I think this year could well be a struggle to watch all of the films in time for the Oscar ceremony, here we have the films nomiated this year!

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 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
Best Actor
Timothee 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
Lesley 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 Director
Dunkirk – Christopher Nolan
Get Out – Jordan Peele
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
Phantom Thread – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Shape of Water – Guillermo Del Toro
Best 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
Best 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
Best foreign language film
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)
Best original song
Mighty River, Mudbound (Mary J Blige)
The Mystery of Love, Call Me By Your Name (Sufjan Stevens)
Remember Me, Coco (Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez)
Stand Up for Something, Marshall (Common & Diane Warren, sung by Andra Day)
This Is Me, The Greatest Showman (Benji Pasek & Justin Paul)
Best animated feature
Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
Best documentary feature
Abacus
Faces 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 original score
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best cinematography
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water
Best costume design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul
Best make-up and hairstyling
Darkest Hour
Victoria and Abdul
Wonder
Best sound editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Best sound mixing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Best animated short
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
Best live action short
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmet
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us
Best production design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Best visual effects
Blade Runner 2049
Guardian of the Galaxy Vol 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for Planet of the Apes
Best film editing
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Interesting list as always…many will wonder if James Franco was left off because of recent allegations against him. And bravo to Greta Gerwig!
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I shared a blog post looking at some interesting nominations, like two for Greta Gerwig including Best Director, Mary J. Blige was double nominated as well, for Best Supporting Actress as well as Best Original Song, Jordan Peele was nominated three times, and Christopher Plummer is oldest Oscar nominee of all time for a film he was added two a month before release! – https://johnrieber.com/2018/01/23/oscar-2017-the-shape-of-water-gets-13-nominations-get-out-scores-mary-j-blige-gets-two-nominations-greta-gerwig-too-2017-oscar-nominations-are-here-oldest-nomination-as-well/
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When you look at it like that its pretty crazy!
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In an alternate universe where BR2049 actually made some money, I’m sure Villeneuve would have gotten a nom. Which says everything about Oscar, unfortunately. That Christopher Plummer nomination is some kind of joke. Is it some kind of political statement against Kevin Spacey? Give me a break.
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Yeah the Plummer one does seem to be because of the short notice etc. I personally thought he was brilliant in that film but could have been so different.
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No Wonder Woman! 😦 Not even a nod. I was a little disappointed about that. Other than that I think I wasn’t surprised by much (except maybe Boss Baby haha).
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I cannot believe Boss Baby is an Oscar nominated film it was truly awful! I know crazy for Wonder Woman when Suicide Squad picked up an Oscar!
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It’s surely Gary Oldman’s turn for Best Actor this time!!
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It is certainly looking that way! I was pretty surprised Tom Hanks didn’t get nominated for The Post.
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I’ll be doing my predictions in the upcoming weeks!
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I’ll look out for them. I need to try and watch all of the Best Pictures at least.
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