Oscars 2018: Live coverage of the 90th Academy Awards
FRANCES McDormand dominated with her speech after beating Margot Robbie to an Oscar before Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty presented Best Picture again. But that didn’t stop it ending awkwardly. PICTURES, VIDEO & WINNERS LIST
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SCREEN legends Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were given a second chance at handing out the Best Picture Oscar after last year’s historic stuff up.
But that didn’t stop an awkward ending to an otherwise lacklustre Oscars ceremony.
They presented director Guillermo del Toro with the award for Best Picture for his movie The Shape of Water, with del Toro leading his cast and crew onto the stage.
Del Toro checked the envelope as he accepted it from Beatty, nodding to the audience that yes, it was correct, The Shape of Water had won Best Picture.
But a cringe-worthy moment came when the Oscars orchestra cut off one of The Shape of Water’s producers as they attempted to speak after del Toro.
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Some social media users wondered what happened, and branded the moment “awkward”.
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel then returned to the stage, and asked one of those involved what he wanted to say, before ending the show with an odd “jetski” gag involving Helen Mirren.
Mirren emerged on a jetski as Kimmel announced that Oscar-winning costume designer Mark Bridges had “won” it as a reward for delivering the shortest speech.
MARGOT’S MOMENT
Australian star Margot Robbie lost the Best Actress Oscar to Frances McDormand, who used her acceptance speech to make a statement about female empowerment in Hollywood.
“I’m hyperventilating a little bit — if I fall over, pick me up, because I’ve GOT SOME THINGS TO SAY,” began McDormand, who won for her role in drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
She went on to have every female nominee in the house stand then said: “OK, look around ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed.”
To much applause, she told financiers not to “talk to it about us at the parties tonight” but to schedule meetings later in the week and make it happen.
Robbie, 27, also produced the film I, Tonya.
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AUSSIE WINNER
Lee Smith collected our only Oscar of the night, winning Best Film Editing for Dunkirk.
This is the fourth time an Aussie has won the Oscar in the editing category in last eight years.
“I just wanna say this is the most awesome thing that can happen to a guy like me. I want to start by thanking Christopher Nolan — they moved me from over there to sit with him,” Smith said.
“Chris is an editor himself — he doesn’t handle the actual equipment, I’m very happy with that.”
Smith, from Sydney, also thanked his daughter “up in the nosebleed section”.
MARGOT JOINS KIMMEL’S CINEMA STUNT
Margot Robbie joined Oscars host Kimmel, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Guillermo del Toro, Lin Manuel Miranda and Lupita Nyong’o by surprising a cinema full of punters across the road from the Dolby Theatre.
“This is so much better than the Oscars,” Wonder Woman star Gadot said to cheers when the crowd realised what was going on.
Kimmel got the crowd of stars at the Oscars to say “thank you” to the punters.
Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort fired hot dogs into the crowd from an air gun while Robbie handed out snacks.
Kimmel then had an audience member to introduce the next presenter — Tiffany Haddish — whose name he proceeded to mess up. Which is why we pay professionals to do this.
KIMMEL’S SCATHING MONOLOGUE
Earlier, Kimmel took aim at disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein in a biting Oscars opening monologue.
Comedian Kimmel discussed the Academy taking action to expel Weinstein from their ranks in the wake of widespread rape and sexual harassment allegations.
“There were a lot of great nominees but Harvey deserved it the most,” Kimmel said, to applause.
He joked if Hollywood leads by example and wiped out harassment in the workplace, “women will only have to deal with harassment every other place they go”.
Kimmel spoke of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements as being “positive change” and joked that he remembered a time when studios didn’t believe women or black people could open a movie.
“I remember that time because it was March last year,” Kimmel said.
Speaking about the Weinstein controversy, Kimmel added: “We can’t let bad behaviour slide anymore,” said Kimmel. “The world is watching us.”
Meantime, Kimmel also hilariously addressed last year’s Best Picture envelope fiasco in his opening monologue at the Oscars.
“This year, when you hear your name called, don’t get up right away — give us a minute,” Kimmel joked onstage at the Dolby Theatre.
The Oscars host said he was asked last year if he wanted to do comedy with the accountants: “The accountants went ahead and did comedy on their own. But it won’t happen again.”
Of course, he was referring to last year’s debacle when La La Land was wrongly announced by Beatty and Dunaway as the winner of Best Picture, when the actual winner was Moonlight.
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2018 ACADEMY AWARDS — FULL LIST OF 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
ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE
Timothee Chalamet — Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis — Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya — Get Out
Gary Oldman — Darkest Hour(WINNER): In a heartfelt speech, Gary Oldman gave his “deepest thanks to the Academy ... for this glorious prize. I owe this and so much more to so many. I’ve 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 — my home, my livelihood, my family and now an Oscar.” He closed with shout-outs to Sir Winston Chruchill for being “marvellous company” and his mother, “who is older than the Oscar — she’s 99 years young next birthday and she’s watching the ceremony from the comfort of her sofa.” He told his mum: “Thank you for your love and support — put the kettle on, I’m bringing Oscar home.”
Denzel Washington — Roman J. Israel, Esq.
ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE
Margot Robbie — I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan — Lady Bird
Meryl Streep — The Post
Sally Hawkins — The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (WINNER):
After offering thanks on Sunday night, McDormand turned serious and said, “Now I want to get some perspective.” She asked all the other female nominees in every category to stand up in the audience.
“Meryl, if you do it, everyone else will,” she said to best-actress nominee Meryl Streep, who sat in the front row of the Dolby Theatre. “Look around everybody, because we all have stories to tell and projects that need to be financed,” McDormand said, urging the decision-makers not to talk about proposals at the post-show parties but to meet in the office.
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
Sam Rockwell — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (WINNER): Rockwell gave his co-star and fellow nominee Woody Harrelson a hug en route to the stage.
“I’d like to thank the academy — never thought I’d say those words,” he said upon accepting the award. The actor thanked his parents because “mum and dad’s love of movies became my love of movies”. He continued: “Thank you to the formidable Frances McDormand, the fantastic Woody Harrelson — you guys are my heroes. My Beloved Leslie Bibb, you light my fire baby, I love you.” Then the actor thanked “everybody who ever looked at a billboard” and dedicated his win “to my old buddy Phil Hoffman” — the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mary J. Blige — Mudbound
Allison Janney — I, Tonya (WINNER): Margot Robbie was overjoyed at her I, Tonya co-star Allison Janney’s Best Supporting Actress win. “I did it all by myself …” Janney began, taking a long pause. Then she added, “Nothing further from the truth”. Janney, who has won pretty much every Supporting Actress gong going this season, thanked “the magnificent Margot Robbie, the fantastic Craig Gillespie (the film’s Australian director and “a bird that elevated my performance”).
Lesley Manville — Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf — Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer — The Shape of Water
DIRECTING
Christopher Nolan — Dunkirk
Jordan Peele — Get Out
Greta Gerwig — Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson — Paul Thomas Anderson
Guillermo del Toro — The Shape of Water (WINNER): Greta Gerwig, only the fifth female ever nominated for Director, was first to her feet when Guillermo del Toro was announced as the winner. The garrulous Mexican pointed out that he too is an immigrant — “like many of you”. “The greatest thing our art does and our industry does is erase the line in the sand,” he said. He thanked Fox Searchlight for thinking his “mad pitch” was a sure bet, then wrapped by saying: “Like Jimmy Cagney said once: ‘My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my brothers and sisters thank you, and I thank you very much’.”
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boss Baby — Tom McGrath, Ramsey Ann Naito
The Breadwinner — Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo
Coco — Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson (WINNERS): The last time a Pixar, Disney-Pixar or Disney production didn’t win the Animated Feature Film Oscar was in 2011, when Gore Verbinski’s Rango took the top prize. Producer Darla Anderson said, “Coco is proof that art can change and connect the world”. Director Lee Unkrich added: “With Coco we tried to take a step forward towards a world where all children can grow up seeing characters in movies that talk and live and look like they do ... Representation matters.”
Ferdinand — Carlos Saldanha
Loving Vincent — Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Sean Bobbitt, Ivan Mactaggart, Hugh Welchman
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Call Me by Your Name — James Ivory (WINNER): James Ivory, the 89-year-old nominated for writing the Call Me By Your Name script, turned up to today’s awards with the film’s star, Timothee Chalamet, emblazoned on his dress shirt.
The Disaster Artist — Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
Logan — Scott Frank, James Mangold, Michael Green
Molly’s Game — Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound — Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Big Sick — Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out — Jordan Peele (WINNER): Nicole Kidman presented the Original Screenplay gong to a very popular winner: Jordan Peele. As the crowd applauded loudly, Peele said: “This means so much to me. I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible, I thought it would never work, I thought no one would let me make this movie.” The writer and director thanked those who “raised my voice” and let him make the movie, while one of his stars, Allison Williams, looked closed to tears in the audience. Peele made sure to thank his mum — “who taught me to love, even in the face of hate” — and Get Out’s dedicated audience for buying tickets and telling their friends to buy tickets.
Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049 — Roger Deakins (WINNER): Blade Runner 2049 cinematographer Roger Deakins has been nominated a whopping 14 times in the past 20-odd years, but this is remarkably the Brit’s first Oscar win. “I really love this job, I’ve been doing it for a long time — as you can see. Some of my crew on Blade Runner I’ve been working with for over 30 years — and others I met for the first time on set in Budapest. This is for all of them.”
Darkest Hour — Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk — Hoyte van Hoytema
Mudbound — Rachel Morrison
The Shape of Water — Dan Laustsen
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail — Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman
Faces Places — JR, Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda
Icarus — Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan (WINNER): Netflix is becoming the outlet for documentaries. The streaming service is nominated for 8 Oscars overall this year, including two feature docos and one short.
Last Men in Aleppo — Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Soren Steen Jepersen
Strong Island — Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Dear Basketball — Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant (WINNERS): Dear Basketball was based on a letter Kobe Bryant wrote when he announced his retirement. “As basketball players we’re supposed to shut up and dribble,” the superstar said, accepting the award. “But I’m glad we got to do a little more than that.”
Garden Party — Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon
Lou — Dave Mullins, Dana Murray
Negative Space — Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata
Revolting Rhymes — Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
DeKalb Elementary — Reed Van Dyk
The Eleven O’Clock — Derin Seale, Josh Lawson
My Nephew Emmett — Kevin Wilson, Jr.
The Silent Child — Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton (WINNER): Australian nominees Derin Seale and Josh Lawson lost out to the British filmmakers behind The Silent Child. “Millions of children all over the world live in silence and face barriers — including access to education” said Rachel Shenton, thanking the Academy for putting the film in front of a mainstream audience. Chris Overton thanked their parents for “baking and selling cupcakes” to fund the film.
Watu Wote/All of Us — Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Fantastic Woman — Chile: Chile wins its first Oscar for A Fantastic Woman, which is now showing in select Aussie cinemas. Director Sebastián Lelio thanked the film’s star and its inspiration, Daniela Vega. Fantastic Woman is a “transgender drama”.
The Insult — Lebanon
Loveless — Russia
On Body and Soul — Hungary
The Square — Sweden
FILM EDITING
Baby Driver — Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss
Dunkirk — Lee Smith (WINNER): Sydneysider Smith has edited every Christopher Nolan film since Batman Begins. He has also worked regularly with Australian directors Peter Weir (The Truman Show and Master and Commander) and Gregor Jordan (Two Hands).
I, Tonya — Tatiana S. Riegel
The Shape of Water — Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Jon Gregory
SOUND EDITING
Baby Driver — Julian Slater
Blade Runner 2049 — Mark Mangini, Theo Green
Dunkirk — Alex Gibson, Richard King (WINNERS): Dunkirk’s first win of the night goes to sound editors Alex Gibson and Richard King. Christopher Nolan’s war epic is likely to dominate the technical categories. Surprisingly, Nolan’s Director nomination tonight is his first ever in that category.
The Shape of Water — Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira
Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Ren Klyce, Matthew Wood
SOUND MIXING
Baby Driver — Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin
Blade Runner 2049 — Mac Ruth, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hephill
Dunkirk — Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo (WINNERS): Dunkirk’s Sound Mixing winners have all received multiple nominations over their careers. Gregg Landaker thanked Chris Nolan for pushing them to “make a difference”.
The Shape of Water — Glen Gauthier, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern
Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Stuart Wilson, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast — Sarah Greenwood; Katie Spencer
Blade Runner 2049 — Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
Darkest Hour — Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Dunkirk — Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
The Shape of Water — Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau (WINNERS): Austerberry has said director Guillermo del Toro made his team go through 3500 pain colour samples on day one.
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Dunkirk — Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread — Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water — Alexandre Desplat (WINNER): French composer Alexandre Desplat has received nine Oscar nominations in the last decade — this is his second win after The Grand Budapest Hotel. He thanked The Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro for “capturing the melancholy of love.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi — John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Carter Burwell
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
Mighty River from Mudbound — Mary J. Blige
Mystery of Love from Call Me by Your Name — Sufjan Stevens
Remember Me from Coco — Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez (WINNER): Frozen — and now Coco — songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez beat out crowd favourite This is Me, as performed during the show by part-Maori The Greatest Showman star Keala Settle. Anderson-Lopez teared up thanking the couple’s children.
Stand Up For Something from Marshall — Diane Warren, Common
This is Me from The Greatest Showman — Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
Darkest Hour — Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick (WINNER): Kazuhiro Tsuji had retired until director Joe Wright and Oldman coaxed him back for one last job — now it’s won him an Oscar. Darkest Hour star Gary Oldman described his daily make-up procedure on Darkest Hour to News Corp Australia: “My pick up would be 1.45am. Get to the set, then first thing they would do, they would shave my head, cover my neck in glue, then start the make-up.”
Victoria & Abdul — Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
Wonder — Arjen Tuiten
COSTUME DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast — Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour — Jacqueline Durran
Phantom Thread — Mark Bridges (WINNER): And of course Mark Bridges wins his second Oscar for Costume Design for Phantom Thread — a film about a fashion designer.
The Shape of Water — Luis Sequeira
Victoria & Abdul — Consolata Boyle
VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049 — John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer (WINNERS): Blade Runner’s VFX team beat out the work of New Zealand studio Weta on War For the Planet of the Apes to win the Visual Effects Oscar.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 — Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, Dan Sudick
Kong: Skull Island — Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Mike Meinardus
Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Chris Corbould, Neal Scanlan
War For the Planet of the Apes — Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Joel Whist
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