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.