By Travis Johnson
Guillermo del Toro’s horror-tinged love story The Shape of Water has racked up an impressive 13 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director – the most nominations in a year with an unusually high number of nominations for genre films in the prestige categories.
The other notable genre title is Jordan Peele’s low-budget, highly acclaimed horror film, Get Out, with showings in Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay. The grim superhero coda Logan picked up a Best Adapted Screenplay nod, leaving the likes of The Last Jedi and Blade Runner 2049 to scrap it out in the technical categories (surely, though, this is cinematographer Roger Deakins’ year).
Peele isn’t the only debut director to get a nomination, with Greta Gerwig picking one up for the sublime Lady Bird – the only female director to do so. Notably, both Wonder Woman and Detroit scored zero nominations this year, with Patty Jenkins’ superhero film noticeably absent even from the tech categories.
Meanwhile, the other strong contender is Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri, whose clutch of seven nominations includes acting nods for Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell.
It’s a somewhat quiet year for Australian talent, too, although Margot Robbie’s Best Actress nom for I, Tonya is welcome if expected, and it’s great to see Derin Seale and Josh Lawson’s The Eleven O’Clock up for Best Short. Australia also notched up two nominations in Editing: Paul Machliss for Baby Driver and Lee Smith for Dunkirk.
And the nominees are…
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
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.
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
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
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
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
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water
COSTUME DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul
DIRECTING
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Edith+Eddie
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffi c Stop
FILM EDITING
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder
ORIGINAL SCORE
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
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 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
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us
SOUND EDITING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
SOUND MIXING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
