Posted on 01/23/2018 10:18:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“The Shape of Water” received 13 Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning. The 90th Academy Awards will be held on March 4.
• “Dunkirk,” which got eight nominations, and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” which received seven, also emerged as strong contenders.
• Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Kaluuya were among the acting nominees.
• Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) and Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) were each nominated for best director and best original screenplay.
Oscar voters tilted toward a new Hollywood era on Tuesday, giving first-time nominations to at least 35 people, inviting Netflix into the club, recognizing a woman in the cinematography category for the first time and bypassing actors and films tainted by sexual harassment allegations.
“The Shape of Water,” a modestly budgeted fantasy about a mute janitor who falls in love with an imprisoned sea creature, became the year’s most decorated movie, receiving 13 nominations, including for best picture and Guillermo del Toro’s directing.
But the contentious revenge drama “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” also emerged as a very strong contender, receiving seven Oscar nominations in a broad array of categories, including best picture. The war epic “Dunkirk” received eight nominations, many of them in technical categories, although it also will compete in the best picture race.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences allows the best picture category to have as many as 10 or as few as five nominees, depending on how the organization’s 8,400 members spread their support. This time around nine movies were nominated, the same as last year. Rounding out the category were “Call Me by Your Name,” “Darkest Hour,” “Get Out,” “Lady Bird,” “Phantom Thread” and “The Post.”
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But snarky remarks are welcome for their entertainment value :)
Many academy voters have long insisted that art should be separated from the artist — that the Oscars should be about assessing the caliber of work and that concerns about offscreen behavior should be cleaved away. Just last year, voters overlooked Casey Affleck’s past settlements with women who accused him of sexual harassment to name him best actor.
But that stance has been harder to maintain as women have come forward in recent months to accuse men like Harvey Weinstein, Brett Ratner and James Toback of sexual misconduct. Many of these men — Mr. Weinstein, most notably — used the Oscars as a shield. The academy kicked him out in October.
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
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
BEST DIRECTOR
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan
Get Out, Jordan Peele
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig
Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boss Baby
Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men In Aleppo
Strong Island
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Edith+Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Fantastic Woman, Chile
The Insult, Lebanon
Loveless, Russia
On Body and Soul, Hungary
The Square, Sweden
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly's Game
Mudbound
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Big Sick
Get Out
Ladybird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
ORIGINAL SONG
"Mighty River," Mudbound
"Mystery of Love," Call Me by Your Name
"Remember Me," Coco
"Stand Up for Something," Marshall
"This is Me," The Greatest Showman
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
The Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049 Darkest Hour Dunkirk Mudbound
The Shape of Water
COSTUME DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul
SOUND EDITING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
SOUND MIXING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Negative Space
Lou
Revolting Rhymes
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Dekalb Elementary
The Eleven O'Clock
The Silent Child
All of Us
My Nephew Emmet
VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
FILM EDITING
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Oscar statue should be transgender.
My snark is to say, that I haven’t heard of most of these movies. Were they in theaters in wide release? Are they mostly arthouse type movies?
Never heard of half these movies—they didn’t come here.
The Shape of Water sounds interesting, I’ll probably watch it at some point in time. Del Torro is an interesting director.
And nine nominees for Best Picture? It was better when the field was limited to five. Heck, why not make it like the NCAA Tournament? Sixty-four nominees...
Dunkirk was a fine movie but not Oscar material.
Never even heard of the others which means they must be about confused teens deciding if they want to cut off their junk.
I figure they’re all about gay cowboys eating pudding.
I saw it. It could have been really good if it didn’t hate its characters so much. Michael Shannon was handcuffed by the one-dimensional bad-guy writing. Pretty typical of Guillermo del Toro’s stuff. Technically interesting, but shallow character development and a totally predictable linear plot.
Just like most Oscar seasons - I’ve only heard of one of the movies. Dunkirk.
Hollywood sucks. They should spend more time thinking about making good movies and less time kissing the butts of phony liberal elites.
Saw Dunkirk last weekend...Only one I cared to check out.
I’m totally nonplussed with Hollywood now. I’ve hit the demographic were you hate everything. It started with Will Smith and Jade Pinkett Smith complaining about Will Smith not winning an oscar for a role designed and written for him to win an Oscar. They made it all to be about race and now they’re making all to be about sexual harassment. Not to mention political leanings — the further away from Conservatives the better.
Political leanings is now the new casting couch.
Isn't that transphobic????!!!!!!!!
Go see Darkest Hour.
What? No Best Performance by a Pansexual in a Non Binary Role catagory?
I am outraged
These are my predictions an I'm sticking to them!
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