The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2017, and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was held on March 4, 2018, rather than its usual late-February date to avoid conflicting with the 2018 Winter Olympics. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, which was televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd and directed by Glenn Weiss. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the second consecutive year.
In related events, the Academy held its 9th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 11, 2017. On February 10, 2018, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host Patrick Stewart.
The Shape of Water won four awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included Dunkirk with three awards, Blade Runner 2049, Coco, Darkest Hour, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with two awards, and Call Me by Your Name, Dear Basketball, A Fantastic Woman, Get Out, Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405, I, Tonya, Icarus, Phantom Thread, and The Silent Child with one. The telecast garnered 26.54million viewers in the United States.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards were announced on January 23, 2018, at 5:22 a.m. PST (13:22 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by actors Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis. The Shape of Water led all nominees with thirteen nominations; Dunkirk came in second with eight.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 4, 2018. Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman to be nominated for Best Director. At age 22, Best Actor nominee Timothée Chalamet was the third-youngest person nominated in that category and the youngest since 19-year-old Mickey Rooney for his role in Babes in Arms in 1939. At age 88, Best Supporting Actor nominee Christopher Plummer became the oldest ever performer nominated for a competitive Oscar. By virtue of her nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song for Mudbound, Mary J. Blige was the first person to be nominated for both acting and songwriting in the same year. At age 89, Best Adapted Screenplay winner James Ivory became the oldest winner of a competitive Oscar. Jordan Peele was the first African American winner for Best Original Screenplay. Rachel Morrison became the first woman nominated for Best Cinematography. Awards
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
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The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles DaleCall Me by Your Name – Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Émilie Georges and Marco Morabito Darkest Hour – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski Dunkirk – Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan Get Out – Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele Lady Bird – Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O'Neill Phantom Thread – JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi The Post – Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk Jordan Peele – Get Out Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name as Elio Perlman Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread as Reynolds Woodcock Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq. as Roman J. Israel | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water as Elisa Esposito Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson Meryl Streep – The Post as Katharine Graham |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Officer Jason Dixon Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project as Bobby Hicks Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Chief William "Bill" Willoughby Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water as Giles Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World as J. Paul Getty | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Allison Janney – I, Tonya as LaVona Golden Mary J. Blige – Mudbound as Florence Jackson Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water as Zelda Delilah Fuller |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Get Out – Jordan Peele The Big Sick – Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory; based on the novel by André AcimanThe Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber; based on the book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell Logan – Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold; based on the character Wolverine created by Len Wein and John Romita Sr. Molly's Game – Aaron Sorkin; based on the book by Molly Bloom Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Rees; based on the novel by Hillary Jordan |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. AndersonThe Boss Baby – Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito The Breadwinner – Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo Ferdinand – Carlos Saldanha and Lori Forte Loving Vincent – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|A Fantastic Woman (Chile) in Spanish – Directed by Sebastián LelioThe Insult (Lebanon) in Arabic – Directed by Ziad Doueiri Loveless (Russia) in Russian – Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev On Body and Soul (Hungary) in Hungarian – Directed by Ildikó Enyedi The Square (Sweden) in Swedish – Directed by Ruben Östlund |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Icarus – Bryan Fogel and Dan CoganAbacus: Small Enough to Jail – Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman Faces Places – Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda Last Men in Aleppo – Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen Strong Island – Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 – Frank StiefelEdith+Eddie – Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright Heroin(e) – Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon Knife Skills – Thomas Lennon Traffic Stop – Kate Davis and David Heilbroner |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|The Silent Child – Chris Overton and Rachel ShentonDeKalb Elementary – Reed Van Dyk The Eleven O'Clock – Derin Seale and Josh Lawson My Nephew Emmett – Kevin Wilson Jr. Watu Wote/All of Us – Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Dear Basketball – Glen Keane and Kobe BryantGarden Party – Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon Lou – Dave Mullins and Dana Murray Negative Space – Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata Revolting Rhymes – Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|The Shape of Water – Alexandre DesplatDunkirk – Hans Zimmer Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood Star Wars: The Last Jedi – John Williams Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Carter Burwell | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|"Remember Me" from Coco – Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez"Mighty River" from Mudbound – Music and Lyrics by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson "Mystery of Love" from Call Me by Your Name – Music and Lyrics by Sufjan Stevens "Stand Up for Something" from Marshall – Music by Diane Warren; Lyrics by Common and Diane Warren "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman – Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Dunkirk – Richard King and Alex GibsonBaby Driver – Julian Slater Blade Runner 2049 – Mark Mangini and Theo Green The Shape of Water – Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Dunkirk – Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark WeingartenBaby Driver – Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis Blade Runner 2049 – Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth The Shape of Water – Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier Star Wars: The Last Jedi – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|The Shape of Water – Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeffrey A. MelvinBeauty 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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Blade Runner 2049 – Roger A. DeakinsDarkest Hour – Bruno Delbonnel Dunkirk – Hoyte van Hoytema Mudbound – Rachel Morrison The Shape of Water – Dan Laustsen |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Darkest Hour – Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy SibbickVictoria & Abdul – Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard Wonder – Arjen Tuiten | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Phantom Thread – Mark BridgesBeauty and the Beast – Jacqueline Durran Darkest Hour – Jacqueline Durran The Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira Victoria & Abdul – Consolata Boyle |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Dunkirk – Lee SmithBaby Driver – Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos I, Tonya – Tatiana S. Riegel The Shape of Water – Sidney Wolinsky Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Jon Gregory | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|Blade Runner 2049'' – John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. HooverGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan SudickKong: Skull Island – Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike MeinardusStar Wars: The Last Jedi – Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris CorbouldWar for the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist
Governors Awards The Academy held its 9th annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 11, 2017, during which the following awards were presented:
Special Award To Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Carne y Arena virtual reality installation, in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling
Honorary Awards To Charles Burnett, a resolutely independent and influential film pioneer who has chronicled the lives of black Americans with eloquence and insight To Owen Roizman, whose expansive visual style and technical innovation have advanced the art of cinematography To Donald Sutherland for a lifetime of indelible characters, rendered with unwavering truthfulness To Agnès Varda, whose compassion and curiosity inform a uniquely personal cinema
Films with multiple nominations and awards
+ Films that received multiple nominations Nominations Film 13 The Shape of Water 8 Dunkirk 7 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 6 Darkest Hour Phantom Thread 5 Blade Runner 2049 Lady Bird 4 Call Me by Your Name Get Out Mudbound Star Wars: The Last Jedi 3 Baby Driver I, Tonya 2 Beauty and the Beast Coco The Post Victoria & Abdul