Oscars 2018: Where to Watch This Year’s Nominees Online
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* Nominations are out for the 90th annual Academy Awards
* The Shape of Water leads with 13 nominations
* Many surprising contenders in the mix as well
Hollywood is buzzing with anticipation after nominations for the 90th annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning. Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy drama, The Shape of Water, leads the pack with 13 nominations, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri followed behind with nine nods, and war flick, Dunkirk, earned seven.
This year’s Academy Awards air live on ABC on March 4. It will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel for the second year in a row. Last year’s show almost ended in disaster, when presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were presented with the wrong envelope and mistakenly announced La La Land as Best Picture winner over Moonlight.
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Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, who tabulates the results, says new procedures are in place to ensure that a mix-up doesn’t happen again. Among the new rules: both the presenter and a stage manager will confirm that they’ve been given the correct envelope for the category they are about to present before the celebrity takes the stage. Rehearsals will also be mandatory to practice what to do if something goes wrong. And perhaps most importantly, PwC partners are prohibited from using cellphones or social media during the show. This, after PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant Brian Cullinan — the man behind the infamous envelope mix-up — was photographed on his cell phone leading up to the final category presentation last year.
As for the nominated pictures and stars, they have two months to campaign for that trophy, in hopes of convincing the Academy that they deserve that top prize. That also gives us two months to catch up on the movies we’ve missed, to screen them before the big night.
Here’s a look at who’s up for an Oscar — and how to watch the nominated films online.
1. Best Picture
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Call Me by Your Name – pre-order here
and read the book that inspired the film, here
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Darkest Hour – pre-order here
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Dunkirk – stream here
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Get Out – stream here
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Lady Bird – pre-order here
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Phantom Thread – pre-order here
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The Post – pre-order here and watch this behind the scenes featurette
with a free 7-day trial to HBO
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The Shape of Water – pre-order here
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – pre-order here
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2. Lead Actor
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Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name – pre-order here
and read the book that inspired the film, here
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Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread – pre-order here
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Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out – stream here
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Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour – pre-order here
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Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq. – pre-order here
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3. Lead Actress
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Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water – pre-order here
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Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – pre-order here
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Margot Robbie, I, Tonya – pre-order here
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Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird – pre-order here
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Meryl Streep, The Post – pre-order here
4. Best Supporting Actor
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Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project – stream here
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Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – pre-order here
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Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water – pre-order here
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Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World – pre-order here
and read the book that inspired the film, here
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Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – pre-order here
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5. Best Supporting Actress
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Mary J. Blige, Mudbound – read the book that inspired the film, here
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Allison Janney, I, Tonya – pre-order here
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Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread – pre-order here
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Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird – pre-order here
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Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water – pre-order here
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6. Best Director
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Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk – stream here
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Jordan Peele, Get Out – stream here
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Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird – pre-order here
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Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread – pre-order here
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Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water – pre-order here
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7. Best Animated Feature
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The Boss Baby – stream here.
The Breadwinner
Coco – pre-order here
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Ferdinand – pre-order here
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Loving Vincent – stream here
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Catch the 90th Academy Awards live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, March 4. The show starts at 8pm EST / 5pm PST.
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