Shivansh Mishra
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The nominations for the biggest movie awards show on the planet have just been announced. The 90th Academy Awards will be awarded on March 4. The Shape of Water leads with 12 nominations, followed by Dunkirk with 8 and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with 7.
It’s a surprising but welcome bunch of nominations which reflects the Academy’s ever-growing diverse voter base.
We’ll have our thoughts on who will/should win but for now, here are the nominations:
1. Best Picture
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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
2. Best Director
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Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
3. Best Actor
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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.
4. Best Actress
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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
5. Best Supporting Actor
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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
6. Best Supporting Actress
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Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water
7. Best Adapted Screenplay
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Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory
The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Logan – Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green
Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
8. Best Original Screenplay
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The Big Sick – Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out – Jordan Peele
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh
The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
9. Best Cinematography
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Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins
Darkest Hour – Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk – Hoyte van Hoytema
Mudbound – Rachel Morrison
The Shape of Water – Dan Laustsen
10. Best Costume Design
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Beauty and the Beast – Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour – Jacqueline Durran
Phantom Thread – Mark Bridges
The Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira
Victoria & Abdul – Consolata Boyle
11. Best Editing
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Baby Driver – Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss
Dunkirk – Lee Smith
I, Tonya – Tatiana S. Riegel
The Shape of Water – Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Jon Gregory
12. Best Makeup and Hairstyling
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Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder
13. Best Original Score
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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
14. Best Original Song
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“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 and Robert Lopez
“This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman – Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
“Stand Up for Something” from Marshall – Diane Warren and Common
15. Best Production Design
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Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
16. Best Sound Editing
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Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
17. Best Sound Mixing
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Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
18. Best Visual Effects
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Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
19. Best Animated Film
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The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
20. Best Foreign Language Film
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A Fantastic Woman – Chile
The Insult – Lebanon
Loveless – Russia
On Body and Soul – Hungary
The Square – Sweden
21. Best Documentary Feature
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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
22. Best Documentary – Short Subject
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Edith+Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
23. Best Short Film – Animated
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Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
24. Best Short Film – Live-Action
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DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us
So, that’s it folks!
Let us know if your favorites made the cut in the comments below!