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The 90th Academy Awards ended without the chaos and controversy of last year’s ceremony, but it still had a fair share of surprises.
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the movie industry’s most prestigious awards ceremony, and it was Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film The Shape of Water that finished the night as the Oscars’ big winner. Del Toro was given the Oscar for “Best Director” and The Shape of Water took home the year’s coveted “Best Picture” award in the show’s grand finale.
Going into the 2018 ceremony, The Shape of Water garnered the highest number of nominations of any film, with 13 nods across various categories, including “Best Picture” and “Best Director,” but was still regarded as an underdog due to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ traditional aversion to horror and fantasy fare. In the end, the film won four of the 13 Oscars it was nominated for, adding awards for its original score and production design in addition to the aforementioned categories.
“This is a door — kick it open and come in,” urged del Toro in his acceptance speech.
In a surprising turn, the tense drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri came into the ceremony having swept most of the awards ceremonies leading up to the Oscars, but left with only two awards. As expected, Frances McDormand won the “Best Actress” category, and Sam Rockwell won the “Best Supporting Actor” category, giving the acclaimed film its only two wins of the night.
After arriving with quite a bit of pre-Oscars buzz, writer-director Jordan Peele’s Get Out earned its talented filmmaker his very first Oscar. Peele took home the award for the year’s best original screenplay, which capped a night of records for many nominees. This year’s ceremony was the first time an African-American filmmaker (Peele) was nominated for directing, producing, and screenwriting in the same year, and Peele seemed as shocked as anyone that he was taking home an Oscar at the end of the night.
Also taking home a pair of Oscars was Blade Runner 2049, which beat a crowded, competitive field in the “Best Visual Effects” category, and also took home an Oscar for cinematography.
A host of social and political causes loomed over the night’s events, with many of the nominees, presenters, and those in attendance wearing pins supporting the “Me Too” and “Time’s Up” campaigns against sexual harassment, as well as orange pins against gun violence, among other signs of support. Those same campaigns filtered into the speeches made by winners, as well as Kimmel’s monologue, which didn’t shy away from poking fun at the Oscars — and the industry as a whole — for its problems with some of those same social issues.
McDormand also made inclusion a recurring theme in her acceptance speech, and her powerful call to action for female actors and filmmakers ended with the suggestion that an “inclusion rider” become standard fare for anyone hired to work in front of the camera or behind it.
Of course, the ceremony wasn’t without its lighter moments.
Accepting the “Best Supporting Actress” Oscar for her performance in I, Tonya, Allison Janney bucked tradition by announcing “I did it all by myself.” Laughing, she quickly clarified that there was “Nothing further from the truth.”
Later on, in a video segment about this year’s breakthrough performances and projects featuring women and non-white actors and filmmakers, The Big Sick co-writer and star Kumail Nanjani suggested that the studios have more than just a social responsibility to make such films — they stand to make a lot of money, too.
“Don’t [make these movies] because it’s good for society,” he explained. “Do it to get rich! You’ll get that promotion.”
The full list of 2018 Oscar winners and nominees is below, listed as they were announced.
Best Picture
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
WINNER: The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Actress in a Leading Role
Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)
WINNER: Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)
Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)
Meryl Streep (The Post)
Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
WINNER: Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq)
Best Director
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
Jordan Peele (Get Out)
Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread)
WINNER: Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)
Original Song
WINNER: Remember Me (from Coco)
Mystery of Love (from Call Me By Your Name)
This Is Me (from The Greatest Showman)
Mighty River (from Mudbound)
Stand Up For Something (from Marshall)
Original Score
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
WINNER: The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Cinematography
WINNER: Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water
Original Screenplay
The Big Sick
WINNER: Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound
Best Live-Action Short
Dekalb Elementary
The 11 O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
WINNER: The Silent Child
All Of Us
Documentary Short Subject
Edith & Eddie
WINNER: Heaven is a Traffic Jam
Heroin(e)
Knifeskills
Traffic Stop
Film Editing
Baby Driver
WINNER: Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Visual Effects
WINNER: Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
Animated Feature Film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
WINNER: Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
Animated Short Film
WINNER: Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
Actress in a Supporting Role
Mary J. Blige (Mudbound)
WINNER: Allison Janney (I, Tonya)
Leslie Manville (Phantom Thread)
Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water)
Foreign Language Film
WINNER: Fantastic Woman (Chile)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
The Square (Sweden)
Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
WINNER: The Shape of Water
Sound Mixing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
WINNER: Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Sound Editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
WINNER: Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Documentary Feature
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
WINNER: Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
WINNER: Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul
Makeup and Hairstyling
WINNER: Darkest Hour
Victoria and Abdul
Wonder
Actor in a Supporting Role
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)
WINNER: Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
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