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The 90th Academy Award Nominations


Well, as they did so, the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science released their Oscar nominations for the 90th Oscars early this morning as Andy Serkis and Tiffany Haddish read the nominations aloud. To be honest, there were some surprises in most of the top categories than anticipated because there was one movie that scored big that came out late in the year. But, I guess, that movie got sent to the right people for it to be nominated. Anyway, here is the full list of nominees in the 90th Oscars...



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 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 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 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 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 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 Animated Feature
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best Animated Short
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

Best Documentary Feature
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 - Chile
The Insult - Lebanon
Loveless - Russia
On Body and Soul - Hungary
The Square - Sweden

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

Best Film Editing
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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 Original Song
"Mighty River" - "Mudbound", Mary J. Blige
"Mystery of Love" - "Call Me By Your Name", Sufjan Stevens
"Remember Me" - "Coco", Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
"Stand Up for Something" - "Marshall", Diane Warren, Common
"This is Me" - "The Greatest Showman", Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

Best Original Score
Dunkirk - Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread - Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water - Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Carter Burwell

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Darkest Hour
Victoria and Abdul
Wonder

Best Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

Best Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul

Best Live Action Short
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O'Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us


THOUGHTS & OPINIONS:

- "The Shape of Water" leads the way with 13 Oscar nominations, which is actually terrific for Fox Searchlight, Guillermo Del Toro and team. 

- We have nine Best Picture nominees and even though I kind of anticipated Darkest Hour to be in there, Phantom Thread was a movie that snuck in there that I did not see coming. It is a very good movie. But, the thing that still bothers me is that you have one slot available. It could have been I, Tonya, The Big Sick, The Florida Projects or Logan.

-  One of the biggest surprises was in the Best Director category where Martin McDonagh was bumped out for Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread. I have no complaints, however, I think people who love the movie will declare it as a controversy as they think Three Billboards... directed "itself". I am thinking there may be a double standard here as the Golden Globes did not nominate Peele and Gerwig. This may spell trouble for the momentum of Three Billboards.

- But on a happier note, I thought the Academy would not nominate Jordan Peele, they did. I am so glad that he and also Greta Gerwig got the recognition they deserve.

- Now, I do not think that Denzel Washington should have gotten nominated for Roman J. Israel, Esq. It was a decent performance in a bad movie. I would have given it to Tom Hanks, Jake Gyllenhaal or Hugh Jackman. 

- But, there is one name omitted in the Best Actor category and that is James Franco's, who won awards for The Disaster Artist. The sexual assault/harassment allegations did hurt him in the end. 

- Woody Harrelson is one of my favorite actors in recent years and he is terrific in Three Billboards..., but it would have been nice to spread the wealth to either Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg for Call Me By Your Name. I predicted Hammer would be left off, but another name that was in the running was bumped in. 

- Besides Best Original Screenplay, why isn't The Big Sick getting recognized more? Holly Hunter not in the Best Supporting Actress category? Is the Academy nuts? I knew that Lesley Manville would sneak in but the most difficult was who I would bump. I frankly do not know.

- I am really glad that Logan got nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, it was so rich in its dialogue and storytelling. However, speaking of superhero movies, Wonder Woman got nothing which is a little bit of a surprise.

- I'm glad that Baby Driver got nominations in the editing and mixing categories.

- Blade Runner 2049 got a love in the technical categories. I'm hoping for Roger Deakins to get that first elusive win in Best Cinematography. 

- Best Score and Song categories were strong this year and I am not complaining this year except I have not listened to the Mudbound song yet. The weakest for me is the song from Marshall. Sorry. 

- Now I have to save the best for last (or the most controversial for last in my mind). The Boss Baby nominated for Best Animated Feature is baffling to me. It is a bad movie with a conventional plot. The LEGO Batman Movie and Captain Underpants were better than that generic film. Ugh. 


That's all I have to say. Because of the Winter Olympics, the Oscars will be a little later than usual. It will be televised on ABC on March 4th. 


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