Tonight’s the night: It’s nearly showtime at the 90th Academy Awards, featuring returning host Jimmy Kimmel and, for some reason, returning Best Picture presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. We’d have preferred La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz, but what can you do?
At any rate, this evening’s Oscars will be a compelling show, and not just because of that “Mystery of Love” performance from Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent and company. These are the first Academy Awards in the post-Harvey Weinstein era, after all, and we imagine there are some powerful acceptance speeches in the offing, although Hollywood has many demons left to exorcise.
In terms of the awards themselves, there are plenty of categories that appear to be locked up already, but also a handful of close races poised to deliver some serious intrigue. History may very well be made tonight, as it was with the announcement of this year’s nominees. We can only hope the arc of the Oscars’ many egregious imbalances will continue to bend towards inclusivity.
Whether you’re endeavoring to lay waste to your Oscar pool or just sound smart at your Oscars party, you would do well to check out Paste’s 2018 Oscars preview, featuring the Paste Movies team’s picks for who will (and should) win in all 24 categories, plus links to our various advocations for individual films. An Oscar-inspired cocktail or two certainly wouldn’t hurt, either.
Watch this space to follow along with tonight’s results in real time, starting alongside the ceremony at 8 p.m. EST. In the meantime, you can check out the nominees for each category below—winners will be offset in bold as they are announced.
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
Lead Actor
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.
Lead Actress
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
Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
— Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Supporting Actor
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
Director
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan
Get Out, Jordan Peele
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig
Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson
— The Shape of Water, Guillermo Del Toro
Adapted Screenplay
— Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound
Original Screenplay
The Big Sick
— Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Animated Feature
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
— Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
Animated Short
— Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
Foreign-Language Film
— A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square
Documentary Short
Edith+Eddie
— Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
Documentary Feature
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
— Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
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
Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
— The Shape of Water
Cinematography
— Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water
Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
— Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul
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
Live Action Short
Dekalb Elementary
The 11 O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
— The Silent Child
Watu Wote / All of Us
Original Score
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
— The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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
Film Editing
Baby Driver
— Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Makeup & Hairstyling
— Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder