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    Oscar winners 2018

    By Agency Staff5 March 2018
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    The Shape of Water

    The Shape of Water, a film about a mute woman who falls in love with a captive reptilian creature, was crowned the best movie of 2017, a timely win in a year when sexual harassment and women’s pay have taken centre stage in Hollywood.

    The Oscar for best picture was handed out Sunday at the 90th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, in a show carried by ABC and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Frances McDormand won for her lead role as a mother seeking justice for her murdered daughter in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, while Gary Oldman was voted best actor for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. Guillermo del Toro was named best director for The Shape of Water. See below for a list list of winners.

    This year, Hollywood’s biggest awards show pulled double duty — serving as a forum to tackle sexual harassment, racism and unequal pay in the film industry, and to promote movie-going after US theatre attendance fell to a 25-year-low.

    No single film dominated the ceremony, which ran a long three hours and 52 minutes. Among the studios, 21st Century Fox emerged as the big winner

    “Look around, ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed,” McDormand said in her acceptance speech. She used the moment to ask all of the female nominees in every category to stand and uttered two words — “inclusion rider” — as she left the stage, suggesting top actors use their contracts to require diverse and inclusive casts and crew.

    Rather than waiting for Hollywood studios to change, actors and filmmakers have been seeking ways to force more equitable and representative hiring. While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has changed its membership rules and increased its invitations to people of diverse ethnicity, gender and age, studies show the number of women behind or in front of the camera remains low. The numbers are even worse for women of colour.

    McDormand said backstage that she just learnt a week ago that actors can ask for 50% diversity of the cast and crew. “It changes now and I think the inclusion rider will have something to with that,” she said.

    No single film dominated the ceremony, which ran a long three hours and 52 minutes. Among the studios, 21st Century Fox emerged as the big winner, with six awards, including those for The Shape of Water and Three Billboards.

    ‘Beautiful stories’

    “The Shape of Water winning speaks to the Academy’s fondness for beautiful stories about the love of going to the movies,” said Erik Davis, managing editor at Fandango, the movie industry website.

    Still, the winners reflected the diversity that many have called for in Hollywood. The Shape of Water, Three Billboards and Lady Bird all feature women in powerful emotional roles, while Get Out and Call Me by Your Name deal with race and gender identity.

    The best director was a Mexican filmmaker who was previously nominated twice, while the original screenplay award went to the black man who wrote, directed and produced Get Out.

    “I’m so proud to be part of a time, a beginning of a movement, where I feel the best films in every genre are being brought to me by my fellow black directors,” said writer-director Jordan Peele. His horror film follows a black man visiting his white girlfriend’s family who learns they kidnap African-Americans to steal their minds and bodies.

    Even the advertising in the US broadcast reflected the mood. Samsung Electronics’ commercial depicted two young women embarking on their first creative project, and Netflix unveiled an ad for its first season of House of Cards without disgraced actor Kevin Spacey, featuring actress Robin Wright ascending to the presidency.

    The show ranked among the longest. It was expected to be seen by about 30m viewers in the US and millions more worldwide, though last year ratings fell to the lowest since 2008.  — Reported by Anousha Sakoui, (c) 2018 Bloomberg LP

    Here’s a rundown of the winners from Sunday’s 90th Academy Awards:

    • Best Picture: The Shape of Water
    • Best Actress: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    • Best Actor: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
    • Best Director: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
    • Best Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    • Best Supporting Actress: Allison Janney I, Tonya
    • Adapted Screenplay: Call Me by Your Name
    • Original Screenplay: Get Out
    • Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049
    • Best Animated Feature: Coco
    • Original Score: The Shape of Water
    • Original Song: Remember Me
    • Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049
    • Costume Design: Phantom Thread
    • Production Design: The Shape of Water
    • Documentary Feature: Icarus
    • Documentary Short: Heavy Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
    • Film Editing: Dunkirk
    • Foreign Language Film: A Fantastic Woman
    • Makeup and Hairstyling: Darkest Hour
    • Animated Short: Dear Basketball
    • Live Action Short: The Silent Child
    • Sound Editing: Dunkirk
    • Sound Mixing: Dunkirk


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