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Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' And Dee Rees' 'Mudbound' Just Received Multiple Oscar Nominations

Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' And Dee Rees' 'Mudbound' Just Received Multiple Oscar Nominations

We're rooting for everybody Black! 

On Tuesday morning, nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced and Jordan Peele's social thriller "Get Out" and Dee Rees' historical drama "Mudbound" both received four major Oscar nominations. Plus, "Mudbound" made history twice in the process. 

"Get Out's" nominations include: Best Picture, Jordan Peele's nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and Daniel Kaluuya's nomination for Best Leading Actor. 

For "Mudbound", Mary J. Blige snagged two nominations, one for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and the other for Best Original Song. Dee Rees received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay along with Virgil Williams, and Rachel Morrison, received one for Achievement in Cinematography. This makes Rees the first Black woman to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Morrison the first woman to receive an Oscar nomination in cinematography.

The other nominees that will be bringing Black excellence to this year's Oscars include Octavia Spencer, who joins Blige in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in "The Shape of Water." Denzel Washington joins Kaluuya in the Best Leading Actor category for his role in "Roman J. Israel, Esq.". 

Kobe Bryant's "Dear Basketball" received a nomination for Best Animated Short Film and Kevin Wilson Jr.'s "My Nephew Emmett, for Best Live Action Short Film. Common scored a nomination for "Stand Up for Something" from the film "Marshall." He co-wrote the song with Diane Warren. 

See full list of nominees below. 

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

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.

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

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,

Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

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

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Boss Baby

Breadwinner

Coco

Ferdinand

Loving Vincent

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Faces, Places

Icarus

Last Men In Aleppo

Strong Island

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Edith+Eddie

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Heroin(e)

Knife Skills

Traffic Stop

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A Fantastic Woman, Chile

The Insult, Lebanon

Loveless, Russia

On Body and Soul, Hungary

The Square, Sweden

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

Call Me by Your Name

The Disaster Artist

Logan

Molly's Game

Mudbound

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

The Big Sick

Get Out

Ladybird

The Shape of Water

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

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast

Blade Runner 2049

The Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Mudbound

The Shape of Water

COSTUME DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast

Darkest Hour

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Victoria & Abdul

SOUND EDITING

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

SOUND MIXING

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Negative Space

Lou

Revolting Rhymes

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

Dekalb Elementary

The Eleven O'Clock

The Silent Child

All of Us

My Nephew Emmet

VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Kong: Skull Island

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

War for the Planet of the Apes

FILM EDITING

Baby Driver

Dunkirk

I, Tonya

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Darkest Hour

Victoria & Abdul

Wonder

Congratulations to all of this year's nominees! The 90th annual Academy Awards ceremony will be held on March 4.