Coral

That might be for Best Director, but there are only 9 films nominated for BP... so they didn't have to substitute TDA for any other film - they could've just had 8 nominations instead.
I think TDA just got dropped and they left everything else as is.

In any case, I think it's stupid to drop TDA/Franco just because of the allegations. Whether Franco is guilty or not - the work stands on its own merits.

Perkinsun Dzees

Predictions:

Best Picture:
Three Billboards

Lead Actor:
Gary Oldman

Lead Actress:
Frances McDormand (Possible upset: Margot Robbie)

Supporting Actor:
Sam Rockwell (Possible upset: Willem Dafoe)

Supporting Actress:
Alison Janney (Possible upset: Laurie Metcalf)

Director:
Guillermo Del Toro (Possible upset: Greta Gerwig)

Animated Feature:
Coco

Cinematography:
Blade Runner 2049, Roger Deakins

Makeup and Hair:
Darkest Hour

Adapted Screenplay:
The Disaster Artist, Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (Possible upset: Logan)

Original Screenplay:
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig

Film Editing:
Dunkirk, Lee Smith

Original Score:
The Shape of Water, Alexandre Desplat

Original Song:
'This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

TheHive08

I know there's a lot of Three Billboards dislike on this forum, but damn I hope Sam Rockwell wins an Oscar. Love he's getting all of this recognition.

AaronHernandez

Disaster Artist didn't get nominated by the Directors at DGA or Bafta which voted well before his scandal came out. Anderson probably leapfrogged the 3 Billboards or Blade Runner Director.

wendersfan

Given that The Florida Project was probably the best (English language) movie of the year, but only got one nomination (for Willem Dafoe), I disagree with you 100%.

kefrank

I'm impressed to see Logan nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. I'm curious if there have been other Adapted Screenplay nominations for "superhero comic" movies.

Throwing Copper

Absolute bullshit. One of the best films of the year that was nominated for damn near everything else that anyone cares about, and no directing nod. Laughable.

RichC2

To each their own. I liked the screenplay and acting, but didn't really care for a lot of the directing choices -- some aspects just came off as too stage-y and bothered me in an otherwise involving film.

Throwing Copper

Yes. Loved Phantom Thread getting SIX nominations. Who in the world saw that coming?

I think Vicky Krieps should have been nominated for her acting role, though.

Throwing Copper

I know it is a little and not well known movie, and nobody saw it. But how does an incredible movie like The Florida Project NOT get nominated for Best Picture when there can be up to 10 movies?

Ridiculous. Everyone that sees it says how good it is.

Coral

Just noticed that Roger Deakins got yet another Cinematography nod for Blade Runner.

He's up against Dunkirk, so I guess he'll be 0-14 now.

Throwing Copper

I've never seen anything that the current IT GIRL, Tiffany Haddish, has done. But could they at least get someone who can read and speak properly to announced the damn awards?

That was painful to sit through. About halfway through, you just expected her to flub every other name, which should have been rehearsed in the first place. Thank God the King of CGI was there to balance it out.

bluetoast

Whatever, she had a few good jokes, that was fine.

Orbi-Wan Techno

Glad to see that Baby Driver is at least being recognized in the Sound categories.

RichC2

Film Editing is one of the major categories, so it has that too.

Dan

Same; there's only two I haven't seen yet, and they're both movies I'm actually interested in seeing, so that's actually a decent list.

But BR2049 should have been on there. I kind of expected that it wouldn't, so I'm not surprised... I'm just disappointed.

story

The real winner is Movie Pass. Wouldn't have seen so many of these nominated films, if not for that. Plus, will see even more with some of them getting a limited pre-release in Oscar season.

Bummed Logan wasn't up for Best Picture. That would've been something.

dex14

People still have to vote for it.

Why So Blu?

Shape of Water is gonna win it all! It's time to complete the Mexican Directors trilogy -- Cuaron and Iņarritu already have Oscars, so it's time for GDT to join the club.

Ash Ketchum

First year that both Pokémon and Power Rangers were eligible for Oscars and...nothing.

inri222

GDT doesn't deserve it until he films a movie in the south pole and has Ron Perlman eat a raw polar bear liver.

EinCB

Haven't seen it yet, but surprised Detroit didn't get anything.

dex14

Whoever is responsible for releasing that in the summer should be fired. That for sure would've been a contender if positioned correctly.

inri222

Yes it would. I thought it was way better than the super overrated Zero Dark Thirty.

RichC2

Yep, bad timing crushed that one.