Oscars 2018: Winners, losers and highlights from Hollywood’s biggest night

WITH the crowd on its feet, Oscar winner Frances McDormand had a powerful message for everyone in Hollywood.

IN A moment of power, Oscar winner Frances McDormand used her acceptance speech at the 90th Annual Academy Awards to make a bold statement.

“So, I’m hyperventilating a little bit. If I fall over pick me up because I have got some things to say,” she began her speech after being named Best Actress for her role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

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“If I maybe so honoured to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight. Meryl [Streep] if you do it everybody else will, come on. The filmmakers the producers, the directors, the writers, the cinematographer, the composers, the songwriters, the designers.”

One by one, the women who make up Hollywood stood up in the crowd at the Dolby Theatre as the crowd erupted with applause.

Frances McDormand's electrifying Oscars speech.

Meryl Streep leads the charge.

After the moment, host Jimmy Kimmel returned to the stage and said: “I really hope Frances McDormand gets an Emmy for the speech she gave at the Oscars because that was absolutely unbelievable.”

It was one of several speeches throughout the night used to recognise the issues of gender diversity and sexual harassment that have flooded Hollywood over the past year.

Returning to the scene of last year’s crime, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty hit the stage for a second attempt at presenting the Academy Award for Best Picture. All eyes were on the Hollywood legends, who were at the centre of a monumental bungle at last year’s ceremony that saw them announce the wrong winner in the same category.

Without a hitch, the pair announced the winner: The Shape of Water.

Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty return to the scene of the crime.

When Jodie Foster took to the stage to present the Best Actress award alongside Jennifer Lawrence, she shuffled out on a pair of crutches.

Asked what happened, she rolled her eyes and replied: “Streep.”

As the crowd howled, she added: “She I, Tonya-ed me. But I would prefer not to discuss it.”

A shocked Lawrence replied: “She tripped me once.”

Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence reveal Meryl Streep’s darker side.

Earlier in the night, Allison Janney used just six words to give the best acceptance speech of the evening.

The 58-year-old won the Best Supporting Actress gong for her role as Tonya Harding’s stern mother in the biopic I, Tonya. It’s the first Oscar and nomination for the former star of The West Wing.

When the star took to the stage to accept the award, she also managed to win the best speech of the night.

“I did it all by myself,” she stated bluntly.

As the audience roared, Janney laughed: “OK, nothing further, nothing further from the truth.”

‘I did it all myself’ ... Janney wins best speech of the night.

Janney wins her first Academy Award for her role in I, Tonya.

After thanking her co-stars, Janney also thanked her special co-star: The pet bird that was perched on her shoulder in most scenes of the film.

“To my I, Tonya family. The magnificent Margot Robbie, the fearless Craig, cast and crew, and the bird that elevated my work,” she quipped.

Janney [with her bird co-star] as Laverne Harding in the biopic I, Tonya.

Gary Oldman took home the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Darkest Hour.

“I have lived in America for the longest time and I am deeply grateful to her for the loves and the friendships I have made and the many wonderful gifts it has given me,” he said. “My home, my livelihood, my family and now Oscar.”

Comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel opened the ceremony with jabs about Harvey Weinstein, sexual harassment — and an explanation for last year’s monumental Best Picture stuff up.

“What happened last year was unfortunate,” he told the audience about the epic mistake which saw La La Land accidentally awarded the gong instead of the real winner Moonlight, causing a cringe-worthy level of confusion on stage before the mix-up was finally resolved.

“I’ve not told this story in public,” Kimmel said. “This is true. Last year, about a week before the show, the producers asked me if I wanted to do some comedy with the accountants and I said, ‘Nah, I don’t want to do comedy with the accountants.’ So then the accountants went ahead and did comedy on their own.”

But to ensure it doesn’t happen again, the comedian told A-listers: “This year when you hear your name called, don’t get up right away. Give us a minute.”

As expected, Kimmel addressed the wave of sexual harassment scandals that have flooded Hollywood in the past year.

He said there was an important reason why the golden statue of Oscar was the most trusted male in the industry: “Just look at him. [He] 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 man we need more of in this town.”

Getting the obligatory Mel Gibson gag in, Kimmel joked: “Here’s how clueless Hollywood is about women. We made a film called What Women Want and it starred Mel Gibson.”

This is the first Academy Awards ceremony since Hollywood was rocked with claims of rampant sexual harassment. Since the allegations came to the surface, movements such as the Me Too campaign have formed. Kimmel said the 90th ceremony would see a lot of Hollywood’s most powerful figures adding their voice to campaigns.

“The world is watching us. We need to set an example,” he said. “And the truth is if we are successful here, if we can work together to stop sexual harassment in the workplace, if we can do that, women will only have to deal with harassment all the time at every other place they go.”

Jimmy Kimmel opens the 90th Academy Awards in Hollywood.

Kimmel joked about the changing perceptions of women in Hollywood, and how movie executives were finally coming around to backing female-fronted features.

“Black Panther and Wonder Woman were massive hits which is almost miraculous because I remember a time when the major studios didn’t believe a woman or a minority could open a superhero movie,” he said. “And the reason I remember that time was because it was March of last year.”

Australia’s Margot Robbie is nominated for her first Academy Award, Best Actress, for her starring role as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in I, Tonya.

“Whose kneecaps did Tonya Harding have to break to get this dream casting?” Kimmel joked.

Kimmel also gave an incentive for winners to keep their speeches as short as possible.

“ ... Speak from the heart. We want passion. You have an opportunity and a platform to remind millions of people about important things like equal rights and equal treatment,” he noted.

“But with that said, this is a really long show. So here’s what we’re going to do. [I’m] not saying you shouldn’t give a long speech but, whoever gives the shortest speech tonight will go home with ... A brand new jet ski!”

Behind the comedian, a curtain opened to unveil veteran actor Helen Mirren standing beside a bright green jet ski.

A-listers will vie for Helen Mirren’s jet ski.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’s Sam Rockwell picked up the first award of the night for Best Supporting Actor.

The first hour of the ceremony wore on with serious undertones and a noticeable lack of gags from presenters and winners. When Kumail Nanjiani hit the stage with fellow nominee Lupita Nyong’o, the Pakistani-American comedian and writer surprised the audience with the perfect amount of dry quips.

“We are the two actors you keep hearing about but whose names you have trouble pronouncing,” Nanjiani, who’s nominated in the best Original Screenplay category for The Big Sick, deadpanned.

“I have to come clean. Kumail Nanjiani is my stage name. My actual given Pakistani name is Chris Pine,” he said. “So you can imagine how annoyed I was when the other one, the white Chris Pine showed up. The real Chris Pine.”

After Nyong’o paid tribute to her Kenyan roots, Nanjiani pointed out his own heritage.

“And I’m from Pakistan and Iowa. Two places that nobody in Hollywood can find on a map,” he joked.

Lupita Nyong'o and Kumail Nanjiani bring the laughs while presenting.

It wouldn’t be a Hollywood award show without a viral video stunt incorporating unsuspecting members of the public. This year’s stunt saw A-listers including Margot Robbie and Ansel Elgort rushing a cinema full of movie-goers and pelting them with gummy bears while firing hot dogs out of a cannon.

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When Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph hit the stage to present, they used the moment to perform a five-minute comedy routine that started with unrealistic beauty standards and ended on white people with headsets.

“I have been wearing these shoes since 11 this morning. How long have you been wearing your shoes?” Haddish asked Rudolph.

“Since the Critics Choice Awards,” Rudolph replied. “My pinky toe fell off.”

Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph perform their routine.

Referencing the Oscars So White movement, the duo wondered if the issue had been overcorrected.

“When we came out together we know some of you were thinking: are the Oscars too black now?” they joked.

The hilarious bit then veered into an anecdote about white people with clipboards and head sets.

“Don’t worry there are SO many more white people to come.” Can @TiffanyHaddish and @MayaRudolph host the rest of the night? 🤣🤣🤣 #Oscars #Oscars2018 pic.twitter.com/1yUmcGd18Q

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Jordan Peele received a standing ovation from the crowd after winning Best Screenplay for Get Out. It’s the first Oscar for the three time nominee.

“I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible,” he said while accepting the award. “I thought it wasn’t going to work. I thought it wasn’t going to work. I thought no-one would ever make this movie. But I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone let me make this movie that people would hear it and people would see it.”

WINNERS

Best Picture

The Shape Of Water

Best Director

Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Best Actress

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Actor

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

Best Supporting Actor

Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actress

Allison Janney, I, Tonya

Best Original Screenplay

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Best Adapted Screenplay

James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name

Best Animated Feature Film

Coco

Best Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic Woman

Best Documentary — Feature

Icarus

Best Documentary — Short Subject

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Best Live Action Short Film

The Silent Child

Best Animated Short Film

Dear Basketball

Best Original Score

Alexandre Desplat, The Shape Of Water

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour

Best Costume Design

Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread

Best Sound Editing

Richard King and Alex Gibson, Dunkirk

Best Sound Mixing

Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo, Dunkirk

Best Production Design

Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin, The Shape Of Water

Best Visual Effects

John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover, Blade Runner 2049

Best Film Editing

Lee Smith, Dunkirk

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