The contenders for this year’s Oscars were announced from LA, bringing this year's awards season to a head.

Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis were in charge of procedings, which was being watched with eagle eyes by Hollywood’s key players.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the frontrunner with bookies to win the top prizes, with The Shape of Water, Darkest Hour, Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird also featuring prominently.

The Post also received some love, with Meryl Streep receiving yet another nod; and Get Out and Call Me By Your Name were also well represented in the key categories.

The Shape of Water, Dunkirk and Blade Runner 2049 have a heavy presence in the technical categories, along with Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

The diversity in the top flight was more noticable here: unlike the Golden Globes, the Best Director field was neither all-white nor all-male; with Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) and Jordan Peele (Get Out) receiving much-deserved nods.

See the full list below.

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 Director

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

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
• Margot Robbie, I Tonya
• Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
• Meryl Streep, The Post

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 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 Original Screenplay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Call Me By Your Name
• The Disaster Artist
• Logan
• Molly's Game
• Mudbound

Best Animated Feature Film

• The Boss Baby
• The Breadwinner
• Coco
• Ferdinand
• Loving Vincent

Best Foreign Language Film

• A Fantastic Woman
• The Insult
• Loveless
• On Body and Soul
• The Square

Best Documentary - Feature

• Abbcus
• Faces Places
• Icarus
• Last Men in Aleppo
• Strong Island

Best Documentary - Short Subject

• Edith and Eddie
• Heaven is a Traffic Jam on The 405
• Heroin(e)
• Knife Skills
• Traffic Stop

Best Live Action Short Film

• DeKalb Elementary
• The 11 O'Clock
• My Nephew Emmett
• The Silent Child
• Watu Wote/All Of Us

Best Animated Short Film

• Dear Basketball
• Garden Party
• Lou
• Negative Space
• Revolting Rhymes

Best Original Score

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

Best Original Song

• Mighty River, Mud Bound
• Mystery of Love, Call Me By Your Name
• Remember Me, Coco
• Stand Up for Something, Marshall
• This Is Me, The Greatest Showman

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 Production Design

• Beauty and the Beast
• Blade Runner 2049
• Darkest Hour
• Dunkirk
• The Shape of Water

Best Cinematography

• Blade Runner 2049
• Darkest Hour
• Dunkirk
• Mudbound
• The Shape of Water

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Darkest Hour
• Victoria and Abdul
• Wonder

Best Costume Design

• Beauty and the Beast
• Darkest Hour
• Phantom Thread
• The Shape of Water
• Victoria and Abdul

Best Film Editing

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

Best Visual Effects

• Blade Runner 2049
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol2 
• Kong: Skull Island
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• War for the Planet of the Apes

The Oscars will take place on March 4 in Hollywood, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting.

Final voting for Academy members will close on February 27, after being open for a week.