Oscar Noms 2018: Surprises, snubs, and history makers

The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday by Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis with the help of Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson, Gal Gadot, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Molly Shannon, Rebel Wilson, and Michelle Yeoh.

Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is leading the nominations with 13 nods. Dunkirk, Phantom Thread, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri are following the pack.

As usual, there were snubs, there were surprises and then there were history makers.

Let's take a look at who falls under which category

Snubs

James Franco, after winning the Golden Globes and scoring nominations for Screen Actors Guild Awards for his movie The Disaster Artist, was missing from the Best Actor Category. Franco was recently accused of sexual harassment by his former students. The actor is reaching out to his ex-girlfriends and the accusers to understand what went wrong. The movie scored one nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and that was it.

Director Steven Spielberg helmed one of the best-scored movies of 2017, The Post. While Meryl Streep received her 21st Oscar nomination for playing Katherine Graham in the drama, lead actor Tom Hanks and Spielberg himself failed to make the cut.

Last year was about Amazon Studios. But this year, their most talked about movie - Kumail Nanjiani's The Big Sick scored only one nomination in Best Original Screenplay category.

Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman is going down the history as one of the important cultural phenomena of 2017. But a complete snub at the Oscars shows Academy can only accommodate so much.

Diane Kruger's German drama In the Fade that won Golden Globe for the same category was snubbed too.

Surprises

Daniel Day-Lewis' Phantom Thread received a lot of love from Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences while it was 'also running' category in the awards announced so far. The Briton's last movie featured in six categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Best Supporting Actress (Lesley Manville). 

Last year with Manchester By The Sea Amazon Studios broke the ground when it comes to streaming services vs big studios with theatrical releases. This year despite receiving backlash with Okja at Cannes and then other movies over the wide release, Netflix soared high with four nominations for their movie Mudbound.

History Makers

Rachel Morrison, the cinematographer of Mudbound, became the first ever woman in the 90 years of the awards show to be nominated in that category. Star of that movie, Mary J Blige is the first person to be nominated in the acting category and original song category for the same movie. Director of Mudbound, Dee Rees is the first black woman ever nominated for adapted screenplay. Suzanne de Passe, who wrote Lady Sings the Blues (1972) is the only other black female writing nominee for original screenplay.

Greta Gerwig became only the fifth female director to be nominated for an Oscar for her movie Lady Bird. She joined Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties), Jane Campion (The Piano), Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) and Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker).

Get Out director Jordan Peele became the only third person to be nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay categories at the same time.

Hugh Jackman's last outing as Wolverine, Logan, became the first comic book movie to be nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay category.

Baller Kobe Bryant now can add 'Oscar Nominee' to his resume because his animated short, titled Dear Basketball is nominated for the award.

Meryl Streep picked up her 21st nomination for the movie The Post, while composer John Williams picked up his 51st nom for scoring Star Wars: The Last Jedi.