Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced this morning, and here's what stood out to me.
Good news: Oscar doesn't seem #sowhite this year. Jordan Peele's racial horror movie Get Out was nominated for best picture. Peele picked up two nods, for directing and screenwriting. And Daniel Kaluuya was nominated for best actor.
Mudbound, based on a novel by Dallas' Hillary Jordan, matched Get Out's four nominations. Among its honorees was best supporting actress nominee Mary J. Blige, who joined The Shape of Water's Octavia Spencer in that category.
Denzel Washington, little surprise, scored a best-actor nod for Roman J. Israel, Esq.
And The Shape of Water, a jewel of a film from Mexico's Guillermo del Toro, led all movies with thirteen nominations.
Greta Gerwig cracked the directors' boys club with her nomination for Lady Bird. She was also nominated for best original screenplay. The coming-of-age comedy picked up five nominations overall.
Of the nine Best Picture nominees, two — Dunkirk and Darkest Hour — deal with the World War II rescue mission at Dunkirk. It's a popular spot for this year's Oscars.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri pits two supporting actor nominees against each other. Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson, who play police force colleagues, were among the film's seven nominees.
Here is the complete list of nominees below, courtesy of Variety. Jimmy Kimmel will host this year's Academy Awards on March 4 on ABC.
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"Lead 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."Lead 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"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"Supporting Actress:
Mary J. Blige, "Mudbound"
Allison Janney, "I, Tonya" Lesley Manville, "Phantom Thread" Laurie Metcalf, "Lady Bird" Octavia Spencer, "The Shape of Water"Director:
"Get Out," Jordan Peele "Lady Bird," Greta Gerwig "Phantom Thread," Paul Thomas Anderson "The Shape of Water," Guillermo del ToroAnimated Feature:
"The Boss Baby," Tom McGrath, Ramsey Ann Naito
"The Breadwinner," Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo "Coco," Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson "Ferdinand," Carlos Saldanha "Loving Vincent," Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Sean Bobbitt, Ivan Mactaggart, Hugh WelchmanAdapted Screenplay:
"Call Me by Your Name," James Ivory
"The Disaster Artist," Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber "Logan," Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green "Molly's Game," Aaron Sorkin "Mudbound," Virgil Williams and Dee ReesOriginal 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 McDonaghCinematography:
"Blade Runner 2049," Roger Deakins
"Darkest Hour," Bruno Delbonnel "Dunkirk," Hoyte van Hoytema "Mudbound," Rachel Morrison "The Shape of Water," Dan Laustsen