13 Is The Lucky Number For The Shape Of Water In Oscar Nominations

The candle has finally been lit, today The Academy has announced it’s nominations for The Oscars 2018.  The red carpet will be getting rolled out, speeches will be written, nerves will be jangling especially if your Gullermo Del Toro. The Shape Of Water leads the nominations with the cold war fantasy gaining  13 nominations.

It won’t be an easy night for the movie with the nearest challenger coming from Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk bagging 8 nominations. Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour also 8, 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, bagged itself 6 nominations.

9 films in total with Call Me By Your Name, The Post, and The Phantom Thread the other films in the running. Great news for Jordan Peele‘s satirical horror comedy a movie that the critics loved, gaining 4 nominations. Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. Greta Gerwig‘s Lady Bird was also nominated for best film. Gerwig herself nominated for Best Director, first female director since Kathryn Bigelow in 2010.

Gary Oldman will be the frontrunner in the best actor category with Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya, and Denzil Washington. Call Me By Your Name star Timothée Chalamet rightly is the other nominee which will delight many.

As for the ladies, there is no name sticking out as a possible frontrunner with Sally Hawkins, Frances McDormand, Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan all looking equally winners.

Like any awards nominations, there will always be disappointment with Wonder Woman, The Disaster Artist and All The Money In The World were all expected to challenge. Ridley Scott‘s movie will at least have something to cheer for with Christopher Plummer in Supporting Role. As for James Franco, the recent allegations possibly could have stopped The Disaster Artist winning any nominations.

So will it be lucky 13 for The Shape Of Water or be an unlucky night for Guillermo Del Toro‘s movie? Could Martin McDonagh‘s dark dramedy or Churchill’s Biopic be the dark horses? All will be revealed when The Oscars 2018 will take place Sunday 4th March.

2018 Oscar Nominations List

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

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins – The Shape Of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saorise Ronan – Lady Bird
Meryl Streep – The Post

Best Actor

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.

Best Supporting Actress

Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Leslie Manville – Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water

Best 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

Best Original Screenplay

The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Adapted Screenplay

Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound

Best Film Editing

Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Animated Feature

The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water

Best Production Design

Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

Best 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

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling

Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

Best Sound Mixing

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

Best Sound Editing

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

Best Costume Design

Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul

Best Original Score

Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Song

Remember Me – Coco
Mystery of Love – Call Me By Your Name
This Is Me – The Greatest Showman
Mighty River – Mudbound
Stand Up For Something – Marshall

Best Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
The Square (Sweden)

Best Documentary Feature

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island

Best Documentary Short Edith & Eddie

Heaven is a Traffic Jam
Heroin(e)
Knife skills
Traffic Stop

Best Live-Action Short

DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us

Best Animated Short

Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

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