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    2018 Oscar Awards nomination list

    This year’s Oscar awards is already on the way and has been scheduled to hold live on the 4th of March 2018 on ABC. This year marks 90 years of Oscar awards and Jimmy Kimmel is once again the host. The nominations for 2018 Oscars were announced on January 23, 2018 from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater by Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis. All 24 categories for the Oscars 2018 ceremony were highlighted. THE SHAPE OF WATER received the most Oscar nominations with 13 nominations including Best Picture, Directing and others.

    You can watch the announcement and see the full list of 2018 Oscars nominations (by category) below:

    • Performance by an actor in a leading role

    Timothe?e Chalamet in CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Sony Pictures Classics)

    Daniel Day-Lewis in PHANTOM THREAD (Focus Features)

    Daniel Kaluuya in GET OUT (Universal)

    Gary Oldman in DARKEST HOUR (Focus Features)

    Denzel Washington in ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ. (Sony Pictures Releasing)

    • Performance by an actor in a supporting role

    Willem Dafoe in THE FLORIDA PROJECT (A24)

    Woody Harrelson in THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Fox Searchlight)

    Richard Jenkins in THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight)

    Christopher Plummer in ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD (Sony Pictures Releasing)

    Sam Rockwell inTHREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Fox Searchlight)

    • Performance by an actress in a leading role

    Sally Hawkins in THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight)

    Frances McDormand in THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Fox Searchlight)

    Margot Robbie in I, TONYA (Neon/30 West)

    Saoirse Ronan in LADY BIRD (A24)

    Meryl Streep in THE POST (20th Century Fox)

    • Performance by an actress in a supporting role

    Mary J. Blige in MUDBOUND (Netflix)

    Allison Janney in I, TONYA (Neon/30 West)

    Lesley Manville in PHANTOM THREAD (Focus Features)

    Laurie Metcalf in LADY BIRD (A24)

    Octavia Spencer in THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight)

    • Best animated feature film of the year

    THE BOSS BABY (20th Century Fox) – Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito

    THE BREADWINNER (GKIDS) – Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo

    COCO (Walt Disney) – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson

    FERDINAND (20th Century Fox) – Carlos Saldanha and Lori Forte

    LOVING VINCENT (Good Deed Entertainment) – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart

    • Achievement in cinematography

    BLADE RUNNER 2049 (Warner Bros.) – Roger A. Deakins

    DARKEST HOUR (Focus Features – Bruno Delbonnel

    DUNKIRK (Warner Bros. – Hoyte van Hoytema

    MUDBOUND (Netflix) – Rachel Morrison

    THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight) – Dan Laustsen

    • Achievement in costume design

    BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Walt Disney) – Jacqueline Durran

    DARKEST HOUR (Focus Features) – Jacqueline Durran

    PHANTOM THREAD (Focus Features) – Mark Bridges

    THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight) – Luis Sequeira

    VICTORIA & ABDUL (Focus Features) – Consolata Boyle

    • Achievement in directing

    DUNKIRK (Warner Bros.) – Christopher Nolan

    GET OUT (Universal) – Jordan Peele

    LADY BIRD (A24) – Greta Gerwig

    PHANTOM THREAD (Focus Features) – Paul Thomas Anderson

    THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight) – Guillermo del Toro

    • Best documentary feature

    ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL (PBS Distribution)

    A Mitten Media/Motto Pictures/Kartemquin Educational Films/WGBH/FRONTLINE Production

    Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman

    FACES PLACES (Cohen Media Group)

    A Cine? Tamaris Production

    Agne?s Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda

    ICARUS (Netflix)

    A Netflix Documentary in association with Impact Partners, Diamond Docs, Chicago Media Project and Alex Production

    Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan

    LAST MEN IN ALEPPO (Grasshopper Film)

    A Larm Film and Aleppo Media Center Production

    Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen

    STRONG ISLAND (Netflix)

    A Yanceville Films and Louverture Films Production

    Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes

    • Best documentary short subject

    EDITH+EDDIE (Kartemquin Films) [A Heart is Red/Kartemquin Films Production] – Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright

    HEAVEN IS A TRAFFIC JAM ON THE 405 [A Stiefel & Co. Production] – Frank Stiefel

    HEROIN(E) (Netflix) [A Netflix Original Documentary in association with The Center for Investigative Reporting/Requisite Media Production] – Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon

    KNIFE SKILLS [A TFL Films Production] – Thomas Lennon

    TRAFFIC STOP (HBO Documentary Films) [A Q-Ball Production] – Kate Davis and David Heilbroner

    • Achievement in film editing

    BABY DRIVER (Sony Pictures Releasing) – Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos

    DUNKIRK (Warner Bros.) – Lee Smith

    I, TONYA (Neon/30 West) – Tatiana S. Riegel

    THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight) – Sidney Wolinsky

    THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Fox Searchlight) – Jon Gregory

    • Best foreign language film of the year

    A FANTASTIC WOMAN – A Fabula Production (Chile)

    THE INSULT – A Douri Film Production (Lebanon)

    LOVELESS – A Non-Stop Production (Russia)

    ON BODY AND SOUL – An Inforg-M&M Film Production (Hungary)

    THE SQUARE – A Plattform Production (Sweden)

    • Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

    DARKEST HOUR (Focus Features) – Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick

    VICTORIA & ABDUL (Focus Features) – Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard

    WONDER (Lionsgate) – Arjen Tuiten

    • Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

    DUNKIRK (Warner Bros.) – Hans Zimmer

    PHANTOM THREAD (Focus Features) – Jonny Greenwood

    THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight) – Alexandre Desplat

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Walt Disney) – John Williams

    THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Fox Searchlight) – Carter Burwell

    • Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

    “Mighty River” from MUDBOUND (Netflix) – Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson

    “Mystery Of Love” from CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Sony Pictures Classics) – Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens

    “Remember Me” from COCO (Walt Disney) – Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

    “Stand Up For Something” from MARSHALL (Open Road Films) – Music by Diane Warren, Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren

    “This Is Me” from THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (20th Century Fox) – Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

    • Best motion picture of the year

    CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Sony Pictures Classics)

    A Frenesy Film/La Cine?facture/Memento Films International/RT Features Production

    Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito, Producers

    DARKEST HOUR (Focus Features)

    A Working Title Films Production

    Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski, Producers

    DUNKIRK (Warner Bros.)

    A Syncopy Pictures Production

    Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers

    GET OUT (Universal)

    A Blumhouse Productions/QC Entertainment/Monkeypaw Production

    Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele, Producers

    LADY BIRD (A24)

    A Mission Films Production

    Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O’Neill, Producers

    PHANTOM THREAD (Focus Features)

    An Annapurna Pictures Production

    JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi, Producers

    THE POST (20th Century Fox)

    A 20th Century Fox/DreamWorks Pictures Production

    Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers

    THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight)

    A Double Dare You Production

    Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers

    THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Fox Searchlight)

    A Blueprint Pictures Production

    Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

    • Achievement in production design

    BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Walt Disney) [Production Design: Sarah Greenwood, Set Decoration: Katie Spencer]

    BLADE RUNNER 2049 (Warner Bros.) [Production Design: Dennis Gassner, Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola]

    DARKEST HOUR (Focus Features) [Production Design: Sarah Greenwood, Set Decoration: Katie Spencer]

    DUNKIRK (Warner Bros.) [Production Design: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis]

    THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight) [Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry, Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeffrey A. Melvin]

    • Best animated short film

    DEAR BASKETBALL (Verizon go90) [A Glen Keane Production] – Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant

    GARDEN PARTY [A MOPA Production] – Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon

    LOU (Walt Disney) [A Pixar Animation Studios Production] – Dave Mullins and Dana Murray

    NEGATIVE SPACE [An Ikki Films Production] – Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata

    REVOLTING RHYMES[A Magic Light Pictures Production] – Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer

    • Best live action short film

    DEKALB ELEMENTARY [A UCLA Production] – Reed Van Dyk

    THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK [A FINCH Production] – Derin Seale and Josh Lawson

    MY NEPHEW EMMETT [A New York University Production] – Kevin Wilson, Jr.

    THE SILENT CHILD [A Slick Films Production] – Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton

    WATU WOTE/ALL OF US [A Hamburg Media School Production] – Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen

    • Achievement in sound editing

    BABY DRIVER (Sony Pictures Releasing) – Julian Slater

    BLADE RUNNER 2049 (Warner Bros.) – Mark Mangini and Theo Green

    DUNKIRK (Warner Bros.) – Richard King and Alex Gibson

    THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight) – Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Walt Disney) – Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce

    • Achievement in sound mixing

    BABY DRIVER (Sony Pictures Releasing) – Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis

    BLADE RUNNER 2049 (Warner Bros.) – Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth

    DUNKIRK (Warner Bros.) – Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten

    THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight) – Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Walt Disney) – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson

    • Achievement in visual effects

    BLADE RUNNER 2049 (Warner Bros.) – John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover

    GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 (Walt Disney) – Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick

    KONG: SKULL ISLAND (Warner Bros.) – Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Walt Disney) – Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

    WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (20th Century Fox) – Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist

    • Adapted screenplay

    CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Sony Pictures Classics) – Screenplay by James Ivory

    THE DISASTER ARTIST (A24) – Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

    LOGAN (20th Century Fox) – Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green, Story by James Mangold

    MOLLY’S GAME (STXfilms) – Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin

    MUDBOUND (Netflix) – Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

    • Original screenplay

    THE BIG SICK (Amazon Studios) – Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani

    GET OUT (Universal) – Written by Jordan Peele

    LADY BIRD (A24) – Written by Greta Gerwig

    THE SHAPE OF WATER (Fox Searchlight) – Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor, Story by Guillermo del Toro

    THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Fox Searchlight) – Written by Martin McDonagh

    Get more information on oscar.go.com

  • 5 things you didn’t know could be done with Izivote

    Being an online voting system izivote is a powerful tool used to create polls and online votes for diverse events such as awards, research and surveys. However, beyond the expected and known features, izivote provides several other tools which make it stand out as an exceptional online voting platforms.

    Without further ado here are some things you probably didn’t know you could do with izivote.

    1. Auto close votes

    Izivote gives you the ability to set a time when voting would be closed, of course your votes won’t be open forever. This feature is particularly used to ensure voting is closed at a preferred time, also if you just feel lazy to log into your account to close voting, auto close voting is a great walk around for you.

    To set auto close votes, follow the following steps

    • Go to your vote page settings
    • If vote stage is in ‘voting’ stage, check the ‘auto close vote’ check box
    • Set the time you want votes to auto close and save the changes

    There you have it, once it gets to your set time, we would automatically help you to close voting.

    1. Create an application form

    Sometimes it becomes stressful to type categories, poll options or nominees for votes especially if there are several of them to be inputted. Izivote lets you create an application form which relieves you of the stress of typing in data.

    An application form is simply a form you create for people to nominate themselves, by creating an application form you can request a nominee applicant to provide information about themselves you require, all information gets to you once anyone submits the application, from which you can remove those you think don’t meet your requirements.

     “How is this different from using an external form service to get the information?”, well that would be a good question, but using an external form only gives you the information and doesn’t place it on a voting platform, you would still need to copy and paste to one, unlike using izivote application form that puts it directly on our voting platforms and lets you start your votes without stress.

    To create and use an application form:

    • Go to your vote page dashboard
    • Add all required categories to your vote page
    • Click on application form
    • Add all information required from a nominee applicant (name and category are compulsorily included) and save
    • Go to your vote page settings, change vote stage to application and save

    Now when any one visits your vote page, a form would be displayed for them to fill and nominate themselves.

    1. Create multiple vote page

    This feature was added in the most recent update of izivote, prior to which an account can only create a single vote at a time, this makes it easier for you to manage multiple independent votes at the same time, reducing the complexity of having to create another account to have another vote page. To create a new vote page

    • Click on add vote page from the vote pages drop down or page
    • Select your preferences, give your vote page a name and save

    As simple as that is it gives you a new vote page.

    1. Embed vote page on personal website

    This is one of the astonishing features of izivote that makes it one of the best voting platforms, every website owner wants traffic to their website, (Why? More traffic potentially equals more income). But how can that be achieved if some visitors are redirected elsewhere, this restrict some website owners from using some third party services for their site, however most third party service providers support embed features which helps you place their content directly on your site without having to redirect your visitors to theirs. Izivote also does that.

    With the embed feature, you can use izivote to create a vote page, add categories, nominees or options and embed the vote page on your website. That way voting takes place directly on your website while making use of our service. Great stuff! Simply copy the embed code on your vote page dashboard and paste wherever you want the vote page to appear on your website, that does it.

    1. Preview vote statistics with charts

    Another great feature added to izivote as at the last update is the use of charts to show vote statistics, unlike the progress bar used prior to the update, charts show more graphical and visual information of vote statistics. Vote statistics are now displayed using pie charts, bar charts and donut charts. Which show the metrics of votes received by each nominee or option. Simply go to the stats tab in your vote page dashboard and select your preferred chart to view results.

    Certainly there are more features in izivote other than these stipulated on this post (Izivote is the only voting platform that allows you upload nominee’s pictures), as you familiarize yourself with the izivote interface you would get a hang of them, check our blog regularly to see posts on other features and be updated with izivote.

  • Advantages of online polls

    Advantages of online polls

    Izivote gives you the ability to create votes online for free, before you dive into using it, it would only be logical to evaluate its usage and find out if it would be profitable to you as well as meet your expectations. Izivote’s service lets you create online votes and polls for free, hence knowing the advantages of this service will give you a better idea of why you need it and should use Izivote. This post to give you some of the advantages of using an online poll 

    Advantages of online polls

    1. Online polls can reach a wider audience

    Thanks to the internet and the global connection that it gives, once a poll is placed online it is accessible to everyone on a global scope. Increasing the participation in your poll which ultimately increases the publicity and awareness of your brand or award.

    2. Online polls are easier for people to respond to

    In our present days, almost everyone owns a computer especially with the introduction of smart mobile devices, and most people spend their time using these computers while surfing the internet both during work time and leisure periods. Thanks to the fact that people can carry out several functions simultaneously on their device it would be no stress for them to answer you poll while they are on something else. Hence people will be willing to engage in your poll as it does not totally disrupt their planned-out task.

    3. Online polls are faster and more accurate

    Online polls deliver results instantly as the results are computed even as they are entered and are readily available. Once a system has been programmed accurately, it gives less or no room for mistakes and like Izivote, results of polls and awards are being computed accurately

    4. Online polls are easily processed and displayed

    Online polls results are already in digital format and so no further processing required. Online polls provide further analysis of the result with several statistical tools, for example Izivote also presents your result in form of a bar chart (other methods to be added in future updates) This saves time when it comes to presenting these results, they could as well be printed out easily.

    These are few of the several reasons why it would be a good idea to have an online poll, and with great online poll apps like Izivote, the process is made easier. So start creating polls, surveys, award votes today with Izivote.

  • Izivote Optimization

    We are constantly making improvements to our system in order to give the best to our users. In as much as Izivote has new UI upgrades, we also pay attention to our background working codes, optimizing them to give faster results making you to accomplish more tasks faster. With the recent changes to our user interface (UI) on the account dashboard, we also made optimization to our system.

    Remember that you can be part of those making Izivote better for everyone. Send you suggestions for upgrades or report bugs to our support at [email protected] or chat with us live on our website.

  • Welcome to Izivote

    Welcome to Izivote

    Izivote is an app that lets you to create votes and polls for free. Before developing izivote, we noticed that several votes were being done using a social media account and others which had dedicated website for them were limited and so lacking in some functionality. It actually seemed like a good approach to use social media for voting, but we looked beyond it to other possibilities, seeing limitations which it had, some of which include:

    • Most of these votes only work with a single category, limiting the award as social media platforms cannot effectively categorize nominees, and we all know that is not what social platforms were built for.
    • Votes are public, hence everyone knows the outcome of a vote before it is completed, and at many times this is not good as the suspense of the vote process is not maintained which is actually less exciting
    • Most time social media are used for votes and the person using them does not have the means of getting their own website integrated with voting.

    Since we noticed these challenges and more, we decided to create something that would handle all these challenges and more, to create the perfect application for voting, such as:

    • Making it possible to hide votes
    • Letting you group votes into categories and adding nominees into specific categories
    • Adding features which let nominee photos to be added
    • Giving you your own link, leading to your votes
    • Making it possible to use the votes on your website if you have one
    • We still let you to link to your social media form your vote page
    • Voters can also share their view as they vote with comments
    • Giving your control over your votes

    The list goes on. Izivote can be used for polls just as it is used for votes. We hope to power several awards, votes and polls that are coming and we are working continuously in upgrading our system so as to give everyone the best we can. Don’t wait, create a free izivote account today and start making votes. Contact us for support at [email protected] or chat with us live from our website www.izivote.com.