Actor in a Leading Role 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. Actor in a Supporting Role 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 Actress in a Leading Role 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 Actress in a Supporting Role Mary J. Blige; Mudbound Allison Janney; I, Tonya Lesley Manville; Phantom Thread Laurie Metcalf; Lady Bird Octavia Spencer; The Shape of Water Animated Feature Film The Boss Baby; Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito The Breadwinner; Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo Coco; Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson Ferdinand; Carlos Saldanha Loving Vincent; Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart Cinematography Blade Runner 2049; Roger A. Deakins Darkest Hour; Bruno Delbonnel Dunkirk; Hoyte van Hoytema Mudbound; Rachel Morrison The Shape of Water; Dan Laustsen Costume Design Beauty and the Beast; Jacqueline Durran Darkest Hour; Jacqueline Durran Phantom Thread; Mark Bridges The Shape of Water; Luis Sequeira Victoria & Abdul; Consolata Boyle Directing Dunkirk; Christopher Nolan Get Out; Jordan Peele Lady Bird; Greta Gerwig Phantom Thread; Paul Thomas Anderson The Shape of Water; Guillermo del Toro Documentary (Feature) Abacus: Small Enough to Jail; Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman Faces Places; Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda Icarus; Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan Last Men in Aleppo; Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen Strong Island; Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes Documentary (Short Subject) Edith+Eddie; Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405; Frank Stiefel Heroin(e); Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon Knife Skills; Thomas Lennon Traffic Stop; Kate Davis and David Heilbroner Film Editing Baby Driver; Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos Dunkirk; Lee Smith I, Tonya; Tatiana S. Riegel The Shape of Water; Sidney Wolinsky Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri; Jon Gregory Foreign Language Film A Fantastic Woman; Chile The Insult; Lebanon Loveless; Russia On Body and Soul; Hungary The Square; Sweden Makeup and Hairstyling Darkest Hour; Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick Victoria & Abdul; Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard Wonder; Arjen Tuiten Music (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; Carter Burwell Music (Original Song) Mighty River (Mudbound); Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson Mystery Of Love (Call Me by Your Name); Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens Remember Me (Coco); Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez Stand Up For Something (Marshall); Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren This Is Me (The Greatest Showman); Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Best Picture Call Me by Your Name; Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito Darkest Hour; Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski Dunkirk; Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan Get Out; Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele Lady Bird; Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O'Neill Phantom Thread; JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi The Post; Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger The Shape of Water; Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri; Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh Production Design Beauty and the Beast; Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer Blade Runner 2049; Production Design; Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola Darkest Hour; Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer Dunkirk; Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis The Shape of Water; Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin Short Film (Animated) Dear Basketball; Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant Garden Party; Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon Lou; Dave Mullins and Dana Murray Negative Space; Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata Revolting Rhymes; Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer Short Film (Live Action) DeKalb Elementary; Reed Van Dyk The Eleven O'Clock; Derin Seale and Josh Lawson My Nephew Emmett; Kevin Wilson, Jr. The Silent Child; Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton Watu Wote/All of Us; Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen Sound Editing Baby Driver; Julian Slater Blade Runner 2049; Mark Mangini and Theo Green Dunkirk; Richard King and Alex Gibson The Shape of Water; Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira Star Wars: The Last Jedi; Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce Sound Mixing Baby Driver; Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis Blade Runner 2049; Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth Dunkirk; Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo The Shape of Water; Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier Star Wars: The Last Jedi; David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson Visual Effects Blade Runner 2049; John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2; Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick Kong: Skull Island; Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus Star Wars: The Last Jedi; Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould War for the Planet of the Apes; Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Call Me by Your Name; Screenplay by James Ivory The Disaster Artist; Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber Logan; Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold Molly's Game; Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin Mudbound; Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees Writing (Original Screenplay) The Big Sick; Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani Get Out;Written by Jordan Peele Lady Bird; Written by Greta Gerwig The Shape of Water; Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri; Written by Martin McDonagh
Lady Bird wins across the board because of #MeToo. Christopher Plummer wins because he picked up Spacey's slack and turned out a great performance and hes friggin' 88 years old. Blade Runner wins Sound and Visual Effects.
This was my favorite year for movies in a really long time so I'm now very stressed about choosing who to root for in a bunch of categories. For Actor in a Leading Role: All I know is I really don't want Gary Oldman to win. I didn't really like The Phantom Thread, but I'd be okay with DDL winning for it especially if it's truly his last role. I'm really torn between Kaluuya and Tim Oh Tay. I thought Kaluuya's acting was the weakest part of Get Out for about 3/4 of it until I started seeing what he was doing with the character, and he could probably win off of this shot alone. I am mostly rooting for Chalamet though because Despite ~ the allegations ~ I'm really bummed James Franco didn't get nominated for The Disaster Artist. He did an incredible job as Wiseau and that would've been such a fun role to get an Oscar nod. For Actor In A Supporting Role I'm rooting for Sam Rockwell. Actress in a Leading Role is a really tough one for me. Frances McDormand and Margot Robbie were both so, so, so good and I think Sally Hawkins would really deserve it too. I'd also be happy if Ronan won, although I don't think her role required as much Acting as the others. I can't pick at all. But while I love Meryl, I think her nom is kind of a throwaway. Everyone was gagging over her in The Post but, I don't know, when I saw it it just seemed like Meryl Streep reading lines to me. I think that spot should've gone to Vicky Krieps for Phantom Thread. For Actress in Supporting Role it better be Allison Janney. I'm really surprised neither Call Me By Your Name or Phantom Thread got a Cinematography nomination. They were both all about the visuals, for me. Directing is another tough one for me. I would love for Greta Gerwig to win, but I think Get Out relied more on Jordan Peele's directing than Ladybird did on hers, so I think I'm ultimately rooting for him. But, while I'm not really a big fan of his, I think it would be nice to see Guillermo Del Torro win because he's so damn passionate about this movie and it's so important to him. For Adapted Screenplay I'm rooting for CMBYN. I haven't read the book, but from hearing my friends who have talk about what they did to translate the book to a screenplay it sounds like the perfect example of how to do it in an Oscar-deserving way. I loved The Disaster Artist so I wouldn't mind if it won either, but the screenplay wasn't really the focus of what I loved about it. Original Screenplay is another difficult one. Get Out was such a damn perfect plot and I was thinking about the writing for weeks after seeing it, so I think that's what I'm hoping for. But again, I would love for Greta Gerwig to win and for that type of screenplay to win. But I love rewarding originality and Shape of Water is nothing if not original. Big Sick was very charming but I don't think it's necessarily Oscar-worthy. And I have absolutely no idea which I'm ultimately rooting for for Best Picture. My favorites were CMBYN, Get Out, and Ladybird. I really liked Three Billboards too, although while I largely disagree with a lot of the criticisms I've been hearing (from people who haven't seen it) there's some that I think has enough of a point that it's been affecting my opinion of it retroactively. I think I'd be happy with any of those, though. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Ladybird ended up winning because they could count Moonlight as giving it to both the gay one AND the black one last year so obviously they don't need to do it again this year so might as well give it to the lady one. I enjoyed The Post a lot but if it wins it's going to be purely political. There were several times throughout the movie where they might as well have turned to the camera, winked, and mouthed "We're talking about Trump." I haven't seen it, but I'm surprised The Florida Project got snubbed for Best Picture and a couple other categories it sounds like it could've gotten nominated for. I haven't heard a bad thing about it. I'm really looking forward to this year's show and I'm mad it keeps getting later and later.
I'm all in on Logan in this category. Imagine the task before the screenwriters. You have one screenplay to pay homage to, elevate, and wrap up not one but two incredible actors who have inhabited their roles for near 20 years, and you have to do it while adapting Old Man Logan, which doesn't even remotely fit the established continuity of your franchise. Also you need to make it the best comic book movie ever made, and achieve what none of the eight million other comic book movies have been able to do to date, which is to ground the story in real human drama instead of throwing a giant space laser into the third act. And they did it.
It’s hands down the best screenplay for a comic book. What a monumentally sad and disarming film it was. It was so incredibly different from any comic movie, even more so when you consider the two previous “Wolverine” movies sucked so much ass. Since The Florida Project isn’t nominated for best picture, I’m going with Three Billboards. That movie was designed to make audience members divide, hate and kill each other. It’s a brilliant and nasty film.
I'm a big Greta Gerwig fan, too. I've loved her mumblecore stuff for years. But...Lady Bird isn't a terribly complicated movie. To its credit, it is an amazingly acted film, and I'd love for Laurie Metcalfe to take home Best Supporting Actress*. The directing and writing were fairly straightforward, which is why Get Out/Jordan Peele is a better candidate in both categories. Also, Lady Bird isn't exactly a #MeToo kind of movie, and it's directed by a white woman. Jordan Peele wins the diversity points head-to-head. *I still need to see a couple of the major nominees before I write my big post, including I, Tonya. I assume based on the trailers that Janney's performance was loud; Metcalfe's was subtle and down-to-earth. Octavia Spencer did Octavia Spencer things as usual, and Mary J. Blige continued her 20-year streak of being overrated in every single thing she does.
I saw the animated shorts today and they're all really good, but this one was my favorite: This one had a weird, dark sense of humor and crazily good animation and I think it was my second favorite, although it's hard to choose: I think they may be the underdogs though. There was a really charming Disney one and a fun longer one based on a Roald Dahl story and I'm guessing one of those will take it. Although I'm pretty sure I've never seen an Oscar-nominated short before so I've never paid attention and have no idea if they tend to go for pleasing or for ~ artistic ~. It's fun to have another category to root for now, anyway. I'm going to try and see the documentary shorts this weekend.
Unfortunately, selling my house and the subsequent packing/moving/unpacking kept me from seeing all of the major nominees. I think I saw that Three Billboards is on demand now, but at this point I'd rather watch an Oscars for once with minimal expectations. So I can't really make any pithy predictions this year, since I haven't seen any of the presumptive acting frontrunners (McDormand, Oldman, Janney, Rockwell) so far. Those four won the SAGs, and the nominees are similar enough with the Oscar slates to predict that the usual 3/4ths of them will win again. If you want to bet a dark horse, go with Daniel Day-Lewis in Best Actor. He was the only one not nominated against Oldman in the SAGs, and while the actor's guild makes up the single largest part of the Academy membership, they're still dwarfed by all the technical branches. Rest assured, if Meryl Streep announced she was retiring from film for good, she'd get one more Oscar for good measure no matter what the role. DDL ain't Streep, but there's a chance sentiment could tip the race against Oldman. But, I didn't see either of those movies so I might just be talking out of my ass this time. As for the movies I did see, I honestly would love to see both Get Out and Lady Bird get recognized, but they're basically competing against each other for one realistic award (Best Original Screenplay). The DGA already went with Guillermo del Toro, who did a great job with The Shape of Water, so Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig are both shit out of luck for Best Director, although the joke "A Mexican, a black guy, and a woman walk into a bar..." will probably come up at some point in the telecast. Also, some handicappers are predicting Kobe Bryant's animated short film as the winner in that category. I can guaran-fucking-tee that way too many Academy voters - who largely live and work in L.A. - are acutely aware in this year of #MeToo clamor that the former Lakers star once famously whipped his Black Mamba out on a white girl in Colorado under controversial circumstances. No way they pull the lever and let that dude anywhere near the stage. Ironically, the guild that nominates short cartoons for Oscars (animators) are probably the one group of nerds who don't watch sports and don't necessarily need to work in L.A. That's probably the only reason that fucktard got on the ballot in the first place and wasn't James Franco'd instead.
That is awesome that del Toro won for best director and picture. It really says something to him as a visual storyteller when a fantasy/horror movie beats everything else. And Rockwell.... finally. How many more movies did he have to steal before he finally gets the proper kudos for it? IS THERE AIR?!?!? Also: “Jordan Peele, Oscar winner.” One of the “Man-Up!!!” dudes from MadTV who wrote “Keanu” has an Academy Award. Suck on that, Sandler.
I'm legitimately shocked, too. I was about an hour behind the live show, but I checked afterward to see if the media had picked up on the rape angle. A few commentators mentioned it, but we'll see what the next 24 hours look like. I would guess it's going to come up, but the category itself is pretty irrelevant (i.e. no one cares about the other four losers), so no one is going to waste too much time on him when there are more attractive Ryan Seacrests to ruin. And I actually should have given more thought to the fact that the Academy did give convicted child-fucker Roman Polanski a no-shit Best Director Oscar decades after he fled from justice, so Kobe's not even the worst known sex offender to win. Who knows, lots of nervous men in Hollywood might be encouraged by the short memories on display...for sports heroes, at least. At least we know what Charles Barkely will be talking about this week: "Hey Shaq, how many Oscars did you win for Kazaam?"
Maybe #metoo means something different than what I thought. Like Crown I was glad Rockwell won. For the most part, for the movies I was familiar with, I didn't think anybody got robbed or there was some travesty, other than the Coco song. I thought that was one of the weakest songs on the ballot and it should've gone to This Is Me from Showman. I was glad Deakins finally got his award, too, since I thought he should've already one for No Country for Old Men and Shawshank Redemption.
Rockwell definitely deserved it. I dont think I've simultaneously hated and liked a character like that before. It was a great performance. Gary Oldman did as well. His was long overdue.
If they gave out the awards the way they should, Oldman and Rockwell would have a dozen Oscars between them by now.
I bought a used copy of this movie for $1.36 shipped. It is my favorite drunken purchase of all time.
For the record, I'd like to point out that Gotham City is OscarTown, USA: BATMAN George Clooney Christian Bale Ben Affleck ALFRED Michael Caine Jeremy Irons COMMISSIONER GORDON Gary Oldman J.K. Simmons JOKER Jack Nicholson Heath Ledger Jared Leto CATWOMAN Halle Berry (it counts!) Anne Hathaway
You forgot that Chris O’Donnell won an Oscar for his unforgettable work in Batman Forever. But we all know how that movie swept the 1996 awards.