Every 2018 Oscar Nominee Ranked From Worst To Best

4. Call Me By Your Name

Call Me By Your Name Timothee Chalamet Armie Hammer
Sony Pictures Classic

Nominations: 4 - Best Picture, Best Actor (Timothee Chalamet), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song ("Mystery of Love")

Call Me by Your Name is the Sundance darling from this past year that's managed to sustain its acclaim and fanfare all the way to the Oscars.

It is a tender, subtle gay romance that's packed with terrific performances - especially Chalamet, Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg - alongside killer music, scenic sights and restrained direction from Luca Guadagnino.

While the Academy made a few mistakes with their treatment of the film - namely not nominating Armie Hammer and nominating the wrong song ("Visions of Gideon" was a far more powerful tune) - and it's likely to go home with a single screenplay award, it is one of cinema's most compelling and well-rounded love stories of the last few years.

Universal in a way some may not expect, Call Me by Your Name captures the hormone-soaked joy of summer romance and also the more pallid realities of, well, everything else.

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