Best Documentary (Feature)

• Icarus

Best Documentary (Short)

• Heroin(e)

Best Film Editing

• Baby Driver (Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos)

Best Makeup/Hair

• Darkest Hour (Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick)

Best Music (Original Score)

• Dunkirk (Hans Zimmer)

Best Original Song

• “Remember Me” (Coco) Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

Best Production Design

• Dunkirk (Nathan Crowley, Production Design; Gary Fettis, Set Decoration)

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• Call Me By Your Name (Screenplay by James Ivory)

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

• Lady Bird (Written by Greta Gerwig)

Best Directing

• Get Out (Jordan Peele)

Best Costume Design

• Shape of Water (Luis Sequeira)

Best Cinematography

• Blade Runner 2049 (Roger A. Deakins)

Best Animated Feature Film

• Coco

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Willem DaFoe in The Florida Project

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Allison Janney in I, Tonya

Best Picture

• Call Me by Your Name

Now for Best Picture, we found ourselves in a three-way tie between Call Me by Your Name, Get Out, and Lady Bird. Upon a tiebreaker, we found ourselves in another three-way tie. We were, however, able to choose our Best Picture winner and we decided on; Call Me by Your Name. If that does not win, but one of our other ties does win, we’ll call that a success on our part.

We’d like to congratulation all nominees this evening, and we eagerly await the results of this year’s Academy Awards.

Please read other articles written by District and The Manor on the 2018 Academy Awards.

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If you don’t know the nominees, we’ve taken some time to jot down the names and films which will be up for the award on March 4th, 2018, plus our opinions on how the music turned out.

Dunkirk — Hans Zimmer

It’s Hans Zimmer. I don’t know what to say other than he does his job well, but it gets lost inside Nolan’s work. You barely notice it, but when you listen to it, you wonder why you couldn’t hear it during the film.

Phantom Thread — Jonny Greenwood

This is a good shot of classical music for anyone who is in desperate need of it. Part of me is afraid that this score, though great, will win the Oscar even though it’s exactly what it is and nothing more. Nice classical music.

The Shape of Water — Alexandre Desplat

It’s magical. Flat-out magical. I can’t praise this album enough because it works for a fantasy for a modern time film like the director Guillermo Del Toro says it is. It’s charming, dark, and whimsical when it needs to be. I honestly am pulling for this score, but I’ll understand if it doesn’t win.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi — John Williams

Nothing but Star Wars. I think that this is a strong soundtrack, but John Williams doesn’t need another Oscar.  I feel like it’s a bit of a retread for the franchise, but there are one or two good editions. I feel that he did a much better job with Force Awakens, and all The Last Jedi did was add onto the themes he made years ago.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Carter Burwell

I was deeply impressed with this soundtrack, as I feel that it encapsulates everything that a modern-age Western should have in a soundtrack. It’s deep and melancholic, but it adds just enough of other genres to give it a well-rounded sound. It’s easy to add a few well-known country and rock songs to a soundtrack and call it quits, but Burwell knows exactly what he’s doing. Those additions act more as the cherry on the cake rather than needless filling.

We congratulate all of the nominees for score, and we anxiously await the 90th Academy Awards.

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