The nominations for the Oscars 2018 have been announced with Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra making a brief cameo in the visual for Best Cinematography  and there are few surprises in the list. Golden Globe winners Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Guillermo Del Toro, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney and Guillermo Del Toro have all made it in their respective categories - the notable omission is James Franco, who has been overlooked for Best Actor. Three Billboards In Ebbing, Missouri - which was the big winner at the Globes - has several nods including Best Film. The Best Director category makes up for the exclusion of Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) and Jordan Peele (Get Out). The Shape Of Water, which won two Golden Globes including Best Director, leads the Oscar nominee list with 13 nods. Dunkirk, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Darkest Hour have eight, seven and six nominations respectively. Lady Bird has five nods while Get Out, Mudbound and “Call Me By Your Name” have four.

The nominees were announced by actors Andy Serkis and Tiffany Haddish - the latter seemed to have trouble with many names on the list, which she ruefully acknowledged. The Oscars will be held on March 4 and for Indian viewer timing will be in the morning of March 5.

Here is the main list of nominees:

BEST FILM

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriThe Post

Dunkirk

Get Out

Lady Bird

The Shape Of Water

Phantom Thread

Darkest Hour

Call Me By Your Name

BEST DIRECTOR

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape Of Water

Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread

BEST ACTOR

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name

Denzel Washington, Roman J Israel, Esq

BEST ACTRESS

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Sally Hawkins, The Shape Of Water

Meryl Streep, The Post

Margot Robbie, I, Tonya

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christopher Plummer, All The Money In The World

Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

Richard Jenkins, The Shape Of Water

Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Allison Janney, I, Tonya

Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird Mary J Blige, Mudbound

Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

Octavia Spencer, The Shape Of Water

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A Fantastic Woman - Chile

The Insult - Lebanon

Loveless - Russia

On Body And Soul - Hungary

The Square - Sweden