The Academy Awards is the biggest night of the year for film, and the 2018 nominations symbolise a change. While many of the nominees were expected and fall in line with past events, there were some new additions that broke with tradition.
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, a fantasy romance between a mute woman and an amphibious creature, received 13 nominations, including Best Picture. A low-budget coming-of-age indie film landed three of the biggest nominations – Lady Bird was nominated for five awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Greta Gerwig) and Best Actress (Saoirse Ronan) – and Call Me By Your Name, a film about a romantic relationship between two teenage boys was nominated for four awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Timothee Chalamet).
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And, perhaps most notably, a horror movie made the list. Jordan Peele’s hauntingly relevant film Get Out received nominations for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya) and Best Original Screenplay. The nomination success of Get Out is important not just because it is the first of its genre to be acknowledged in the three biggest award categories at the world’s most prominent film awards ceremony, but because of it’s content.
The film, which follows a young black man’s unsettling experience while visiting his white girlfriend’s parents in upstate New York, presents an important commentary on race in America today. Additionally, Jordan Peele is the fifth black director to ever be nominated and the first to land three nominations. Peele tweeted his gratitude, writing: “Right now I’m just thinking about everyone who bought a ticket and told someone else to. You did this. Thank you.”
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Read the list of 2018 Oscar nominations below:
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
LEADING ACTOR
Timothy 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.
LEADING 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
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound
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
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Leslie Manville – Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Things
ANIMATED FEATURE
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Abacus: Small Enough To Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men In Aleppo
Strong Island
ORIGINAL SONG
Might River – Mudbound
Mystery of Love – Call Me By Your Name
Remember Me – Coco
Stand Up For Something – Marshall
This Is Me – Greatest Showman
The 90th Academy Awards ceremony will be held on March 4th at the Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles.
