Oscars 2018 as it happened: Shape of Water triumphs with Best Picture and Best Director awards
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The 2018 Oscars has come to its (rather staid) conclusion, with major wins for The Shape of Water, Darkest Hour, Three Billboards and Get Out.
This year's ceremony witnessed multiple political causes championed: from gun control to the plight of Dreamers children to the Time's Up and #MeToo movements.
Frances McDormand's powerful acceptance speech for Best Actress (apologies for the spoiler) calling for all female nominees to stand up and enforce 'inclusion riders' - will be the Oscars' answer to Oprah Winfrey at the Golden Globes.
"I want to get some perspective," she said. "If I may be so honoured to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight, the actors - Meryl, if you do it, everybody else will, c'mon - the filmmakers, the producers, the directors, the writers, the cinematographer, the composers, the songwriters, the designers. C'mon!"
"Okay, look around everybody," she continued. "Look around, ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed. Don't talk to us about it at the parties tonight.
"Invite us into your office in a couple days, or you can come to ours, whatever suits you best, and we'll tell you all about them. I have two words to leave with you tonight, ladies and gentlemen: inclusion rider".
The Shape of Water was the bookies' favourite and came away with the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, with Guillermo Del Toro making a cheeky dig at last year's Best Picture disaster by checking the envelope twice to make sure it had the right winner.
The acting categories frontrunners – Gary Oldman for best actor, Frances McDormand for Best Actress, Sam Rockwell for Supporting Actor, and Allison Janney for Supporting Actress – all came to fruition.
The complete list of winners is at the bottom of the page.
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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
Lead 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.
Lead 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
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
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
Director:
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan
Get Out, Jordan Peele
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig
Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro - WINNER
Animated Feature:
The Boss Baby, Tom McGrath, Ramsey Ann Naito
The Breadwinner, Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo
Coco, Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson - WINNER
Ferdinand, Carlos Saldanha
Loving Vincent, Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Sean Bobbitt, Ivan Mactaggart, Hugh Welchman
Animated Short:
Dear Basketball, Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant - WINNER
Garden Party, Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon
Lou, Dave Mullins, Dana Murray
Negative Space, Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata
Revolting Rhymes, Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer
Adapted Screenplay:
Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory - WINNER
The Disaster Artist, Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Logan, Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green
Molly’s Game, Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound, Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
Original Screenplay:
The Big Sick, Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out, Jordan Peele - WINNER
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
Darkest Hour, Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk, Hoyte van Hoytema
Mudbound, Rachel Morrison
The Shape of Water, Dan Laustsen
Best 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
Last Men in Aleppo, Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Soren Steen Jepersen
Strong Island, Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes
Best Documentary Short Subject:
Edith+Eddie, Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405, Frank Stiefel - WINNER
Heroin(e), Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon
Knife Skills, Thomas Lennon
Traffic Stop, Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
Best Live Action Short Film:
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
Watu Wote/All of Us, Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen
Best Foreign Language Film:
A Fantastic Woman (Chile) - WINNER
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
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 - WINNER
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 - WINNER
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 - WINNER
Original Score:
Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread, Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water, Alexandre Desplat - WINNER
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Carter Burwell
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
“Stand Up for Something” from Marshall, Diane Warren, Common
“This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
Makeup and Hair:
Darkest Hour, Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick - WINNER
Victoria and 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
The Shape of Water, Luis Sequeira
Victoria and Abdul, Consolata Boyle
Visual Effects:
Blade Runner 2049, John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer - WINNER
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
Welcome to The Independent's Oscars 2018 liveblog, following the latest action from the year's most star-studded awards ceremony. Actros and filmmakers are expected to start walking the red carpet around midnight, while the ceremony itself will kickstart 1am UK time.
First up, let's have a look at who's presenting awards later tonight. Those to be handing out awards include (deep breath) Mahershala Ali, Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Laura Dern, Jennifer Garner, Greta Gerwig, Tiffany Haddish, Tom Holland, Kumail Nanjiani, Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Daniela Vega, Emily Blunt, Sandra Bullock, Dave Chappelle, Eugenio Derbez, Ansel Elgort, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, Eiza González, Ashley Judd, Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey, Helen Mirren, Rita Moreno, Lupita Nyong’o, Christopher Walken, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gal Gadot, Mark Hamill, Armie Hammer, Oscar Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, Eva Marie Saint, Wes Studi, Kelly Marie Tran and Zendaya.
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway will once again be presenting the best picture award, having accidentally given the prize to the wrong movie last year.
Asked about presenting the award for a second time Dunaway reportedly said it would be “better the second time around” while Beatty quipped: “The winner is Gone with the Wind.”
The leading actor category looks sewn up at this stage, with Gary Oldman having won almost every award under the sun for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.
However, many people are wanting to see Timothee Chalamet crowned winner for his astounding performance in Call Me By Your Name. The American won last night at the Independent Spirit Awards — could an Oldman upset be in store?
Read The Independent's predictions here.
For leading actress, Frances McDormand is expected to take the prize for her performance in Three Billboards. By nearly all accounts, she deserves it having given an utterly mesmerising performance. Closest competitor is Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water, although she remains a long shot.
Supporting actor has also pretty much be sewn up by Three Billboards' Sam Rockwell. While his character may have caused some controversy, the critics have heaped unanimous praise on the character actor.
The closest competitor is Willem Defoe, who gives a surprisingly heartfelt performance in the criminally overlooked Florida Project - a film many would argue should have been in the running for best picture.
Alison Janney leads the supporting actress category for her turn as Tonya Harding's tough-love mother in I,Tonya. Having won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and almost every other televised award, she will almost certainly win the award.
While Mary J. Blige may have been astounding in Mudbound, we're unlikely to see her take home the statuette. Rather, Laurie Metcalf seems like the person who could cause upset for Janney having been superb in Lady Bird - or perhaps Lesley Manville as a long shot in Phantom Thread.
The best director nominees are:
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape Of Water
Most Oscar watchers are predicting a win for Guillermo here, although Nolan may finally land a best directing win for the astounding Dunkirk. Peele has also become a favourite, having won at the Spirit Awards last night, while a win for Gerwig would make her the second woman to ever win the Oscar for best directing (the first being Kathryn Bigelow in 2009 for The Hurt Locker). Then there's Anderson, who has created another utterly mesmerising film - while a favourite among cinephiles, he remains bottom of the pack by the bookie's estimates.
And the nominees for Original Screenplay:
The Big Sick Get Out Lady Bird The Shape of Water Three Billboards
We're expecting to see a win for Three Billboards here, the dark comedy winning almost every screenplay award this season. However, upsets could come from fellow best picture nominees Lady Bird and Get Out, both of which have been hotly touted to prevail on the night. The extremely loveable The Big Sick has also won the heart of many voters - could a surprise win come Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani's way?
Best Adapted Screenplay nominees:
Call Me By Your Name The Disaster Artist Logan Molly’s Game Mudbound
There's not really any question over who will take home adapted screenplay: Call Me By Your Name. The only one of the competition nominated also for best picture, the tale of two people falling in love has won over the hearts of many. Perhaps the biggest surprise here is Logan, which marks the first ever superhero movie to ever be nominated for adapted screenplay. Seeing as the Academy seemingly despise the vast majority of superhero movies, that's quite some accomplishment.
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