Fantasy film The Shape of Water leads with 13 Academy Award nominations

Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday amid what's proving to be an unpredictable and highly political awards season.

The fantasy film "The Shape of Water" led with 13 Academy Award nominations, including best picture.

The other best picture nominees are "Lady Bird, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," "The Post," "Get Out, "Dunkirk," "Darkest Hour," "Call Me By Your Name" and "Phantom Thread."

Best actor nominees are Gary Oldman for "Darkest Hour," Timothée Chalamet for "Call Me By Your Name," Daniel Day‑Lewis for "Phantom Thread," Daniel Kaluuya for "Get Out" and Denzel Washington for "Roman J. Israel"

Best actress nominees are Frances McDormand for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" Saoirse Ronan for "Lady Bird," Sally Hawkins for "The Shape of Water," Meryl Streep for "The Post" and Margot Robbie "I, Tonya."

With her nomination for best-supporting actress for her role in "The Shape of Water," Octavia Spencer makes history as the first African‑American actress to receive multiple nominations after a win.

Spencer won in that category for "The Help" in 2012 and was nominated for "Hidden Figures" in 2017.

Late‑night star Jimmy Kimmel is returning to host the Academy Awards, set on March 4, 2018.

Full list of nominations:

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

Best actor
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

Best actress
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

Best supporting actress
Mary J Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best supporting actor
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

Best animated film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out

Best documentary
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island

Best documentary short
Edith+Eddie
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop

Best foreign language film
A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square

Best song
Mighty River, Mudbound
The Mystery of Love, Call Me by Your Name
Remember Me, Coco
Stand Up for Something, Marshall
This Is Me, The Greatest Showman

Best adapted screenplay
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist 
Logan
Molly’s Game 
Mudbound

Best original screenplay
The Big Sick 
Get Out 
Lady Bird 
The Shape of Water 
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best cinematography
Blade Runner 2049 
Darkest Hour 
Dunkirk 
Mudbound 
The Shape of Water

Best costume design
Beauty and the Beast 
Darkest Hour 
Phantom Thread 
The Shape of Water 
Victoria & Abdul

Best editing
Baby Driver 
Dunkirk 
I, Tonya 
The Shape of Water 
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best makeup and hair
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

Best score
Dunkirk 
Phantom Thread 
The Shape of Water 
Star Wars: The Last Jedi 
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best production design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

Best animated short
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

Best live action short
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us

Best sound editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best sound mixing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best 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

Source: CNN and theguardian