Yesterday, we caught the live screening of the 2018 Oscar Nominations by Andy Serkis and Tiffany Haddish, in all of its cringeworthy splendour, setting the tone perhaps for when Jimmy Kimmel steps back into the spotlight as host on March 4th. After the infamous “EnvelopeGate” incident last year, when the Best Picture Award was given to ‘La La Land’ as opposed to ‘Moonlight’, the Oscars have developed a new set of rules to prevent another mix up like that from happening again on the 90th Oscars Event.
Hollywood has of course, been going through a bit of a tough time lately with their usual establishment Donald Trump bashing (censoring of conservative views) and virtue signalling about Muslim migrants in Europe, not to mention, they have no doubt been suffering from the many sexual harassment stories creeping up from underneath the red carpet, with sex scandals, and other such allegations, which ultimately has seen the popularity and interest in Tinseltown become a little tarnished. But, the show must go on, and so let’s focus on the films.
Here are the nominations for this years Oscars, which screens on March 4th, 2018:
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BEST ACTOR
Timothee Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary OIdman – 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 DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
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 CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bladerunner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
Shape of Water
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary J Blige – Mudbound
Alison Janney – I, Tonya
Lesley Manville – Phanton Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Ladybird
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 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Edith + Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul
BEST SOUND EDITING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmet
The Silent Child
Watu Wota / All of Us
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
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
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Call Me By Your Name – James Ivory
The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber
Logan – Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green
Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049
Guardian of the Galaxy vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
BEST FILM EDITING
Baby Driver
I,Tonya
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST SOUND MIXING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
BEST MAKE UP AND HAIR STYLING
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Big Sick – Emily V Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out – Jordan Peele
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (story by Guillermo del Toro)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Credit: Los Angeles Times
So there you have them! There was a few surprises here. Angelina Jolie’s film ‘First They Killed My Father’ wasn’t nominated in the Best Foreign Film category, James Franco wasn’t nominated for Best Actor for ‘The Disaster Artist’, Tom Hanks wasn’t nominated for ‘The Post’, nor was Steven Spielberg for Best Director, but they both probably have enough Oscars between them already. Ridley Scott also wasn’t given an Oscar nomination for Best Director for ‘All the Money in the World’. However, ‘The Shape of Water’ got eight nominations and ‘Get Out’ got three nominations. Gary Oldman is heavily predicted to pick up the ‘Best Actor’ award for ‘Darkest Hour’, after getting the SGA Award and Golden Globe for the same category, but he might be facing heavy competition from Daniel Day-Lewis for ‘Phantom Thread’, which is said to be his last ever film as an actor. Additionally, Christopher Plummer looks a firm favourite for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for ‘All the Money in the World’.
Who will win the awards? You’ll have to tune into the Oscars 2018 on March 4th in order to find out. That being said, who do you predict to win the statues this year? Tell us in the comments section down below.
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