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Oscar Nominations
The 90th Academy Awards
2017 Oscar Race / Ceremony on March 4th, 2018

AND THE OSCARS ARE A WRAP
The Shape of Water took 4 Oscars including Best Picture with Dunkirk as the other big winner with 3 Oscars. Multiple movies won two Oscars (Blade Runner 2049, Three Billboards, Darkest Hour, Coco). The only Best Pictures that went home empty handed were Lady Bird and The Post.

prediction rate of success: 18/24

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BEST PICTURE

Call Me By...

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Get Out

Lady Bird

Phantom Thread

The Post

★ Shape of Water

Three Billboards

Prediction: WHOOPS

BEST DIRECTOR 

Anderson
Phantom Thread

★ Del Toro
Shape Of

Gerwig
Lady Bird

Nolan
Dunkirk 

Peele
Get Out

Prediction: Correct

BEST ACTOR

Chalamet
Call Me By...

Day-Lewis
Phantom Thread

Kaluuya
Get Out

★  Oldman
Darkest Hour

Washington
Roman J Israel

Prediction: Correct

BEST ACTRESS

Hawkins
Shape of

★  McDormand
Three Billboards...

Robbie
I Tonya

Ronan
Lady Bird

Streep
The Post

Prediction: Correct

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Dafoe
Florida Project

Harrelson
Three Billboards...

Jenkins
Shape of Water

Plummer
All the Money

★ Rockwell
Three Billboards...

Prediction: Correct

SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

Blige
Mudbound

★ Janney
I Tonya


Manville
Phantom Thread

Metcalf
Lady Bird

Spencer
Shape of Water

Prediction: Correct

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Big Sick

 Get Out

Lady Bird

Shape of Water

Three Billboards

Prediction: Correct

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

 Call Me By Your Name

Disaster Artist

Logan

Molly's Game

Mudbound

Prediction: WHOOPS

CINEMATOGRAPHY

★ Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk
• 
Mudbound

Shape of Water

Prediction: WHOOPS

COSTUME DESIGN 

 Beauty & Beast

Darkest Hour

★ Phantom Thread

Shape of Water

Victoria & Abdul 

Prediction: Correct

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Beauty & Beast

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk


★  Shape of Water

Prediction: Correct

FILM EDITING

Baby Driver

★ Dunkirk

I Tonya

Shape of Water

Three Billboards

Prediction: Correct

VISUAL EFFECTS

★ Blade Runner 2049

Guardians of Vol 2

Kong: Skull Island

Star Wars: Last Jedi

War of Planet of the Apes

Prediction Correct

MAKEUP & HAIR

★ Darkest Hour

Victoria & Abdul

Wonder

Prediction: Correct

FOREIGN FILM

★ Chile
A Fantastic Woman

Hungary
On Body and Soul

Lebanon
The Insult

Russia
Loveless

Sweden
The Square

Prediction: WHOOPS

ORIGINAL SONG

"Mystery of Love"
Call Me By...

★ "Remember Me"
"Coco

"This is Me"
Greatest Showman

"Stand Up For Something"
Marshall

"Mighty River"
Mudbound

Prediction: WHOOPS

ORIGINAL SCORE

Dunkirk
Zimmer

The Last Jedi
Williams

Phantom Thread
Greenwood

★ Shape of Water
Desplat

Three Billboards
Burwell

Prediction Correct

SOUND MIXING

Baby Driver

Bladerunner 2049

★ Dunkirk

The Last Jedi

Shape of Water

Prediction: Correct

SOUND EDITING

Baby Driver

 Bladerunner 2049

★ Dunkirk

The Last Jedi 

Shape of Water

Prediction: Correct

ANIMATED FILM

Boss Baby

Breadwinner
• 
★ Coco

Ferdinand

Loving Vincent

Prediction: Correct

 

DOCUMENTARY

Abacus

Faces Places

★ Icarus

Last Man in Aleppo


Strong Island

Prediction: Correct

SHORTS, DOCUMENTARY

Edith + Eddie

★ Heaven is a Traffic Jam

Heroin(e)

Knife Skills

Traffic Stop 

Prediction: WHOOPS

SHORTS, LIVE ACTION

DeKalb Elementary

Eleven O'Clock

My Nephew Emmett

★ Silent Child

Watu Wrote

Prediction: Correct 

SHORTS, ANIMATED

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Lou

Negative Space

Revolting Rhymes

Prediction: Correct

 

 

sound off on the Oscar race

 13 nominations
SHAPE OF WATER 

8 nominations
DUNKIRK

7 nominations
THREE BILLBOARDS

6 nominations
DARKEST HOUR
PHANTOM THREAD

5 nominations
BLADE RUNNER 2049 (most without BP nod)
LADY BIRD

4 nominations
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
GET OUT
MUDBOUND

3 nominations
BABY DRIVER
I TONYA

THE LAST JEDI

2 nominations
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
COCO
THE POST
(least nominations for a BP)
VICTORIA & ABDUL

1 nomination
THE BIG SICK
THE BOSS BABY
THE BREADWINNER
THE FLORIDA PROJECT
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
KONG SKULL ISLAND
LOVING VINCENT
MARSHALL
WAR FOR PLANET OF APES
WONDER

SHUT OUT COMPLETELY
DOWNSIZING
WONDER WOMAN

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