From Meryl Streep to Dunkirk: All about Oscar nominations 2018
What's the story
The nominations for 90th Academy Awards have been announced. Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is leading with 13 nominations. Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk and Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri follow next with eight and seven nominations respectively. Priyanka Chopra will be one of the announcers and Meryl Streep gets yet another (her 21st) Oscar nomination for The Post. Here's more.
Best actor
It is a mixed, fiercely talented lot
The best actor category this year is as diverse as it can get at Oscars. It includes two debutants, two Academy Award veterans, one Brit and one black man. One of them is sure to get the coveted trophy: 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 actress
Meryl Streep might just win her fourth Oscar this year
The nominations for best actress are predictable with women from most Oscar-worthy films of 2017 finding a place. Though it is a tough fight, but legendary Meryl Streep might just take home her fourth Academy Award for The Post. Other nominees are: Sally Hawkins, The Shape Of Water Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Margot Robbie, I, Tonya Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Best director
McDonagh not nominated despite Three Billboards making waves
Though Three Billboards has been nominated in seven categories, McDonagh has curiously been left out of the best director bracket. These are the ones who have been picked: Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk Jordan Peele, Get Out Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
Best picture
With nine nominations, it's going to be a sweet win
The most crowded of the 24 categories, it includes all the unmissable films of 2017. 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 The award ceremony would be held on March 4. Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted Oscars 2017, will helm Hollywood's biggest event again this year.
Flying high
Women are breaking barriers, setting new milestones at Oscars too
*Greta Gerwig has become the fifth woman to be nominated for best director. *Mary J Blige is the first person ever to find nominations in both acting and music categories in the same year. *Jacqueline Durran has been nominated twice in the best costume design category for Beauty and the Beast and Darkest Hour. *Rachel Morrison is the first female cinematographer to be nominated.