2018 Oscar Nominations: Record-breaking Nominations for Diverse Films
The Oscars race is now officially on after the Academy of Arts and Sciences announced their list of nominees early this morning. There were a record-breaking 15 nominations in various categories for diverse films with African-American actors or themes. There were some surprises such as Jordan Peele’s Get Out which garnered nominations for directing, writing and Best Picture, as well as a Best Actor nomination for star Daniel Kaluuya. For Peele, he becomes only the third person to be nominated in those categories with his first film.
Dee Rees made Oscar history by being the first African-American woman nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Mudbound. She shares her nomination with Virgil Williams. Mudbound was adapted for the screen from Hillary Jordan's best-selling novel of the same name.
Denzel Washington (Best Actor in a Leading Role for Roman J. Israel, Esq.) and Octavia Spencer (Best Actress in a Supporting Role, The Shape of Water) are up for consideration again with Mary J. Blige receiving her first nomination for her performance in Mudbound. Spencer and Blige are both in the race for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Blige, along with Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson, was also nominated for Best Original Song (“Mighty River”) for Mudbound.
Kevin Wilson, Jr.'s riveting My Nephew Emmett about Emmett Till was nominated for Best Short Film (Live Action). Dekalb Elementary by Reed Van Dyke was also nominated for Best Short Film (Live Action), a riveting story inspired by a 911 call placed during a school shooting incident in a predominantly black school in Atlanta, Georgia. The personal journey of the 1992 murder of a young black man depicted in Strong Island was nominated for Best Documentary (Feature). Yance Ford directed and produced the film with Joslyn Barnes.
Mudbound and Strong Island are currently streaming on Netflix. Get Out is available on HBO.
The nomination ceremony was live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater with Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis. The Oscars ceremony will be held on March 4 on ABC and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
Here are the complete list of nominations:
BEST PICTURE
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito, Producers
DARKEST HOUR Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski, Producers
DUNKIRK Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
GET OUT Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele, Producers
LADY BIRD Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O’Neill, Producers
PHANTOM THREAD JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi, Producers
THE POST Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
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 Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito
THE BREADWINNER Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo
COCO Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
FERDINAND Carlos Saldanha
LOVING VINCENT Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart
CINEMATOGRAPHY
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Roger A. Deakins
DARKEST HOUR Bruno Delbonnel
DUNKIRK Hoyte van Hoytema
MUDBOUND Rachel Morrison
THE SHAPE OF WATER Dan Laustsen
COSTUME DESIGN
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Jacqueline Durran
DARKEST HOUR Jacqueline Durran
PHANTOM THREAD Mark Bridges
THE SHAPE OF WATER Luis Sequeira
VICTORIA & ABDUL Consolata Boyle
DIRECTING
DUNKIRK Christopher Nolan
GET OUT Jordan Peele
LADY BIRD Greta Gerwig
PHANTOM THREAD
Paul Thomas Anderson
THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman
FACES PLACES Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda
ICARUS Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
LAST MEN IN ALEPPO Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen
STRONG ISLAND Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
EDITH+EDDIE Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright
HEAVEN IS A TRAFFIC JAM ON THE 405 Frank Stiefel
HEROIN(E) Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon
KNIFE SKILLS Thomas Lennon
TRAFFIC STOP Kate Davis and David Heilbroner
FILM EDITING
BABY DRIVER Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
DUNKIRK Lee Smith
I, TONYA Tatiana S. Riegel
THE SHAPE OF WATER Sidney Wolinsky
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Jon Gregory
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A FANTASTIC WOMAN Chile
THE INSULT Lebanon
LOVELESS Russia
ON BODY AND SOUL Hungary
THE SQUARE Sweden
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
DARKEST HOUR Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
VICTORIA & ABDUL Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
WONDER Arjen Tuiten
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
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
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
MIGHTY RIVER from Mudbound; Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson
MYSTERY OF LOVE from Call Me by Your Name; Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens
REMEMBER ME from Coco; Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
STAND UP FOR SOMETHING from Marshall; Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren
THIS IS ME from The Greatest Showman; Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola
DARKEST HOUR Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
DUNKIRK Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
THE SHAPE OF WATER Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
DEAR BASKETBALL Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant
GARDEN PARTY Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon
LOU Dave Mullins and Dana Murray
NEGATIVE SPACE Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata
REVOLTING RHYMES Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
DEKALB ELEMENTARY Reed Van Dyk
THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK Derin Seale and Josh Lawson
MY NEPHEW EMMETT Kevin Wilson, Jr.
THE SILENT CHILD Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
WATU WOTE/ALL OF US Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen
SOUND EDITING
BABY DRIVER Julian Slater
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Mark Mangini and Theo Green
DUNKIRK Richard King and Alex Gibson
THE SHAPE OF WATER Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce
SOUND MIXING
BABY DRIVER Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
DUNKIRK Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo
THE SHAPE OF WATER Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson
VISUAL EFFECTS
BLADE RUNNER 2049 John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
KONG: SKULL ISLAND Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Screenplay by James Ivory
THE DISASTER ARTIST Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
LOGAN Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
MOLLY’S GAME Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
MUDBOUND Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
THE BIG SICK
Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
GET OUT Written by Jordan Peele
LADY BIRD Written by Greta Gerwig
THE SHAPE OF WATER Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Written by Martin McDonagh
