Academy Awards

90th Academy Awards

March 4, 2018Dolby TheatreFilms from 201729 categories
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Best Picture Winner

The Shape of Water

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

CocoLee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
Winner
FerdinandCarlos Saldanha and Lori Forte
Loving VincentDorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart
The Boss BabyTom McGrath and Ramsey Naito
The BreadwinnerNora Twomey and Anthony Leo

Best Picture

The Shape of WaterGuillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers
Winner
Call Me by Your NamePeter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito, Producers
Darkest HourTim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski, Producers
DunkirkEmma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
Get OutSean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele, Producers
Lady BirdScott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O'Neill, Producers
Phantom ThreadJoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi, Producers
The PostAmy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, MissouriGraham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

Actor In A Leading Role

Gary OldmanDarkest Hour {"Winston Churchill"}
Winner
Daniel Day-LewisPhantom Thread {"Reynolds Woodcock"}
Daniel KaluuyaGet Out {"Chris Washington"}
Denzel WashingtonRoman J. Israel, Esq. {"Roman J. Israel, Esq."}
Timothée ChalametCall Me by Your Name {"Elio"}

Actor In A Supporting Role

Sam RockwellThree Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri {"Dixon"}
Winner
Christopher PlummerAll the Money in the World {"J. Paul Getty"}
Richard JenkinsThe Shape of Water {"Giles"}
Willem DafoeThe Florida Project {"Bobby"}
Woody HarrelsonThree Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri {"Willoughby"}

Actress In A Leading Role

Frances McDormandThree Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri {"Mildred"}
Winner
Margot RobbieI, Tonya {"Tonya Harding"}
Meryl StreepThe Post {"Kay Graham"}
Sally HawkinsThe Shape of Water {"Elisa Esposito"}
Saoirse RonanLady Bird {"Lady Bird McPherson"}

Actress In A Supporting Role

Allison JanneyI, Tonya {"LaVona"}
Winner
Laurie MetcalfLady Bird {"Marion McPherson"}
Lesley ManvillePhantom Thread {"Cyril"}
Mary J. BligeMudbound {"Florence Jackson"}
Octavia SpencerThe Shape of Water {"Zelda Fuller"}

Directing

The Shape of WaterGuillermo del Toro
Winner
DunkirkChristopher Nolan
Get OutJordan Peele
Lady BirdGreta Gerwig
Phantom ThreadPaul Thomas Anderson

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Call Me by Your NameScreenplay by James Ivory
Winner
LoganScreenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
Molly's GameWritten for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
MudboundScreenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
The Disaster ArtistScreenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Get OutWritten by Jordan Peele
Winner
Lady BirdWritten by Greta Gerwig
The Big SickWritten by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
The Shape of WaterScreenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, MissouriWritten by Martin McDonagh

Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049Roger A. Deakins
Winner
Darkest HourBruno Delbonnel
DunkirkHoyte van Hoytema
MudboundRachel Morrison
The Shape of WaterDan Laustsen

Music (Original Score)

The Shape of WaterAlexandre Desplat
Winner
DunkirkHans Zimmer
Phantom ThreadJonny Greenwood
Star Wars: The Last JediJohn Williams
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, MissouriCarter Burwell

Music (Original Song)

"Remember Me" from CocoMusic and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Winner
"Mighty River" from MudboundMusic and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson
"Mystery Of Love" from Call Me by Your NameMusic and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens
"Stand Up For Something" from MarshallMusic by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren
"This Is Me" from The Greatest ShowmanMusic and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Production Design

The Shape of WaterProduction Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeffrey A. Melvin
Winner
Beauty and the BeastProduction Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Blade Runner 2049Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola
Darkest HourProduction Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
DunkirkProduction Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis

Visual Effects

Blade Runner 2049John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
Winner
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
Kong: Skull IslandStephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus
Star Wars: The Last JediBen Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
War for the Planet of the ApesJoe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist

Film Editing

DunkirkLee Smith
Winner
Baby DriverPaul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
I, TonyaTatiana S. Riegel
The Shape of WaterSidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, MissouriJon Gregory

Sound Editing

DunkirkRichard King and Alex Gibson
Winner
Baby DriverJulian Slater
Blade Runner 2049Mark Mangini and Theo Green
Star Wars: The Last JediMatthew Wood and Ren Klyce
The Shape of WaterNathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira

Sound Mixing

DunkirkGregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten
Winner
Baby DriverJulian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
Blade Runner 2049Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
Star Wars: The Last JediDavid Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson
The Shape of WaterChristian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier

Costume Design

Phantom ThreadMark Bridges
Winner
Beauty and the BeastJacqueline Durran
Darkest HourJacqueline Durran
The Shape of WaterLuis Sequeira
Victoria & AbdulConsolata Boyle

Makeup And Hairstyling

Darkest HourKazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
Winner
Victoria & AbdulDaniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
WonderArjen Tuiten

Documentary (Feature)

IcarusBryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
Winner
Abacus: Small Enough to JailSteve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman
Faces PlacesAgnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda
Last Men in AleppoFeras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen
Strong IslandYance Ford and Joslyn Barnes

Documentary (Short Subject)

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405Frank Stiefel
Winner
Edith+EddieLaura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright
Heroin(e)Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon
Knife SkillsThomas Lennon
Traffic StopKate Davis and David Heilbroner

Short Film (Animated)

Dear BasketballGlen Keane and Kobe Bryant
Winner
Garden PartyVictor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon
LouDave Mullins and Dana Murray
Negative SpaceMax Porter and Ru Kuwahata
Revolting RhymesJakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer

Short Film (Live Action)

The Silent ChildChris Overton and Rachel Shenton
Winner
DeKalb ElementaryReed Van Dyk
My Nephew EmmettKevin Wilson, Jr.
The Eleven O'ClockDerin Seale and Josh Lawson
Watu Wote/All of UsKatja Benrath and Tobias Rosen

Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic WomanChile
Winner
LovelessRussia
On Body and SoulHungary
The InsultLebanon
The SquareSweden

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.
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