The Shape of Water won a total of 4 awards, including for best film, at the Oscars 2018. Dunkirk took home wins in 3 technical categories, while Coco won the trophy for best animated film and Blade Runner 2049 was honored with best special effects and cinematography.
Quiet evening for Amazon & Netflix
2018 marks the 90th anniversary for the Oscars, or Academy Awards, where Hollywood meets to celebrate the best of the best. For a few years now, the powers that be have been anxiously observing the new kids on the block, Amazon and Netflix, trying to gauge to what extent they can make their mark on the industry.
However, this year belonged to the incumbents. Netflix grabbed 8 Oscar nominations, most for Mudbound, whereas Amazon had a single for The Big Sick. None of these films took home any awards but Netflix did score a single trophy for its documentary film Icarus on the Russian doping scandal.
One can argue merits but it is a fact that any movie must complete a qualifying run at the cinema before it can enter the competition. It is the second rule of play: ”Publicly exhibited by means of 35mm or 70mm film, or in a 24- or 48-frame progressive scan Digital Cinema format with a minimum projector resolution of 2048 by 1080 pixels”.
Best film: The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water won in 4 categories, including “the big one” for best film. It was nominated in a total of 13 categories.
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk won in 3 technical categories. Many critics had pointed to these two movies as the biggest candidates for the best film.
Pixar’s Coco won the Oscars for best animated film and for best original song. Blade Runner 2049 won 2 Oscars for best special effects and best cinematography. Darkest Hour was nominated in 6 categories and took home 2 wins, the same amount as Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi was nominated in 4 categories but the team left empty-handed.
You can see all of the categories at the Oscars 2018 below. Winners in bold.
Academy Awards 2018
BEST MOTION 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
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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
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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
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square
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DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
Edith + Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
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DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
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ORIGINAL SONG
Mighty River, Mudbound
Mystery of Love, Call Me by Your Name
Remember Me, Coco
Stand Up For Something, Marshall
This is Me, Greatest Showman
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ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boss Baby
The Breadman
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
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ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly's Game
Mudbound
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ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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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.
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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
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DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
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PRODUCTION DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
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CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water
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COSTUME DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul
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SOUND EDITING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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SOUND MIXING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
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LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O'Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us
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ORIGINAL SCORE
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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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
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FILM EDITING
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Darkest Hour
Victoria and Abdul
Wonder |
- Source: Academy Awards via CNN
