LOS ANGELES: Nominations for the 2018 Oscars, or Academy Awards, the highest honors in the movie industry, were announced on Tuesday. The awards will be handed out on March 4 at a ceremony in Hollywood hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel.
Here are the complete 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
Timothee 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“
Meryl Streep — “The Post“
Margot Robbie — “I, Tonya“
Saoirse Ronan — “Lady Bird“
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro — “The Shape of Water“
Christopher Nolan — “Dunkirk“
Jordan Peele — “Get Out“
Greta Gerwig — “Lady Bird“
Paul Thomas Anderson — “Phantom Thread“
Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe — “The Florida Project“
Richard Jenkins — “The Shape of Water“
Sam Rockwell — “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri“
Christopher Plummer — “All the Money in the World“
Woody Harrelson — “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri“
Best Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige — “Mudbound“
Allison Janney — “I, Tonya“
Laurie Metcalf — “Lady Bird“
Octavia Spencer — “The Shape of Water“
Lesley Manville — “Phantom Thread“
Best Original Screenplay
“The Big Sick“
“Get Out“
“Lady Bird“
“The Shape of Water“
“Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri“
Best Adapted Screenplay
“Call Me By Your Name“
“The Disaster Artist“
“Logan“
“Molly’s Game“
“Mudbound“
Best Animated Film
“The Boss Baby“
“The Breadwinner“
“Coco” “Ferdinand“
“Loving Vincent”
Best Documentary Film
“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail“
“Faces Places“
“Icarus“
“Last Man in Aleppo“
“Strong Island“
Best Foreign Language Film
“A Fantastic Woman” — Chile
“The Insult” — Lebanon
“Loveless“ — Russia
“Our Body and Soul” — Hungary
“The Square” — Sweden
Original Song
“Mighty River,” — Mudbound
“Mystery of Love” — Call Me By Your Name
“Remember Me” — Coco
“Stand Up for Something” — Marshall
“This is Me” — The Greatest Showman
Key nominations for the 2018 Academy Awards
Key nominations for the 2018 Academy Awards
Researchers find 10,000-year-old rock art site in Sinai
- The natural rock shelter’s ceiling features numerous red-pigment drawings of animals and symbols, as well as inscriptions in Arabic and Nabataean
- Some engravings reflect the lifestyles and economic activities of early human communities
CAIRO: Archeologists have discovered a 10,000-year-old site with rock art in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said.
The previously unknown site on the Umm Irak Plateau features a 100-meter-long rock formation whose diverse carvings trace the evolution of human artistic expression from prehistoric times to the Islamic era.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities “has uncovered one of the most important new archeological sites, of exceptional historical and artistic value,“the ministry said in a statement.
Its chronological diversity makes it “an open-air natural museum,” according to the council’s secretary-general, Hisham El-Leithy.
The natural rock shelter’s ceiling features numerous red-pigment drawings of animals and symbols, as well as inscriptions in Arabic and Nabataean.
Some engravings “reflect the lifestyles and economic activities of early human communities,” the ministry said.
Inside, animal droppings, stone partitions, and hearth remains confirm that the shelter was used as a refuge for a long time.
These “provide further evidence of the succession of civilizations that have inhabited this important part of Egypt over the millennia,” Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathi said.
He described the discovery as a “significant addition to the map of Egyptian antiquities.”
The site is located in southern Sinai, where Cairo is undertaking a vast megaproject aimed at attracting mass tourism to the mountain town of Saint Catherine, a UNESCO World Heritage site and home to Bedouin who fear for their ancestral land.
