90th Oscar Nominations Announced

Phantom Thread gets a surprise boost.

The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, with a few shocks and snubs as usual. I saw The Shape of Water and Phantom Thread on Sunday, and the unexpected Oscar love for the latter is wonderful. Christopher Plummer's historic nomination still astounds me, but I haven't even seen the film yet. And that Logan screenplay nomination is awesome. I suppose I did okay with my predictions on the whole, though I'm kicking myself in some categories. Overall, I love the nominees this year. Check out how I did on my predictions 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

How I did: 7/9 (predicted 8, missed Phantom Thread and Darkest Hour)

BEST DIRECTOR:
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out

How I did: 3/5 (missed Anderson and Peele)

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.

How I did: 4/5 (missed Washington)

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

How I did: 5/5

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

How I did: 4/5 (missed Plummer)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

How I did: 4/5 (missed Spencer)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly's Game
Mudbound

How I did: 4/5 (missed Logan)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

How I did: 4/5 (missed The Big Sick)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

How I did: 4/5 (missed Dunkirk)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water

How I did: 5/5

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul

How I did: 3/5 (missed Darkest Hour and Victoria & Abdul)

BEST FILM EDITING:
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

How I did: 5/5

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

How I did: 3/5 (missed Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Mighty River" from Mudbound
"Mystery of Love" from Call Me by Your Name
"Remember Me" from Coco
"Stand Up for Something" from Marshall
"This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman

How I did: 4/5 (missed Mudbound)

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

How I did: 1/3 (missed Victoria & Abdul and Wonder)

BEST SOUND MIXING:
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

How I did: 5/5

BEST SOUND EDITING:
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

How I did: 5/5

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

How I did: 3/5 (missed Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 and Kong: Skull Island)

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

How I did: 3/5 (missed The Boss Baby and Ferdinand)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)

How I did: 3/5 (missed The Insult and On Body and Soul)

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

How I did: 3/5 (missed Abacus: Small Enough to Jail and Strong Island)

How I did overall: 82/107, or 77%