Kathryn Bigelow, Jane Champion, Sofia Coppola, Lina Wertmüller, as only the fifth female nominated for Lady Bird as Best Director.
Gerwig also marks a debut Director. Just like Get Out‘s Jordan Peele, a black filmmaker joining the historical bandwagon. On the flip side, 89 year-old James Ivory earns a popular Best Adapted Screenplay nod for Call Me by Your Name. And let’s not forget Christopher Nolan grabbed his very first Director nod for Dunkirk.
Oh, Meryl Streep makes it 21 nominations for acting. Timothee Chalamet at 22 is the youngest Best Actor nominee in over 70 years. At 88, Christopher Plummer is the oldest acting nominee.
So who is missing then? Well, Jane was not nominated for Best Documentary Feature. Or LA 92. Martin McDonagh was absent in the Best Director line-up for what was a surging Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Paul Thomas Anderson is in though for Phantom Thread. The Florida Project does not make Best Picture. And Wonder Woman – nowhere to be seen with zero nominations.
Anyway, here are the Academy Awards nominations in full – give us your thoughts in the comments below:
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
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
DIRECTING
DUNKIRK – Christopher Nolan
GET OUT – Jordan Peele
LADY BIRD – Greta Gerwig
PHANTOM THREAD – Paul Thomas Anderson
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Guillermo del Toro
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 – Mudbound; Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, Taura Stinson
MYSTERY OF LOVE – Call Me by Your Name; Sufjan Stevens
REMEMBER ME – Coco; Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
STAND UP FOR SOMETHING – Marshall; Diane Warren, Lonnie R. Lynn
THIS IS ME – The Greatest Showman; Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
BEST PICTURE
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME – Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Marco Morabito
DARKEST HOUR – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski
DUNKIRK – Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
GET OUT – Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Jordan Peele
LADY BIRD – Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Evelyn O’Neill
PHANTOM THREAD – JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, Daniel Lupi
THE POST – Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST – Sarah Greenwood; Katie Spencer
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Dennis Gassner; Alessandra Querzola
DARKEST HOUR – Sarah Greenwood; Katie Spencer
DUNKIRK – Nathan Crowley; Gary Fettis
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Paul Denham Austerberry; Shane Vieau, 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
DEKALB ELEMENTARY – Reed Van Dyk
THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK – Derin Seale, Josh Lawson
MY NEPHEW EMMETT – Kevin Wilson, Jr.
THE SILENT CHILD – Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton
WATU WOTE/ALL OF US – Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen
SOUND EDITING
BABY DRIVER – Julian Slater
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Mark Mangini, Theo Green
DUNKIRK – Richard King, Alex Gibson
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI – Matthew Wood, Ren Klyce
SOUND MIXING
BABY DRIVER – Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Mac Ruth
DUNKIRK – Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, Glen Gauthier
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Stuart Wilson
VISUAL EFFECTS
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 – Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, Dan Sudick
KONG: SKULL ISLAND – Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Mike Meinardus
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI – Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan, Chris Corbould
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES – Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, Joel Whist
WRITING ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME – James Ivory
THE DISASTER ARTIST – Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
LOGAN – Scott Frank, James Mangold, Michael Green
MOLLY’S GAME – Aaron Sorkin
MUDBOUND – Virgil Williams, Dee Rees
WRITING ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE BIG SICK – Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani
GET OUT – Jordan Peele
LADY BIRD – Greta Gerwig
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – Martin McDonagh