The Oscar nominations find one studio– Fox– fighting against itself with 3 of the 9 Best Picture nominations. Congrats to the filmmakers and to the publicists at Fox. Amazing. They have “Shape of Water,” “Three Billboards,” and “The Post.” The first two are from Fox Searchlight. Now that Disney has bought Fox, perhaps they will consider leaving all those people in place…
Diane Warren received her 9th nomination for Best Song– “Stand Up for Something”– it’s about time she won.
Two of the Best Actor nominations are first timers– Daniel Kaluuya from “Get Out” and Timothee Chalamet from “Call Me By Your Name.” Congrats. Those two guys will be back many times in years to come.
Denzel Washington got a nod for “Roman Israel.” I loved this performance, and I’m so glad it was acknowledged. DW is one of our finest actors.
But the real triumph is in Best Directing– Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele, two first timers whose movies are adored, are in. So is Christopher Nolan for “Dunkirk,” a huge achievement. Paul Thomas Anderson’s glorious “Phantom Thread” made it, too, as did “Shape of Water.” But “Three Billboards” director Martin McDonagh did not. My guess: “Three Billboards” is Best Picture, Guillermo del Toro is Best Director.
BEST PICTURE
Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Ladybird, Phantom Thread,Shape of Water,The Post, Three Billboards
BEST ACTOR
Timothee Chalamet, Daniel Day Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya, Gary Oldman, Denzel Washington
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, Frances McDormand, Margot Robbie, Saoirse Ronan, Meryl Streep
BEST DIRECTING
Dunkirk. Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, Shape of Water
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, Woody Harrelson, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, Sam Rockwell
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary J Blige, Allison Janney, Lesley Manville, Laurie Metcalf, Octavia Spencer
EDITING
Paul Machliss, Jonathan Amos, “Baby Driver”
Lee Smith, “Dunkirk”
Tatiana S. Riegel, “I, Tonya”
John Gregory, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Sidney Wolinsky, “The Shape of Water”
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins, “Blade Runner 2049”
Bruno Delbonnel, “Darkest Hour”
Dan Laustsen, “The Shape of Water”
Rachel Morrison, “Mudbound”
Hoyte van Hoytema, “Dunkirk”
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
“Abacus: Small Enough To Jail”
“Faces Places”
“Icarus”
“Strong Island“
“Last Man in Aleppo”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“A Fantastic Woman”
“On Body And Soul”
“Loveless”
“The Insult”
“The Square”
ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat, “The Shape of Water”
Jonny Greenwood, “Phantom Thread”
Carter Burwell, “Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
John Williams, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
Hans Zimmer, “Dunkirk”
PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Blade Runner 2049”
“Darkest Hour”
“Dunkirk”
“The Shape of Water”
“Beauty And The Beast”
COSTUME
“Beauty and the Beast”
“Darkest Hour”
“Phantom Thread”
“The Shape of Water”
“Victoria and Abdul”
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”
SOUND MIXING
“Baby Driver”
“Blade Runner 2049”
“Dunkirk”
“The Shape of Water”
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
SOUND EDITING
“Baby Driver”
“Blade Runner 2049”
“Dunkirk”
“The Shape of Water”
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
MAKEUP AND HAIR
“Darkest Hour”
“Victoria And Abdul”
“Wonder”
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor, “The Shape of Water”
Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjani, “The Big Sick”
Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
James Ivory, “Call Me By Your Name”
Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, “The Disaster Artist”
Aaron Sorkin, “Molly’s Game”
“Logan”
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, “Mudbound”
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“The Breadwinner”
“Coco”
“The Boss Baby“
“Loving Vincent”
“Ferdinand”
