2018 Oscar Nominations Include THE SHAPE OF WATER and GET OUT for Best Picture and Directing

The 2018 Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. While it was expected that Guillermo del Toro would be nominated for The Shape of Water, the movie leads with the most nominations this year and we were happy to see multiple nominations for Jordan Peele's Get Out.

The Shape of Water picked up 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Directing (Guillermo del Toro), Actress in a Leading Role (Sally Hawkins), Writing (Original Screenplay), Actor in a Supporting Role (Richard Jenkins), Actress in a Supporting Role (Octavia Spencer), Film Editing, Music (Original Score), Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Costume Design, Cinematography, and Production Design.

Meanwhile, Get Out was nominated for Best Picture, along with Directing (Jordan Peele), Actor in a Leading Role (Daniel Kaluuya), and Original Screenplay. Other genre movies featured this year included The Last Jedi, Logan, and Blade Runner 2049.

As Daily Dead readers know, genre films are often under-represented at the Oscars, so it's very exciting to see these movies getting the kind of recognition they deserve. We wish the best of luck to Guillermo del Toro, Jordan Peele, and the other nominees. We'll find out who takes home awards on March 4th at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the 2018 award ceremony, celebrating its 90th year. Here's the full list of nominations via NPR:

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

Directing

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

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)

Actor in a leading role

• Timothee 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.)

Writing (original screenplay)

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

Writing (adapted screenplay)

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

Animated feature film

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

Music (original song)

• "Mighty River" (Mudbound)
• "Mystery of Love" (Call Me By Your Name)
• "Remember Me" (Coco)
• "Stand Up for Something" (Marshall)
• "This is Me" (The Greatest Showman)

Documentary (feature)

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

Documentary (short subject)

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

Foreign language film

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

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)

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)

Makeup and hairstyling

• Darkest Hour
• Victoria And Abdul
• Wonder

Film editing

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

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

Music (original score)

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

Short film (live action)

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

Short film (animated)

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

Sound mixing

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

Sound editing

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

Costume design

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

Cinematography

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

Production design

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