Best Picture Winner

The Shape of Water
Best Picture
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Studio: Fox Searchlight
A mute janitor at a government laboratory falls in love with an amphibious creature held captive during the Cold War.
All Categories (29)
Animated Feature Film
Coco— Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
Winner
Ferdinand— Carlos Saldanha and Lori Forte
Loving Vincent— Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart
The Boss Baby— Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito
The Breadwinner— Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo
Best Picture
The Shape of Water— Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers
Winner
Call Me by Your Name— Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito, Producers
Darkest Hour— Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski, Producers
Dunkirk— Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
Get Out— Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele, Producers
Lady Bird— Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O'Neill, Producers
Phantom Thread— JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi, Producers
The Post— Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri— Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
Actor In A Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis— Phantom Thread {"Reynolds Woodcock"}
Daniel Kaluuya— Get Out {"Chris Washington"}
Denzel Washington— Roman J. Israel, Esq. {"Roman J. Israel, Esq."}
Timothée Chalamet— Call Me by Your Name {"Elio"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Christopher Plummer— All the Money in the World {"J. Paul Getty"}
Richard Jenkins— The Shape of Water {"Giles"}
Willem Dafoe— The Florida Project {"Bobby"}
Woody Harrelson— Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri {"Willoughby"}
Actress In A Leading Role
Margot Robbie— I, Tonya {"Tonya Harding"}
Meryl Streep— The Post {"Kay Graham"}
Sally Hawkins— The Shape of Water {"Elisa Esposito"}
Saoirse Ronan— Lady Bird {"Lady Bird McPherson"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Laurie Metcalf— Lady Bird {"Marion McPherson"}
Lesley Manville— Phantom Thread {"Cyril"}
Mary J. Blige— Mudbound {"Florence Jackson"}
Octavia Spencer— The Shape of Water {"Zelda Fuller"}
Directing
Dunkirk— Christopher Nolan
Get Out— Jordan Peele
Lady Bird— Greta Gerwig
Phantom Thread— Paul Thomas Anderson
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Call Me by Your Name— Screenplay by James Ivory
Winner
Logan— Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
Molly's Game— Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound— Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
The Disaster Artist— Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Get Out— Written by Jordan Peele
Winner
Lady Bird— Written by Greta Gerwig
The Big Sick— Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
The Shape of Water— Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri— Written by Martin McDonagh
Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049— Roger A. Deakins
Winner
Darkest Hour— Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk— Hoyte van Hoytema
Mudbound— Rachel Morrison
The Shape of Water— Dan Laustsen
Music (Original Score)
The Shape of Water— Alexandre Desplat
Winner
Dunkirk— Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread— Jonny Greenwood
Star Wars: The Last Jedi— John Williams
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri— Carter Burwell
Music (Original Song)
"Remember Me" from Coco— Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Winner
"Mighty River" from Mudbound— Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson
"Mystery Of Love" from Call Me by Your Name— Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens
"Stand Up For Something" from Marshall— Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren
"This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman— Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Production Design
The Shape of Water— Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeffrey A. Melvin
Winner
Beauty 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
Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049— John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
Winner
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2— Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
Kong: Skull Island— Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus
Star Wars: The Last Jedi— Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
War for the Planet of the Apes— Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist
Film Editing
Dunkirk— Lee Smith
Winner
Baby Driver— Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
I, Tonya— Tatiana S. Riegel
The Shape of Water— Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri— Jon Gregory
Sound Editing
Dunkirk— Richard King and Alex Gibson
Winner
Baby Driver— Julian Slater
Blade Runner 2049— Mark Mangini and Theo Green
Star Wars: The Last Jedi— Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce
The Shape of Water— Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira
Sound Mixing
Dunkirk— Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten
Winner
Baby Driver— Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
Blade Runner 2049— Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
Star Wars: The Last Jedi— David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson
The Shape of Water— Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier
Costume Design
Phantom Thread— Mark Bridges
Winner
Beauty and the Beast— Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour— Jacqueline Durran
The Shape of Water— Luis Sequeira
Victoria & Abdul— Consolata Boyle
Makeup And Hairstyling
Darkest Hour— Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
Winner
Victoria & Abdul— Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
Wonder— Arjen Tuiten
Documentary (Feature)
Icarus— Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
Winner
Abacus: 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
Documentary (Short Subject)
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405— Frank Stiefel
Winner
Edith+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
Short Film (Animated)
Dear Basketball— Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant
Winner
Garden 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
Short Film (Live Action)
The Silent Child— Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
Winner
DeKalb Elementary— Reed Van Dyk
My Nephew Emmett— Kevin Wilson, Jr.
The Eleven O'Clock— Derin Seale and Josh Lawson
Watu Wote/All of Us— Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen
Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman— Chile
Winner
Loveless— Russia
On Body and Soul— Hungary
The Insult— Lebanon
The Square— Sweden
Honorary Award
To Charles Burnett, a resolutely independent and influential film pioneer who has chronicled the lives of black Americans with eloquence and insight.
Winner
GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD
Jonathan Erland
To Agnès Varda, whose compassion and curiosity inform a uniquely personal cinema.
To Donald Sutherland for a lifetime of indelible characters, rendered with unwavering truthfulness.
To Owen Roizman, whose expansive visual style and technical innovation have advanced the art of cinematography.
Special Award
To Alejandro G. Iñárritu's CARNE y ARENA virtual reality installation, in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling.
Winner
Scientific And Technical Award (Academy Award Of Merit)
To MARK ELENDT and SIDE EFFECTS SOFTWARE for the creation and development of the Houdini visual effects and animation system. With more than twenty years of continual innovation, Houdini has delivered the power of procedural methods to visual effects artists, making it the industry standard for bringing natural phenomena, destruction and other digital effects to the screen.
Winner
Scientific And Technical Award (Scientific And Engineering Award)
To JOHN COYLE, BRAD HURNDELL, VIKAS SATHAYE and SHANE BUCKHAM for the concept, design, engineering and implementation of the Shotover K1 Camera System. This innovative six-axis stabilized aerial camera mount, with its enhanced ability to frame shots while looking straight down, enables greater creative freedom while allowing pilots to fly more effectively and safely.
Winner
To ABIGAIL BRADY, JON WADELTON and JERRY HUXTABLE for their significant contributions to the architecture and extensibility of the Nuke compositing system. Expanded as a commercial product at The Foundry, Nuke is a comprehensive, versatile and stable system that has established itself as the backbone of compositing and image processing pipelines across the motion picture industry.
To BILL SPITZAK and JONATHAN EGSTAD for the visionary design, development and stewardship of the Nuke compositing system. Built for production at Digital Domain, Nuke has become a ubiquitous and flexible tool used across the motion picture industry, enabling novel and sophisticated workflows at an unprecedented scale.
To JEFF LAIT, MARK TUCKER, CRISTIN BARGHIEL and JOHN LYNCH for their contributions to the design and architecture of the Houdini visual effects and animation system. Houdini’s dynamics framework and workflow management tools have helped it become the industry standard for bringing natural phenomena, destruction and other digital effects to the screen.
To LEONARD CHAPMAN for the overall concept, design and development, to STANISLAV GORBATOV for the electronic system design, and to DAVID GASPARIAN and SOUHAIL ISSA for the mechanical design and integration of the Hydrascope telescoping camera crane systems. With its fully waterproof construction, the Hydrascope has greatly advanced crane technology and versatility by enabling precise long-travel multi-axis camera movement in, out of and through fresh or salt water.
Scientific And Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award)
To JASON SMITH and JEFF WHITE for the original design, and to RACHEL MARIE ROSE and MICHAEL JUSTIN LEE JUTAN for the architecture and engineering, of the BlockParty procedural rigging system at Industrial Light & Magic. BlockParty streamlines the rigging process through a comprehensive connection framework, a novel graphical user interface, and volumetric rig transfer, which has enabled ILM to build richly detailed and unique creatures while greatly improving artist productivity.
Winner
To ALEX POWELL for his contribution to the design and engineering, to JASON REISIG for his contribution to the interaction design, and to MARTIN WATT and ALEX WELLS for their contributions to the high-performance execution engine of the Premo character animation system at DreamWorks Animation. Premo’s speed and simplicity enable animators to pose full-resolution characters in representative shot context, significantly increasing their productivity.
To JOE MANCEWICZ, MATT DERKSEN and HANS RIJPKEMA for the design, architecture and implementation of the Rhythm & Hues Construction Kit rigging system. This toolset provides a novel approach to character rigging that features topological independence, continuously editable rigs and deformation workflows with shape-preserving surface relaxation, enabling fifteen years of improvements to production efficiency and animation quality.
To ROB JENSEN for the foundational design and continued development, to THOMAS HAHN for the animation toolset, and to GEORGE ELKOURA, ADAM WOODBURY and DIRK VAN GELDER for the high-performance execution engine of the Presto Animation System at Pixar Animation Studios. Presto allows artists to work interactively in scene context with full-resolution geometric models and sophisticated rig controls, and has significantly increased the productivity of character animators at Pixar.
