(CNN) The Academy Award nominations offered something for everyone, and -- in the context of the #OscarsSoWhite campaign and the often-stodgy organization's recognition of fresh talent and voices -- were at least as important for who was recognized behind the scenes as on screen.

Three African-Americans -- Denzel Washington, Mary J. Blige and Octavia Spencer -- along with England's Daniel Kaluuya, were included in the acting races for the 90th Academy Awards , accounting for 20% of the field. Yet other significant breakthroughs occurred elsewhere, with Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig both earning writing and directing nods for "Get Out" and "Lady Bird," respectively, while Dee Rees -- an African-American woman -- was nominated for the adapted screenplay "Mudbound," and Rachel Morrison broke the gender barrier in cinematography for that film.

Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon also joined the writing category for their true story, "The Big Sick," along with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, responsible for the year's most-nominated film, "The Shape of Water."

Reflecting the depth of this year's race, the closely watched best picture category included nine movies, as Oscar voters conspicuously spread the wealth. If there's one genre that increasingly need not apply, it's the special-effects-driven blockbuster, with "Wonder Woman" -- the best-regarded entry in that pack -- overlooked. "Logan" did snag an adapted screenplay nod, but otherwise, movies like "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" and "Blade Runner: 2049" (admittedly a disappointment, financially speaking) were limited to bids related to their technical virtuosity in areas like sound and music.

That said, there are broad commercial successes in the higher-profile categories, including "Get Out" and Christopher Nolan's World War II epic "Dunkirk." That's no small consideration for the Academy and ABC, which will televise the show, theoretically providing viewers a greater rooting interest in the outcome than just marveling at who wore what.

Read More</s>The nominations are in for the 90th Annual Academy Awards! While there are many categories, the one I always like most is Best Picture!

The films nominated for Best Picture are Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape Of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Watch the #Oscars live on Sunday, March 4, on ABC.</s>The Shape Of Water led the 2018 Academy Awards nominations with 13 nods as this year's contenders were announced in Los Angeles on Tuesday, closely followed by Dunkirk and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

In a morning of several surprise nominations and snubs, Christopher Plummer, 88, the actor who replaced disgraced Kevin Spacey at the very last minute, received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his part in All The Money In The World.

Other shock names included, musician Mary J. Blige who received her first Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category, and Octavia Spencer who became the first black actress to receive multiple nods ahead of the 90th annual awards.

Angelina Jolie was noticeably snubbed along with All The Money In The World star Michelle Williams and actor James Franco, who has been the subject of multiple sexual harassment claims in Hollywood.

Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis revealed the full list live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, just under six weeks before the ceremony is due to take place.

The 90th annual Academy Awards will be held live from Los Angeles' Dolby Theater on March 4, 2018 and hosted by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

Angelina Jolie's Cambodian drama First They Killed My Father failed to make the list of nods in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Directors Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott were also missed when the 2018 nominations were announced.

Tying the record set by Titanic in 1998, 13 nominations for The Shape of Water means the fantasy drama has surpassed awards season buzz.

The film was recognised in categories including Original Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography, Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, among others.

Set in the 1950s, the film follows a strange and beautiful relationship between an amphibious creature and a local janitor.

Octavia (who plays Zelda Fuller) and co-star Sally Hawkins (in the role of Elisa Esposito) are the standout stars from the production, earning Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress nods, respectively.

In 2017, Octavia became the first black actress to get a follow-up Oscar nomination after winning in 2012, but on Tuesday she made history by becoming nominated on multiple times.

As well as notable nods for Best Actor, which went to Gary Oldman, wartime film Darkest Hour got six nominations, compared to eight for fellow Brit flick Dunkirk.

Biographical drama Darkest Hour follows the early days of Winston Churchill as the British Prime Minister in which he must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.

Considered one of the biggest and best-received films of the year, Darkest Hour is already the talk of awards season and as such, a strong six nominations went to the production.

With his second Oscars nomination, British lead actor Oldman is hotly-tipped to win the Best Actor award for his portrayal of Churchill.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was his first nomination for Best Actor in 2012, but he is hoping to go onto victory in 2018, following the run of critical acclaim.

Meanwhile, Dunkirk, which stars Tom Hardy, Harry Styles and Mark Rylance, is about the code-named 'Operation Dynamo' evacuation of allied soldiers from the beaches in France during World War II.

The action film is nominated in the Film Editing, Director, Cinematography, Sound Editing and Best Picture categories, though the ensemble cast has not been recognised.

Crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was previously said to be 'steamrollering' through awards season.

The film surrounds grieving mother Mildred Hayes (by actress Frances McDormand) who seeks justice for her daughter's rape and murder.

Dissatisfied with the work of the local police department, enraged Mildred constructs three unmissable billboards on the road leading out of Ebbing, designed to ask the major questions about the lacklustre investigation.

Biopic I, Tonya, which premiered in Sydney, Australia on Tuesday is the much-talked about skating film starring Margot Robbie as competitive ice skater Tonya Harding.

For the film, the Australian leading actress has received her first ever acting nomination, five years after the success of her breakout role in Wolf Of Wall Street.

Up against her, Ladybird's leading lady Saoirse Ronan is hoping it will be third time lucky, as she is named in the Best Actress category, against The Shape of Water's Hawkins, Three Billboards' Frances McDormand and Meryl Streep for The Post, which will be her 21st nomination in total.

There was triumph for Ladybird in the Best Director category, as Greta Gerwig became the first female to pick up a nomination in eight years, with her four-times nominated teen film.

The coming-of-age comedy follows an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl (Saoirse) growing up with her mother in Sacramento, California.

In 85 out of 89 years of Academy Awards history, the film directors field has come back with an all-male list of nominations, which makes Greta only the fifth ever female name.

This year, in the 90th year, Greta will face strong competition from Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), Jordan Peele (Get Out), Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) and Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water).

Another remarkable nod goes to US musician Mary J. Blige, who is the first person to be recognised in an acting category and a musical category in the same year.

Several films, and their stars have already experienced runaway success in the start to the 2018 awards season.

Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards belonged to the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

As well as taking the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, castmembers Sam Rockwell and McDormand took the gongs for Male Actor in a Supporting Role and Female Actor in a Leading Role.

Before that, the Golden Globes once again highlighted the success of Three Billboards, which won Best Motion Picture - Drama.

Lady Bird took home Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, and the film's star Saoirse Ronan won Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.

So far, Darkest Hour actor Oldman has won the Golden Globe award and the Screen Actors Guild for his role as Winston Churchill and is therefore hotly tipped for Oscars victory.

This will be the first Academy Awards ceremony since the sex scandal - brought on by multiple allegations made against producer Harvey Weinstein - which rocked Hollywood in 2017.

The fallout prompted Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp to go public with allegations that two-time Academy Award winning actor Kevin Spacey abused him when he was 14, and Spacey was 12 years his senior.

House Of Cards' Spacey was pulled from the production of one of this year's biggest films All The Money In The World, at the eleventh hour.

Just weeks before the film was due for release, scenes were completely reshot by leading actors Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg, with Christopher Plummer stepping into Spacey's shoes as the richest man in the world, J Paul Getty.

For his role in the thriller, about the high-profile kidnapping of his Getty's grandson, 88-year-old Plummer has now been nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for his stunning last-minute performance.

It is the only nomination that the film received, despite great expense incurred for the reshooting.

Other Best Supporting Actor nominations go to Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project), Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water) and Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).

Controversially, James Franco won Best Performance by an Actor - Musical or Comedy for The Disaster Artist at this year's Golden Globes, yet his attendance at the Oscars has been called into question, after harassment claims lodged against him.

He was noticeably left off the nominations list this year, despite denying the claims on late-night shows days before nomination voting closed last Friday.

Similarly, Aziz Ansari - who earned Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his work in Master Of None - has since been named in a sexual harassment case.

As of this year, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is banned from the ceremony, after being dropped as a member of the Academy.

This is the second time that Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the ceremony for the second year in a row.

This year was a triumph for British acting talent, as three out of the five Best Actor nominees - including Gary Oldman - are homegrown.

And while Daniel Day-Lewis (The Phantom Thread), who holds dual citizenship (UK and Ireland), has already been nominated by the Academy five times before, English actor Daniel Kaluuya has earned his first nod for Get Out.

They go up against rising star Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq).

Britain's Jacqueline Durran is double the double in the Costume Design category and humorously faces off against herself for both Beauty and the Beast and Darkest Hour.

In the Production Design Category fellow Brits Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer are also squaring up to each other for the same movies.</s>NEW YORK (AP) — Guillermo del Toro's lavish monster romance "The Shape of Water" has landed a leading 13 nominations and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director by the Academy Awards.

"Mudbound" cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman ever nominated in the category in nominations announced Tuesday.

The film academy voted in nine films as best picture contenders: "The Shape of Water," ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," ''Lady Bird," ''Get Out," ''The Post," ''Dunkirk," ''Call Me By Your Name" and "Phantom Thread."

"The Shape of Water" came just shy of tying the record of 14 nominations shared by "All About Eve," ''Titanic" and "La La Land."</s>ABOVE: Michael Shannon confronts Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer in ‘The Shape of Water.’ Photo courtesy Fox Searchlight.

The 90th annual Academy Awards announced the nominations on Tuesday with “The Shape of Water” leading the pack with 13 nominations including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

Gay love story “Call Me By Your Name” earned four nominations for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song for “Mystery of Love” by Sufjan Stevens and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet.

“A Fantastic Woman,” a Chilean film starring transgender newcomer Daniela Vega, also earned a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Notable nominations this year include Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) and Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) for Best Director. Peele is only the fifth African American director to receive the honor while Gerwig is only the fifth woman in the history of the awards to be nominated.

The 90th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, airs on Sunday, March 4 on ABC.

Check out the list of nominees below.

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 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 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 Original Screenplay

 “The Big Sick”

 “Get Out”

 “Lady Bird”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Best Adapted Screenplay

 “Call Me by Your Name”

 “The Disaster Artist”

 “Logan”

 “Molly’s Game”

 “Mudbound”

Best Documentary Feature

 “Abacus (Small Enough to Jail)”

 “Faces/Places”

 “Icarus”

 “Last Men in Aleppo”

 “Strong Island”

Best Documentary Short

 “Eden and Eddie”

 “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405”

 “Heroin/e”

 “Knife Skills”

 “Traffic Stop”

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 Film Editing

 “Baby Driver”

 “Dunkirk”

 “I, Tonya”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

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 Production Design

 “Beauty and the Beast”

 “Blade Runner 2049”

 “Darkest Hour”

 “Dunkirk”

 “The Shape of Water”

Best Costume Design

 “Beauty and the Beast”

 “Darkest Hour”

 “Phantom Thread”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Victoria & Abdul”

Best Sound Editing

 “Baby Driver”

 “Blade Runner 2049”

 “Dunkirk”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Best Sound Mixing

 “Baby Driver”

 “Blade Runner 2049”

 “Dunkirk”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Best Original Score

 “Baby Driver”

 “Blade Runner 2049”

 “Dunkirk”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Best Original Song

 “Might River” (“Mudbound”)

 “The Mystery of Love” (“Call Me By Your Name”)

 “Remember Me” (“Coco”)

 “Stand Up for Something” (“Marshall”)

 “This is Me” (“The Greatest Showman”)</s>Share this article with Google Plus

The Oscars nominations are out today, meaning we’ll finally know who’s up for the big accolades of Best Actor and Best Actress, as well as Best Film.

Hollywood’s awards season officially kicked off with the Golden Globes and the gongs continued to be doled out at last weekend’s SAG Awards.

And with the Oscars taking place in March, it’s finally time for the nominees to be announced today.

Here’s everything you need to know about the 2018 Academy Award nominations…

So when are the Oscar nominations being announced?

Voting for the 90th Academy Awards nominations closed on Friday 12 January.

The nominations announcement is taking place today, on Tuesday 23 January at 1.22pm, UK time.

You can watch them live on the Oscars website.

When are the Academy Awards taking place?

The Oscars will then take place on Monday 4 March at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

For those wanting to stay up to watch it on our shores, the ceremony kicks off at 1am on Tuesday 5 March.

This year’s ceremony, which will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, has been pushed back from its usual late-February slot to avoid clashing with the Winter Olympics, which are running from 9 February to 25 February in South Korea.

It will be Kimmel’s second time hosting the ceremony.

Who is likely to be nominated?

Nominations for the awards ceremonies before the Oscars – including the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and the SAGs – usually give a good indication as to how the Oscar nominations will go.

To give you a steer, check out the Golden Globes nominations below.

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MORE: Golden Globes 2018: Everything that happened on the night at the 75th annual awards</s>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on the announcement of nominees for the 90th annual Oscar nominations announced Tuesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from Beverly Hills, California (all times local):



 

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The Oscar nominees for best motion picture have been announced by the film academy. They include: "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."

 

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The Oscar nominees for best actress in a motion picture have been announced by the film academy. They are: 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."

 

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The Oscar nominees for best song in a motion picture have been announced by the film academy. They include: "Mighty River" from "Mudbound; "Mystery of Love" from "Call Me By Your Name"; "Remember Me" from "Coco"; "Stand Up for Something" from "Marshall; and "This is Me" from "The Greatest Showman."

 

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Oscar nominees for best foreign-language film have been announced by the film academy. They include: Chile's "A Fantastic Woman"; Russia's "Loveless"; Lebanon's "The Insult"; Hungary's "On Body and Soul"; and Sweden's "The Square."

 

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The Oscar nominees for best supporting actress in a motion picture have been announced by the film academy. They include: Mary J. Blige, "Mudbound"; Allison Janney, "I, Tonya"; Leslie Manville, "Phantom Thread"; Laurie Metcalf, "Lady Bird"; and Octavia Spencer, "The Shape of Water."

 

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The Oscar nominees for best original score in a motion picture have been announced by the film academy. They include: "Dunkirk," Hans Zimmer; "Phantom Thread," Jonny Greenwood; "The Shape of Water," Alexandre Desplat; "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," John Williams; "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," Carter Burwell.

 

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The Oscar nominees for best visual effects in a motion picture have been announced by the film academy. They include: "Blade Runner 2049," ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," ''Kong: Skull Island," ''Star Wars: The Last Jedi," ''War for the Planet of the Apes."

 

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The Oscar nominees for best cinematography in a motion picture have been announced by the film academy. They include: They are: Roger Deakins, "Blade Runner 2024"; Bruno Delbonnel, "Darkest Hour"; Hoyte van Hoytema, "Dunkirk"; Rachel Morrison, "Mudbound"; Dan Laustsen, "The Shape of Water."

 

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The Oscar nominations are about to begin.

 

Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis will host a nominations special scheduled to begin at 5:22 a.m. that will reveal the film academy's selections for the best in filmmaking from performances to production design.

 

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been teasing segments appearances by stars including Gal Gadot, Salma Hayek and Rebel Wilson in pre-recorded segments. The nominations in 24 categories will be split between two presentations, the first streamed on Oscars.com and Oscars.org, and the segment airing live on "Good Morning America."

 

The 90th annual Academy Awards will be presented in a Feb. 26 ceremony hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel and aired live on ABC.

 

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Guillermo del Toro's lavish monster romance "The Shape of Water" will vie for the most Oscar nominations Tuesday, but just as much attention may be focused on categories where women could make history.

 

Nominations for the 90th annual Academy Awards will begin at 8:22 a.m. EST, with a second wave of nominees announced live on ABC's "Good Morning America" at 8:38 a.m. Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis will join John Bailey, president of the film academy, to announce the nominees.

 

While this year's Oscar race has been unusually wide-open, "The Shape of Water" has a chance to tie "All About Eve," ''Titanic" and "La La Land" with a record 14 nominations.

 

"Lady Bird" filmmaker Greta Gerwig is expected to be just the fifth woman nominated in the category. "Mudbound" cinematographer Rachel Morrison could also become the first woman ever nominated for best cinematography.

 

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For full coverage of awards season, visit: https://apnews.com/tag/AwardsSeason</s>NEW YORK >> Guillermo del Toro’s lavish monster romance “The Shape of Water” fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director and “Mudbound” cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman to earn a nod in that category in nominations announced Tuesday for the 90th annual Academy Awards.

Oscar voters put forward nine best-picture nominees: “The Shape of Water,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” “Lady Bird,” “Get Out,” “The Post,” “Dunkirk,” “Call Me By Your Name” and “Phantom Thread.”

The cascading fallout of sexual harassment scandals throughout Hollywood put particular focus on the best director category, which for many is a symbol of gender inequality in the film industry. Gerwig follows only Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola and Kathryn Bigelow, the sole woman to win (for “The Hurt Locker”).

Also nominated for best director was “Get Out” director Jordan Peele. He becomes the fifth black filmmaker nominated for best director, and third to helm a best-picture nominee, following Barry Jenkins last year for “Moonlight.”

Though all of the front-runners — Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards”), Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”), Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”), Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards”) — landed their expected nominations, there were surprises.

Denzel Washington (“Roman J. Israel, Esq.”) was nominated for best actor, likely eclipsing James Franco (“Disaster Artist”). Franco was accused of sexual misconduct, which he denied, just days before Oscar voting closed.

Last year’s Oscars broadcast, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, drew 32.9 million viewers for ABC, a four percent drop from the prior year. More worrisome, however, was a steeper slide in the key demographic of adults aged 18-49, whose viewership was down 14 percent from 2016.

Though the show ran especially long, at three hours and 49 minutes, it finished with a bang: the infamous envelope mix-up that led to “La La Land” being incorrectly announced as the best picture before “Moonlight” was crowned.

This year, the academy has prohibited the PwC accountants who handle the envelopes from using cellphones or social media during the show. The accounting firm on Monday also unveiled several reforms including the addition of a third balloting partner in the show’s control room. Neither of the PwC representatives involved in the mishap last year, Brian Cullinan or Martha Ruiz, will return to the show.

But the movie business has larger accounting problems. Movie attendance hit a 24-year low in 2017 despite the firepower of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2.” An especially dismal summer movie season was 92 million admissions shy of summer 2016, according to the National Alliance of Theater Owners.

Still, the summer produced one best-picture favorite, “Dunkirk,” which grossed $525.6 million worldwide. Warner Bros.’ Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman,” released in June to $821.8 million in ticket sales, became the highest grossing movie ever directed by a woman, though it did not receive any Oscar nods.

But the box-office hit that carved the most unlikely path to the Oscars is “Get Out.” It opened back in February on Oscar weekend, and went on to pocket $254.7 million worldwide. Though “Get Out” and “Dunkirk” lend a blockbuster punch to the best-picture field — something that has historically helped ratings of the broadcast — the other films in the mix are smaller indies.

It was a dominant if bittersweet day for 20th Century Fox. Its specialty label, Fox Searchlight, is behind both “Three Billboards” and “The Shape of Water,” and Fox released The Post.” Yet those wins may soon count for the Walt Disney Co., which last month reached a deal to purchase Fox for $52.4 billion.

Both Amazon and Netflix failed to crack the best picture category but earned nominations elsewhere. Netflix’s “Mudbound” scored a best-supporting nod for Mary J. Blige and Amazon’s “The Big Sick” grabbed a nomination for Holly Hunter in the same category. “The Big Sick” also scored an original screenplay nod.</s>The Shape of Water has swept the 2018 Oscar nominations with 13 noms, including Best Picture and Best Director. And Get Out didn't disappoint with noms for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Actress-comedian Tiffany Haddish and actor-director Andy Serkis, joined by Academy President John Bailey, announced the 90th Academy Awards nominations today (January 23) live from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater via a global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy's digital platforms, a satellite feed and broadcast media. Haddish and Serkis announced the nominees in 11 categories at 5:22 a.m. PT, with pre-taped category introductions by Academy members Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson, Gal Gadot, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Molly Shannon, Rebel Wilson and Michelle Yeoh. Haddish and Serkis announced the remaining 13 categories at 5:38 a.m. PT.

At 5:22 a.m. PST, the nominees were announced in the following categories: Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects. At 5:38:30 a.m. PST, the nominees will be announced in the following categories (listed here in no particular order): Actor in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Animated Feature Film, Directing, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Original Song, Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay.

Some of the big nominations in all categories went to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Post, Lady Bird, Darkest Night, and Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk and Phantom Thread, all of which garnered Best Picture nominations. When it all was said and done, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water lead the way with 13 nominations, followed by Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk with eight nominations and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with seven nominations.

Get Out filmmaker Jordan Peele became just the third filmmaker in Oscar history to receive nominations for writing and directing for his first feature film as a director. That feat was only accomplished by Warren Beatty for Heaven Can Wait (1978), nominations which he shared with Buck Henry, and James L. Brooks with Terms of Endearment (1983). Greta Gerwig also became just the fifth woman to be nominated for Best Director, followed by Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties (1976), Jane Campion for The Piano (1993), Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003) and Kathryn Bigelow, who won the award for The Hurt Locker (2009). Meryl Streep also extends her record as the most-nominated performer ever with 21 nominations with her nod for Best Actress for The Post.

Academy members from each of the 17 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories - actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all 24 categories beginning Tuesday, February 20 through Tuesday, February 27. The 90th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. Here is the full list of winners.</s>related media assets (image or videos) available. Click to see the gallery.

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Fox Searchlight's fantasy drama "The Shape of Water," about a woman who falls in love with a strange river creature, led the Oscar nominations on Tuesday with 13 nods, including the top prize for best picture.

LOS ANGELES: Fox Searchlight's fantasy drama "The Shape of Water," about a woman who falls in love with a strange river creature, led the Oscar nominations on Tuesday with 13 nods, including the top prize for best picture.

It will contend with gay romance "Call Me By Your Name," British World War Two dramas "Darkest Hour" and "Dunkirk," racial thriller "Get Out," mother-daughter tale "Lady Bird," romance "Phantom Thread," press freedom movie "The Post" and dark comedy "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" for the best picture award at the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on March 4.

"The Shape of Water" earned nominations in all major categories, including for its director Guillermo del Toro, and for actors Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer.

"Dunkirk," from Warner Bros., followed with eight nominations, including for director Christopher Nolan. "Three Billboards," also from Fox Searchlight, had seven, including acting nods for Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell.

Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman ever to be nominated for a best director Oscar, for "Lady Bird." The movie also won a lead actress nomination for Saoirse Ronan and for supporting actress Laurie Metcalf.
The nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards are announced. Among the films nominated as the best of 2017 in film, The Shape of Water leads with thirteen nominations, with Dunkirk following behind with eight nominations.