2018 Academy Awards Nomination Reaction

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 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.

BEST 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

BEST 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

BEST 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

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger A. Deakins, Blade Runner 2049
Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour
Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk
Rachel Morrison, Mudbound
Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast
Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour
Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread
Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water
Consolata Boyle, Victoria and Abdul

BEST 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 DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Edith+Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop

BEST FILM EDITING
Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos, Baby Driver
Lee Smith, Dunkirk
Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya
Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water
Jon Gregory, 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 MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour
Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard, Victoria and Abdul
Arjen Tuiten, Wonder

BEST MUSIC, ORIGINAL SCORE
Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk
Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water
John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Carter Burwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST MUSIC, ORIGINAL SONG
"Mighty River", Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson, Mudbound
"Mystery of Love", Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens, Call Me by Your Name
"Remember Me", Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Coco
"Stand Up for Something", Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren, Marshall
"This Is Me", Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, The Greatest Showman

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration), Beauty and the Beast
Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Alessandra Querzola (Set Decoration), Blade Runner 2049
Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration), Darkest Hour
Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration), Dunkirk
Paul Denham Austerberry (Production Design); Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin (Set Decoration), The Shape of Water

BEST SHORT FILM - ANIMATED
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

BEST SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O'Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us

BEST SOUND EDITING
Julian Slater, Baby Driver
Mark Mangini and Theo Green, Blade Runner 2049
Richard King and Alex Gibson, Dunkirk
Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira, The Shape of Water
Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST SOUND MIXING
Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis, Baby Driver
Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth, Blade Runner 2049
Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo, Dunkirk
Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier, The Shape of Water
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover, Blade Runner 2049
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus, Kong: Skull Island
Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist, War for the Planet of the Apes

BEST WRITING, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green, Logan
Aaron Sorkin, Molly's Game
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound

BEST WRITING, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Comparison Between My Eve Prediction and Nominations:
BEST PICTURE: 8/9 (Phantom Thread can be a dark horse!!)
BEST ACTOR IN LEADING ROLE: 4/5 and 1 alternate (Shocked seeing Washington instead of Franco)
BEST ACTRESS IN LEADING ROLE: 5/5 (Streep again, yeah!!)
BEST ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE: 4/5 and 1 alternate (Plummer snubbed Hammer)
BEST ACTRESS IN SUPPORTING ROLE: 4/5 and 1 alternate (Spencer the third time)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: 4/5 and 1 alternate (Why The Boss Baby?)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: 4/5 and 1 alternate (First Woman DP nominated!!)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: 4/5 (Victoria and Abdul a slight surprise)
BEST DIRECTING: 3/5 and 1 alternate (Anderson is a big surprise, McDonagh a major snub)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: 3/5 and 1 alternate (No Jane?)
BEST FILM EDITING: 4/5 (Yeah for I, Tonya!)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: 3/5 and 2 alternates (Germany is snubbed)
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: 1/3 and 1 alternate (Victoria and Abdul again?)
BEST MUSIC, ORIGINAL SCORE: 3/5 and 1 alternate (Star Wars franchise rocks!)
BEST MUSIC, ORIGINAL SONG: 4/5 and 1 alternate (No surprises this year!)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: 5/5 (All in!!)
BEST SOUND EDITING: 4/5 and 1 alternate (Same as Mixing!)
BEST SOUND MIXING: 5/5 (Same as Editing!)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: 3/5 and No Gut, No Glory! (Shockest category!)
BEST WRITING, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: 4/5 and 1 alternate (Logan!!)
BEST WRITING, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: 4/5 and 1 alternate (Finally The Big Sick)
Overall Conclusion: Oscars is always full of joy and surprises. Cheers!