Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water and Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk are some of the top nominated movies at this year’s Oscars.
The Shape of Water was predicted to sweep this year’s awards, earning a total of 13 nominations. Guillermo del Toro’s movie about the whimsical romance between a woman who can’t speak and a giant fish creature has been the darling contender at other award shows this season, including the most recent Golden Globes. Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer and Richard Jenkins all took home nominations for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting actor, respectively. Guillermo del Toro also earned a nomination for outstanding achievement in Directing.
The Shape of Water will go head-to-head with numerous popular movies from 2017, all of whom will be tough contenders for the genre-bending film. Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri earned seven nominations, including in most of the major categories. Three Billboards, a movie about one woman’s attempt to get justice for the brutal murder of her daughter, has been sweeping this award show season. The film won multiple awards at the Golden Globes, and the cast took home the recent accolade for Best Ensemble cast at the Screen Actor Guild awards.
It was an outstanding year for genre films for this year’s nominations, too. Star Wars: The Last Jedi earned nods for outstanding achievement in Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Original Score and Visual Effects. While The Last Jedi’s nominations aren’t too surprising considering the franchise’s presence at the award show in the past, Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver also earned three nominations for achievement in Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Editing.
Dunkirk, Nolan’s movie about the evacuation of over 300,000 allies during World War II, garnered eight nominations overall. Dunkirk was nominated for outstanding achievement in Production Design, Cinematography, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Original Score and Film Editing. The film also scored nominations for Best Picture and outstanding achievement in directing for Christopher Nolan. Blade Runner 2049 was also acknowledged by the Academy in some of its most technical categories, including outstanding achievement in Production Design, Cinematography, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.
The full list of nominees can be read over at the official Oscars site. The Oscars will air on Sunday, March 4 at 8:30 pm ET on ABC. Late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel will host.
Image copyright Fox Image caption Sally Hawkins is up for best actress for The Shape of Water
The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards have been announced, with The Shape of Water leading the field.
Guillermo del Toro's fantasy romance received 13 nominations, including best picture.
World War Two drama Dunkirk follows with eight nominations, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri received seven.
British stars shortlisted include Gary Oldman, Sally Hawkins and a pair of Daniels - Day-Lewis and Kaluuya.
Greta Gerwig gets a best director nomination for Lady Bird, one of nine films shortlisted for the best picture award.
Image copyright Fox Image caption Woody Harrelson and Frances McDormand are both nominated in Three Billboards
Others include Steven Spielberg's The Post, gay romance Call Me By Your Name and Winston Churchill drama Darkest Hour.
Oldman's performance as Churchill has already won the British actor a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award.
To win the Oscar, though, he will have to beat three-time best actor winner Day-Lewis, nominated again for Phantom Thread.
Meryl Streep's best actress nomination for newspaper drama The Post is her 17th for best actress and her 21st overall.
The three-time Oscar winner said she was "honoured beyond measure" to be recognised for "a film that stands in defence of press freedom and inclusion of women's voices in the movement of history".
Image copyright Universal Image caption Lady Bird's nominations included best director and best picture
Frances McDormand is tipped to be this year's winner for her role as a grieving mother in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Two of McDormand's co-stars, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell, go head to head in the best supporting actor category.
The Shape of Water also fares well in the acting categories, with nominations for Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer alongside Hawkins' best actress nod.
Del Toro's film narrowly missed out on tying with the previous nomination record of 14, obtained by the films All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land.
How diverse are this year's nominations?
Diversity continues to be a hot topic in Hollywood, which has been rocked this year by sexual harassment scandals, concerns over gender pay equality and the role of women both in front of and behind the camera.
These topics appear to have had an impact on this year's nominations, which are largely free of embarrassing exclusions and the kind of all-white line-ups that led to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign on social media.
Greta Gerwig's nomination in the best director category will placate those who expressed displeasure at the Golden Globes' all-male directing nominees, even if she is only the fifth woman in history to be afforded that honour.
And while there are no non-white performers up for best actress or best supporting actor, there are two black males up for best actor - Denzel Washington and Britain's Daniel Kaluuya - and another two shortlisted for best supporting actress.
Jordan Peele's best director nomination for Get Out is also significant, given he is only the fifth black film-maker to be considered for the award.
"Right now I'm just thinking about everyone who bought a ticket and told someone else to," Peele tweeted in response to his film's four nominations. "You did this."
Notable firsts include Rachel Morrison's best cinematography nomination for Mudbound, Netflix's drama about racial tension in Mississippi.
Morrison, whose other credits include the forthcoming Black Panther, is the first woman ever to receive a nomination in this category.
Image copyright Netflix Image caption Mary J Blige is up for two awards for her contributions to Mudbound
Mudbound's Mary J Blige also makes history by getting nominations for best supporting actress and best song in the same year.
The nine-time Grammy winner co-wrote Mighty River for the film, which is also recognised for its adapted screenplay.
Snubs and surprises
Among those to miss out this year include James Franco, who had been tipped by some to get a best actor nod for The Disaster Artist.
The US actor recently became the subject of sexual harassment allegations which may have hurt his chances of an Oscar nomination.
London-born Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards' writer-director, is also a surprise omission from the best director line-up.
Surprise nominees include Britain's Lesley Manville, up for playing Day-Lewis's sister in fashion-based period piece Phantom Thread.
Paul Thomas Anderson's film, also up for best picture, best director and two other awards, did much better than many had expected.
The nominations were announced in Los Angeles by British actor Andy Serkis and Girls Trip actress Tiffany Haddish.
Jimmy Kimmel will return to host this year's ceremony, to be held on 4 March at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
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Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer in Shape of Water Photograph: Fox Searchlight Pictures/AP
Guillermo del Toro’s drama The Shape of Water leads the way in nominations for this year’s Oscars.
The cold war-era fantasy, which stars Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaner who falls for a sea creature, picked up a bumper haul of 13 nominations, including best picture, best director for Del Toro and best actress for Hawkins.
However, the film faces Oscar competition from Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Dunkirk managed eight nominations, including best picture and best director for Nolan. McDonagh’s dark comedy-drama, which received the most awards at this month’s Golden Globes, earned seven nominations in total, including a best picture nomination, a best actress pick for Frances McDormand and supporting actor nods for Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson.
In total, there were nine films nominated for best picture, with Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, Darkest Hour, Get Out, Phantom Thread and The Post completing the list.
In the acting categories Gary Oldman confirmed his status as frontrunner for the best actor prize, receiving a nomination for his performance as Winston Churchill in another historical drama Darkest Hour. Oldman will face competition from fellow Brits Daniel Day-Lewis and Daniel Kaluuya, as well as Call Me By Your Name star Timothée Chalamet and Denzel Washington. However there was no spot for James Franco. The Disaster Artist star had been tipped for a nomination after picking up a Golden Globe for his performance in The Disaster Artist, but has been the subject of multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour in recent weeks.
Another British star, Phantom Thread’s Lesley Manville will battle it out against hot favourite Allison Janney (I, Tonya), in the supporting actress category, which also includes Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird), Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) and Mary J Blige (Mudbound). Facing up against McDormand and Hawkins in the best actress category are The Post’s Meryl Streep, I, Tonya’s Margot Robbie and Lady Bird’s Saoirse Ronan.
Despite concern that this year’s best director category would be a male-only affair, Greta Gerwig picked up a nomination for her coming of age drama Lady Bird, which received five nominations in total, while another female-directed film, Dee Rees’ second world war drama Mudbound also received five nominations, including a best cinematographer nod for Rachel Morrison, the first time in Academy history that a woman has been nominated in the category.
The 90th Academy Awards will take place on 4 March at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre. The ceremony will be hosted by late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who also hosted the 2017 Oscars.
Full list of nominations
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
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
Best actress
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
Best supporting actress
Mary J Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Best supporting actor
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
Best animated film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
Best director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Best documentary
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
Best documentary short
Edith+Eddie
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
Best foreign language film
A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square
Best song
Mighty River, Mudbound
The Mystery of Love, Call Me by Your Name
Remember Me, Coco
Stand Up for Something, Marshall
This Is Me, The Greatest Showman
Best adapted screenplay
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound
Best original screenplay
The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best cinematography
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water
Best costume design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul
Best editing
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best makeup and hair
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder
Best score
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best production design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Best animated short
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
Best live action short
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us
Best sound editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Best sound mixing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Best 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
Image copyright Fox Image caption Sally Hawkins is up for best actress for The Shape of Water
The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards have been announced, with The Shape of Water leading the field.
Guillermo del Toro's fantasy romance received 13 nominations, including best picture.
World War Two drama Dunkirk follows with eight nominations, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri received seven.
British stars shortlisted include Gary Oldman, Sally Hawkins and a pair of Daniels - Day-Lewis and Kaluuya.
Greta Gerwig gets a best director nomination for Lady Bird, one of nine films shortlisted for the best picture award.
Image copyright Fox Image caption Woody Harrelson and Frances McDormand are both nominated in Three Billboards
Others include Steven Spielberg's The Post, gay romance Call Me By Your Name and Winston Churchill drama Darkest Hour.
Oldman's performance as Churchill has already won the British actor a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award.
To win the Oscar, though, he will have to beat three-time best actor winner Day-Lewis, nominated again for Phantom Thread.
Meryl Streep's best actress nomination for newspaper drama The Post is her 17th for best actress and her 21st overall.
The three-time Oscar winner said she was "honoured beyond measure" to be recognised for "a film that stands in defence of press freedom and inclusion of women's voices in the movement of history".
Image copyright Universal Image caption Lady Bird's nominations included best director and best picture
Frances McDormand is tipped to be this year's winner for her role as a grieving mother in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Two of McDormand's co-stars, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell, go head to head in the best supporting actor category.
The Shape of Water also fares well in the acting categories, with nominations for Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer alongside Hawkins' best actress nod.
Del Toro's film narrowly missed out on tying with the previous nomination record of 14, obtained by the films All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land.
How diverse are this year's nominations?
Diversity continues to be a hot topic in Hollywood, which has been rocked this year by sexual harassment scandals, concerns over gender pay equality and the role of women both in front of and behind the camera.
These topics appear to have had an impact on this year's nominations, which are largely free of embarrassing exclusions and the kind of all-white line-ups that led to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign on social media.
Greta Gerwig's nomination in the best director category will placate those who expressed displeasure at the Golden Globes' all-male directing nominees, even if she is only the fifth woman in history to be afforded that honour.
And while there are no non-white performers up for best actress or best supporting actor, there are two black males up for best actor - Denzel Washington and Britain's Daniel Kaluuya - and another two shortlisted for best supporting actress.
Jordan Peele's best director nomination for Get Out is also significant, given he is only the fifth black film-maker to be considered for the award.
"Right now I'm just thinking about everyone who bought a ticket and told someone else to," Peele tweeted in response to his film's four nominations. "You did this."
The Academy has recently strived to broaden the ethnic, age and gender make-up of its membership, which may have filtered through to this year's nominations.
Yet the Academy still has a long way to go, as a comparison between male and female nominees in some of the key categories attests.
Notable firsts include Rachel Morrison's best cinematography nomination for Mudbound, Netflix's drama about racial tension in Mississippi.
Morrison, whose other credits include the forthcoming Black Panther, is the first woman ever to receive a nomination in this category.
Image copyright Netflix Image caption Mary J Blige is up for two awards for her contributions to Mudbound
Mudbound's Mary J Blige also makes history by getting nominations for best supporting actress and best song in the same year.
The nine-time Grammy winner co-wrote Mighty River for the film, which is also recognised for its adapted screenplay.
Snubs and surprises
Among those to miss out this year include James Franco, who had been tipped by some to get a best actor nod for The Disaster Artist.
The US actor recently became the subject of sexual harassment allegations which may have hurt his chances of an Oscar nomination.
London-born Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards' writer-director, is also a surprise omission from the best director line-up.
Surprise nominees include Britain's Lesley Manville, up for playing Day-Lewis's sister in fashion-based period piece Phantom Thread.
Paul Thomas Anderson's film, also up for best picture, best director and two other awards, did much better than many had expected.
The nominations were announced in Los Angeles by British actor Andy Serkis and Girls Trip actress Tiffany Haddish.
Jimmy Kimmel will return to host this year's ceremony, to be held on 4 March at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
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