The 2018 Academy Awards nominees are out and, for the first time ever, a superhero movie has made it into the Best Picture Category. Black Panther probably won’t win, but it’s a nice nod to the genre that has certainly matured in the last decade.
What films are pleased to see on the list? Which one are you not? And which films do you think got snubbed?
Genre films are in bold.
Best Picture
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star is Born
Vice
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Lady Gaga, A Star is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott, A Star is Born
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me
Sam Rockwell, Vice
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams, Vice
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Marina De Tavira, Roma
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star is Born
Best Writing, Original Screenplay
The Favourite
First Reformed
Green Book
Roma
Vice
Best Animated Film
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Cinematography
Cold War
The Favourite
Never Look Away
Roma
A Star is Born
Costume Design
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots
Makeup and Hairstyling
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Vice
Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Adam McKay, Vice
Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War
Production Design
Black Panther
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma
Film Editing
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice
Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Best Original Score
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns
Best Original Song
“All the Stars,” Black Panther
“I’ll Fight,” RBG
“The Place Where the Lost Things Go,” Mary Poppins Returns
“Shallow,” A Star is Born
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings,” The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Sound Editing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
A Quiet Place
Roma
Sound Mixing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Roma
A Star is Born
Best Feature-Length Documentary
Free Solo
Hale Country This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG
Best Short-Length Documentary
Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence
Best Foreign Language Film
Capernaum
Cold War
Never Look Away
Roma
Shoplifters
Best Animated Short Film
Animal Behaviour
Bao
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends
Best Live-Action Short Film
Detainment
Fauve
Margueritte
Mother
Skin
While I’m thrilled to see RBG on the Documentary list, I find it nigh-criminal that Won’t You Be My Neighbor didn’t make the list.
It’ll be interesting to see who nabs Animated Picture with a Pixar film going up against a Wes Anderson film. (I know geekdom loves Spider-Verse, but think about which films the Academy voters will actually see before voting)
How did Three Identical Strangers not get a best Doc nomination? I would put that above Won’t You Be My Neighbor, and I agree with your assessment of Won’t You Be My Neighbor.
I had forgotten about Strangers (haven’t seen it, but have heard first-hand reviews that they liked it).
I reviewed it here, but I’ve seriously thought about reviewing it at the Bureau. It has a strong science angle (especially the second half), and it’s bizarre enough to be genre. At the same time, it’s far more disturbing to go into it cold. I knew the popular public story from the 1980s, heard it turned dark in the 1990s, but had no idea just how dark it turned.
On another note, I’m surprised A Quiet Place received no actor nods. That would have been good, in addition to the paradoxical nomination it did receive.
I loved Spider-Verse, I am glad to see it got a nod, too. Not that I think it was an Award style movie, it certainly was pretty, so…