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 11:38 · Kristin Hugo]

If they were both nominated alongside Nolan, del Toro and Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards), it'd mark the first time all directors wrote their own screenplay

[23 January 2018 11:39 · Kristin Hugo]

This is presuming Stevey boy doesn't get recognition for The Post which is extremely probable after its BAFTAs snub (it got a grand total of ZERO nominations)

[23 January 2018 11:40 · Kristin Hugo]

(btw Stevey boy = the bearded wonder himself, Spielberg)

[23 January 2018 11:41 · Kristin Hugo]

surprise and very welcome director nominees would be Luca Guadagnino for Call Me By Your Name and The Florida Project's Sean Baker

[23 January 2018 11:42 · Kristin Hugo]

We can see the latter two sneaking in to the surprise of many similar to Room director Lenny Abrahamson a few years back

[23 January 2018 11:44 · Kristin Hugo]

But seriously, please let Greta Gerwig be nominated. Lady Bird is an assured debut from someone who is sure to go on and make some classics

[23 January 2018 11:45 · Kristin Hugo]

Plus she'll be the fifth female Best Director nominee in Oscars history. Let that sink in

[23 January 2018 11:45 · Kristin Hugo]

The last being Kathryn Bigelow who - lest we forget - won for The Hurt Locker in 2010 beating her ex-husband James Cameron

[23 January 2018 11:48 · Kristin Hugo]

This

[23 January 2018 11:55 · Kristin Hugo]

Let us know which films you're rooting for in the comments below