The incredible Canadians nominated for Oscars this year

Paul Austerberry - The Toronto-based production designer told Global News, "It used to be in the business we would bring a lot more crew from the States, and now the business has evolved and the quality of the staff and quality of the crew that is available in Canada and Toronto … is just equal to anywhere else."

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Best Costume Design: ‘The Shape of Water’ - Luis Sequeira is the Canadian designer behind Guillermo del Toro's fantastical merman character in 'The Shape of Water,' played by Doug Jones (left).

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Luis Sequeira - He already won the Excellence in Period Film award at the Costume Designers Guild Awards this year for his incredible work, so start placing your bets on him for the Academy Awards.

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Luis Sequeira - "I think we have to work harder to prove our talent, so I think it's an amazing day for the Canadian film industry and I’m honoured to be a small part of it," the Toronto-based costume designer told Global News.

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Best Film Editing: ‘The Shape of Water’ - Sidney Wolinsky, a Canadian-American film editor with over 30 credits to his name, is nominated for his work on ‘The Shape of Water.'

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Sidney Wolinsky - Unsurprisingly, he already won the Hollywood Editor Award at the 21st Annual Hollywood Film Awards for editing 'The Shape of Water.'

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Best Sound Editing: ‘The Shape of Water’ - Canadians Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira share this nomination.

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Best Sound or Sound Mixing: ‘The Shape of Water’ - Canadian sound engineers Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier are in the running for this Academy Award.

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A win for Canada: ‘The Shape of Water' - This Cold War-era fantastical drama is counted as a big win for Canada as a whole, as it has received a total of 13 Oscar nominations this year—including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Production Design, and awards for the cast and crew—and it was shot in Hamilton and Toronto with a largely Canadian team.

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A win for Canada: ‘The Shape of Water’ - The auditorium scenes were filmed at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, which opened in 1913 and is considered a Canadian National Historic Site.

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A win for Canada: ‘The Shape of Water’ - The marquee shown in the movie is Massey Hall in Toronto, and other locations include University of Toronto's Scarborough campus, Lakeview Restaurant, the Port Lands' Keating Channel, and more.

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Best Animated Picture: ‘The Breadwinner’ - Canadian producer Anthony Leo shares this nomination with director Nora Twomey.

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Deborah Ellis - This nomination is a win for the entire team behind 'The Breadwinner,' including Canadian author Deborah Ellis who wrote the original best-selling novel of the same name after travelling to Pakistan in 1997 to interview refugees at an Afghan refugee camp.

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Anita Doron - The Ukranian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and author who wrote the adapted screenplay for the film also has cause to celebrate this nomination.

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Saara Chaudry - This 13-year-old actor from Toronto is the voice of Parvana, the lead character in this inspiring tale about the power of stories.

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Another big nomination for Team Canada - The film, with its famous executive producer Angelina Jolie, was an international co-production between Canada, Ireland, and Luxembourg.

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‘Blade Runner 2049’ is mostly Canadian anyway - Québécois director Denis Villeneuve was the driving visionary behind the Oscar-nominated film, and he told Macleans that he went out of his way to make sure his film didn’t "pander to Hollywood formula"—instead favouring a more Canadian style.

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If only our weather could be nominated - This epic sequel may not have been filmed in Canada, but CBC reports that Villeneuve really wanted to represent Montreal's winter and even took the film's cinematographer, Roger Deakins—who is nominated for Best Cinematography—to experience the Canadian winter first-hand in order to accurately convey the feeling on film.

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Best Production Design: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ - Dennis Gassner is a Canadian Oscar-winning production designer whose incredible work on the very Canadian production of the 'Blade Runner' sequel has earned himself another Oscar nomination.

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Dennis Gassner - Gassner hails from Vancouver and has previously crafted the cinematic worlds of 'Into the Woods,' 'O Brother Where Art Thou,' and 'Skyfall.'

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Dennis Gassner - According to CBC, in preparation for the film's design, Gassner collected images of brutalist architecture, a distinctly Canadian style of architecture that arose in the '60s and featured severe, no-frills concrete building designs.

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‘Blade Runner 2049’ - The film is nominated for five Academy Awards this year: Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing, Best Production Design, and Best Sound Editing.

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Honourable mentions - Although they weren't nominated for Oscars, it's significant to note that the costume designer, producer, key makeup artist, and visual effects companies that worked on the film are all Canadian. And you can't forget Ryan Gosling and Mackenzie Davis, who were born in London, Ontario and Vancouver, respectively.

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Christopher Plummer - This well-known Canadian actor is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Jean Paul Getty in 'All the Money in the World.'

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Best Picture: ‘The Shape of Water’ - Torontonian producer J. Miles Dale shares the Best Picture nomination with director Guillermo del Toro.

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