Safety pin! These are the nominees for the Oscar 2018 awards

• The United States Film Academy began on Tuesday the expected announcement of Oscar nominees, in which the Mexican Guillermo del Toro and his film "La forma del agua" have large chances

The 24 categories for the 90th edition of the most coveted film awards, which will be presented on March 4 in Hollywood, are announced in two blocks.

The Mexican film added seven nominations in the first block: production design, cinematography, costumes, sound editing, sound mixing, soundtrack and film editing.

"The shape of water" tells a love story between a blind cleaner and an amphibious creature stored in a water tank in a US military facility during the Cold War.

He won the Golden Lion of Venice and the prize of the union of producers of the United States (PGA), in addition to the Golden Globe for direction to Del Toro, which was also nominated for the awards given by the union of directors (DGA).

Del Toro appears favorite to the directorial prize, to which he was nominated in 2007 for "El laberinto del fauno", which won three statuettes, but not the director: Martin Scorsese won with "Los infiltrados".

Next, the nominees:

Best film:
Call me by your name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Director:
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk,
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Tread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Lead actor:
Timothée Chalamet, Call me by your name
Daniel Day Lewis, Phantom Tread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel Esquire

Leading actress:
Sally Hawkings, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post

Supporting Actress:
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Supporting actor:
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards, Outside Ebbing, Missuri
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards, Outside Ebbing, Missuri

Film in foreign language:
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body And Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)

Animation film:
Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coconut
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Adapted script:
Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly's Game
Mudbound

Original screenplay:
The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Production design:
Blade Runner 2049, Dennis Gassner and Alessandra Querzola
Beauty and the Best, Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
Darkest Hour, Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
Dunkirk, Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
The Shape of Water, Paul Denham Austerberry and Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin

Photography:
Blade Runner 2049, Roger A. Deakins
Darkest Hour, Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk, Hayte van Hoytema
Mudbound, Rachel Morrison
The Shape of Water, Dan Laustsen

Costume Design:
Beaty and the Best, Jaqueline Durran
Darkest Hour, Jacqueline Durran
Phantom Thread, Mark Bridges
The Shape of Water, Luis Sequeira
Victoria & Abdul, Consolata Boyle

Sound editing:
Baby Driver, Julian Slater
Blade Runner 2049, Mark Mangini and Theo Green
Dunkirk, Richard King and Alex Gibson
The Shape of Water, Nathan Robitaile and Nelson Ferreira
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce

Sound mix:
Baby Driver, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
Blade Runner 2049, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
Dunkirk, Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo
The Shape of Water, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gouthier
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, David Parker Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson

Short anime:
Dekalb Elementary, Reed Van Dyk
The Eleven O'Clock, Derin Seale and Josh Lawson
My Nephew Emmett, Kevin Wilson, Jr.
The Silent Child, Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
Watu Wote / All of us, Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen

Soundtrack:
Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread, Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water, Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, John Williams
Three Billboards, Outside Ebbing, Missuri, Carter Burwell

Visual effects:
Blade Runner 2049, John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Christopher Towsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
Kong: Skull Island, Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
War for the Planet of the Apes, Joe Letteri, Daniel Barret, Dan Lemmon and Joeol Whist

Short documentary:
Baby Driver, Paul Machliss and Jona
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