The Oscar’s are once again approaching rapidly. Ballots were turned in this past January 12th and nominations will finally be out tomorrow morning. Stream it online at 8:20AM ET on the Oscar’s official YouTube channel.

This year is as competitive as any recent year with many movies, directors, actors and actresses competing neck to neck for the golden statue. Both of us at filmandtonic are rooting for many of them, and we are very much hoping for some diversity and inclusion in this year nominations. Greta Gerwig comes to mind with her beautiful work on Lady Bird, and Jordan Peele for his fantastic and racially complex film, Get Out. On the actor and actress’ side we have many possible diverse contestants including Daniel Kaluuya and the wonderful Mary J Blidge. More especially, perhaps, we hope for Rachel Morrison to be recognized for her powerful work as Mudbound’s DP. If she gets a nomination, as we think she will, she’d be the first woman cinematographer to be ever nominated for this award.

We expect the following nominees, in no particular order:

Best Actress

1- Frances Mcdormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

2- Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)

3-  Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)

4- Meryl Streep (The Post)

5- Nicole Kidman ( The Beguiled)

Best  Supporting Actress

1- Allison Janney (I, Tonya)

2- Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)

3- Holly Hunter (The Big Sick)

4- Mary J. Blidge (Mudbound)

5- Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water)

Best Actor

1- Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)

2- Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name)

3- Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)

4- Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)

5- James Franco (The Disaster Artist)

Best Supporting Actor

1- Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

2- Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)

3- Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water)

4- Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name)

5- Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name)

Adapted Screenplay

1- Call Me By Your Name

2- Mudbound

3- Molly’s Game

4- The Disaster Artist

5- The Beguiled

Original Screenplay

1- Lady Bird

2- Get Out

3- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

4- The Shape of Water

5- The Big Sick

Cinematography

1- Richard Denkins (Blade RUnner 2049)

2-  Hoyte van Hoytema (Dunkirk)

3- Dan Laustsen (The Shape of Water)

4- Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Call Me By Your Name)

5- Rachel Morrison (Mudbound)

Costume Design

1- Phantom Thread

2- The Shape of Water

3- The Beguiled

4- The Greatest Showman

5- Beauty and the Beast

Best Film Editing

1- Dunkirk

2- The Shape of Water

3- Blade Runner 2049

4- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

5- Get Out

Production Design

1- The Shape of Water

2- Phantom Thread

3- Dunkirk

4- Darkest Hour

5- Blade Runner 2049

Score

1- Alexander Desplat  (The Shape of Water)

2- Dunkirk (Hans Zimmer)

3- Phantom Thread (Jonny Greenwood)

4- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Carter Burwell)

5- The Post (John Williams)

Song

1- This is Me (The Greatest Showman)

2- Remember Me (Coco)

3- The Mystery of Love (Call Me By Your Name)

4- Evermore (Beauty and the Beast)

5- Mighty River (Mudbound)

Best Animated Film

1- Coco

2- The Breadwinner

3- Loving Vincent

4- The Lego Batman Movie

5- Mary and the Witch’s Flower

Best Docummentary

1- Jane

2- Faces Places

3- City of Ghosts

4- Icarus

5- An Inconvenient Sequel

Best Foreign Film

1- A Fantastic Woman

2- The Square

3- In the Fade

4- Foxtrot

5- Loveless

Best FIlm

1- The Shape of Water *front runner*

2- Three Billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri *front runner*

3- The Post

4- Call Me By Your Name

5- Lady Bird

6- Dunkirk

6- The Florida Project

7- Get Out

8- Mudbound

9- Phantom Thread