90th Academy Awards (Oscars)

So, the nominations this year are these:

Best picture:

• “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
• “The Post”
• “The Shape of Water”
• “Dunkirk”
• “Lady Bird”
• “Get Out”
• “Call Me By Your Name”
• “Phantom Thread”
• “Darkest Hour”

Best actress in a leading role:

• Frances Mc Dormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
• Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
• Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”
• Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
• Meryl Streep, “The Post”

Best actor in a leading role:

• Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
• Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name”
• Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”
• Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
• Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Best director:

• Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”
• Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”
• Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
• Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
• Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom Thread”

Best actress in a supporting role:

• Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
• Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
• Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”
• Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”
• Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread”

Best actor in a supporting role:

• Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
• Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
• Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”
• Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”
• Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Best animated feature:

• “Coco”
• “Loving Vincent”
• “The Breadwinner”
• “Ferdinand”
• “Boss Baby”

Best original song:

• “Remember Me,” “Coco”
• “Mighty River,” “Mudbound”
• “This Is Me,” “The Greatest Showman”
• “Mystery of Love,” “Call Me By Your Name”
• “Stand Up for Something,” “Marshall”

Best adapted screenplay:

• “Call Me By Your Name,” James Ivory
• “Mudbound,” Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
• “Molly’s Game,” Aaron Sorkin
• “The Disaster Artist,” Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
• “Logan,” Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green

Best original screenplay:

• “Get Out,” Jordan Peele
• “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig
• “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Martin Mc Donagh
• “The Shape of Water,” Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
• “The Big Sick,” Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani

Best visual effects:

• “War for the Planet of the Apes,” Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist
• “Blade Runner 2049,” John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
• “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
• “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
• “Kong: Skull Island,” Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus

Best Foreign Language Film

• "A Fantastic Woman" (Chile) in Spanish – Directed by Sebastián Lelio
• "The Insult" (Lebanon) in Arabic – Directed by Ziad Doueiri
• "Loveless" (Russia) in Russian – Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
• "On Body and Soul" (Hungary) in Hungarian – Directed by Ildikó Enyedi
• "The Square" (Sweden) in Swedish – Directed by Ruben Östlund

Best Documentary – Feature

• "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail" – Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman
• "Faces Places" – Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda
• "Icarus" – Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
• "Last Men in Aleppo" – Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen
• "Strong Island" – Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes

Best Documentary – Short Subject

• "Edith+Eddie" – Laura Chekoway and Thomas Lee Wright
• "Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405" – Frank Stiefel
• "Heroin(e)" – Elaine Mc Million Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon
• "Knife Skills" – Thomas Lennon
• "Traffic Stop" – Kate Davis and David Heilbroner

Best Live Action Short Film

• "De Kalb Elementary" – Reed Van Dyk
• "The Eleven O'Clock" – Derin Seale and Josh Lawson
• "My Nephew Emmett" – Kevin Wilson, Jr.
• "The Silent Child" – Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
• "Watu Wote/All of Us" – Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen

Best Animated Short Film

• "Dear Basketball" – Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant
• "Garden Party" – Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon
• "Lou" – Dave Mullins and Dana Murray
• "Negative Space" – Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata
• "Revolting Rhymes" – Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer

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 Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing have the exact same movies nominated, so I'll just mark the editing team with an (E) and the mixing team with an (M)

• "Baby Driver – Julian Slater (E) - Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis (M)
• "Blade Runner 2049 – Mark Mangini and Theo Green (E) - Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth (M)
• "Dunkirk – Richard King and Alex Gibson (E) - Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo (M)
• "The Shape of Water – Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira (E) - Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier (M)
• "Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce (E) - David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson (M)

Best Production Design

• "Beauty and the Beast" – Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
• "Blade Runner 2049" – Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola
• "Darkest Hour" – Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
• "Dunkirk" – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
• "The Shape of Water" – Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin

Best Cinematography

• "Blade Runner 2049" – Roger Deakins
• "Darkest Hour" – Bruno Delbonnel
• "Dunkirk" – Hoyte van Hoytema
• "Mudbound" – Rachel Morrison
• "The Shape of Water" – Dan Laustsen

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• "Darkest Hour" – Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
• "Victoria & Abdul" – Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
• "Wonder" – Arjen Tuiten

Best Costume Design

• "Beauty and the Beast" – Jacqueline Durran
• "Darkest Hour" – Jacqueline Durran
• "Phantom Thread" – Mark Bridges
• "The Shape of Water" – Luis Sequeira
• "Victoria & Abdul" – Consolata Boyle

Best Film Editing

• "Baby Driver" – Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
• "Dunkirk" – Lee Smith
• "I, Tonya" – Tatiana S. Riegel
• "The Shape of Water" – Sidney Wolinsky
• "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" – Jon Gregory

I'm not making any predictions because I haven't seen most of these year's nominees, but what do you guys think?

edited 4th Mar '18 8:46:19 PM by IFwanderer

Get Out getting some love is good to see.

The Boss Baby is in the running for best animated?

... Jesus, that's sad.

edited 23rd Jan '18 6:39:54 AM by Larkmarn

I guess this will be between Three Billboards and The Shape of Water.

I also bet on Margo Robbie winning for I, Tonya - not because I have actually seen her performance, just based on the buzz.

Coco is a lock in for Animated movies...it was a terrible year (otherwise Boss Baby of all movies wouldn't have scored a nomination...nor would have Ferdinand. I mean....really?). With no Laika, Disney Animation Studios or Aardman release, Coco is pretty much the only movie by a major studio which was any good.

And I am kind of interested in best visual effects....no idea who will win there. As I said elsewhere, there seems to be always at least one Marvel movie on the list, but they never seem to actually win.

This has been the worst year for animation since the year Frozen won...and that one had at least The Wind Rises on the nomination list.

edited 23rd Jan '18 6:43:41 AM by Swanpride

Coco will probably end up winning the best animated award,well that or Loving Vincent

, Ummmm, that's a category list with 3 strong films and one decent one, The Boss Baby can't be that terrible.

Loving Vincent is certainly an impressive achievement and if the category were just about the animation itself it would certainly win just based on the effort which went into the movie. But it lacks on a narrative level, hence it has an outside chance at best.

Well, it is not Pixels, but it is still rated rotten. Just based on the critical reaction, Captain Underpants was actually the way better received movie. But then, it was also not particularly ambitious.

edited 23rd Jan '18 7:12:49 AM by Swanpride

Has anyone seen The Breadwinner, though? It's Cartoon Saloon's third Animated Feature nomination.

Now that the list is completed as of post... Wow. Not even one nomination for Wonder Wonan. Like I knew it wasn’t going to get nominated for Best picture and all but... not even one. Well at least Logan was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

edited 23rd Jan '18 7:39:07 AM by 123tbones

Realistically, an animated film that isn't from a major studio/isn't well publicized is never going to win, because a lot of the voters don't even both watching most of the films in the category. Which is bullshit, but at least the nominations usually introduce me to some films I wouldn't have seen otherwise.

Wow, I did not make it to a lot of movies in the last year, only seen two of these (Get Out and Shape of Water). Well, and some of the films in the technical categories because everyone saw those.

edited 23rd Jan '18 7:41:46 AM by Pseudopartition

Hellz yeah Get Out!

No...Sadly I haven't been able to see any of their movies in theatres. I always try to figure out when they are shown in my country without any success. So either they aren't shown, or they are really bad communicating their release dates.

They won the Annies for best independent animated picture and based on their two previous movies, the Breadwinner is certainly worth the watch. But it is too niche to have a change of winning.

Good. Far from disputing the cultural meaning of Wonder Woman, but it is simply not good enough to get nominated in any of those categories.

edited 23rd Jan '18 8:03:31 AM by Swanpride

Yeah, some people migh hear the title The Breadwinner and think Nickelodeon’s Breadwinners that was mostly twerking ducks.

I'm just happy Breadwinners and Loving Vincint got nominated since animation fans worried that the rule changes for nominating Best Animated Film would lock indie films out.

As for live action, I REALLY want to watch Shape of Water now.

The rules changes DID lock indie films out. Otherwise Boss Baby and Ferdinand would have never scored a nomination over some other options. Breadwinner most likely made it because it won at the annies, and Loving Vincent most likely made it because the fuss which was made around the way it was created.

Re: Wonder Woman, yeah I never thought it honestly deserved the award or even a nom.No superhero movie since maybe the dark knight has. I did think they might nominate it as the “fun”nominee that has no shot in hell but gets the nom to stave off accusations that they’re a bunch of fuddy duddies who only like misery porn (eg Arrival, Toy Story three, Avatar, ) but I guess between Get Out And Shape of Water (both I think deserving of the nomination at least) that slot was full.

What I am surprised by is the lack of Blade Runner which I put in the same category as those two. In fact I’m honestly pretty upset Darkest Hour got a nom over it. It’s easily the weakest one and is exactly the type of historical Oscar bait that gets derided as well...Oscar Bait. It’s not even as good as The King’s Speech. Heck it’s not even half as good as the other World War 2 movie up there.

Oh and why the fuck was Lego Batman snubbed ? Strictly I don’t think it deserves it but if you’re only going to bother considering mainstream English language movies that were a big hit with the kiddies surely this one should have kept out before fucking Boss Baby !

Only thing here that really frustrates me.

edited 23rd Jan '18 8:55:12 AM by thatindiantroper

I wouldn’t put Arrival in that spot because it is a lot more ambitious. And I believe those “fun” picks were the result of the increase in nominations for Best Picture.

I’m happy Mudbound got something. I know there was drama over it being on Netflix.

Yeah I know. I just think now that there’s more slots open they’re more open to showing some respect to genre films but not to he point where they’re real contenders.

Paul Thomas Anderson, never made a bad movie.

No Edgar Wright. The dude went through the effort of having every action in his film sync up to the music. That has to be worth something

I thought you said Paul W.S. Anderson at first. You can understand my... reaction.

You mean for Baby Driver? I think that who the second-billed actor was may have had something to do with it getting shut out...

The Boss Baby and Ferdinand are jokes, clearly… but that's a consequence of the Oscars being primarily an award ceremony for American movies, or English-speaking ones (despite being treated as a global award). But even in the English-speaking world alone, I have a hard time believing that there was such a drought of good animated features.

Now it's a shame that A Silent Voice is a 2016 movie.

edit: Also… James McAvoy doesn't even get a nomination for Split? Come on... The guy literally played 7 or 8 characters in this, and all fantastically…

edited 23rd Jan '18 11:53:01 AM by Lyendith

BTW, the Academy Award index does not show up on the work page for Get Out!.