Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for January 23rd 2018 on today's show we're going to be talking about the 2018 Academy Award nominations and the biggest surprises sn, our thoughts on all of the nominees.

This is Peter Sorata and joining me on today's podcast is slash film managing

editor Jacob Paul.

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And slash film writers, Huay Tran Bowie.

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And of course, Chris Evangelista.

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So the 2018 Oscar nominations were announced this morning.

I was asleep and in pain at the same time, but you guys were on the site, manning the site and covering the nominations.

So, before we get into the nominations, Jacob, tell us what are the biggest winners of this year?

In terms of a sheer number of nominations. The clear front of the pack is led by the

shape of water who had 13 nominations, which is huge. Double digits are always a

big deal with the Oscars, but 13

we're getting really close to like Titanic numbers.

You want to get specific.

And we'll talk about it's more later on,

but I'll have to do with the fact that it's a rare movie that has elements that are eligible for all the acting, creative trophies, and also all the technical stuff like cinematography, editing, sound mixing, all that stuff.

So it played to pretty much every single corner of the awards,

it's all over the place.

But it was followed by Dunkirk with eight nominations,

including Best Picture and Best Director,

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