The Fortnightly Flag #15 Extra Oscar Nominations

The Fortnightly Flag
#15 Extra
23.01.2018

OSCAR NOMINATIONS

The 90th Oscar Nominations were announced today ready for the presentation of the Academy Awards on Sunday 4th March which will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

This year the Academy was allowed to nominate up to ten films and have nominated nine giving a much wider range of genres than in previous years.

Best films: 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 Actress: Sally Hawkins, Frances McDormand; Margot Robbie; Saoirse Ronan; Meryl Streep

Leading Actor: Timothee Chalamet; Daniel Day-Lewis; Daniel Kaluuya; Gary Oldman; Denzel Washington

Original Screenplay: The Big Sick(Emily V Gordon & Kumail Nanjani); Get Out (Jordan Peele); Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig); The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor - story by Guillermo del Toro); Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)

Adapted Screenplay: Call me by your name (James Ivory); The Disaster Artist (Scott Neustadter & Michael H Weber); Logan (Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green - story by James Mangold); Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin); Mudbound(Virgil Williams and Dee Rees)

Best animated feature: The Boss Baby; The Breadwinner; Coco; Ferdinand; Loving Vincent

Original Song: Mighty River; Mystery of Love; Remember me; Stand up for something; This is me

Best documentary feature: Abacus; Faces and 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 foreign language film : A fantastic woman(Chile); The Insult (Lebanon); Loveless (Russia); On body and soul (Hungary); The Square (Sweden)

Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe; Woody Harrelson; Richard Jenkins; Christopher Plummer; Sam Rockwell

Best Supporting Actress: Mary J Blige; Allison Janney; Lesley Manville; Laurie Metcalf; Octavia Spencer

Make-up and Hairstyling: Darkest Hour; Victoria and Abdul; Wonder

Film-Editing: Baby Driver; Dunkirk; I, Tonya; The Shape of Water; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Visual Effect: Blade Runner 2049; Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2; Kong: Skull Island; Star Wars: The Last Jedi; War for the Planet of the Apes

Original Score: Dunkirk ; Phantom Thread; The Shape of Water; Star wars: The Last Jedi; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Live Action Short Film: Diklab Elementary; The 11 o'clock; My nephew Emmet; The Silent Child; WATU/WATE All of us

Best Animation Short Film: Dear Basketball; Garden Party; Lou; Negative Space; Revolting Rhymes

Sound Mixing: Blade Runner 2049; Baby Driver; Dunkirk; The Shape of Water; Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Sound Editing: Baby Driver; Blade Runner 2049; Dunkirk; The Shape of Water; Star Wars:The Last Jedi

Costume Design: Beauty and the Beast; Darkest Hour; Phantom Thread; The Shape of Water; Victoria and Abdul

Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049; Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; Mudbound; The Shape of Water

Production Design: Beauty and the Beast; Blade Runner 2049; Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; The Shape of Water