Tuesday 23 January 2018

Oscars 2018: Nominations Reaction


The 2018 Oscar nominations have finally been announced. There are a few surpises but most of them are as predictable as they can get, like Meryl Streep getting nominated for the millionth time. I mean, who didn't see that coming?!

Anyway, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is leading with 13 nominations, followed by Martin McDonagh's Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri with ONLY 9 and Dunkirk with ONLY 7.

Here's the full list and my reactions:

Best Picture:
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkrik
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

WHY ON EARTH WAS LOGAN SNUBBED?! Also, what are Darkest Hour and Call Me By Your Name doing here? At least they had the decency to not nominate All the Money in the World. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is going to win anyway. I HOPE.

Best Leading 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.

There's no Franco, of course. Other than that, this category is almost a joke. Chalamet got nominated for fucking a peach and Washington apparently didn't give a Oscar worthy performance either. 

Best Leading Actress:
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margo Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post

Well, I ain't gonna add anything else about Streep. I really hope Robbie wins because she gave a hell of a performance in that movie. Not only my favourite of the year but an all-time favourites for me. McDormand is probably going to win though. But she was great so I'm okay with it.

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

HELL YEAH ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE SAM ROCKWELL!!! Dafoe getting nominated for doing nothing. Okay. And Idris Elba was snubbed. 

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

I haven't seen Mudbound and Phantom Thread yet, but the others are graet. I really hope Allison Janney wins. She kills it as Tonya's mother. 

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

WHERE IS MARTIN MCDONAGH? I guess I'll root for Nolan, the guy really deserves it. P.S. Gerwig stans are finally happy.

Best Animated Fearture:
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

I'm one of the few people who enjoyed The Boss Baby, but giving it a nomination? Please tell me it's a joke. What are those people even thinking! Coco is going to win anyway, still I can't stomach The Boss Baby being called Academy Nominee. 

Best Animated Short:
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

I haven't seen any of these but I'm rooting for Dear Basketball because it was written by Kobe Bryant. 

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly's Game
Mudbound

YES to Logan being the first comic book movie getting a Oscar nomination for best screenplay. 

Best Original Screenplay:
The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missuori

This is alright.

Best Cinematography:
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water

What is Darkest Hour doing here lol

Best Documentary Feature:
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island

Best Documentary Short Subject:
Edith+Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop

Best Live Action Short Film:
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O'Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote//All of Us

Best Foreign Language Film:
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)

Lol In the Fade won the Golden Glode and was snubbed here

Best Film Editing:
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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

I'm still not sure what's the difference between sound editing and sound mixing

Best Production Desing:
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

Best Original Score:
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

The Shape of Water ♥

Best Original Song:
Mighy River, Moudbound
Mystery of Love, Call Me by Your Name
Remember Me, Coco
Stand Up for Something, Marshall
This Is Me, The Greatest Showman

Best Makeup and Hair:
Darkest Hour
Victoria and Abdul
Wonder

Darkest Hour for the win

Best Costume Design:
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul

Best Visual Effects:
Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes

If War for the Planet of the Apes doesn't win, they better delete this category

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