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Oscar Season: The Snubs and Surprises of the Academy Awards Nominations | The Big Picture (Ep. 45)
January 23, 2018/ 60 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins · K. Austin Collins
Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and K. Austin Collins react to the 90th Academy Awards nominations the morning they landed, category by category.
39 films across 1 segment.
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Reacting to the 90th Oscar nominationscategory by category, nomination morning
Best Picture
Best Director
- Dunkirk Christopher Nolan
- Get Out Jordan Peele
- Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
- Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro Their pick
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Call Me by Your Name James Ivory Their pick
- The Disaster Artist Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
- Logan Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green
- Molly's Game Aaron Sorkin
- Mudbound Virgil Williams & Dee Rees
Best Supporting Actress
- Mudbound Mary J. Blige
- I, Tonya Allison Janney Their pick
- Phantom Thread Leslie Manville
- Lady Bird Laurie Metcalf
- The Shape of Water Octavia Spencer
Best Supporting Actor
- The Florida Project Willem Dafoe
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Woody Harrelson Their pick
- The Shape of Water Richard Jenkins
- All the Money in the World Christopher Plummer
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Sam Rockwell Their pick
Best Actress
- The Shape of Water Sally Hawkins
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Frances McDormand Their pick
- I, Tonya Margot Robbie
- Lady Bird Saoirse Ronan
- The Post Meryl Streep
Best Actor
- Call Me by Your Name Timothée Chalamet
- Phantom Thread Daniel Day-Lewis
- Get Out Daniel Kaluuya
- Darkest Hour Gary Oldman Their pick
- Roman J. Israel, Esq. Denzel Washington
Also mentioned raised along the way
Brought up in passing Their FinestThe King's SpeechDances with WolvesStar Wars: The Last JediGood TimeFlightPan's LabyrinthThere Will Be BloodThe Imitation GameWonder WomanThe Dark KnightWar for the Planet of the ApesTransformersMoonlightJulie & JuliaCocoThe Greatest Showman
Largo live-show promo Friday Night LightsVarsity Blues
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV The West WingMomCounterpart
Ads SquarespaceThe Ringer NFL ShowThe BS PodcastGM Street