Oscar season has finally arrived! After months of speculation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have released their selections for the best of 2018. Take a look at the nominations and let us know in the comments any major surprises or snubs you have! Most notably (and a surprise to some) was that Black Panther received 7 total nominations – including Best Picture!
Here are the nominations:
Best Picture
Black Panther (Disney)
Kevin Feige, Producer
BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)
Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers
Bohemian Rhapsody
Graham King, Producer
The Favourite
Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers
Green Book
Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers
Roma
Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers
A Star Is Born
Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers
Vice
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
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?
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
Directing
BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee
Cold War
Paweł Pawlikowski
The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
Vice
Adam McKay
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
Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams, Vice
Marina de Tavira, Roma
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
BlacKkKlansman
Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
If Beale Street Could Talk
Written for the screen by Barry Jenkins
A Star Is Born
Screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters
Original Screenplay
The Favourite
Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
First Reformed
Written by Paul Schrader
Green Book
Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
Roma
Written by Alfonso Cuarón
Vice
Written by Adam McKay
Cinematography
Cold War
Łukasz Żal
The Favourite
Robbie Ryan
Never Look Away
Caleb Deschanel
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
A Star Is Born
Matthew Libatique
Production Design
Black Panther
Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart
The Favourite
Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
First Man
Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas
Mary Poppins Returns
Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
Roma
Production Design: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Bárbara Enríquez
Costume Design
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Mary Zophres
Black Panther
Ruth Carter
The Favourite
Sandy Powell
Mary Poppins Returns
Sandy Powell
Mary Queen of Scots
Alexandra Byrne
Film Editing
BlacKkKlansman
Barry Alexander Brown
Bohemian Rhapsody
John Ottman
The Favourite
Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Green Book
Patrick J. Don Vito
Vice
Hank Corwin
Foreign Language Film
Capernaum (Lebanon)
Cold War (Poland)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)
Documentary Feature
Free Solo
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim
Minding the Gap
Bing Liu and Diane Quon
Of Fathers and Sons
Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert
RBG
Betsy West and Julie Cohen
Documentary Short Subject
Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End Of Sentence
Animated Feature Film
Incredibles 2
Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle
Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson
Mirai
Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Animated Short Film
Animal Behaviour
Alison Snowden and David Fine
Bao
Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb
Late Afternoon
Louise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco
One Small Step
Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas
Weekends
Trevor Jimenez
Live Action Short Film
Detainment
Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon
Fauve
Jeremy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon
Marguerite
Marianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset
Mother
Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado
Skin
Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman
Original Score
Black Panther
Ludwig Goransson
BlacKkKlansman
Terence Blanchard
If Beale Street Could Talk
Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs
Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns
Marc Shaiman
Original Song
“All The Stars” from Black Panther
Music by Mark Spears, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Anthony Tiffith; Lyric by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Anthony Tiffith and Solana Rowe
“I’ll Fight” from RBG
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns
Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyric by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
“Shallow” from A Star Is Born
Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt
“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Music and Lyric by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity War
Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick
Christopher Robin
Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould
First Man
Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm
Ready Player One
Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy
Makeup and Hairstyling
Border
Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer
Mary Queen of Scots
Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks
Vice
Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney
Sound Editing
Black Panther
Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker
Bohemian Rhapsody
John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone
First Man
Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
A Quiet Place
Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
Roma
Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay
Sound Mixing
Black Panther
Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin
Bohemian Rhapsody
Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali
First Man
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis
Roma
Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García
A Star Is Born
Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow
So there you have it. Tell us your thoughts on the nominations below!