Hot on the heels of the SAG Awards and the Golden Globes, the Oscar nominations have been revealed and there’s plenty to be excited about at this year’s show on March 4. Host Jimmy Kimmel will have the audience in stitches as films like Lady Bird, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Post, Get Out and The Shape of Water vie for top honours!

Lady Bird filmmaker Greta Gerwig joined an exclusive club of women who have been nominated for Best Director (Think: Sofia Coppola and Jane Campion), garnering the first female nod in eight years. Rachel Morrison, Mudbound’s cinematographer, made history by receiving the first-ever nomination in the category for woman.

Soirse Ronan stars in Lady Bird

 

On the Canadian front, Christopher Plummer is representing the true north with a Best Supporting Actor nomination for All The Money In The World. Canadians also feature in the Film Editing (Sidney Wolinsky), Costume Design (Luis M. Sequeira) and Production Design (Paul Austerberry) categories.

Conspicuously absent from the nominations was James Franco, whose awards season has been mired by numerous sexual assault allegations made against the star of The Disaster Artist.

Frances McDormand makes her mark in Three Billboards

 

The Shape of Water leads the nominations with 13, just one shy of beating the record secured by both Titanic and last year’s La La Land. Three Billboards’ lead actress Frances McDormand has already taken the SAG and Golden Globe, so making a trifecta of her awards season haul wouldn’t be a stretch. She’s up against first-timer Margot Robbie, who took on the role of Tonya Harding in I,Tonya and 23-year-old three-time nominee Soirse Ronan of Lady Bird.

Two more new faces on the list are Daniel Kaluuya of Get Out, Jordan Peele’s racially charged horror film, and Call Me By Your Name’s Timothée Chalamet. The duo’s debut sees them facing off against veterans Gary Oldman, Daniel-Day Lewis and Denzel Washington.

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Daniel Kaluuya in a scene from, “Get Out.” Jordan Peele’s thriller sensation “Get Out” crossed $100 million over the weekend, reaching that milestone in just 16 days. It’s a staggering result for a film that, though it cost less than $5 million to make, has become a cultural sensation. (Universal Pictures via AP)

 

And it wouldn’t be the Oscars without mention of Meryl Streep. The acclaimed actress received her staggering 21st nomination for The Post and come awards night hopes to add a fourth trophy to her over-flowing mantel of accolades.

See the complete list of nominees at the 2018 Oscars below…

 

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 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

Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

 

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 Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

BEST DIRECTOR

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread

Guillermo del Toro, Shape of Water

 

BEST 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

 

ORIGINAL SCORE

Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk

Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread

Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water

John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water

Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist

Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, Logan

Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game

Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound

 

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Boss Baby

The Breadwinner

Coco

Ferdinand

Loving Vincent

 

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Lou

Negative Space

Revolting Rhymes

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Roger A. Deakins, Blade Runner: 2049

Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour

Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk

Rachel Morrison, Mudbound

Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water

 

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Faces/Places

Icarus

Last Men in Aleppo

Strong Island

 

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Edith and 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)

Body and Soul (Hungary)

The Square (Sweden)

 

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

DeKalb Elementary

The Eleven O’Clock

My Nephew Emmett

The Silent Child

Watu Wote: All of Us

 

SOUND EDITING

Julian Slater, Baby Driver

Mark Mangini and Theo Green, Blade Runner 2049

Richard King and Alex Gibson, Dunkirk

Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira, The Shape of Water

Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

 

COSTUME DESIGN

Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast

Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour

Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread

Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water

Consolota Boyle, Victoria & Abdul

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