Academy Award Nominations Announced: The Shape of Water Leads with 13, Greta Gerwig Makes History


The 90th Academy Awards are just around the corner and those coveted nominations were announced this morning. Predictably, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water scored big. But, could anyone have foreseen that the Cold War set fantasy/love story would garner 13 nominations?

In a move showing that history has finally caught up with the Academy, both a woman and an African American earned nods for Best Director. Joining Del Toro is Greta Gerwig, who scored for her personal and touching Lady Bird, and Jordan Peele for his directorial debut, Get Out. Get Out also received nods for Best Picture and Best Actor for Daniel Kaluuya. Lady Bird also produced its own best acting nominations with both Laurie Metcalf and lead Saoirse Ronan scoring nods for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively.

Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis read the nominations earlier this morning in a move that this writer feels was quite ironic. Each deserved nods for their respective work in 2017, Haddish for Girls Trip and Serkis for his revolutionary turn in War for the Planet of the Apes. The snubs didn’t end there. Also missing from the nomination list was a single piece of love for the blockbuster and well-reviewed Wonder Woman. Also missing was Holly Hunter for Best Supporting Actress for The Big Sick, the film also missing out on Best Picture. It did earn a nod for Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for Best Original Screenplay.

The awards will be unveiled March 4.

Best Picture:

Call Me By Your Name

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Get Out

Lady Bird

Phantom Thread

The Post

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards

Best Director: 

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread

Guillermo del Toro, The Shape Of Water

Best Actress: 

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards

Margot Robbie, I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Meryl Streep, The Post

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 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

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

Original Screenplay: 

The Big Sick

Get Out

Lady Bird

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards 

Adapted Screenplay: 

Call Me By Your Name

The Disaster Artist

Logan

Molly’s Game

Mudbound

Best Animated film: 

Coco

The Breadwinner

Ferdinand

Loving Vincent

The Boss Baby

Original song nominees: 

“Remember Me” (from Coco)

“Mystery of Love” (from Call Me By Your Name)

“This Is Me” (from The Greatest Showman)

“Mighty River” (from Mudbound)

“Stand Up For Something” (from Marshall)

Best Documentary:

Faces Places

Icarus

Last Men in Aleppo 

Strong Island

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Best Documentary Short: 

Edith+Eddie

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Heroin(e)

Knife Skills

Traffic Stop

Best foreign language:

A Fantastic Woman (Chile)

On Body and Soul (Hungary)

The Insult  (Lebanon)

Loveless (Russia)

The Square (Sweden)

Make-up and Hairstyling:

Darkest Hour

Victoria & Abdul

Wonder

Film Editing: 

Baby Driver

Dunkirk

I, Tonya

The Shape Of Water

Three Billboards

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

Best Original Score: 

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Three Billboards

Live Action Short Film:

DeKalb Elementary

The Eleven O’Clock

My Nephew Emmett 

The Silent Child

Watu Wote/All of Us

Best Animated Short Film: 

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Lou

Negative Space

Revolting Rhymes

Best Sound Mixing: 

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk 

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Sound Editing: 

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk 

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Costume Design: 

Beauty and the Beast

Darkest Hour

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Victoria & Abdul

Cinematography: 

Blade Runner 2049 

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Mudboud 

The Shape of Water

Production Design: 

Beauty and the Beast

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water