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From Meryl Streep to Dunkirk: All about Oscar nominations 2018
23 Jan 2018
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.
It is a mixed, fiercely talented lot
Best actor
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
Meryl Streep might just win her fourth Oscar this year
Best actress
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
McDonagh not nominated despite Three Billboards making waves
Best director
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
With nine nominations, it's going to be a sweet win
Best picture
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.
Women are breaking barriers, setting new milestones at Oscars too
Flying high
*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.
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