On March 4, 2018, the 90th Annual Academy Awards will transpire. Elite actors and actresses will don their couture clothing and celebrate the year's best films, and if you're like me, you'll be sitting on your couch in yoga pants watching it all. So far this awards season, there have been several crowd favorite films. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, The Shape of Water, and Call Me By Your Name have all been very popular at previous awards shows, but who knows which film will dominate at this year's Academy Awards.
The most coveted nomination at the Academy Awards each year is always Best Picture. This year's nominees 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. If I had to pick a winner of these films, Lady Bird would win, hands down. However, I predict Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri will snag this Oscar because they've won best picture at nearly every other awards show this season.
I imagine one of the biggest accomplishments as an actor or actress would be snagging an Oscar nomination, let alone winning on Oscar! This years nominees for Actor in a Leading Role are Timothee Chalamet, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya, Gary Oldman, and Denzel Washington. Based off previous awards shows, I think Timothee Chalamet or Gary Oldman could take this one.
As for the ladies, nominations for Actress in a Leading Role include Sally Hawkins, Frances McDormand, Margot Robbie, Saoirse Ronan, and Meryl Streep. Based on the past response, Frances McDormand could be favored to win in this category, though any of these brilliant women could snag the Oscar. Not that I'm playing favorites, but go Saoirse!
In film, some of our favorite characters aren't always the leading men or women, which is why the Academy nominates actors and actresses in supporting roles. This years nominees for Actor in a Supporting Role are Willem Dafoe, Woody Harrelson, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer and Sam Rockwell. The nominees for Actress in a Supporting Role are Mary J. Blige, Allison Janney, Lesley Manville, Laurie Metcalf, and Octavia Spencer.
Other nomination categories include Animated Feature Film, Cinematography, Costume Design, Directing, Feature Documentary, Short Subject Documentary, Film Editing, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay and more. Be sure to tune in on ABC, March 4, at 8 p.m EST.
For a complete list of this year's nominees, click here.
