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La La Land set a new feat with 14 Oscar nominations 2017

Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced on January 23, 2018 by Academy president John Bailey along with actress Tiffany Haddish and actor Andy Serkis.

Actress Tiffany Haddish and actor Andy Serkis.

The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro surprised everyone by leading the list with 13 nominations, followed by Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri directed by Martin McDonagh with 9 nominations and Dunkirk with 8 nominations.

The following is the list of nominations for this year’s 24 Oscar categories:

Best Film

Call Me by Your Name

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 Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis of Phantom Thread

Timothée Chalamet of Call Me by Your Name

Daniel Day-Lewis of Phantom Thread

Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya

Darkest Hour’s Gary Oldman

Denzel Washington by Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Best Leading Actress

Sally Hawkins of The Shape of Water

Sally Hawkins of The Shape of Water

Frances McDormand of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie, of I, Tonya

Lady Bird’s Saoirse Ronan

Meryl Streep of The Post

Best supporting actor

Willem Dafoe of The Florida Project

Willem Dafoe of The Florida Project

Woody Harrelson of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Richard Jenkins of The Shape of Water

Christopher Plummer of All the Money in the World

Sam Rockwell of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best supporting actress

Mary J. Blige of Mudbound

Mary J. Blige of Mudbound

Allison Janney of I, Tonya

Phantom Thread’s Lesley Manville

Lady Bird’s Laurie Metcalf

Octavia Spencer of The Shape of Water

Best director

Dunkirk

Dunkirk – Christopher Nolan

Get Out – Jordan Peele

Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig

Phantom Thread – Paul Thomas Anderson

The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro

Best animated movies

The Boss Baby

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 Welchman

Best short animated film

Dear Basketball

Dear Basketball – Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant

Garden Party – Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon

Lou – Dave Mullins, Dana Murray

Negative Space – Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata

Revolting Rhymes – Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer

Best adapted screenplay

The Disaster Artist

Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory

The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber

Logan – Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green

Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin

Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

Best Original Screenplay

The Big Sick

The Big Sick – Emily V. Gordon and 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 McDonagh

Best cinematography

Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins

Darkest Hour – Bruno Delbonnel

Dunkirk – Hoyte van Hoytema

Mudbound – Rachel Morrison

The Shape of Water – Dan Laustsen

Best documentary

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail – Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman

Faces Places – JR, Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda

Icarus – Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan

Last Men in Aleppo – Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Soren Steen Jepersen

Strong Island – Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes

Best short documentary

Edith+Eddie – Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 – Frank Stiefel

Heroin(e) – Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon

Knife Skills – Thomas Lennon

Traffic Stop – Kate Davis, David Heilbroner

Best short film:

DeKalb Elementary – Reed Van Dyk

The Eleven O’Clock – Derin Seale, Josh Lawson

My Nephew Emmett – Kevin Wilson, Jr.

The Silent Child – Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton

Watu Wote/All of Us – Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen

Best foreign film:

A Fantastic Woman (Chile)

The Insult (Lebanon)

Loveless (Russia)

On Body and Soul (Hungary)

The Square (Sweden)

Best Film Editing:

Baby Driver, Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss

Dunkirk, Lee Smith

I, Tonya, Tatiana S. Riegel

The Shape of Water, Sidney Wolinsky

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Jon Gregory

Best Sound Editing:

Baby Driver, Julian Slater

Blade Runner 2049, Mark Mangini, Theo Green

Dunkirk, Alex Gibson, Richard King

The Shape of Water, Nathan Robitaille

Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ren Klyce, Matthew Wood

Best sound:

Baby Driver, Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin

Blade Runner 2049, Mac Ruth, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hephill

Dunkirk, Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo

The Shape of Water, Glen Gauthier, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern

Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Stuart Wilson, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick

Best Production Design:

Beauty and the Beast – Sarah Greenwood;

Blade Runner 2049 – Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola

Darkest Hour – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

Dunkirk – Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis

The Shape of Water – Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau

Best background music:

Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer

Phantom Thread, Jonny Greenwood

The Shape of Water, Alexandre Desplat

Star Wars: The Last Jedi, John Williams

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Carter Burwell

Best soundtrack song:

Mighty River in Mudbound, Mary J. Blige

Mystery of Love in Call Me by Your Name, Sufjan Stevens

Remember Me in Coco, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez

Stand Up for Something in Marshall, Diane Warren, Common

This Is Me in The Greatest Showman, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

Best Makeup and Hairstyle:

Darkest Hour – Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick

Victoria and Abdul – Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard

Wonder – Arjen Tuiten

Best costume design:

Beauty and the Beast – Jacqueline Durran

Darkest Hour – Jacqueline Durran

Phantom Thread – Mark Bridges

The Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira

Victoria and Abdul – Consolata Boyle

Best visual effects:

Blade Runner 2049 – John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Kong: Skull Island – Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Mike Meinardus

Star Wars: The Last Jedi –  Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Chris Corbould, Neal Scanlan

War for the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Joel Whist

The 90th Academy Awards 2018 will take place on March 4 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California (USA) and will be broadcast live on ABC television channel.