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Fox Searchlight's fantasy drama "The Shape of Water," about a woman who falls in love with a strange river creature, led the Oscar nominations on Tuesday with 13 nods, including the top prize for best picture.

LOS ANGELES: Fox Searchlight's fantasy drama "The Shape of Water," about a woman who falls in love with a strange river creature, led the Oscar nominations on Tuesday with 13 nods, including the top prize for best picture.

It will contend with gay romance "Call Me By Your Name," British World War Two dramas "Darkest Hour" and "Dunkirk," racial thriller "Get Out," mother-daughter tale "Lady Bird," romance "Phantom Thread," press freedom movie "The Post" and dark comedy "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" for the best picture award at the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on March 4.

"The Shape of Water" earned nominations in all major categories, including for its director Guillermo del Toro, and for actors Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer.

"Dunkirk," from Warner Bros., followed with eight nominations, including for director Christopher Nolan. "Three Billboards," also from Fox Searchlight, had seven, including acting nods for Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell.

Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman ever to be nominated for a best director Oscar, for "Lady Bird." The movie also won a lead actress nomination for Saoirse Ronan and for supporting actress Laurie Metcalf. </s> The Shape of Water has swept the 2018 Oscar nominations with 13 noms, including Best Picture and Best Director. And Get Out didn't disappoint with noms for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Actress-comedian Tiffany Haddish and actor-director Andy Serkis, joined by Academy President John Bailey, announced the 90th Academy Awards nominations today (January 23) live from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater via a global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy's digital platforms, a satellite feed and broadcast media. Haddish and Serkis announced the nominees in 11 categories at 5:22 a.m. PT, with pre-taped category introductions by Academy members Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson, Gal Gadot, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Molly Shannon, Rebel Wilson and Michelle Yeoh. Haddish and Serkis announced the remaining 13 categories at 5:38 a.m. PT.

At 5:22 a.m. PST, the nominees were announced in the following categories: Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects. At 5:38:30 a.m. PST, the nominees will be announced in the following categories (listed here in no particular order): Actor in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Animated Feature Film, Directing, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Original Song, Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay.

Some of the big nominations in all categories went to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Post, Lady Bird, Darkest Night, and Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk and Phantom Thread, all of which garnered Best Picture nominations. When it all was said and done, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water lead the way with 13 nominations, followed by Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk with eight nominations and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with seven nominations.

Get Out filmmaker Jordan Peele became just the third filmmaker in Oscar history to receive nominations for writing and directing for his first feature film as a director. That feat was only accomplished by Warren Beatty for Heaven Can Wait (1978), nominations which he shared with Buck Henry, and James L. Brooks with Terms of Endearment (1983). Greta Gerwig also became just the fifth woman to be nominated for Best Director, followed by Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties (1976), Jane Campion for The Piano (1993), Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003) and Kathryn Bigelow, who won the award for The Hurt Locker (2009). Meryl Streep also extends her record as the most-nominated performer ever with 21 nominations with her nod for Best Actress for The Post.

Academy members from each of the 17 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories - actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all 24 categories beginning Tuesday, February 20 through Tuesday, February 27. The 90th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. Here is the full list of winners. </s> The Shape Of Water led the 2018 Academy Awards nominations with 13 nods as this year's contenders were announced in Los Angeles on Tuesday, closely followed by Dunkirk and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

In a morning of several surprise nominations and snubs, Christopher Plummer, 88, the actor who replaced disgraced Kevin Spacey at the very last minute, received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his part in All The Money In The World.

Other shock names included, musician Mary J. Blige who received her first Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category, and Octavia Spencer who became the first black actress to receive multiple nods ahead of the 90th annual awards.

Angelina Jolie was noticeably snubbed along with All The Money In The World star Michelle Williams and actor James Franco, who has been the subject of multiple sexual harassment claims in Hollywood.

Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis revealed the full list live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, just under six weeks before the ceremony is due to take place.

The 90th annual Academy Awards will be held live from Los Angeles' Dolby Theater on March 4, 2018 and hosted by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

Angelina Jolie's Cambodian drama First They Killed My Father failed to make the list of nods in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Directors Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott were also missed when the 2018 nominations were announced.

Tying the record set by Titanic in 1998, 13 nominations for The Shape of Water means the fantasy drama has surpassed awards season buzz.

The film was recognised in categories including Original Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography, Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, among others.

Set in the 1950s, the film follows a strange and beautiful relationship between an amphibious creature and a local janitor.

Octavia (who plays Zelda Fuller) and co-star Sally Hawkins (in the role of Elisa Esposito) are the standout stars from the production, earning Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress nods, respectively.

In 2017, Octavia became the first black actress to get a follow-up Oscar nomination after winning in 2012, but on Tuesday she made history by becoming nominated on multiple times.

As well as notable nods for Best Actor, which went to Gary Oldman, wartime film Darkest Hour got six nominations, compared to eight for fellow Brit flick Dunkirk.

Biographical drama Darkest Hour follows the early days of Winston Churchill as the British Prime Minister in which he must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.

Considered one of the biggest and best-received films of the year, Darkest Hour is already the talk of awards season and as such, a strong six nominations went to the production.

With his second Oscars nomination, British lead actor Oldman is hotly-tipped to win the Best Actor award for his portrayal of Churchill.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was his first nomination for Best Actor in 2012, but he is hoping to go onto victory in 2018, following the run of critical acclaim.

Meanwhile, Dunkirk, which stars Tom Hardy, Harry Styles and Mark Rylance, is about the code-named 'Operation Dynamo' evacuation of allied soldiers from the beaches in France during World War II.

The action film is nominated in the Film Editing, Director, Cinematography, Sound Editing and Best Picture categories, though the ensemble cast has not been recognised.

Crime drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was previously said to be 'steamrollering' through awards season.

The film surrounds grieving mother Mildred Hayes (by actress Frances McDormand) who seeks justice for her daughter's rape and murder.

Dissatisfied with the work of the local police department, enraged Mildred constructs three unmissable billboards on the road leading out of Ebbing, designed to ask the major questions about the lacklustre investigation.

Biopic I, Tonya, which premiered in Sydney, Australia on Tuesday is the much-talked about skating film starring Margot Robbie as competitive ice skater Tonya Harding.

For the film, the Australian leading actress has received her first ever acting nomination, five years after the success of her breakout role in Wolf Of Wall Street.

Up against her, Ladybird's leading lady Saoirse Ronan is hoping it will be third time lucky, as she is named in the Best Actress category, against The Shape of Water's Hawkins, Three Billboards' Frances McDormand and Meryl Streep for The Post, which will be her 21st nomination in total.

There was triumph for Ladybird in the Best Director category, as Greta Gerwig became the first female to pick up a nomination in eight years, with her four-times nominated teen film.

The coming-of-age comedy follows an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl (Saoirse) growing up with her mother in Sacramento, California.

In 85 out of 89 years of Academy Awards history, the film directors field has come back with an all-male list of nominations, which makes Greta only the fifth ever female name.

This year, in the 90th year, Greta will face strong competition from Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), Jordan Peele (Get Out), Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) and Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water).

Another remarkable nod goes to US musician Mary J. Blige, who is the first person to be recognised in an acting category and a musical category in the same year.

Several films, and their stars have already experienced runaway success in the start to the 2018 awards season.

Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards belonged to the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

As well as taking the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, castmembers Sam Rockwell and McDormand took the gongs for Male Actor in a Supporting Role and Female Actor in a Leading Role.

Before that, the Golden Globes once again highlighted the success of Three Billboards, which won Best Motion Picture - Drama.

Lady Bird took home Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, and the film's star Saoirse Ronan won Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.

So far, Darkest Hour actor Oldman has won the Golden Globe award and the Screen Actors Guild for his role as Winston Churchill and is therefore hotly tipped for Oscars victory.

This will be the first Academy Awards ceremony since the sex scandal - brought on by multiple allegations made against producer Harvey Weinstein - which rocked Hollywood in 2017.

The fallout prompted Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp to go public with allegations that two-time Academy Award winning actor Kevin Spacey abused him when he was 14, and Spacey was 12 years his senior.

House Of Cards' Spacey was pulled from the production of one of this year's biggest films All The Money In The World, at the eleventh hour.

Just weeks before the film was due for release, scenes were completely reshot by leading actors Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg, with Christopher Plummer stepping into Spacey's shoes as the richest man in the world, J Paul Getty.

For his role in the thriller, about the high-profile kidnapping of his Getty's grandson, 88-year-old Plummer has now been nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for his stunning last-minute performance.

It is the only nomination that the film received, despite great expense incurred for the reshooting.

Other Best Supporting Actor nominations go to Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project), Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water) and Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).

Controversially, James Franco won Best Performance by an Actor - Musical or Comedy for The Disaster Artist at this year's Golden Globes, yet his attendance at the Oscars has been called into question, after harassment claims lodged against him.

He was noticeably left off the nominations list this year, despite denying the claims on late-night shows days before nomination voting closed last Friday.

Similarly, Aziz Ansari - who earned Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his work in Master Of None - has since been named in a sexual harassment case.

As of this year, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is banned from the ceremony, after being dropped as a member of the Academy.

This is the second time that Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the ceremony for the second year in a row.

This year was a triumph for British acting talent, as three out of the five Best Actor nominees - including Gary Oldman - are homegrown.

And while Daniel Day-Lewis (The Phantom Thread), who holds dual citizenship (UK and Ireland), has already been nominated by the Academy five times before, English actor Daniel Kaluuya has earned his first nod for Get Out.

They go up against rising star Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq).

Britain's Jacqueline Durran is double the double in the Costume Design category and humorously faces off against herself for both Beauty and the Beast and Darkest Hour.

In the Production Design Category fellow Brits Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer are also squaring up to each other for the same movies. </s> NEW YORK (AP) — Guillermo del Toro's lavish monster romance "The Shape of Water" has landed a leading 13 nominations and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director by the Academy Awards.

"Mudbound" cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman ever nominated in the category in nominations announced Tuesday.

The film academy voted in nine films as best picture contenders: "The Shape of Water," ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," ''Lady Bird," ''Get Out," ''The Post," ''Dunkirk," ''Call Me By Your Name" and "Phantom Thread."

"The Shape of Water" came just shy of tying the record of 14 nominations shared by "All About Eve," ''Titanic" and "La La Land." </s> The Shape of Water triumphed in the closest Best Picture race in years to take the top prize at the 90th Academy Awards.

Guillermo Del Toro’s gorgeously envisioned and assembled film about a mute woman whose job ends up putting her in contact with a sea creature kept in captivity by shade government officials, only to befriend and ultimately fall in love with said creature, put Academy voters under its genre-blending, Old Hollywood-evoking spell.

Del Toro quoted Steven Spielberg from the podium, saying that the Oscar-winning director told him, “If you find yourself at the podium, remember that you are part of a legacy […] a world of filmmakers, and be proud of it.”

Del Toro dedicated the Best Picture win to young filmmakers around the world, saying, “Everyone that is dreaming of a parable, of using genre and fantasy to tell the stories about the things that are real in the world today, you can do it. This is a door — kick it open and come in.”

Going into Sunday night’s Academy Awards, while the acting races were all but sewn up, Best Picture was perhaps as wide open as it’s ever been. The Shape of Water entered with the most nominations (13), while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri had triumphed at the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and BAFTA, but director Martin McDonagh was surprisingly left off of Oscar’s Best Director ballot, opening the door for any number of possibilities.

In a reprise — or perhaps more accurately an exorcism — of last year’s Best Picture wrong-envelope-opening disaster, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway emerged to once again present the Best Picture award. “It’s so nice seeing you again,” Beatty said to a crowd of nervous and wary A-listers. This time, nothing was left to chance.

With this win, The Shape of Water becomes the first film since Braveheart in 1995 to win Best Picture without so much as a nomination from the Screen Actors Guild in their Best Ensemble category. Despite some early defeats in the craft categories, Shape picked up awards for Production Design and Original Score before Del Toro took the Best Director trophy that pretty much everyone was predicting he would. </s> We’re handicapping the odds on the nine Best Picture contenders for the March 4 Academy Awards. Today: The Shape of Water.

Guillermo del Toro made his finned infatuation fantasy as much for himself as for his audience, since he’s long adored movie monsters.

But The Shape of Water certainly has its hooks into Academy voters, who have given a leading 13 Oscar nominations to del Toro’s captivating tale of a mute cleaning woman who falls in love with a humanoid water creature.

It’s by far the obvious choice for a Best Picture win, a feeling bolstered by the many lead-up prizes the film has earned. But will it be the actual choice at Sunday’s awards ceremony, given that the preferential ballot for this category — and the vote-sharing it entails — often leads to surprise results?

I’m betting The Shape of Water will indeed take Best Picture, despite the fact there’s an omission the size of Moby Dick in its pre-Oscars school of awards fish: no nomination for Best Ensemble from the Screen Actors Guild. Only once before has a SAG ensemble non-nominee gone on to win Oscar’s Best Picture, and that was Braveheart in 1995. </s> ABOVE: Michael Shannon confronts Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer in ‘The Shape of Water.’ Photo courtesy Fox Searchlight.

The 90th annual Academy Awards announced the nominations on Tuesday with “The Shape of Water” leading the pack with 13 nominations including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

Gay love story “Call Me By Your Name” earned four nominations for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song for “Mystery of Love” by Sufjan Stevens and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet.

“A Fantastic Woman,” a Chilean film starring transgender newcomer Daniela Vega, also earned a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Notable nominations this year include Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) and Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) for Best Director. Peele is only the fifth African American director to receive the honor while Gerwig is only the fifth woman in the history of the awards to be nominated.

The 90th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, airs on Sunday, March 4 on ABC.

Check out the 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”

Best Actress

 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 Actor

 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”

Best Original Screenplay

 “The Big Sick”

 “Get Out”

 “Lady Bird”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Best Adapted Screenplay

 “Call Me by Your Name”

 “The Disaster Artist”

 “Logan”

 “Molly’s Game”

 “Mudbound”

Best Documentary Feature

 “Abacus (Small Enough to Jail)”

 “Faces/Places”

 “Icarus”

 “Last Men in Aleppo”

 “Strong Island”

Best Documentary Short

 “Eden and Eddie”

 “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405”

 “Heroin/e”

 “Knife Skills”

 “Traffic Stop”

Best Supporting Actor

 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”

Best Film Editing

 “Baby Driver”

 “Dunkirk”

 “I, Tonya”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Best 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”

Best Production Design

 “Beauty and the Beast”

 “Blade Runner 2049”

 “Darkest Hour”

 “Dunkirk”

 “The Shape of Water”

Best Costume Design

 “Beauty and the Beast”

 “Darkest Hour”

 “Phantom Thread”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Victoria & Abdul”

Best Sound Editing

 “Baby Driver”

 “Blade Runner 2049”

 “Dunkirk”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Best Sound Mixing

 “Baby Driver”

 “Blade Runner 2049”

 “Dunkirk”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Best Original Score

 “Baby Driver”

 “Blade Runner 2049”

 “Dunkirk”

 “The Shape of Water”

 “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Best Original Song

 “Might River” (“Mudbound”)

 “The Mystery of Love” (“Call Me By Your Name”)

 “Remember Me” (“Coco”)

 “Stand Up for Something” (“Marshall”)

 “This is Me” (“The Greatest Showman”) </s> The nominations are in for the 90th Annual Academy Awards! While there are many categories, the one I always like most is Best Picture!

The films nominated for Best Picture are Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape Of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Watch the #Oscars live on Sunday, March 4, on ABC. </s> New Delhi: The 90th Academy Awards have come to an end, where 'Shape of Water' was awarded the best picture Oscar.

In what had been considered the closest Oscar race in many years, the Guillermo del Toro directorial defeated strong competition from 'Get Out,' 'Lady Bird' and 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.'

"I want to dedicate this, to every young filmmaker, the youth that is showing us how things are done. Really, they are. In every country in the world," the 53-year-old helmer said.

The cold war-set fantasy thriller stars Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaning woman who discovers a bizarre aquatic-human hybrid in a tank at a secret government lab, and helps it escape.

The flick led to the Mexican filmmaker's first Oscar nod for best picture - though Del Toro was also nominated in 2007 for best original screenplay and best foreign language film for 'Pan's Labyrinth.'

Having led the nominations list with 13, 'The Shape of Water' won four Oscars, including best original score, director and best original design.

The film managed to bag an Oscar despite it being the subject of a plagiarism controversy in recent weeks,.

After the nominations were announced, the family of late playwright Paul Zindel launched legal action over "glaring similarities" between 'The Shape of Water' and Zindel's 1969 play 'Let Me Hear You Whisper.'
The nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards are announced. Among the films nominated as the best of 2017 in film, The Shape of Water leads with thirteen nominations, with Dunkirk following behind with eight nominations.