Review: "Wonderstruck"

Bless you, Todd Haynes, for once again giving me all the feels.

Wonderstruck, Haynes' latest picture, is a real triumph, an absorbing, expertly written and directed and ultimately devastating effort that is sure to resonate with adults and children alike. It is his most poignant and satisfying piece since Far from Heaven, a film I wouldn't hesitate for a second to include on a list of the 100 or so finest pictures to ever grace the screen.

While Wonderstruck isn't quite a masterpiece on the sky-high level of that 2002 film, this is still Haynes operating at or near top of his game. It's one of the year's very best pictures.

Based on the 2011 Brian Selznick novel (Selznick also penned the screenplay here), Wonderstruck traces the journeys of two children, Rose (Millicent Simmonds) and Ben (Oakes Fegley), to New York City. Both have immense longing for greater fulfillment in their lives. They are also both deaf.

Rose's quest to the Big Apple takes place in the black-and-white 1920s. She ventures from her dictatorial father's New Jersey home to track down her idol, the silent screen actress Lillian Mayhew (Julianne Moore), who is now doing a stint in theater. Ben, on the other hand, makes the leap all the way from Minnesota, circa 1977. His mother (Michelle Williams) having recently died, he is in search of his father, who might be connected to a book store in the city.

Over time, of course, we come to see great parallels between these two excursions and Haynes does a remarkable job smoothly switching back and forth between the two stories. His heart is clearly so in this and Simmonds and Fegley, both splendid and completely convincing, are right on the same page with him.

Moore all but steals the final half hour of the picture and that wonderful actor Cory Michael Smith, who was so startling in Olive Kittredge a few years back, makes a memorable, if too brief appearance as well. Jaden Michael is also a real find as Jamie, a lonely boy from Queens who befriends Ben.

Per usual, Edward Lachman's cinematography is right on the money and better be on everyone's shortlist in that category come Oscar time. Kudos too to composer Carter Burwell, whose music especially comes to life in the Rose sections of the picture.

Wonderstruck is a beautiful and soulful film that I cannot wait to revisit.

A

2017 Documentary Feature Oscar Submissions

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced 170 films have been submitted for consideration in the category of Best Documentary Feature. They are:

“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”
“Aida’s Secrets”
“Al Di Qua”
“All the Rage”
“All These Sleepless Nights”
“AlphaGo”
“The American Media and the Second Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”
“And the Winner Isn’t”
“Angels Within”
“Architects of Denial”
“Arthur Miller: Writer”
“Atomic Homefront”
“The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography”
“Bang! The Bert Berns Story”
“Bending the Arc”
“Big Sonia”
“Bill Nye: Science Guy”
“Birthright: A War Story”
“Bobbi Jene”
“Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story”
“Born in China”
“Born to Lead: The Sal Aunese Story”
“Boston”
“Brimstone & Glory”
“Bronx Gothic”
“Burden”
“California Typewriter”
“Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story”
“Casting JonBenet”
“Chasing Coral”
“Chasing Trane”
“Chavela”
“Citizen Jane: Battle for the City”
“City of Ghosts”
“Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives”
“Cries from Syria”
“Cruel & Unusual”
“Cuba and the Cameraman”
“Dawson City: Frozen Time”
“Dealt”
“The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson”
“Destination Unknown”
“Dina”
“Dolores”
“Dream Big: Engineering Our World”
“A Dying King: The Shah of Iran”
“Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends)”
“Earth: One Amazing Day”
“11/8/16”
“Elian”
“Embargo”
“Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars”
“Escapes”
“Everybody Knows… Elizabeth Murray”
“Ex Libris – The New York Public Library”
“Extraordinary Ordinary People”
“Faces Places”
“The Farthest”
“The Final Year”
“Finding Oscar”
“500 Years”
“Food Evolution”
“For Ahkeem”
“The Force”
“The Freedom to Marry”
“From the Ashes”
"Gaga: Five Foot Two"
“A German Life”
“Get Me Roger Stone”
“Gilbert”
“God Knows Where I Am”
“Good Fortune”
“A Gray State”
“Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All”
“Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story”
“Hearing Is Believing”
“Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS”
“Human Flow”
“I Am Another You”
“I Am Evidence”
“I Am Jane Doe”
“I Called Him Morgan”
“Icarus”
“If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast”
“The Incomparable Rose Hartman”
“An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”
“Intent to Destroy”
“Jane”
“Jeremiah Tower The Last Magnificent”
“Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton”
“Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold”
“Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower”
“Karl Marx City”
“Kedi”
“Keep Quiet”
“Kiki”
“LA 92”
“The Last Dalai Lama?”
“The Last Laugh”
“Last Men in Aleppo”
“Legion of Brothers”
“Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982 – 1992”
“Let’s Play Two”
“Letters from Baghdad”
“Long Strange Trip”
“Look & See”
“Machines”
“Man in Red Bandana”
“Mr. Gaga: A True Story of Love and Dance”
“Motherland”
“Mully”
“My Scientology Movie”
“Naples ’44”
“Neary’s – The Dream at the End of the Rainbow”
“Night School”
“No Greater Love”
“No Stone Unturned”
“Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press”
“Nowhere to Hide”
“Obit”
“Oklahoma City”
“One of Us”
“The Paris Opera”
“The Pathological Optimist”
“Prosperity”
“The Pulitzer at 100”
“Quest”
“Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman”
“The Rape of Recy Taylor”
“The Reagan Show”
“Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan”
“Risk”
“A River Below”
“Rocky Ros Muc”
“Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World”
“Santoalla”
“School Life”
“Score: A Film Music Documentary”
“Served Like a Girl”
“The Settlers”
“78/52”
“Shadowman”
“Shot! The Psycho Spiritual Mantra of Rock”
“Sidemen: Long Road to Glory”
“The Skyjacker’s Tale”
“Sled Dogs”
“Soufra”
“Spettacolo”
“Step”
“Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking”
“Strong Island”
“Surviving Peace”
“Swim Team”
“Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton”
“Take My Nose… Please!”
“They Call Us Monsters”
“32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide”
“This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous”
“Tickling Giants”
“Trophy”
“Twenty Two”
“Unrest”
“Vince Giordano – There’s a Future in the Past”
“Voyeur”
“Wait for Your Laugh”
“Wasted! The Story of Food Waste”
“Water & Power: A California Heist”
“Whitney. “Can I Be Me””
“Whose Streets?”
“The Work”

Oscar Flashback - NICHOLSON AT THE OSCARS!

2002: About Schmidt
1997: As Good As It Gets
1992: A Few Good Men
1987: Ironweed
1985: Prizzi's Honor
1983: Terms of Endearment
1981: Reds
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974: Chinatown
1973: The Last Detail
1970: Five Easy Pieces
1969: Easy Rider

After five months of 20 Years of Streep, in which I ventured back and reviewed 100 Oscar-nominated performances, you'd think I'd be yearning for a blog break before Oscar season kicks into full gear.

Alas, I just can't help myself.

No worries, I will be outside, taking advantage of this glorious summer (and fall, by the time this project is finished) but I adore cinema, am (as you know) supremely obsessed with all things Oscar and simply cannot go without writing every day. So, since it's still a tad early for full-time coverage of the coming awards season, it's time for yet another edition of...OSCAR FLASHBACK!

This time around, I will be tackling the Oscar run of none other than a two-time co-star of the incomparable Meryl Streep, the comparably incomparable, three-time Oscar-winning living legend that is JACK NICHOLSON!

In addition to reviewing all 12 Oscar-nominated Nicholson turns, I'll be looking back at the 48 performances he faced over five decades, from the legendary likes of George C. Scott in Patton and Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II, to criminally underrated turns like James Whitmore in Give 'Em Hell, Harry! and Marcello Mastroianni in Dark Eyes. No doubt, there will be a few eyebrow-raising nominees too (I'm looking at you, Charles Durning in To Be or Not to Be). And, as was the case with the Streep years, I'll do a full rundown of the contenders inexplicably absent on Oscar nominations morning.

I was so pleased by the response to 20 Years of Streep, both here and on Twitter, and hope you'll again join me on this journey by offering up your own thoughts on these categories and performances. No doubt, this will be a blast!

Review: "Happy Death Day"

Only pen reviews for Oscar contenders? As if!

Happy Death Day, which most certainly won't be barnstorming the awards season (but will probably prove more satisfying than a number of actual contenders), is a horror-comedy blast, a lively roller coaster ride that strikes that same balance of chills and giggles as the first two Scream entries. Like the Wes Craven pics, this isn't a genuinely terrifying film or a piece of cinema that deserves to be anywhere near an all-time best list in horror. Still, it's a lot of fun.

Jessica Rothe is pitch-perfect as sorority girl Tree who, as the film opens, is the most unpleasantly self-absorbed of sights. On her birthday, she wakes up in the bed of fellow student Carter (Israel Broussard) and proceeds to spread her misery over him, her sorority sisters, some dude she recently dated, the professor she's been sleeping with and virtually anyone else who crosses her path. That evening, in a spooky tunnel no sane person would walk through at night, she is stabbed to death by a masked killer.

Then, she wakes up. In Carter's bed, again. Tree finds herself reliving that same day and, guess what - she's again bludgeoned by this mystery man (or woman) donning a mask of the school mascot (which, inexplicably, is an infant baby). As this cycle continues, Tree's chilly demeanor softens and, desperate to bring this never-ending nightmare to an end, she opens up to the kind Carter for help in devising a strategy.

The film, directed by Christopher Landon and written by Scott Lobdell, has its fair share of clunky dialogue (exchanges like "Tree, I can't see you today, I have a ton of patients on my schedule"/"Look man, I'm running out of patience today") and again, isn't especially blood-curdling, but Rothe's spirited, winsome leading turn and Landon's expert staging of the slasher sequences more than make up for the film's faults.

Oh, and moviegoers who find farts devastatingly funny are bound to die from laughter via one particularly indelible and surprising moment in the picture.

B+

2017 Oscar Nomination Predictions (October)

What up, my fellow Oscar lovers?

Over the past month, since my September predictions, a host of developments have transpired in this roller coaster ride of an awards season:

• Trailers were released for a batch of contenders - All the Money in the World, The Meyerowitz Stories, Roman J. Israel, Esq., Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Wonder Wheel
   
• Oscar hopefuls Battle of the Sexes and Stronger opened to solid critical notices - will, however, they be showered in awards love beyond for Emma Stone and Jake Gyllenhaal? Likewise, will Victoria and Abdul, the recipient of more lukewarm acclaim than those pictures, make much of a mark at all come awards time? (Note, however, that Victoria is faring better at the box office than the other two pics.)
   
• Speaking of box office, Blade Runner 2049, despite glowing reviews, is struggling a make bank. With lackluster receipts, can the Harrison Ford-Ryan Gosling flick really be a major Oscar contender, beyond the technical categories?
   
• Darren Aronofsky's mother! (a film I for one adored) polarized critics upon hitting theaters and managed to net that elusive F grade over at CinemaScore. Folks who thought this might just be Michelle Pfeiffer's year probably ought to move on. :(
   
• In a move that shakes up Lead and Supporting Actor forecasts, Bryan Cranston shall be campaigned in the latter category for Last Flag Flying, with Steve Carell the sole Lead push and Laurence Fishburne (as expected) also in Supporting.
   
• Sony Pictures Classics has picked up The Wife for distribution...in 2018. Fingers crossed for six-time Oscar nominee/legend Glenn Close next year!
   
• Entertainment Studios has picked up the Christian Bale drama Hostiles for distribution this year. The picture, which won warm notices at the Telluride Film Festival, joins Chappaquiddick as the distributor's awards season pushes.

No doubt, I'm forgetting something of significance that recently went down.

Please see below my latest set of Oscar predictions, for the month of October. In parentheses you will find how many spots a contender has moved up or down since my last rankings. In some cases, I have dropped a film or performer entirely. Also, this marks the first month I am attempting predictions in both Documentary Feature and Foreign Language Film.

Have fun reading and, as always, feel free to comment with your own thoughts too!

Best Picture

1. Dunkirk (-)
2. The Shape of Water (-)
3. The Post (+2)
4. Darkest Hour (-1)
5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (NEW)
6. Call Me By Your Name (-2)
7. The Florida Project (-)
8. Mudbound (-)
9. The Disaster Artist (NEW)
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10. Coco (+1)
11. Phantom Thread (+3)
12. Lady Bird (+3)
13. The Big Sick (NEW)
14. Get Out (NEW)
15. Wonder Wheel (-6)

DROPPED
Last Flag Flying (-10)
Battle of the Sexes (-6)
Blade Runner 2049 (-3)

Best Director

1. Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water (-)
2. Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk (-)
3. Steven Spielberg, The Post (+2)
4. Joe Wright, Darkest Hour (-1)
5. Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (NEW)
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6. Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name (-2)
7. Dee Rees, Mudbound (-1)
8. Sean Baker, The Florida Project (NEW)
9. Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049 (-2)
10. Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread (-2)

DROPPED
Woody Allen, Wonder Wheel (-2)
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Battle of the Sexes (-1)

Best Lead Actor

1. Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour (-)
2. Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name (-)
3. Tom Hanks, The Post (+5)
4. Jake Gyllenhaal, Stronger (-1)
5. Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread (-1)
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6. Andrew Garfield, Breathe (-1)
7. James Franco, The Disaster Artist (-1)
8. Steve Carell, Last Flag Flying (-)
9. Harry Dean Stanton, Lucky (NEW)
10. Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq. (-)

DROPPED
Bryan Cranston, Last Flag Flying (-7)

Best Lead Actress

1. Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (+1)
2. Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water (+1)
3. Meryl Streep, The Post (+3)
4. Jessica Chastain, Molly's Game (-)
5. Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul (+4)
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6. Kate Winslet, Wonder Wheel (-1)
7. Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes (-6)
8. Annette Bening, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (-1)
9. Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird (-1)
10. Margot Robbie, I, Tonya (NEW)

DROPPED
Glenn Close, The Wife (-2)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project (-)
2. Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (+2)
3. Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name (-1)
4. Michael Shannon, The Shape of Water (+2)
5. Ben Mendelsohn, Darkest Hour (-2)
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6. Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name (+1)
7. Dustin Hoffman, The Meyerowitz Stories (NEW)
8. Bryan Cranston, Last Flag Flying (NEW)
9. Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water (-1)
10. Jason Mitchell, Mudbound (-)

DROPPED
Laurence Fishburne, Last Flag Flying (-5)
Idris Elba, Molly's Game (-2)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Melissa Leo, Novitiate (-)
2. Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird (+1)
3. Allison Janney, I, Tonya (+3)
4. Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water (-2)
5. Kristin Scott Thomas, Darkest Hour (-)
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6. Holly Hunter, The Big Sick (-2)
7. Tatiana Maslany, Stronger (NEW)
8. Claire Foy, Breathe (NEW)
9. Hong Chau, Downsizing (-1)
10. Mary J. Blige, Mudbound (-)

DROPPED
Michelle Pfeiffer, mother! (-4)
Julianne Moore, Wonderstruck (-2)

Best Original Screenplay

1. Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (+2)
2. Anthony McCarten, Darkest Hour (-1)
3. Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water (-1)
4. Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, The Post (NEW)
5. Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch, The Florida Project (-)
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6. Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (-)
7. Woody Allen, Wonder Wheel (-3)
8. Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick (-1)
9. Jordan Peele, Get Out (-)
10. Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread (-2)

DROPPED
Simon Beaufoy, Battle of the Sexes (-1)

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name (-)
2. Dee Rees and Virgil Williams, Mudbound (-)
3. Angelina Jolie and Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father (NEW)
4. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist (-)
5. Richard Linklater and Darryl Ponicsan, Last Flag Flying (-2)
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6. Aaron Sorkin, Molly's Game (-)
7. Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled (-1)
8. John Pollono, Stronger (NEW)
9. Jason Fuchs, Allan Heinberg, William Moulton Marston and Zack Snyder, Wonder Woman (NEW)
10. Matt Greenhalgh and Peter Turner, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (NEW)

DROPPED
Peter Fellos, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Fabien Nury, Theirry Robin and David Schneider, The Death of Stalin (-5)
Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, Blade Runner 2049 (-4)
Andrew Haigh, Lean on Pete (-3)

Best Animated Feature

1. Coco (-)
2. Loving Vincent (-)
3. The Breadwinner (-)
4. The Girl Without Hands (NEW)
5. Cars 3 (-1)
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6. Despicable Me 3 (-1)
7. Ferdinand (-1)
8. The Lego Batman Movie (-1)
9. Mary and the Witch's Flower (NEW)
10. The Lego Ninjago (-2)

DROPPED
Leap! (-2)
Captain Underpants (-1)

Best Documentary Feature

1. City of Ghosts
2. Faces, Place
3. Ex Libris
4. Hell on Earth
5. Risk
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6. Cries from Syria
7. L.A. 92
8. The Life and Death of Marsha P. Johnson
9. Abacus
10. Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Best Foreign Language Film

1. First They Killed My Father (Cambodia)
2. A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
3. A Letter to the President (Afghanistan)
4. Her Love Boils Bathwater (Japan)
5. A Taxi Driver (South Korea)
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6. In the Fade (Germany)
7. The Square (Sweden)
8. Scary Mother (Georgia)
9. The Train of Salt and Sugar (Mozambique)
10. Summer 1993 (Spain)

Best Cinematography

1. Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk (-)
2. Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049 (-)
3. Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water (+1)
4. Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour (-2)
5. Vittorio Storaro, Wonder Wheel (+2)
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6. Janusz Kaminski, The Post (-1)
7. Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me By Your Name (-2)
8. Rachel Morrison, Mudbound (-)
9. Edward Lachman, Wonderstruck (-)
10. Masanobu Takayanagi, Hostiles (-)

Best Costume Design

1. Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour (-)
2. Ellen Miojnick, The Greatest Showman (+3)
3. Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast (+3)
4. Consolata Boyle, Victoria & Abdul (-2)
5. Sandy Powell, Wonderstruck (-2)
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6. Alexandra Byrne and Timothy Everest, Murder on the Orient Express (+1)
7. Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread (-3)
8. Suzy Benzinger, Wonder Wheel (NEW)
9. Ann Roth, The Post (-1)
10. Lindy Hemming, Wonder Woman (-1)

DROPPED
Mary Zophres, Battle of the Sexes (-1)

Best Film Editing

1. Lee Smith, Dunkirk (-)
2. Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water (-)
3. Michael Kahn, The Post (+1)
4. Valerio Bonelli, Darkest Hour (-1)
5. Jon Gregory, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (NEW)
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6. Bob Ducsay, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (-1)
7. William Hoy and Stan Salfas, War for the Planet of the Apes (-1)
8. Joe Walker, Blade Runner 2049 (-)
9. Mako Kamitsuna, Mudbound (+1)
10. Walter Fasano, Call Me By Your Name (-1)

DROPPED
Pamela Martin, Battle of the Sexes (-4)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

1. Anita Burger, David Malinkowski and Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour (-)
2. Paula Fleet and Patricia Keighran, The Shape of Water (-)
3. Sunday English, Gary English, Nicki Ledermann, Angela Levin,Gary Martori, Jerry Popolis, Rania Ribalow, Pamela S. Westmore and Nakoya Yancey, The Greatest Showman (+4)
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4. Flora Moody and Allison Sing, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (-1)
5. Alexis Continente, Carol Hemming, Dana Kalder, Jutta Russell, Chiara Ugolini and Wakana Yoshihara, Murder on the Orient Express (+3)
6. Lizza Lawson, Jo-Ann MacNiel and Donald Mowat, Blade Runner 2049 (-2)
7. Mary Everett, Bill Myer and Teresa Vest, I, Tonya (NEW)
8. Jacqueline Bhavnani, Samantha Denyer, Sarah Kelly and Bradley Simms, Beauty and the Beast (-3)
9. Haruyo Sawada and Torsten Witte, Battle of the Sexes (-3)
10. Sarah Craig, Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, Debra Manou, Emily O'Quinn and Sean Sansom, It (-)

DROPPED
Jerry DeCarlo and Claus Lulla, Wonderstruck (-3)

Best Original Score

1. Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water (-)
2. Dario Marianelli, Darkest Hour (+1)
3. John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (+1)
4. Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk (-2)
5. Thomas Newman, Victoria & Abdul (-)
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6. Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (NEW)
7. Michael Giacchino, Coco (NEW)
8. John Williams, The Post (-2)
9. Hans Zimmer, Blade Runner 2049 (-2)
10. John Debney, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, The Greatest Showman (-)

DROPPED
Carter Burwell, Wonderstruck (-3)
Dustin O'Halloran, The Current War (-1)

Best Production Design

1. Nathan Crowley, Dunkirk (-)
2. Paul D. Austerberry, The Shape of Water (-)
3. Sarah Greenwood, Darkest Hour (-)
4. Dennis Gassner, Blade Runner 2049 (-)
5. David J. Bomba, Mudbound (-)
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6. Nathan Crowley, The Greatest Showman (-)
7. Santo Loquasto, Wonder Wheel (NEW)
8. Aline Bonetto, Wonder Woman (-1)
9. Rick Heinrichs, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (-1)
10. Rick Carter, The Post (-1)

DROPPED
Sarah Finley and Adam Squires, Victoria & Abdul (-2)

Best Sound Editing

1. Richard King, Dunkirk (-)
2. Matthew Wood, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (-)
3. Will Files, War for the Planet of the Apes (-)
4. Nathan Robitaille, The Shape of Water (-)
5. Julian Slater, Baby Driver (+1)
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6. Theo Green and Mark A. Mangini, Blade Runner 2049 (-1)
7. Justin Doyle, Coco (+3)
8. James Mather, Wonder Woman (-1)
9. Scott Hecker, Hostiles (-1)
10. Richard Hymns, The Post (-1)

Best Sound Mixing

1. Gregg Landaker, Gary Rizzo and Mark Weingarten, Dunkirk (-)
2. David Parker and Michael Semanchick, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (-)
3. Christian T. Cooke, Filip Hosek and Brad Zoern, The Shape of Water (-)
4. Bill Bair, Will Files, Tom Lalley, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson, War for the Planet of the Apes (-)
5. Christopher Boyes and Michael Semanchick, Coco (+5)
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6. Ron Barlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth, Blade Runner 2049 (-1)
7. Gary Rydstrom,The Post (+1)
8. Paul Munro, Wonder Woman (-1)
9. Tim Cavagin and Julian Slater, Baby Driver (+1)
10. Craig Berkey and Roger J. Sacdalan, Darkest Hour (-2)

Best Visual Effects

1. Richard Bain, Ben Morris and Michael Mulholland, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (-)
2. Dennis Berardi and Kristen Bligh, The Shape of Water (-)
3. Ryan Cook, Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri and Erik Winquist, War for the Planet of the Apes (-)
4. Richard Clegg, Paul Lambert, Victor Muller and John Nelson, Blade Runner 2049 (-)
5. Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley and Tim McGovern, Dunkirk (-)
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6. Frazer Churchill, Viktor Muller, Jessica Norman and Bill Westenhofer, Wonder Woman (-)
7. Kyle McCulloch, David Piombino, Kelly Port and Glen Pratt, Beauty and the Beast (-)
8. Vincent Cirelli, Jake Morrison, Brendan Seals, Alexis Wajsbrot and Chad Wiebe,Thor: Ragnarok (+2)
9. Dan Bethell, Theodore Bialek, Vincent Cirelli, Lou Pecora and Doug Spilatro, Spider-Man: Homecoming (-1)
10. Matthew Crnich, Ray McMaster, Kevin Andrew Smith, Doug Spilatro and Christopher Townsend, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (-1)