Oscar nominations 2018: The Shape of Water leads the pack as fan favourites Get Out and Lady Bird get nods - as it happened

What went down at The Academy's 5am announcement in LA

Oscars 2017: Best Picture confusion

Another year, another batch of Oscars nominations, and for once the general consensus is that The Academy got it right.

At an eye-watering 5.22am PST in Los Angeles (1.22pm GMT) the 2018 nominees were announced by Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis live from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

As expected, Guillermo del Toro's surreal yet touching romance The Shape of Water picked up the most nominations, landing a sizeable 13, with Christopher Nolan's war epic Dunkirk and Joe Wright's Churchill biopic Darkest Hour following, albeit quite far behind.

Luscious movies Call Me By Your Name and Phantom Thread also made the big categories, along with indie darlings Lady Bird and Get Out. Respective directors Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig managed to earn Best Director nods for their directorial debuts, Gerwig becoming only the fifth woman to enter that category.

Blade Runner 2049 and Star Wars: The Last Jedi also snuck into the mix thanks to the Oscars involving a larger number of technical awards.

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Key Points

• The Shape of Water was this year's most-nominated film with 13 nods, easily surpassing Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri which cleaned up at the recent Golden Globes
• Indie darlings Get Out and Lady Bird did very well, earning directors Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig Best Picture and Best Director noms for their directorial debuts
• Gerwig became the fifth woman ever to be nominated for direction, the first since Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) eight years ago.
• Nominees will vie for their respective prizes at the 4 March ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel 

[23 January 2018 11:07 · Kristin Hugo]

So we're not sure what or how etc BUT Salma Hayek, Rosario Dawson, Rebel Wilson and Zoe Saldana will be performing some kind of skit

[23 January 2018 11:18 · Kristin Hugo]

It's looking increasingly likely that today is the day Christopher Nolan scores his first ever Oscar nomination for WWII drama Dunkirk

[23 January 2018 11:19 · Kristin Hugo]

Let's reel off the films Chris Nolan should have been nominated for in the past: Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar

[23 January 2018 11:20 · Kristin Hugo]

Did you know The Dark Knight's failure to get nominated for Best Picture is what caused the Academy to extend the nominee count from five to a possible 10?

[23 January 2018 11:22 · Kristin Hugo]

A win for Nolan, however, is looking unlikely due to Mr. Guillermo del Toro who took the Golden Globe director trophy

[23 January 2018 11:23 · Kristin Hugo]

  ↵(and refused to leave the stage when the music began playing him off, the damn hero)

[23 January 2018 11:25 · Kristin Hugo]

Let's talk about GET OUT

[23 January 2018 11:26 · Kristin Hugo]

The fact it's in contention for a Best Picture nomination is fantastic because A) it's a genre film, and B) it was released last March.

Voters tend to have short-term memory

[23 January 2018 11:27 · Kristin Hugo]

...which is exactly why at least one of these films will unforgivably be snubbed today

[23 January 2018 11:37 · Kristin Hugo]

One such snub we're expecting is Get Out director Jordan Peele whose spot we're thinking could go to the equally as deserving Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird