90th Annual Academy Awards | Live Discussion Thread | Ceremony starts now

[grim22]

Discuss it here.

 

Full list of nominees

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Achievement in Production Design

Beauty and the Beast

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

 

Achievement in Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Mudbound

The Shape of Water

 

Achievement in Costume Design

Beauty and the Beast

Darkest Hour

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Victoria and Abdul

 

Achievement in Sound Editing

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

 

Achievement in Sound Mixing

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

 

Best Animated Short

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Lou

Negative Space

Revolting Rhymes

 

Best Live Action Short

Dekalb Elementary

The 11 O'clock

My Nephew Emmett

The Silent Child

Watu Wote/All Of Us

 

Best Original Score

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

Achievement in Visual Effects

Blade Runner 2049

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2

Kong Skull Island

War for the Planet of the Apes

 

Achievement in Film Editing

Baby Driver

Dunkirk

I, Tonya

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

Darkest Hour

Victoria and Abdul

Wonder

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Mary J. Blige, Mudbound

Alison Janney I, Tonya

Lesley Manwille Phantom Thread

Laurie Metcalf Lady Bird

Octavia Spencer Shape of Water

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Willem Dafoe, Florida Project

Woddy Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Richard Jenkins, Shape of Water

Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World

 

Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

Best Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic Woman, Chile

The Insult, Lebanon

Loveless, Russia

On Body and Soul, Hungary

The Square, Sweden

 

Best Documentary, Short Subject

Edith and Eddie

Heaven is a Traffic Jam On The 405

Heroin

Knife Skills

Traffic Stop

 

Best Documentary Feature

Faces, Places

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Icarus

Last Men in Aleppo

Strong Island

 

Best 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

 

Best Animated Feature

The Boss Baby

Coco

Ferdinand

The Breadwinner

Loving Vincent

 

Adapted Screenplay

Call Me By your Name

The Disaster Artist

Molly's Game

Logan

Mudbound

 

Original Screenplay

The Big Sick

Get Out

Lady Bird

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Timothee 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.

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Sally Hawkins, Shape of Water

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie, I Tonya

Saoirse Ronan, Ladybird

Meryl Streep, The Post

 

Achievement in Directing

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Greta Gerwig, Ladybird

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

 

[aabattery]

[Brainbug]

Why is Blade Runner 2049 not nominated in every category?

 

The Academy sucks. Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff.

 

Honestly though, BR not appearing on the Best Picture list is baffling.

[Cmasterclay]

Fourth year in a row where Best Picture is not a lock going into the ceremony, and second time in three years where it is a genuine toss up.

[CJohn]

First time in 10 years I won't see it live. I will just read the results in the morning.

[Cmasterclay]

Everyone talks about Moonlight over La La Land, which was huge, but Spotlight beating Revenant was a genuine surprise by the end of the night/season too.

[Webslinger]

I feel like Birdman was basically a lock heading into the ceremony. Even with the weird Editing snub, it still won PGA, DGA, and SAG Ensemble and basically stole all the momentum Boyhood had appeared to gather prior to the guild announcements.

[DAR]

Let’s see there we will be some surprises, some not so much.  Something political will be said.  And someone here will freak for reasons that will puzzle most of us.   Have fun guys

[The Panda]

I’m holding out hope that Get Out was the preferential ballot choice to beat Shape and Billboards

[Webslinger]

3 minutes ago, CJohn said:

First time in 10 years I won't see it live. I will just read the results in the morning.

Last year was the first time I didn't watch to the end in 20 years (which was actually strangely fitting because I hardly followed awards season at all amid a bevy of personal issues I had to deal with around that time). I had flown cross-country earlier that day, so I was wiped out and quit around 10:00. It's not like I missed the wrong movie being announced as Best Picture or anything crazy like that.

 

So now I'm wondering what kind of craziness we'll get in your absence. 

Edited March 4, 2018 by Webslinger

[Cmasterclay]

3 minutes ago, Webslinger said:

I feel like Birdman was basically a lock heading into the ceremony. Even with the weird Editing snub, it still won PGA, DGA, and SAG Ensemble and basically stole all the momentum Boyhood had appeared to gather prior to the guild announcements.

Yea Birdman felt pretty locky but Boyhood had won just enough and Grand Budapest had the momentum/liked by everyone on preferential ballots thing going. 12 Years a Slave was a mortal lock but people here seemed to delude themselves into thinking Gravity had a shot. 

[The Futurist]

Hope the racist movie against dentists get shutt off.

[Joel M]

21 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

Fourth year in a row where Best Picture is not a lock going into the ceremony, and second time in three years where it is a genuine toss up.

Third. Birdman was 100% locked after sweeping the guilds. 

[The Futurist]

Whe Emma Stone isn't presenting best actor ?

I personaly blame Casey Affleck for this.

Edited March 4, 2018 by The Futurist

[Cmasterclay]

Since preferential ballot:

 

Hurt Locker and La La Land were favorites but not locks by any means

Birdman, King's Speech, and Argo were heavy favorites but not quite mortal locks because of mitigating factors (Affleck's snub, Social Network/Boyhood having some legit wins under their belt)

The Artist and 12 Years a Slave were mortal locks

2015 and 2017 were genuine tossups with a third viable contender in the mix too. 

[Webslinger]

Just now, Cmasterclay said:

Yea Birdman felt pretty locky but Boyhood had won just enough and Grand Budapest had the momentum/liked by everyone on preferential ballots thing going. 12 Years a Slave was a mortal lock but people here seemed to delude themselves into thinking Gravity had a shot. 

That's how I felt about the 12 Years/Gravity race as well. Cuaron's win in directing made a Gravity win seem a little more feasible than if it had just picked up six below-the-line wins (as Mad Max did two years later), but 12 Years a Slave was the more serious film with a far more compelling narrative as a winner, and the preferential balloting assured that it would stay well ahead of the more divisive Gravity.

 

This year just feels weird. I was at more than 50% certainty that The Revenant and La La Land would win in the last two years, whereas I'm maybe at about 35% on my prediction for The Shape of Water. Really, the way I'm looking at it, a win for Shape of Water, Three Billboards, or Get Out wouldn't be surprising at all, and Dunkirk or Lady Bird would be minor but explicable shocks.

[CoolioD1]

4 minutes ago, Joel M said:

Third. Birdman was 100% locked after sweeping the guilds. 

yeah birdman was locked as it got. the year before was more of a toss up. it was definitely close between slave and gravity.

[FantasticBeasts]

Planning to wake up (it's gonna be quite late over here !!!).

How much time in will the big awards start rollin though?

[grim22]

3 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

The Artist

 

Back when Weinstein had enough power in Hollywood to get a black and white silent movie an awards season sweep.

[grim22]

4 minutes ago, Webslinger said:

That's how I felt about the 12 Years/Gravity race as well. Cuaron's win in directing made a Gravity win seem a little more feasible than if it had just picked up six below-the-line wins (as Mad Max did two years later), but 12 Years a Slave was the more serious film with a far more compelling narrative as a winner, and the preferential balloting assured that it would stay well ahead of the more divisive Gravity.

 

This year just feels weird. I was at more than 50% certainty that The Revenant and La La Land would win in the last two years, whereas I'm maybe at about 35% on my prediction for The Shape of Water. Really, the way I'm looking at it, a win for Shape of Water, Three Billboards, or Get Out wouldn't be surprising at all, and Dunkirk or Lady Bird would be minor but explicable shocks.

Thinking there is a definite chance that Fish Banging is a bit too far left field for the Academy and 3 Billboards would cause a million thinkpieces and the inevitable Crash comparisons. Might open the field up for Get Out or Dunkirk to sweep in at the last minute as the "safe" choice.