The Shape of Water, the story of a mute woman falling in love with an aquatic creature, won the award for the Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out other box office hits like Dunkirk and Get Out as well as Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird among others.
The Shape of Water, lead the night with an astounding 13 nominations and won four prizes, including Guillermo del Toro's first Oscar for directing, as well as for the film's production design and score.
Besides this, actor Gary Oldman won his first Oscar in the lead actor category for his role as Winston Churchill in the period drama Darkest Hour while Frances McDormand won the award for the lead actress prize for her performance as a grieving mother trying to spur the police to solve her daughter's murder in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
The adapted screenplay prize went to James Ivory for Call Me By Your Name and the award for original screenplay went to Jordan Peele for Get Out.
Actor Sam Rockwell took home the supporting actor award for his role as a racist small-town cop in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri while Allison Janney earned the supporting actress award for playing the foul-mouthed, emotionally abusive mother of figure skater Tonya Harding in I, Tonya. Roger Deakins won an award for cinematography for the sci-fi film Blade Runner 2049.
The evening was hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel. In recognition of the Oscars’ 90th anniversary, the show's returning producers, Jennifer Todd and Michael De Luca, stuffed the show with the sort of classic-film highlight reels and extravagant musical numbers that have often been a hallmark of the Oscars throughout its history.
This year’s show also focused on issues such as sexual harassment scandals as well as issues of representation and inclusion.
Kimmel devoted a large portion of his opening monologue to the industry's treatment of women as he cracked, “Oscar is the most beloved and respected man in Hollywood, and there's a very good reason why. Just look at him, keeps his hands where you can see them, never says a rude word, and most importantly, no penis at all. He is literally a statue of limitations and that's the kind of men we need more of in this town.”
However, he added, more seriously, that, “What happened with Harvey (Weinstein) and what's happening all over was long overdue. We can't let bad behaviour slide anymore. The world is watching us. We need to set an example.”
Given Below Is A List Of All The Nominees and The Winners:
- Best Picture
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water – WINNER
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour – WINNER
Denzel Washington, Roman J Israel, Esq
- Best Actress
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post
- Best Supporting Actor
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
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
- Best Supporting Actress
Mary J Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya – WINNER
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
- Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water – WINNER
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out
- Best Makeup And Hair
Darkest Hour – WINNER
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder
- Best Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread – WINNER
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul
- Best Documentary
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces, Places (Visages, Villages)
Icarus – WINNER
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
- Best Sound Editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk – WINNER
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Best Sound Mixing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk – WINNER
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Best Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water – WINNER
- Best Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman – WINNER
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square
- Best Animated Short
Dear Basketball – WINNER
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
- Best Animated Film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco – WINNER
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
- Best Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049 – WINNER
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
- Best Editing
Baby Driver
Dunkirk – WINNER
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Best Documentary Short
Edith+Eddie
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 – WINNER
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
- Best Live Action Short
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child – WINNER
Watu Wote/All of Us
- Best Adapted Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name – WINNER
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound
- Best Original Screenplay
The Big Sick
Get Out – WINNER
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Best Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049 – WINNER
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water
- Best Score
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water – WINNER
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Best Song
Mighty River, Mudbound
The Mystery of Love, Call Me by Your Name
Remember Me, Coco – WINNER
Stand Up for Something, Marshall
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