Oscar Nominations of 2018

Oscar nominations for the 2018 90th annual awards were announced on Tuesday morning from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif. The supernatural sci-fi romance The Shape of Water leads with impressive 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress for star Sally Hawkins, and Best Director for del Toro himself. Besides. “Dunkirk” followed behind with eight nods and Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”with seven. All three films earned best picture nominations. The rest of the category was rounded out by “Call Me By Your Name,” “Darkest Hour,” “Get Out,” “Phantom Thread,” “Lady Bird,” and “The Post.”

Release Date
2017-07-14
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : 20th Century Fox, Chernin Entertainment
  • Director : Trisha Burton, Ana Oparnica Sebal, Kimi Webber
  • Stars : Andy Serkis , Woody Harrelson , Karin Konoval
  • Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
Release Date
2017-12-15
  • Rate : 6.9
  • Production Companies : Lucasfilm Ltd., Walt Disney Pictures
  • Director : Rian Johnson, Bryn Lawrence, Sharon Mansfield
  • Stars : Mark Hamill , Carrie Fisher , Adam Driver
  • Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
Release Date
2017-11-17
  • Rate : 7.9
  • Production Companies : Lionsgate, Participant
  • Director : Stephen Chbosky, Susan Lambie, Keilah Boyle
  • Stars : Jacob Tremblay , Julia Roberts , Owen Wilson
  • The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Release Date
2017-12-08
  • Rate : 7.5
  • Production Companies : Clubhouse Pictures, LuckyChap Entertainment
  • Director : Kim H. Winther, Katherine Steets, Tim Fitzgerald
  • Stars : Margot Robbie , Sebastian Stan , Allison Janney
  • Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Release Date
2017-06-28
  • Rate : 7.5
  • Production Companies : Big Talk Studios, MRC
  • Director : Dug Rotstein, Edgar Wright, Walter Gasparovic
  • Stars : Ansel Elgort , Kevin Spacey , Lily James
  • After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Release Date
2017-05-19
  • Rate : 7.1
  • Production Companies : Kartemquin Films, ITVS
  • Director : Steve James
  • Stars :
  • The incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only U.S. bank to face criminal charges in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves – and their bank’s legacy in the Chinatown community – over the course of a five-year legal battle.
Release Date
2017-09-22
  • Rate : 6.8
  • Production Companies : Perfect World Pictures, Cross Street Films
  • Director : Amar Vaswani, Mohit Silswal, Jayant Rao
  • Stars : Judi Dench , Ali Fazal , Tim Pigott-Smith
  • Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Release Date
2017-03-17
  • Rate : 7.1
  • Production Companies : Walt Disney Pictures, Mandeville Films
  • Director : Bill Condon, Lucy Cover, Dan Channing-Williams
  • Stars : Emma Watson , Dan Stevens , Luke Evans
  • A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
Release Date
2017-10-06
  • Rate : 8
  • Production Companies : 16:14 Entertainment, Columbia Pictures
  • Director : Jessica Clothier, Dora Simko, Denis Villeneuve
  • Stars : Ryan Gosling , Harrison Ford , Sylvia Hoeks
  • Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Release Date
2017-09-22
  • Rate : 7.8
  • Production Companies : Breakthru Films, Trademark Films
  • Director : DK Welchman, Weronika Alwin, Michal Czerwonka
  • Stars : Douglas Booth , Robert Gulaczyk , Eleanor Tomlinson
  • A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Release Date
2017-12-15
  • Rate : 6.7
  • Production Companies : 20th Century Fox, Blue Sky Studios
  • Director : Carlos Saldanha
  • Stars : John Cena , Kate McKinnon , Anthony Anderson
  • Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, but one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen. Based on the classic 1936 children's book by Munro Leaf.
Release Date
2017-11-22
  • Rate : 8.4
  • Production Companies : Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar
  • Director : Adrian Molina, Lee Unkrich
  • Stars : Anthony Gonzalez , Gael García Bernal , Benjamin Bratt
  • Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
Release Date
2017-11-17
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : Irish Film Board, Telefilm Canada
  • Director : Nora Twomey, Stuart Shankly
  • Stars : Saara Chaudry , Soma Bhatia , Laara Sadiq
  • A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
Release Date
2017-03-31
  • Rate : 6.3
  • Production Companies : DreamWorks Animation, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
  • Director : Tom McGrath
  • Stars : Alec Baldwin , Steve Buscemi , Miles Bakshi
  • A story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7 year old named Tim.
Release Date
2017-06-23
  • Rate : 7.5
  • Production Companies : FilmNation Entertainment, Apatow Productions
  • Director : Mariana Hellmund, Adam J. Bernard, Nicholas Bell
  • Stars : Kumail Nanjiani , Zoe Kazan , Holly Hunter
  • Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
Release Date
2017-11-17
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : Black Bear Pictures, Armory Films
  • Director : Dee Rees
  • Stars : Carey Mulligan , Jason Clarke , Jason Mitchell
  • In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
Release Date
2017-12-25
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : The Mark Gordon Company, Entertainment One
  • Director : Shane B. Scott, Aaron Sorkin
  • Stars : Jessica Chastain , Idris Elba , Kevin Costner
  • Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
Release Date
2017-03-03
  • Rate : 8.1
  • Production Companies : Hutch Parker Entertainment, Genre Films
  • Director : Josh McLaglen, Nicole Garcea, Sheila Waldron
  • Stars : Hugh Jackman , Dafne Keen , Patrick Stewart
  • In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
Release Date
2017-12-01
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : New Line Cinema, Warner Bros.
  • Director : James Franco
  • Stars : James Franco , Dave Franco , Ari Graynor
  • An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
Release Date
2017-12-01
  • Rate : 8.1
  • Production Companies : Fox Searchlight Pictures, Blueprint Pictures
  • Director : Martin McDonagh, Paula Case, Jeanette McGrath
  • Stars : Frances McDormand , Woody Harrelson , Sam Rockwell
  • After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Release Date
2017-12-22
  • Rate : 7.2
  • Production Companies : DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment
  • Director : Adam Somner, Steven Spielberg, Jessica Lichtner
  • Stars : Meryl Streep , Tom Hanks , Sarah Paulson
  • A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Release Date
2017-12-25
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : Ghoulardi Film Company, Focus Features
  • Director : Adam Somner, Richard Oxford, Annie Penn
  • Stars : Daniel Day-Lewis , Vicky Krieps , Lesley Manville
  • In 1950s London, renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock comes across Alma, a young, strong-willed woman, who soon becomes ever present in his life as his muse and lover.
Release Date
2017-02-24
  • Rate : 7.8
  • Production Companies : Blumhouse Productions, QC Entertainment
  • Director : Rhona Rubio, Jordan Peele, Gerard DiNardi
  • Stars : Daniel Kaluuya , Allison Williams , Bradley Whitford
  • Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Release Date
2017-11-22
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : Working Title Films, Perfect World Pictures
  • Director : Joe Wright, Dan Channing-Williams, Gayle Dickie
  • Stars : Gary Oldman , Kristin Scott Thomas , Ben Mendelsohn
  • In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Release Date
2017-11-24
  • Rate : 7.8
  • Production Companies : Sony Pictures Classics, Frenesy Film
  • Director : Manuela D'Ovidio, Dominique Delany, Paolo Sponzilli
  • Stars : Timothée Chalamet , Armie Hammer , Michael Stuhlbarg
  • In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.
Release Date
2017-11-03
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : Scott Rudin Productions, A24
  • Director : Greta Gerwig, Brendan Lee, Jonas Spaccarotelli
  • Stars : Saoirse Ronan , Laurie Metcalf , Tracy Letts
  • Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
Release Date
2017-07-19
  • Rate : 7.8
  • Production Companies : Studio Babelsberg, Marc Platt Productions
  • Director : Christopher Nolan, Steve Gehrke, Nicolas Baldino
  • Stars : Fionn Whitehead , Tom Hardy , Mark Rylance
  • The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Release Date
2017-12-08
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : Fox Searchlight Pictures, Disney Double Dare You (DDY)
  • Director : Pierre Henry, Dug Rotstein, Guillermo del Toro
  • Stars : Sally Hawkins , Michael Shannon , Richard Jenkins
  • An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.