Want a good idea of what the Oscar nominations will look like? Here you go.
It’s difficult to imagine this year’s Academy Awards finalists looking much different from what you see as the for the 23rd Annual Critics Choice Awards.
That said, the big news here is the leader of the pack: The Shape of Water. With a staggering 14 nominations (that’s two more than last year when La La Land dominated with 12), the Guillermo del Toro Cold War fantasy drama finally broke through this awards season after struggling to get noticed in the three previously announced awards lists so far. Along with Best Picture, The Shape of Water received nominations for Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, and more.
Indeed, there really were no major snubs here, particularly with many categories allowing for more than the Academy’s 5 nominees maximum. Also, like the Golden Globes, the Critics expand the possibilities with categories for Comedy, Action, and Sci-Fi/Horror.
If anything, more names and titles got their first traction of the season, like The Big Sick, Stronger, The Disaster Artist, Logan, and I, Tonya.
The only glaring title absent: the one that still hasn’t been screened for critics, Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Beyond that, surprise omissions were minor, such as Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Phantom Thread being ignored in the Picture, Director, and Screenplay categories.
The 23rd Annual Critics Choice Awards (chosen by the Broadcast Critics Film Association, a nationwide group of TV and Radio critics) will be broadcast live Thursday night January 11, 2018, on the CW.
NOMINEES FOR
THE 23RD ANNUAL CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS
Best in Film for 2017
BEST PICTURE
– The Big Sick
– Call Me By Your Name
– Darkest Hour
– Dunkirk
– The Florida Project
– Get Out
– Lady Bird
– The Post
– The Shape of Water
– Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST DIRECTOR
– Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
– Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
– Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
– Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
– Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
– Jordan Peele, Get Out
– Steven Spielberg, The Post
BEST ACTOR
– Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
– James Franco, The Disaster Artist
– Jake Gyllenhaal, Stronger
– Tom Hanks, The Post
– Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
– Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
– Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
BEST ACTRESS
– Jessica Chastain, Molly’s Game
– 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
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
– Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
– Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name
– Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
– Sam Rockewell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
– Patrick Stewart, Logan
– Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
– Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
– Hong Chau, Downsizing
– Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip
– Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
– Allison Janney, I, Tonya
– Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
– Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
– McKenna Grace, Gifted
– Dafne Keen, Logan
– Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project
– Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck
– Jacob Tremblay, Wonder
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
– Dunkirk
– Lady Bird
– Mudbound
– The Post
– Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
– The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
– Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig
– The Big Sick, Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani,
– The Post, Liz Hannah and Josh Singer
– Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh
– Get Out, Jordan Peele
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
– Call Me By Your Name, James Ivory
– The Disaster Artist, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
– Mudbound, Dee Rees and Virgil Williams
– Molly’s Game, Aaron Sorkin
– Wonder, Jack Thorne, Steve Conrad, Stephen Chbosky
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
– Blade Runner 2049, Roger Deakins
– Dunkirk, Hoyte van Hoytema
– The Shape of Water, Dan Laustsen
– Mudbound, Rachel Morrison
– Call Me By Your Name, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
– The Shape of Water, Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, Jeff Melvin
– Murder on the Orient Express, Jim Clay, Rebecca Alleway
– Dunkirk, Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
– Blade Runner 2049, Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
– Beauty and the Beast, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
– Phantom Thread, Mark Tildesley, Véronique Melery
BEST EDITING
– The Post, Michael Kahn, Sarah Broshar
– Baby Driver, Paul Machliss, Jonathan Amos
– Dunkirk, Lee Smith
– Blade Runner 2049, Joe Walker
– The Shape of Water, Sidney Wolinsky
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
– Blade Runner 2049, Renée April
– Phantom Thread, Mark Bridges
– Beauty and the Beast, Jacqueline Durran
– Wonder Woman, Lindy Hemming
– The Shape of Water, Luis Sequeira
BEST HAIR & MAKEUP
– Beauty and the Beast
– Darkest Hour
– I, Tonya
– The Shape of Water
– Wonder
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
– Blade Runner 2049
– Dunkirk
– The Shape of Water
– Thor: Ragnarok
– War for the Planet of the Apes
– Wonder Woman
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
– The Breadwinner
– Coco
– Despicable Me 3
– The LEGO Batman Movie
– Loving Vincent
BEST ACTION MOVIE
– Baby Driver
– Logan
– Thor: Ragnarok
– War for the Planet of the Apes
– Wonder Woman
BEST COMEDY
– The Big Sick
– The Disaster Artist
– Girls Trip
– I, Tonya
– Lady Bird
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
– Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes
– James Franco, The Disaster Artist
– Chris Hemsworth, Thor: Ragnarok
– Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
– Adam Sandler, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
– Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip
– Zoe Kazan, The Big Sick
– Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
– Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
– Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
– Blade Runner 2049
– Get Out
– It
– The Shape of Water
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
– BPM (Beats Per Minute)
– A Fantastic Woman
– First They Killed My Father
– In the Fade
– The Square
– Thelma
BEST SONG
– “Evermore” – Beauty and the Beast
– “Mystery of Love” – Call Me By Your Name
– “Remember Me” – Coco
– “Stand Up for Something” – Marshall
– “This Is Me” – The Greatest Showman
BEST SCORE
– The Shape of Water, Alexandre Desplat
– Phantom Thread, Jonny Greenwood
– Darkest Hour, Dario Marianelli
– Blade Runner 2049, Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer
– The Post, John Williams
– Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer
Click on links below for other Critics Group Awards and Guild Nominees that have been announced so far for the 2017 / 18 season:
Golden Globe Winners
National Society of Film Critics
Producers Guild of America nominees
Writers Guild of America nominees
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle
Chicago Film Critics Association
Screen Actors Guild Nominations
Atlanta Film Critics Circle
San Diego Film Critics Society
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle
Toronto Film Critics Association
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Boston Society of Film Critics
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
AFI Top 10 of 2017
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
New York Film Critics Circle
The National Board of Review