The 90th Academy Awards which was held on Sunday night 2nd March 2018 honored The Shape of Water (an American romantic fantasy Drama) with the top prize for the best picture, directing, original score and product design. Other winners for the night include; Kobe Bryant for the animated short film for Dear Basketball, Jordan Peele for the best original screenplay in Get Out, Gary Oldman for the best actor in a leading role in Darkest Hour, Frances McDormand for the best actress in a leading role in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Sam Rockwell for the best actor in supporting role in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Netflix’ own Icarus for the best documentary feature and Allison Janney who won the best actress in supporting role in I, Tonya.
With the Oscars 2018 focus being on the #MeToo and Time’s Up movement which are meant to shun sexual harassment and abuse, Kobe Bryant win has triggered different opinions from the viewers on social media. Kobe Bryant had been charged with rape allegations of a 19-year-old lady in year 2003 in Colorado although the prosecutors dropped the charges a year later because the defendant wasn’t willing to continue with the trial. Kobe Bryant who is a five-time NBA champion, 18-time-all-star and two-time MVP has added an Oscar to his resume by winning the Best Animated short film called Dear Basketball, which he wrote shortly before retiring.
Although Daniel Kaluuya who plays the W’Kabi role in the Black Panther film did not grab an award for the night, nominations as an Actor in a leading role in the film ‘Get Out’ to the 2018 Oscars Awards was already a win for him.
For Jordan Peele, his win for the night marks the start of the black directors’ movement. “It’s a renaissance, of this moment when films like DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time and Coogler’s Black Panther will be in the cinematic conversation at the same time. I’m glad to be part of a time, the beginning of a movement, where the best films of every genre are being brought to me by my fellow black directors,’’ said Jordan Peele speaking to reporters at the Academy Awards backstage.
Regardless of this being Gary Oldman’s first Oscar win in the film Darkest Hour where he plays as Winston Churchill, he still has second thoughts. Gary regrets his position in the film where the 1940 Winston had to make a decision to send 4,000 men to die in war so as to save 300,000.
Here is the full list of the nominations as well as winners for different categories:
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 Music- Original Score
Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk
Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water (winner)
John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Director
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water (Winner)
Best Production Design
Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, and Jeff Melvin, The Shape of Water (winner)
Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola, Bladerunner 2049
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer, Darkest Hour
Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis, Dunkirk
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer, Beauty and the Beast
Best Writing- Original Screenplay
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jordan Peele, Get out (winner)
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Guillermo Del Toro & Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water
Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
Best Documentary – Feature
Faces Places
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
Abacus: Small Enough To Jail
Icarus(winner)
Best writing- Adapted Screenplay
James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name (winner)
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, Logan
Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound
Best Actor- Leading Role
Timothee Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Daniel Day-Lewis, The Phantom Thread
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour (winner)
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Isreal, Esq.
Best Actress- Supporting Role
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya (winner)
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Best Actress- Leading Role
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 Actor in a Supporting Role
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (winner)
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Best Visual Effects
John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover, Blade Runner 2049 (winner)
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, and Dan Sudick, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, and Mike Meinardus, Kong: Skull Island
The Last Jedi Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould, Star Wars
Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, and Joel Whist, War for the Planet of the Apes
Best Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman(winner)
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Insult
The Square
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinkowski, Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour (winner)
Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard, Victoria and Abdul
Arjen Tuiten, Wonder
Best Costume Design
Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water
Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour
Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast
Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread (winner)
Consolata Boyle, Victoria and Abdul
Best Sound Editing
Matthew Wood, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Richard King, Alex Gibson, Dunkirk (winner)
Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, The Shape of Water
Mark A. Mangini, Theo Green, Blade Runner 2049
Julian Slater, Baby Driver
Best Sound Mixing
Christian T. Cooke, Filip Hosek, Brad Zoern, The Shape of Water
Tim Cavagin, Julian Slater, Mary H. Ellis, Baby Driver
Ron Bartlett, Dough Hemphill, Mac Ruth, Blade Runner 2049
Gregg Landaker, Gary Rizzo, Mark Weingarten, Dunkirk (winner)
David Parker, Michael Semanchick, Ren Klyce, and Stuart Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Best Short Film – Animated
Garden Party
Dear Basketball (winner)
Revolting Rhymes
Negative Space
Lou
Best Animated- Feature Film
Loving Vincent
Ferdinand
The Breadwinner
Coco (winner)
The Boss Baby
Best Film Editing
Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water
Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss, Baby Driver
Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya
Lee Smith, Dunkirk (winner)
Jon Gregory, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Documentary – Short Subject
Knife Skills
Edith + Eddie
Traffic Stop
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (winner)
Heroin(e)
Best Short Film -Live Action
Watu Wote/All of Us
DeKalb Elementary
My Nephew Emmett
The Eleven o’clock
The Silent Child (winner)
Best Cinematography
Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk
Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour
Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water
Rachel Morrison, Mudbound
Roger A. Deakins, Blade Runner 2049(winner)
Best Music – Original Song
“Stand Up for Something” from Marshall by Lonnie R. Lynn (Common), Andra Day, and Diane Warren
“Mighty River” from Mudbound by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, and Taura Stinson
“This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
“Remember Me” from Coco by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (winner)
“The Mystery of Love” from Call Me by Your Name by Sufjan Stevens.
