The Shape Of Water is Oscar Front Runner

The Shape Of Water has 13 nominations

The Shape Of Water came close to a record in today's Oscar nominatons, with 13 in total, while Dunkirk and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri also made a strong showing, with eight and seven nods respectively. Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman ever to be nominated as Best Director, for Lady Bird, which is also among the Best Picture nominees. Roger Deakins got his 14th nomination in the Cinematography category, for Blade Runner 2049 - he has yet to win - while Rachel Morrison became the first woman ever nominated in that category, for Mudbound. Meryl Streep got her 17th Best Actress nomination (her 21st altogether) for The Post.

It was a particularly strong year for genre film, not just because of The Shape Of Water's success but because Blade Runner 2049 - whose screenwriter, Hampton Fancher, recently spoke to us about it - got an impressive 5 nominations and Star Wars: The Last Jedi got 4. Get Out, orginally marketed as horror, joined Guillermo Del Toro's opus on the Best Picture list and also picked up nominations for Best Actor (for Daniel Kaluuya) and Best Original Screenplay.

Those nominations in full:-

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

Best Director

• Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
• Jordan Peele - Get Out
• Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
• Paul Thomas Anderson - Phantom Thread
• Guillermo Del Toro - The Shape Of Water

Best 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.

Best Actress

• 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

Best Supporting Actress

• Mary J Blige - Mudbound
• Allison Janney - I, Tonya
• Lesley Manville - Phantom Thread
• Laurie Metcalfe - Lady Bird
• Octavia Spencer - The Shape Of Water

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

Best Animated Feature Film

• The Boss Baby
• The Breadwinner
• Coco
• Ferdinand
• Loving Vincent

Best Foreign Language Film

• A Fantastic Woman
• The Insult
• Loveless
• On Body And Soul
• The Square

Best Documentary

• Abacus: Small Enough To Jail
• Faces Places
• Icarus
• Last Men In Aleppo
• Strong Island

Best Short Film (Live Action)

• DeKalb Elementary
• The 11 O'Clock
• My Nephew Emmett
• The Silent Child
• Watu Wote/All Of Us

Best Short Film (Animation)

• Dear Basketball
• Garden Party
• Lou
• Negative Space
• Revolting Rhymes

Best Short Film (Documentary)

• Edith And Eddie
• Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405
• Heroin(e)
• Knife Skills
• Traffic Stop

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Call Me By Your Name
• The Disaster Artist
• Logan
• Molly's Game
• Mudbound

Best Original Screenplay

• The Big Sick
• Get Out
• Lady Bird
• The Shape Of Water
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Best Cinematography

• Blade Runner 2049
• Darkest Hour
• Dunkirk
• Mudbound
• The Shape Of Water

Best Editing

• Baby Driver
• Dunkirk
• I Tonya
• The Shape Of Water
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Production Design

• Beauty And The Beast
• Blade Runner 2049
• Darkest Hour
• Dunkirk
• The Shape Of Water

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

Best Costume Design

• Beauty And The Beast
• Darkest Hour
• Phantom Thread
• The Shape Of Water
• Victoria And Abdul

Best Make-up and Hairstyling

• Darkest Hour
• Victoria And Abdul
• Wonder

Best Sound Editing

• Baby Driver
• Blade Runner 2049
• Dunkirk
• The Shape Of Water
• Star Wars: The Lat Jedi

Best Sound Mixing

• Baby Driver
• Blade Runner 2049
• Dunkirk
• The Shape Of Water
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Original Score

• Dunkirk
• Phantom Thread
• The Shape Of Water
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Best Original Song

• Mudbound - Mighty River
• Call Me By Your Name - Mystery Of Love
• Coco - Remember Me
• Marshall - Stand Up For Something
• The Greatest Showman - This Is Me