The Academy Awards announced it’s choices for best in motion pictures for 2017 this morning. Actress-comedian Tiffany Haddish and actor-director Andy Serkis, joined by Academy President John Bailey, announced the 90th Academy Awards® nominations live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater

Pre-taped category introductions were given by Academy members Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson, Gal Gadot, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Molly Shannon, Rebel Wilson and Michelle Yeoh.

The outcome was standard with most Oscars years with most nominations going to non-block buster films and focusing on artistic dark horse choices such as: Call Me by Your Name, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Shape of Water, I, Tonya, The Post, and so on.

Not surprising is “Get Out” being nominated for Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Actor in a Leading Role, Directing, and Best Picture. Another non-surprise is Mary J. Blige earning her first Oscar nomination for her acting debut in “Mudbound” in the category of Best Supporting Actress. Many people were pulling for this one.

Also, very nice to see Denzel Washington being nominated again this year for Best Actor in a Leading Role for “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” It was disappointing to see him lose last year for his nomination for “Fences.”

Another well-deserved nomination is for Allison Janney playing Tonya Harding’s mother in “I, Tonya.” A big congrats to Greta Gerwig who’s directorial and writing debut “Lady Bird” about growing-up in Sacramento, Ca earned nominations in Best Directing, Best Picture, Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role.

Also, not surprising is “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is nominated in the categories of Original Score, Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing.

“The Post” is nominated in the Best Picture, and Actress in a Leading Role categories. “The Post” is similar to the movie that won Best Picture in 2015, “Spotlight” about the Boston Globe’s investigative journalists uncovering the molestation scandal in the priesthood. One day, I suspect, we’ll all be watching a movie about the New York Times breaking the Entertainment casting couch scandal which will be nominated for an Oscar.

Though there was some campaigning to get DC Comics “Wonder Woman” movie nominated for Best Picture, the only comic book film nominated was “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” in the category of Visual Effects. Last Year, “Suicide Squad” represented by winning the Oscar in the Best Makeup and Hair category.

The 90th Oscars®, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

All the nominations in their categories are listed below. Oscars score card courtesy of The Academy Awards.

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
– Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
– Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
– Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
– Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
– Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
– Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
– Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards
outside Ebbing, Missouri
– Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
– Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
– Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
– Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
– Frances McDormand, Three Billboards
outside Ebbing, Missouri
– Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
– Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
– Meryl Streep, The Post

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
– Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
– Allison Janney, I, Tonya
– Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
– Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
– Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
– The Boss Baby
– The Breadwinner
– Coco
– Ferdinand
– Loving Vincent

CINEMATOGRAPHY
– Blade Runner 2049
– Darkest Hour
– Dunkirk
– Mudbound
– The Shape of Water

COSTUME DESIGN
– Beauty and the Beast
– Darkest Hour
– Phantom Thread
– The Shape of Water
– Victoria & Abdul

DIRECTING
– Dunkirk
– Get Out
– Lady Bird
– Phantom Thread
– The Shape of Water

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
– Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
– Faces Places
– Icarus
– Last Men in Aleppo
– Strong Island

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
– Edith+Eddie
– Heaven Is a Traffi c Jam on the 405
– Heroin(e)
– Knife Skills
– Traffi c Stop

FILM EDITING
– Baby Driver
– Dunkirk
– I, Tonya
– The Shape of Water
– Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
– A Fantastic Woman
– The Insult
– Loveless
– On Body and Soul
– The Square

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
– Darkest Hour
– Victoria & Abdul
– Wonder

ORIGINAL SCORE
– Dunkirk
– Phantom Thread
– The Shape of Water
– Star Wars: The Last Jedi
– Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

ORIGINAL SONG
– “Mighty River,” Mudbound
– “Mystery Of Love,” Call Me by Your Name
– “Remember Me,” Coco
– “Stand Up For Something,” Marshall
– “This Is Me,” The Greatest Showman

BEST PICTURE
– 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

PRODUCTION DESIGN
– Beauty and the Beast
– Blade Runner 2049
– Darkest Hour
– Dunkirk
– The Shape of Water

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
– Dear Basketball
– Garden Party
– Lou
– Negative Space
– Revolting Rhymes

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
– DeKalb Elementary
– The Eleven O’Clock
– My Nephew Emmett
– The Silent Child
– Watu Wote/All of Us

SOUND EDITING
– Baby Driver
– Blade Runner 2049
– Dunkirk
– The Shape of Water
– Star Wars: The Last Jedi

SOUND MIXING
– Baby Driver
– Blade Runner 2049
– Dunkirk
– The Shape of Water
– Star Wars: The Last Jedi

VISUAL EFFECTS
– Blade Runner 2049
– Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
– Kong: Skull Island
– Star Wars: The Last Jedi
– War for the Planet of the Apes

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
– 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