The Academy Awards dove all in for The Shape of Water.
The 1960s-set supernatural fairy-tale romance received 13 Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, including best picture, lead actress (Sally Hawkins), supporting actor (Richard Jenkins), director (Guillermo del Toro) and a slew of technical honors. Behind it is Christopher Nolan's World War II epic Dunkirk with eight nominations and the darkly comic drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, up for seven at the March 4 ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and airing live on ABC (8 p.m. ET/5 PT).
Three Billboards and Shape of Water will tussle for the night's biggest prize in a wide-ranging best picture slate that includes coming-of-age comedy Lady Bird, social thriller Get Out, World War II dramas Darkest Hour and Dunkirk, Pentagon Papers drama The Post, fashion-world romance Phantom Thread and gay love story Call Me By Your Name.
Gary Oldman, transformed into Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, followed up Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award wins with an expected Oscar nomination for best actor. The British thespian will compete against newcomers Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), retiring screen legend Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread) and Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.).
Three Billboards' Frances McDormand also continued her successful awards streak with a nomination for best actress alongside Hawkins. Rounding out the category are previous nominee Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), Oscar rookie Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) and all-time contender Meryl Streep (The Post), earning her 21st nomination, the most of any actor.
Allison Janney (I, Tonya) and Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) each snagged their first Oscar nominations for supporting actress. Joining them will be Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), previous winner Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) and surprise contender Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread).
Three Billboards scored two spots in the supporting actor race, with Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson both earning nominations. They'll compete against Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project), Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water) and Christopher Plummer, who stepped in to replace Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World at the last minute.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
- Beauty and the Beast
- Blade Runner 2049
- Darkest Hour
- Dunkirk
- The Shape of Water
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
- Blade Runner 2049
- Darkest Hour
- Dunkirk
- The Shape of Water
- Mudbound
COSTUME DESIGN:
- Beauty and the Beast
- Darkest Hour
- Phantom Thread
- The Shape of Water
- Victoria & Abdul
SOUND EDITING:
- Baby Driver
- Blade Runner 2049
- Dunkirk
- The Shape of Water
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
SOUND MIXING:
- Baby Driver
- Blade Runner 2049
- Dunkirk
- The Shape of Water
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
ANIMATED SHORT:
- Dear Basketball
- Garden Party
- Lou
- Negative Space
- Revolting Rhymes
LIVE ACTION SHORT:
- DeKalb Elementary
- The Eleven O'Clock
- My Nephew Emmett
- The Silent Child
- Watu Wote/ All of Us
ORIGINAL SCORE:
- Dunkirk
- Phantom Thread
- The Shape of Water
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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
FILM EDITING:
- Baby Driver
- Dunkirk
- I, Tonya
- The Shape of Water
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING:
- Darkest Hour
- Victoria & Abdul
- Wonder
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
- Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
- Allison Janney, I, Tonya
- Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
- Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
- Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
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
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
- A Fantastic Woman
- The Insult
- Loveless
- On Body and Soul
- The Square
DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
- Edith+Eddie
- Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
- Heroin(e)
- Knife Skills
- Traffic Stop
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
- Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
- Faces Places
- Icarus
- Last Men in Aleppo
- Strong Island
ORIGINAL SONG:
- Mighty River, Mudbound
- Mystery of Love, Call Me By Your Name
- Remember Me, Coco
- Stand Up For Something, Marshall
- This is Me, The Greatest Showman
ANIMATED FEATURE:
- The Boss Baby
- The Breadwinner
- Coco
- Ferdinand
- Loving Vincent
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
- Call Me By Your Name
- The Disaster Artist
- Logan
- Molly's Game
- Mudbound
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
- The Big Sick
- Get Out
- Lady Bird
- The Shape of Water
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
LEADING ACTOR:
- Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
- Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
- Gary Oldman, The Darkest Hour
- Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
LEADING ACTRESS:
- Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
- Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
- Saorise Ronan, Lady Bird
- Meryl Streep, The Post
DIRECTING:
- Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
- Jordan Peele, Get Out
- Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
- Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
- Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
BEST PICTURE:
- 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
