My Top 5 of Movies nominated for the Oscars 2018 | #TopFiveSaturday

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Now we're almost there to Hollywood's big night. Tomorrow, the 90th Academy Awards will praise all of last years good films in several categories and I will take this chance to share with you my personal Top Five of all the movies that are nominated in at least one category, they're in no way my predictions of winners tomorrow and most of them I've already talked about in here but anyways. Let's go.

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1. Call Me By Your Name, dir. Luca Guadagnino

Nominated in four categories, Best Picture included, this film is my top film of 2017 and just overall my top first in this whole awards season. The love story it tells, embracing the beautiful nature of the first love, it's moving and compelling and it makes for a timeless classic. The performance of the leading actor, Timothée Chalamet -who's nominated for his work in this film- is absolutely spotless. I know it probably won't take home many prizes but it deserves to win Best Adapted Screenplay because it honors perfectly the book it was based on.

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2. The Post, dir. Steven Spielberg

Now this one is my actual pick to win the Best Picture award, though I fear that one might be for Three Billboards or The Shape of Water, which I don't consider as good as this one. Even though it's not as stunningly good as Spotlight is -another great journalism film-, this movie, which is nominated for two categories, shines and will remain in my memory for some good time. Meryl Streep is as good as always and I still think it's unfair that Tom Hanks didn't get nominated for Best Supporting actor.

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3. Ladybird, dir. Greta Gerwig

On the third spot, I have another indie film that's being praised in tomorrow's night ceremony. Director Greta Gerwig's work (which is what I consider a love letter to Sacramento) has earned five nominations, one of them for Best Picture, also. It is a soothing, funny and pretty story, lead by the amazing Saoirse Ronan in the role of teenager with attitude Christine "Ladybird". The photography of this film is one the strongest points it has, aside from its interesting story.

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4. I, Tonya, dir. Craig Gillespie

With this one I'll come out of the selected list of 'Best Picture', which I don't think this film particularly deserves to be there (not that it is), but it does deserve to be praised and be recommended, because it is an absolute wonderful piece of work that tells in an original way a biography of a very controversial person: Tonya Harding, played by the incredibly good Margot Robbie. This biographical drama got three nominations, one of them for Robbie, who absolutely deserves to win but might not.

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5. Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, dir. Martin McDonagh

Ironically, I have on the fifth position the film that just might win Best Picture tomorrow. This drama and dark-comedy film has seven nominations and deserves at least 90% of them. A compelling, touching story that touches on a special topic that affects us as a society nowdays and that will surely be the running theme of tomorrow night's show: inequality and gender violence.

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