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Film News: ‘The Shape of Water’ Wins 2018 Oscar Best Picture
CHICAGO – Even though Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway appeared once again to present the Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards – as they did last year – the correct film was announced, and it was the romantic fantasy “The Shape of Water” that won the 2018 Best Picture on March 4, 2018.
Frances McDormand Wins the Best Actress Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards
Photo credit: ABC-TV
The beautiful film and story of “The Shape of Water” broke the awards season attention towards “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” to take the top prize. Guillermo Del Toro also won Best Director for the film, and it also took Best Original Score and Best Production Design. The four best performance Oscars played out as predicted by previous awards season honors. Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards…”) won Best Supporting Actor, Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”) won Best Supporting Actress, Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”) won Best Actor, and Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards…”) won Best Actress, and delivered a fiery speech addressing the issue of Hollywood’s inequitable treatment and harassment of women in the film business.
The show, hosted again by Jimmy Kimmel, had his usual control and killer one liners. The main bit involved going into a movie theater audience with some big Oscar participants, handing out candy and hot dogs to a preview audience for “A Wrinkle in Time,” in appreciation of movie audiences everywhere. He also had a field day with the oldest acting nominee in history, 88-year-old Christopher Plummer of “All the Money in the World,” joking that he had been a kid actor at the first Oscars, 90 years previously. While Plummer didn’t win, 89-year-old James Ivory – of the notable [Ismail] Merchant-Ivory film production team – won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for “Call Me By Your Name.” He is the oldest person ever to receive a competitive Oscar.
The full list of winners for the 89th Academy Awards are as follows.
BEST PICTURE
THE SHAPE OF WATER
BEST ACTOR
GARY OLDMAN, Darkest Hour
BEST ACTRESS
FRANCES McDORMAND, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
SAM ROCKWELL, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ALLISON JANNEY, I, Tonya
DIRECTING
Guillermo del Toro, THE SHAPE OF WATER
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
COCO
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
James Ivory, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Jordan Peele, GET OUT
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
ICARUS
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A FANTASTIC WOMAN, Chile
ORIGINAL SONG
REMEMBER ME, Coco
ORIGINAL SCORE
THE SHAPE OF WATER
ANIMATED SHORT
DEAR BASKETBALL
LIVE ACTION SHORT
THE SILENT CHILD
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
HEAVEN IS A TRAFFIC JAM ON THE 405
FILM EDITING
DUNKIRK
SOUND EDITING
DUNKIRK
SOUND MIXING
DUNKIRK
PRODUCTION DESIGN
THE SHAPE OF WATER
VISUAL EFFECTS
BLADE RUNNER 2049
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BLADE RUNNER 2049
MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
DARKEST HOUR
COSTUME DESIGN
PHANTOM THREAD
By PATRICK McDONALD |