Oscar Nominations Cap Excellent Year For Irish Actors

The big Irish news coming out of the Oscar nominations which were just announced, is that Saoirse Ronan has been nominated for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her role as the title character in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird.

This is the 3rd Academy Award nomination for Ronan who is still only 23, a fantastic achievement. She was previously nominated for Atonement and Brooklyn so, hopefully third time will be a charm for the Carlow actress.

Martin McDonagh was surprisingly snubbed for a Best Director nomination, having just won the Golden Globe for the same achievement. However he is nominated as a Producer for Best Picture and also for Best Original Screenplay. His film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri is nominated for seven awards overall.

Daniel Day-Lewis, who has the record for the most wins for Best Actor (3) has been nominated for his sixth Oscar for his role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, which Day-Lewis has said will be his final film as an actor.

In further Irish interest, The Bread Winner, directed by Cork's Nora Twomey and produced by Cartoon Saloon was nominated for Best Animated Feature.

In other Oscar news Greta Gerwig crazily became only the 5th woman ever to be nominated for Best Director for her film Lady Bird. History has been made by two other ladies also, Meryl Streep has received her 21st Oscar nomination for the role in The Post, furthering her record as the most nominated actor ever and Mudbound cinematographer Rachel Morrison becomes the first female cinematographer in the 90 year history to be nominated.

The Full List of Nominees for the 2018 Academy Awards Are:

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

Directing

• Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
• Jordan Peele, Get Out
• Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
• Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
• Guillermo del Toro, Shape of Water

Actor in a Leading Role

• 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.

Actress in a Leading Role

• 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

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
• Allison Janney, I, Tonya
• Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
• Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
• Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Actor in a Supporting Role

• 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

Adapted Screenplay

• James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name
• Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
• Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, Logan
• Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game
• Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound

Original Screenplay

• Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
• Jordan Peele, Get Out
• Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
• Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water
• Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Animated Feature Film

• The Boss Baby
• The Breadwinner
• Coco
• Ferdinand
• Loving Vincent

Foreign Language Film

• A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
• The Insult (Lebanon)
• Loveless (Russia)
• Body and Soul (Hungary)
• The Square (Sweden)

Documentary Feature

• Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
• Faces/Places
• Icarus
• Last Men in Aleppo
• Strong Island

Cinematography

• Roger A. Deakins, Blade Runner: 2049
• Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour
• Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk
• Rachel Morrison, Mudbound
• Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water

Film Editing

• Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos, Baby Driver
• Lee Smith, Dunkirk
• Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya
• Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water
• Jon Gregory, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Production Design

• Beauty and the Beast (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer)
• Blade Runner: 2049 (Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola)
• Darkest Hour (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer)
• Dunkirk (Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis)
• The Shape of Water (Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin)

Costume Design

• Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast
• Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour
• Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread
• Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water
• Consolota Boyle, Victoria & Abdul

Makeup and Hairstyling

• Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, and Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour
• Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard, Victoria & Abdul
• Arjen Tuiten, Wonder

Original Score

• Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk
• Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
• Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water
• John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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

Sound Editing

• Julian Slater, Baby Driver
• Mark Mangini and Theo Green, Blade Runner 2049
• Richard King and Alex Gibson, Dunkirk
• Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira, The Shape of Water
• Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Sound Mixing

• Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, and Mary H. Ellis, Baby Driver
• Ron Bartlett, Dough Hemphill, and Mac Ruth, Blade Runner 2049
• Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landarker, and Gary A. Rizzo, Dunkirk
• Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, and Glen Gauthier, The Shape of Water
• David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Stuart Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Visual Effects

• Blade Runner 2049 (John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover)
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, and Dan Sudick)
• Kong: Skull Island (Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, and Mike Meinardus)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould)
• War for the Planet of the Apes (Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, and Joel Whist)

Animated Short Film

• Dear Basketball
• Garden Party
• Lou
• Negative Space
• Revolting Rhymes

Live Action Short Film

• DeKalb Elementary
• The Eleven O’Clock
• My Nephew Emmett
• The Silent Child
• Watu Wote: All of Us

Documentary Short Subject

• Edith and Eddie
• Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
• Heroin(e)
• Knife Skills
• Traffic Stop