Actresses bring an entirely different flavor, with wonderful charms that can intuitively set the timing
Best Supporting Actresses in 2018 come in all colors especially when one feels, “Mudbound”,
This year clearly shows that diversity is inching its way up to the maybe we don’t have to keep going through this again category with films like, the highly successful, “Get Out” and the very different film direction of, “The Shape of Water”.
Best animated feature film nominations are, “The Boss Baby” (20th Century Fox), “The Breadwinner”, (GKIDS) “Coco”, (Walt Disney), “Ferdinand”, (20th Century Fox), “Loving Vincent”, (Good Deed Entertainment).
Achievement in cinematography, “Blade Runner 2049”, (Warner Brothers), “Darkest Hour”, (Focus Features), “Dunkirk”, (Warner Brothers), “Mudbound”, (Netflix), “The Shape of Water”, (Fox Searchlight).
Achievement in Costume Design, “Beauty and the Beast”, (Walt Disney), “Darkest Hour”, (Focus Features), “Phantom Thread”, (Focus Features), “The Shape of Water”, (Fox Searchlight),“Victoria & Abdul”, (Focus Features).
Achievement in Directing, “Dunkirk”, (Warner Brothers), “Get Out”, (Universal), “Lady Bird”, (A24), “Phantom Thread”, (Focus Features),“The Shape of Water”, (Fox Searchlight).
Best Documentary Feature, “Abacus Small Enough to Jail”, (PBS Distribution) A Mitten Media/Motto Pictures/Kartemquin, Educational Films/WGBH/FRONTLINE Production), “Faces Places”, (Cohen Media Group) A Cine Tamaris Production, “Icarus” (Netflix), A Netflix Documentary in association with Impact Partners, Diamond Docs, Chicago Media Project and Alex Production, “Last Men at Aleppo”, (Grasshopper Film), A Larm Film and Aleppo Media Center Production), Strong Island, (Netflix) A Yanceville Films and Louverture Films Productions.
Best Documentary Short Subject, “Edith+Eddie”, (Kartequim Films), “A Heart is Red” Kartemquin Films Production, “Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405”, A Steifel & Co. Production, Heroin(e), (Netflix), A Netflix Original Documentary in association with The Center for Investigative Reporting/Requisite Media Production, “Knife Skills”, A TFL Films Production, “Traffic Stop”, (HBO Documentary Films), A Q-Ball Production.
Achievement in Film Editing, “Baby Driver”, (Sony Pictures Releasing),“Dunkirk”, (Warner Brothers), I, Tonya, (Neon /30West),”The Shape of Water”, (Fox Searchlight) and “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri”.
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, “A Fantastic Woman”, A Fabula Production, “The Insult”, A Douri Film Production, “Loveless”, A Non-Stop Production, “Oh Body and Soul”, An Inforg-M&M Film Production, “The Square”, A Platform Production.
“The Shape of Water”, is the tenth film that has been nominated thirteen times in Oscar history. To date there are only three films that have fourteen and they are, “La La Land”, (2016), “The Titanic”, (1997) and “All About Eve”, (1950).
Jordan Peele is the 3rd person to win a Best Picture Oscar nomination for writing and directing, “Get Out”, his first feature film. James T. Brooks did so on (1983),”Terms of Endearment”, and Warren Beatty who shared writing and directing credits with Buck Henry for, “Heaven Can Wait”, (1978).
There have only been five female directors who made the cut for Oscar nominations. Of the five, “Lady Bird’s”, Greta Gerwig, holds that spot alongside, Sofia Coppola (2003), “Lost in Translation”, Lina Wertmuller, for Seven Beauties, (1976), Jane Champion, The Piano (1993) and Kathryn Bigelow in (2009) for, “The Hurt Locker”. “Mudbound”, Rachel Morrison is the first female to be nominated as a cinematographer.
The Oscars comes right at a time when gender bending is a norm and with the feminist movement in full force. It leaves us with a feeling of renewed interest, a strong sense of pride in knowing that no matter what happens in our personal and individual lives, the Oscars help us to live in beautiful fantasy sometimes even if it’s not our own.
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