90th Academy Awards, Oscars 2018 will Take Place on Sunday March 4, California, US

The Oscars is back this year and the 90th Academy Awards will take place on this Sunday, March 4, California US. And this is all you need to know about the biggest entertaining show of the year.

Films buff, film lovers, film followers, film critics, film actors from all over the world are so excited these days. Ask me why? The Oscars 2018 is here and this year it will be occuring at the Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California, US at 5pm GMT-8. And guess what? Jimmy Kimmel will be back this year too, just like the Oscars 2017.

Now, let us know about the most sought after nominations of 90th Academy Awards -

Oscars 2018 Best Picture Category -

• Call Me by Your Name – Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, and Marco Morabito

• Darkest Hour – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten, and Douglas Urbanski

• Dunkirk – Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan

• Get Out – Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., and Jordan Peele

• Lady Bird – Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, and Evelyn O'Neill

• Phantom Thread – JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi

• The Post – Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg, and Kristie Macosko Krieger

• The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale

• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh

Oscars 2018 Best Director Category -

• Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk

• Jordan Peele – Get Out

• Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird

• Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread

• Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water

Oscars 2018 Best Actor Category -

• Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name as Elio Perlman

• Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread as Reynolds Woodcock

• Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington

• Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill

• Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq. as Roman J. Israel

Oscars 2018 Best Actress Category -

• Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water as Elisa Esposito

• Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes

• Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding

• Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson

• Meryl Streep – The Post as Katharine Graham

Oscars 2018 Best Foreign Language Film Category -

• A Fantastic Woman (Chile) in Spanish – Directed by Sebastián Lelio

• The Insult (Lebanon) in Arabic – Directed by Ziad Doueiri

• Loveless (Russia) in Russian – Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev

• On Body and Soul (Hungary) in Hungarian – Directed by Ildikó Enyedi

• The Square (Sweden) in Swedish – Directed by Ruben Östlund

Oscars 2018 Best Animated Feature Film Category -

• The Boss Baby – Tom McGrath and Ramsey Ann Naito

• The Breadwinner – Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo

• Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson

• Ferdinand – Carlos Saldanha

• Loving Vincent – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart

Oscars 2018 Best Best Visual Effects Category -

• Blade Runner 2049 – John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – Christopher Townsend, 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 Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist

A few films including Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, Darkest Hour, Blade Runner 2049, I, Tonya. Coco, Victoria & Abdul, Star Wars: The Last Jedi are nominated in more than one categories of the Oscars.

Australian actress Margot Robbie is considered the brightest hope for Australia in Oscars 2018. In 2001, Australian born Russell Crowe bagged the best actor award for Gladiator.

A recent article published by BBC says that female led Oscar films are more profitable. Undeniably, the ‘women empowerment’ trends that can be observed in the recent years has touched the entire world and it’s reflected in the films as well. Films with a woman protagonist are more successful commercially, whether mainstream or not. Critics are more likely to appreciate such films and therefore they are bringing more awards.

So, what would you like to share about the 90th Academy Awards? What are your predictions?

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