Oscars 2018: Best Picture

[Peter T Chattaway]

The Screen Actors Guild award nominees for best ensemble cast, which is as close as the SAG gets to a Best Picture category:

• THE BIG SICK (Amazon Studios/Lionsgate)
  ADEEL AKHTAR / Naveed
  HOLLY HUNTER / Beth
  ZOE KAZAN / Emily
  ANUPAM KHER / Azmat
  KUMAIL NANJIANI / Kumail
  RAY ROMANO / Terry
  ZENOBIA SHROFF / Sharmeen

• GET OUT (Universal Pictures)
  CALEB LANDRY JONES / Jeremy Armitage
  DANIEL KALUUYA / Chris Washington
  CATHERINE KEENER / Missy Armitage
  STEPHEN ROOT / Jim Hudson
  LAKEITH STANFIELD / Andrew/Logan King
  BRADLEY WHITFORD / Dean Armitage
  ALLISON WILLIAMS / Rose Armitage

• LADY BIRD (A24)
  TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET / Kyle Scheible
  BEANIE FELDSTEIN / Julie Steffans
  LUCAS HEDGES / Danny O’Neill
  TRACY LETTS / Larry McPherson
  STEPHEN McKINLEY HENDERSON / Father Leviatch
  LAURIE METCALF / Marion McPherson
  JORDAN RODRIGUES / Miguel McPherson
  SAOIRSE RONAN / Lady Bird McPherson
  ODEYA RUSH / Jenna Walton
  MARIELLE SCOTT / Shelly Yuhan
  LOIS SMITH / Sister Sarah Joan

• MUDBOUND (Netflix)
  JONATHAN BANKS / Pappy McAllan
  MARY J. BLIGE / Florence Jackson
  JASON CLARKE / Henry McAllan
  GARRETT HEDLUND / Jamie McAllan
  JASON MITCHELL / Ronsel Jackson
  ROB MORGAN / Hap Jackson
  CAREY MULLIGAN / Laura McAllan

• THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Fox Searchlight)
  ABBIE CORNISH / Anne
  PETER DINKLAGE / James
  WOODY HARRELSON / Willoughby
  JOHN HAWKES / Charlie
  LUCAS HEDGES / Robbie
  ŽELJKO IVANEK / Desk Sgt.
  CALEB LANDRY JONES / Red Welby
  FRANCES McDORMAND / Mildred
  CLARKE PETERS / Abercrombie
  SAM ROCKWELL / Dixon
  SAMARA WEAVING / Penelope

The winner will be announced January 21.

[Evan C]

Huh. The Post was shut out completely. Was it not screened in time, or did the SAG not care for it?

Of these five, I haven't seen Mudbound yet, but I would guess the race is between Lady Bird and Get Out for the Oscar.

[Peter T Chattaway]

Evan C wrote:
: Huh. The Post was shut out completely. Was it not screened in time, or did the SAG not care for it?

Oh, SAG members had a chance to see it, all right. I went to a press screening in Vancouver a couple weeks ago and got a DVD copy of the film shortly after that. I would be very, very, *very* surprised if SAG members had not had at least as many chances to see it as I did.

I also liked the film a lot, but I guess SAG liked these other films (or the performances therein) more.

Of these five, Lady Bird is the only one that I don't have as a screener or can't watch on streaming. (Mudbound is on Netflix, The Big Sick is on Amazon, and I have DVDs of the other two. I also have a DVD of Mudbound, which is kind of redundant, not least because I can stream a higher-def version of the film!) So I guess I should watch it soon.

[Peter T Chattaway]

The Producers Guild Award nominees (there are supposed to be 10, but instead there are 11, because of a tie!):

• The Big Sick
• Call Me by Your Name
• Dunkirk
• Get Out
• I, Tonya
• Lady Bird
• Molly's Game
• The Post
• The Shape of Water
• Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Wonder Woman

Notably, one of the five SAG ensemble nominees is missing from this list, namely Mudbound.

The winner will be announced January 20.

[Peter T Chattaway]

On 1/5/2018 at 7:48 PM, Peter T Chattaway said:

The Producers Guild Award nominees (there are supposed to be 10, but instead there are 11, because of a tie!):

• The Big Sick
• Call Me by Your Name
• Dunkirk
• Get Out
• I, Tonya
• Lady Bird
• Molly's Game
• The Post
• The Shape of Water
• Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Wonder Woman

Notably, one of the five SAG ensemble nominees is missing from this list, namely Mudbound.

The winner will be announced January 20.

And the winner is... The Shape of Water.

[Peter T Chattaway]

On 12/13/2017 at 10:15 AM, Peter T Chattaway said:

The Screen Actors Guild award nominees for best ensemble cast, which is as close as the SAG gets to a Best Picture category:

• THE BIG SICK (Amazon Studios/Lionsgate)

• GET OUT (Universal Pictures)

• LADY BIRD (A24)

• MUDBOUND (Netflix)

• THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Fox Searchlight)

The winner will be announced January 21.

And the winner is... Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, which also won the SAG awards for actress and supporting actor.

[Peter T Chattaway]

And the nominees are...

• 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

Get Out, Lady Bird and Three Billboards are the only films that also got SAG ensemble nominations. And, interestingly, while there were 11 PGA nominations and 9 Oscar nominations, only 7 films made it onto both lists (Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards).

So Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread are the two Oscar nominees that didn't get *either* SAG or PGA nominations.