Shape of Oscars
The 2018 Oscar nominations have been announced. Here at GMC, we wanted to list the nominees, pick the favorites to win , and call out some snubbing. Keep in mind: These are just our own opinions.
(Not every category will be noted.)
BEST PICTURE
FAVORITE TO WIN: Call Me By Your Name
SNUBBED: Wonder Women, The Big Sick, Baby Driver
NOMINATIONS:
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 DIRECTING
FAVORITE TO WIN: Jordan Peele--Get Out
SNUBBED: Edgar Wright, Baby Driver - Ridley Scott, All the money In the world - Denis Villeneuve, Bladerunner 2049
NOMINATIONS:
Christopher Nolan — Dunkirk Jordan Peele — Get Out Greta Gerwig — Lady Bird Paul Thomas Anderson — Phantom Thread Guillermo del Toro — The Shape of Water ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY The Big Sick — Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani Get Out — Jordan Peele Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
FAVORITE TO WIN: Logan — Scott Frank, James Mangold, Michael Green
NOMINATIONS:
Call Me By Your Name — James Ivory The Disaster Artist — Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber Logan — Scott Frank, James Mangold, Michael Green Molly’s Game — Aaron Sorkin Mudbound — Virgil Williams, Dee Rees ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
FAVORITE TO WIN: Gary Oldman — Darkest Hour
NOMINATIONS:
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. ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
FAVORITE TO WIN: Sally Hawkins — The Shape of Water
SNUBBED: Holly Hunter — The Big Sick
NOMINATIONS:
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 ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
FAVORITE TO WIN: Woody Harrelson — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
NOMINATIONS:
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 SUPPORTING ROLE
FAVORITE TO WIN: Allison Janney — I, Tonya
NOMINATIONS:
Mary J. Blige — Mudbound Allison Janney — I, Tonya Lesley Manville — Phantom Thread Laurie Metcalf — Lady Bird Octavia Spencer — The Shape of Water DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
NOMINATIONS:
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail — Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman Faces Places — Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda Icarus — Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan Last Men in Aleppo — Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Søren Steen Jespersen Strong Island — Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
Edith + Eddie — Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 — Frank Stiefel Heroin(e) — Elaine McMilion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon Knife Skills — Thomas Lennon Traffic Stop — Kate Davis, David Heilbroner LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
NOMINATIONS:
DeKalb Elementary — Reed Van Dyk The Eleven O’Clock — Derin Seale, Josh Lawson My Nephew Emmett — Kevin Wilson Jr. The Silent Child — Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton Watu Wote / All of Us — Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
FAVORITE TO WIN: Coco — Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson
NOMINATIONS:
The Boss Baby — Tom McGrath, Ramsey Naito The Breadwinner — Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo Coco — Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson Ferdinand — Carlos Saldanha Loving Vincent — Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Ivan Mactaggart ANIMATED SHORT FILM
FAVORITE TO WIN: Dear Basketball — Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant
NOMINATIONS:
Dear Basketball — Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant Garden Party — Victor Claire, Gabriel Grapperon Lou — Dave Mullins, Dana Murray Negative Space — Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata Revolting Rhymes — Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
NOMINATIONS:
A Fantastic Woman — Sebastián Lelio, Chile The Insult — Ziad Doueiri, Lebanon Loveless — Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia On Body and Soul — Ildikó Enyedi, Hungary The Square — Ruben Östlund, Sweden CINEMATOGRAPHY
FAVORITE TO WIN: Mudbound — Rachel Morrison
SNUBBED: Bill Pope — Baby Driver
NOMINATIONS:
Blade Runner 2049 — Roger A. Deakins Darkest Hour — Bruno Delbonnel Dunkirk — Hoyte van Hoytema Mudbound — Rachel Morrison The Shape of Water — Dan Laustsen PRODUCTION DESIGN
NOMINATIONS:
Beauty and the Beast — Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer Blade Runner 2049 — Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola Darkest Hour - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer Dunkirk — Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis The Shape of Water — Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, Jeff Melvin VISUAL EFFECTS
FAVORITE TO WIN: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
NOMINATIONS:
Blade Runner 2049 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Kong: Skull Island Star Wars: The Last Jedi War for the Planet of the Apes FILM EDITING
FAVORITE TO WIN: Baby Driver — Paul Machliss, Jonathan Amos
NOMINATIONS:
Baby Driver — Paul Machliss, Jonathan Amos Dunkirk — Lee Smith I, Tonya — Tatiana S. Riegel The Shape of Water — Sidney Wolinsky Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Jon Gregory COSTUME DESIGN
NOMINATIONS:
Beauty and the Beast — Jacqueline Durran Darkest Hour — Jacqueline Durran Phantom Thread — Mark Bridges The Shape of Water — Luis Sequeira Victoria & Abdul — Consolata Boyle MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING Darkest Hour — Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick Victoria & Abdul — Daniel Phillips, Lou Sheppard Wonder — Arden Tuiten ORIGINAL SCORE
FAVORITE TO WIN: Dunkirk — Hans Zimmer
NOMINATIONS:
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 ORIGINAL SONG
NOMINATIONS:
“Mighty River” — Mudbound, Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, Taura Stinson “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, Lonnie R. Lynn “This is Me” — The Greatest Showman, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul SOUND EDITING
NOMINATIONS:
Baby Driver — Julian Slater Blade Runner 2049 — Mark Mangini, Theo Green Dunkirk — Richard King, Alex Gibson The Shape of Water — Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Matthew Wood, Ren Klyce SOUND MIXING
NOMINATIONS:
Baby Driver — Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis Blade Runner 2049 — Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Mac Ruth Dunkirk — Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo The Shape of Water — Christian Cooke, Bran Zoern, Glen Gauthier Star Wars: The Last Jedi — David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Stuart Wilson