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title: "Oscars checklist 2018, take three: all 59 nominated movies, grouped by highest category"
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For anyone else attempting the Oscars Death Race (watching every movie nominated in every category!), I've again made a list of all movies and grouped them by their highest category. This way, it's a little easier to see which "major" movies you have yet to watch and which other movies you still need to see.[^oscar-nominees-watched-2018]

[^oscar-nominees-watched-2018]: Of the 34 feature-length English films nominated (AKA everything but the docs/shorts/foreign categories), I've managed to watch all but 3 so far: **Mudbound** (a Netflix original, but I'm hoping they re-release it in theaters now), **The Breadwinner** (foreign animated movie that I apparently missed in November), and...**The Boss Baby** (*really?!*).

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### "Major" categories

9 movies nominated in Best Picture (with 55 total nominations between them!):

- `[13]` The Shape of Water
- `[8]` Dunkirk
- `[7]` Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- `[6]` Phantom Thread
- `[6]` Darkest Hour
- `[5]` Lady Bird
- `[4]` Get Out
- `[4]` Call Me By Your Name
- `[2]` The Post

5 more movies nominated in Best Actor/Actress:

- `[4]` Mudbound <small>(*Best Supporting Actress / Mary J. Blige*)</small>
- `[3]` I, Tonya <small>(*Best Actress / Margot Robbie* and *Best Supporting Actress / Allison Janney*)</small>
- `[1]` Roman J. Israel Esq. <small>(*Best Best Actor / Denzel Washington*)</small>
- `[1]` All the Money in the World <small>(*Best Supporting Actor / Christopher Plummer*)</small>
- `[1]` The Florida Project <small>(*Best Supporting Actor / Willem Dafoe*)</small>

4 more movies nominated in Best Original/Adapted Screenplay:

- `[1]` Logan
- `[1]` Molly’s Game
- `[1]` The Disaster Artist
- `[1]` The Big Sick

1 more movie nominated in Best Cinematography:

- `[5]` Blade Runner 2049

### "Minor" categories

5 more movies nominated in Best Animated Film:

- `[2]` Coco
- `[1]` Ferdinand
- `[1]` Loving Vincent
- `[1]` The Boss Baby
- `[1]` The Breadwinner

5 more movies nominated in Best Foreign Film:

- `[1]` A Fantastic Woman
- `[1]` Loveless
- `[1]` Of Body and Soul
- `[1]` The Insult
- `[1]` The Square

5 more movies nominated in Best Documentary:

- `[1]` Abacus
- `[1]` Faces Places
- `[1]` Icarus
- `[1]` Last Men in Aleppo
- `[1]` Strong Island

### Technical categories

10 more movies nominated in technical categories (*Best Score / Song / Sound Editing / Sound Mixing / Production Design / Makeup & Hairstyling / Costume Design / Film Editing / Visual Effects*):

- `[4]` Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- `[3]` Baby Driver
- `[2]` Beauty and the Beast
- `[2]` Victoria and Abdul
- `[1]` Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- `[1]` Kong: Skull Island
- `[1]` Marshall
- `[1]` The Greatest Showman
- `[1]` War for the Planet of the Apes
- `[1]` Wonder

### Short film categories

5 more movies nominated in Best Live Action Short Film:

- `[1]` DeKalb Elementary
- `[1]` My Nephew Emmett
- `[1]` The Eleven O’Clock
- `[1]` The Silent Child
- `[1]` Watu Wote/All of Us

5 more movies nominated in Best Animated Short Film:

- `[1]` Dear Basketball
- `[1]` Garden Party
- `[1]` Lou
- `[1]` Negative Space
- `[1]` Revolting Rhymes

5 more movies nominated in Best Documentary - Short Subject:

- `[1]` Edith+Eddie
- `[1]` Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
- `[1]` Heroin(e)
- `[1]` Knife Skills
- `[1]` Traffic Stop

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### By the numbers

There are 24 Oscar categories, with 5 nominees in almost every category (Best Picture has 9 nominees again this year, Makeup & Hairstyling has only 3 nominees per usual).

That means 122 total nominations. Altogether, there are 44 feature-length films and 15 short films nominated (3 fewer than last year!).

If you group everything by their highest-nominated category, you're looking at...

* 19 "major" category nominees
* 15 "minor" category nominees
* 10 technical category nominees
* 15 short category nominees

So if you want to watch...

* All the Best Picture nominees: 9 movies.
* All the BP + major nominees: 19 movies.
* All the BP + major + minor nominees: 34 movies.
* All the BP + major + minor + technical nominees (AKA no shorts): 44 movies.

And if you wanted to watch *everything*...59 movies!