The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards were announced this morning by Academy President John Bailey, Andy Serkis, and Tiffany Haddish. Honestly, it’s a pretty fantastic list, without any glaring omissions or outright duds. The full list of nominees is below, and I’m going to put a star next to any nomination that I nailed in my previous article.

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*

That’s a solid list. I’m not surprised to see Darkest Hour among the nominees, and I’m pleased as hell to see Phantom Thread included. I can’t imagine getting upset at any of these movies winning.

 

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*

Way to go, Jordan Peele! I imagined Get Out nominated for screenplay and picture, but it made a surprising last-second push, as did Phantom Thread. I still see this going to del Toro or Nolan, either of whom are deserving, but Peele’s nomination – for his first feature, no less – is a huge vote of confidence in his future work.

 

Best Actor

Timothee 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.

The inclusion of Kaluuya and Washington is a wonderful surprise, because my original prediction had this being a very white category (although it’s still bananas that Tom Hanks hasn’t been nominated since Cast Away). I guess the backlash caught up with James Franco, who for a while looked poised to win this handily.

 

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water*

Margot Robbie, I, Tonya*

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird*

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*

Meryl Streep, The Post*

Just wanna say that I called this category completely. That doesn’t mean these women aren’t worthy; in fact, Robbie is the only Oscar newcomer here.

 

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project*

Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water*

Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*

Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*

Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World

It’s hard to think of a bigger “fuck you” to the creeps in Hollywood than passing over James Franco for Best Actor, then nominating Plummer in this category.

 

Best Supporting Actress

Mary J. Blige, Mudbound*

Alison Janney, I, Tonya*

Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird*

Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water*

I’m not surprised to see Manville sliding in over her costar Vicky Krieps. Manville was steely and fearless, but I still think this comes down to Metcalf vs. Janney.

 

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 Animated Feature

The Boss Baby

The Breadwinner

Coco

Ferdinand

Loving Vincent

 

Best Animated Short

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Lou

Negative Space

Revolting Rhymes

 

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049

Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour

Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk

Rachel Morrison, Mudbound

Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water

 

Best Documentary 

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 Live-Action Short

Dekalb Elementary

The Eleven O’Clock

My Nephew Emmett

The Silent Child

Watu Wote/All of Us

 

Best Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic Woman (Chile)

The Insult (Lebanon)

Loveless (Russia)

On Body and Soul (Hungary)

The Square (Sweden)

 

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 Production Design

Beauty and the Beast

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

 

Best 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

 

Best Original Song

Mary J. Blige, “Mighty River” (Mudbound)

Sufjan Stevens, “Mystery of Love” (Call Me By Your Name)

Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, “Remember Me” (Coco)

Diane Warren, Common, “Stand Up for Something” (Marshall)

Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, “This Is Me” (The Greatest Showman)

 

Best Makeup and Hair

Darkest Hour

Victoria and Abdul

Wonder

 

Best Costume Design

Beauty and the Beast

Darkest Hour

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Victoria and Abdul

 

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

 

The Oscars will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and will air on ABC on March 4.

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