The nominations for the 90th Annual Academy Awards were announced on 23rd January 2018. These nominations were announced by Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis alongside the Academy president John Bailey. This announcement was made live from Academy’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The host of Academy Awards this year will be Jimmy Kimmel. The venue decided for Academy Awards is the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood. This award show will be broadcasted by ABC and it will be held on Sunday, March 4 this year.
The announcements for the nominations were made in parts. Part 1 of the announcement included some of the videos featuring actresses like Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Gal Gadot, Zoe Saldana, Rebel Wilson, Michelle Yeoh, Molly Shannon. All these are highlighted for the work they have done.
Nominations for Best Picture
Darkest Hour by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Douglas Urbanski, Anthony McCarten, producers
Call Me by Your Name by PeterSpears, Emilie Georges, Marco Morabito Luca Guadagnino, producers.
Get Out by Sean McKittrick, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Jason Blum and Jordan Peele, producers.
Dunkirk having Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan, producers.
Phantom Thread having Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison, JoAnne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, producers.
Lady Bird having Scott Rudin, Evelyn O’Neil, Eli Bush, producers.
The Post having Amy Pascal, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, producers.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri having Graham Broadbent, Martin McDonagh, Pete Czernin, producers.
The Shape of Water having J. Miles Dale, Guillermo del Toro, producers.
Nominations for Best Director
Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Guillermo del Toro for The Shape Of Water
Jordan Peele for Get Out
Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread
Nominations for Best Actress
Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water
Margot Robbie for I, Tonya.
Meryl Streep for The Post
Frances McDormand for Three Billboards of Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird
Nominations for Best Actor
Timothee Chalamet for Call Me by Your Name
Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour
Daniel Day-Lewis for Phantom Thread
Denzel Washington for Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out
Nominations for Best Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige for Mudbound
Allison Janney for I, Tonya
Octavia Spencer for The Shape of Water
Lesley Manville for Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird
Nominations for Best Supporting Actors
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 forThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Nominations for Best Original Screenplay
The Big Sick by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out by Jordan Peele
Lady Bird by Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Martin McDonagh
Nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name by James Ivory
The Disaster Artist by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Logan by Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
Molly’s Game byAaron Sorkin
Mudbound by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
Nominations for Best Foreign Language Films
A Fantastic Woman, Chile
The Insult, Lebanon
Loveless, Russia
On Body and Soul, Hungary
The Square, Sweden
Nominations for Best Animated Feature
The Boss Baby by Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito
The Breadwinner by Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo
Coco by Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
Ferdinand by Carlos Saldanha
Loving Vincent by Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart
Nominations for Best Documentary Feature
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail by Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman
Faces Places, Agnes Varda by JR and Rosalie Varda
Icarus by Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Soren Steen Jespersen
Strong Island by Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes
Nominations for Best Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049 by Roger Deakins
Darkest Hour by Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk by Hoyte van Hoytema
Mudbound by Rachel Morrison
The Shape of Water by Dan Laustsen
Nominations for Best Film Editing
Baby Driver by Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss
Dunkirk by Lee Smith
I, Tonya by Tatiana S. Riegel
The Shape of Water by Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Jon Gregory
Nominations for Best Sound Mixing
Baby Driver by Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
Blade Runner 2049 by Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
Dunkirk by Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo
The Shape of Water by Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier
Star Wars: The Last Jedi by David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson
Nominations for Best Sound Effects
Baby Driver by Julian Slater
Blade Runner 2049 by Mark Mangini and Theo Green
Dunkirk by Richard King and Alex Gibson
The Shape of Water by Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira
Star Wars: The Last Jedi by Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce
Nominations for Best Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049 by John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 by Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
Kong: Skull Island by Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus
Star Wars: The Last Jedi by Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
War for the Planet of the Apes by Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist
Nominations for Best Makeup and Hair Styling
Darkest Hour, Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
Victoria & Abdul, Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
Wonder, Arjen Tuiten
Nominations for Best Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast by Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour by Jacqueline Durran
Phantom Thread by Mark Bridges
The Shape of Water by Luis Sequeira
Victoria & Abdul by Consolata Boyle
Nominations for Best 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
Nominations for Best Original Score
Dunkirk by Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread by Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water by Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Last Jedi by John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Carter Burwell
Nominations for Best Original Song
“Mighty River” of Mudbound
Music and lyrics by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson
“The Mystery of Love” of Call Me by Your Name
Music and lyrics by Sufjan Stevens
“Remember Me” of Coco
Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
“Stand Up for Something” of Marshall
Music by Diane Warren, lyrics by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren
“This Is Me” by The Greatest Showman
Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Nominations for Best Live-Action Short
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
Nominations for Best Animated Short
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
Nominations for Best Documentary Short
Edith+Eddie by Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 byFrank Stiefel
Heroin(e) by Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon
Knife Skills by Thomas Lennon
Traffic Stop by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner