The Shape of Water, Universal's Get Out and Lady Bird were joined on the Best Picture list by Sony Classics» Call Me By Your
Name; Focus Features» Darkest Hour, home to Best
Actor frontrunner Gary Oldman, nommed today; Warner Bros» Dunkirk, with Christopher Nolan's stunning war movie
scoring eight noms; Focus» Phantom Thread, with Daniel Day - Lewis back in the
Actor race; Fox's The Post, along with it the 21st nomination for Meryl Streep (though not for director Stephen Spielberg); and Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, probably the other frontrunner coming into today noms and which had seven nominations, with Martin McDonagh nominated for writing but not directing, and the film's
big three — Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell — all nominated.