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What the Nominees Are Doing Next

Daniel Day-Lewis is done but Meryl’s headed for Mary Poppins Returns, Kaluuya will star in a Steve McQueen

crime thriller and Willem has at least four projects in the works in 2018 BY MIA GALUPPO AND BORYS KIT

Mary J. Blige, 47

Mudbound

The Grammy winner

will star in the Dark

Horse comic adaptation

The Umbrella Academy

for Netflix and will voice

star in Paramount’s ani-

mated Sherlock Gnomes.

Timothee Chalamet, 22

Call Me by Your Name

He’ll be seen in Woody

Allen’s A Rainy Day in New

York and in meth drama

Beautiful Boy, co-starring

with Steve Carell. He’ll

also star as Henry V in

Netflix feature The King.

Willem Dafoe, 62

The Florida Project

The prolific actor

is set for James Wan’s

Aquaman; Edward

Norton’s Motherless

Brooklyn; and At

Eternity’s Gate, star-

ring as Vincent Van Gogh.

He will reteam with

A24 for Robert Eggers’

fantasy horror The

Lighthouse, due to shoot

this spring.

Daniel Day-Lewis, 60

Phantom Thread

In June, the actor

announced his retire-

ment from acting, with

Thread as his final film.

Woody Harrelson, 56

Three Billboards Outside

Ebbing, Missouri

The three-time nominee

is set for May’s Star Wars

stand-alone feature, Solo,

and Sony’s Spider-Man

spinoff, Venom.

Sally Hawkins, 41

The Shape of Water

She’ll next appear in

Warner Bros. and

Legendary’s Godzilla:

King of the Monsters

with Vera Farmiga and

Millie Bobby Brown.

Allison Janney, 58

I, Tonya

She hasn’t revealed new

movie projects but is cur-

rently in the middle of

the fifth (and final?) season

of her CBS series, Mom.

Richard Jenkins, 70

The Shape of Water

He will shoot a handful of

episodes for the upcoming

season of Epix’s origi-

nal series Berlin Station.

Daniel Kaluuya, 28

Get Out

The British actor, who is

featured in Marvel’s Black

Panther, is set for Steve

McQueen crime thriller

Widows for Fox.

Lesley Manville, 61

Phantom Thread

The English actress is cur-

rently on London’s West

End, starring with Jeremy

Irons in a production

of Long Day’s Journey

Into Night.

Frances McDormand, 60

Three Billboards Outside

Ebbing, Missouri

She voice stars in Wes

Anderson’s latest feature,

stop-motion animation

Isle of Dogs, out March 23.

Laurie Metcalf, 62

Lady Bird

She reprises her Roseanne

role in the ABC reboot of

the series and is Broadway-

bound in a production

of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer

Prize-winning Three

Ta l l Wo m e n.

Gary Oldman, 59

Darkest Hour

He will lead supernatural

thriller Mary from Tucker

Tooley Entertainment and

Entertainment One.

Christopher Plummer, 88

All the Money in the World

He will play a pot-dealing

grandfather in the Sony

comedy Boundaries and will

appear in war drama The

Last Full Measure alongside

Samuel L. Jackson.

Margot Robbie, 27

I, Tonya

She plays Queen Elizabeth I

in Focus Features’ drama

Mary Queen of Scots

and will reprise her Suicide

Squad role as Harley

Quinn in Warner Bros.’

DC projects.

Sam Rockwell, 49

Three Billboards Outside

Ebbing, Missouri

He will play George W.

Bush opposite Christian

Bale’s Dick Cheney in

Adam McKay’s Backseat

for Annapurna and will

voice star in Disney’s

The One and Only Ivan

adaptation.

Saoirse Ronan, 23

Lady Bird

The Irish actress plays the

title character opposite

Robbie in Focus’ drama

Mary Queen of Scots.

Octavia Spencer, 45

The Shape of Water

She is filming Blumhouse

thriller Ma, reteaming

with The Help director

Ta t e Tay l o r. She’ll also

appear in Julius Onah’s

Luce and is set to star

with Jessica Chastain in a

Universal holiday comedy.

Meryl Streep, 68

The Post

She is set for Disney’s

Christmas release Mary

Poppins Returns and

Universal’s Mamma Mia!

sequel as well as a role

on the second season of

HBO’s Big Little Lies.

Denzel Washington, 63

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

He will next reprise his

lead role in Antoine Fuqua’s

Equalizer sequel and is

developing real-life drama

Journal for Jordan to direct

for Sony.

Day-Lewis

Dafoe

Kaluuya

Chalamet

Manville

Harrelson

Janney

Jenkins

Oldman

Rockwell

Streep

McDormand

Hawkins

Plummer

Ronan

Spencer

Washington

Metcalf

Robbie

Blige

Paul Thomas Anderson, 47
Phantom Thread
The auteur has yet to unveil
his next feature, but throughout
awards season he has voiced
his desire to work with Girls Trip
star Tiffany Haddish.

Greta Gerwig, 34
Lady Bird
The first-time feature helmer hasn’t
set a follow-up directing project,
but she’s currently acting in her part-
ner and frequent collaborator Noah

Baumbach’s next feature. She also

voice stars in Wes Anderson’s upcom-

ing Isle of Dogs.

Christopher Nolan, 47

Dunkirk

He took his name out of the running

for Bond 25 and is taking his time pick-

ing his next feature.

Jordan Peele, 39

Get Out

He has said he’ll start shooting a new

feature later this year for Universal,

And the Directors’ Follow-Up Projects Are ...

and he produced Spike Lee’s 2019

feature Black Klansman. Peele is also

developing a reboot of sci-fi anthology

The Twilight Zone for CBS and execu-

tive produced the Tracy Morgan TBS

comedy, The Last O.G.

Guillermo del Toro, 53

The Shape of Water

He is producing Fox Searchlight’s

supernatural title Antlers and

writing and directing the remake of

Nightmare Alley.

Anderson Gerwig Nolan Peele del Toro