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Friday, March 2, 2018

90th Academy Awards: Best Picture

The nominees are:

Call Me By Your Name

Plot: A teenage boy falls in love with the male student of his professor father, who comes to stay with his family during the summer.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* Peter Spears: First nomination

* Luca Guadagnino: First nomination

* Emilie Georges: First nomination

* Marco Morabito: First nomination

Total Nominations for Film: 4 (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song)


Darkest Hour

Plot: Newly appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler or fight his regime during the early days of WWII.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* Tim Bevan: 4 previous nominations for Best Picture

* Eric Fellner: 5 previous nominations for Best Picture

* Lisa Bruce: 1 previous nomination for Best Picture

* Anthony McCarten: 1 previous nomination for Best Picture, 1 nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay

* Douglas Urbanski: First nomination

Total Nominations for Film: 6 (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling)


Dunkirk

Plot: The evacuation of the beaches of Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* Emma Thomas: 1 previous nomination for Best Picture

* Christopher Nolan: 1 previous nomination for Best Picture, 2 nominations for Best Original Screenplay; also nominated for Best Director

Total Nominations for Film: 8 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Original Score)


Get Out

Plot: A man goes out of town with his girlfriend to visit her parents and discovers a nefarious plot.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* Sean McKittrick: First nomination

* Jason Blum: 1 previous nomination for Best Picture

* Edward H. Hamm, Jr.: First nomination

* Jordan Peele: Also nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay

Total Nominations for Film: 4 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay)


Lady Bird

Plot: A teenage girl comes of age and plots her escape from her hometown of Sacramento.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* Scott Rudin: 1 win for Best Picture, 7 previous nominations for Best Picture

* Eli Bush: First nomination

* Evelyn O'Neill: First nomination

Total Nominations for Film: 5 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay)


Phantom Thread

Plot: A fashion designer's carefully ordered life is disrupted by his latest muse.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* JoAnne Sellar: 1 previous nomination for Best Picture

* Paul Thomas Anderson: 1 previous nomination for Best Picture, 2 nominations for Best Original Screenplay, 2 nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, 1 nomination for Best Director; also nominated for Best Director

* Megan Ellison: 3 previous nominations for Best Picture

* Daniel Lupi: 1 previous nomination for Best Picture

Total Nominations for Film: 6 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score)


The Post

Plot: The publisher and editor-in-chief of the Washington Post come into possession of the Pentagon Papers and must decide whether to publish them and risk the wrath of the Nixon administration.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* Amy Pascal: First nomination

* Steven Spielberg: 1 win for Best Picture, 2 wins for Best Director, 1 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award; 8 previous nominations for Best Picture, 5 nominations for Best Director

* Kristie Macosko Krieger: 1 previous nomination for Best Picture

Total Nominations for Film: 2 (Best Picture, Best Actress)


The Shape of Water

Plot: A mute janitor falls in love with a humanoid amphibian and tries to break him out of a government facility.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* Guillermo del Toro: 1 previous nomination for Best Original Screenplay; also nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay

* J. Miles Dale: First nomination

Total Nominations for Film: 13 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Original Score)


Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Plot: The mother of a murdered teenager seeks justice by purchasing advertising space on three billboards.

Nominated Producers and Oscar History:

* Graham Broadbent: First nomination

* Peter Czernin: First nomination

* Martin McDonagh: 1 win for Best Live Action Short Film, 1 previous nomination for Best Original Screenplay; also nominated for Best Original Screenplay

Total Nominations for Film: 7 (Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score)


What I've Seen: 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

Not Nominated But Should Have Been: Lady Macbeth

My Pick: Lady Bird

Predicted Winner: The Shape of Water

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