Words by Rheanna Mathews

The 2018 Oscar Awards was as wonderful as expected, seeing glittering women and dapper men converge in LA for the night of the year. Hosted as usual by celebrity talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, the event was off to a good start with his nod to the MeToo movement.

Best Picture was won by Shape of Water, a love story set in the 60s about a mute woman and her connection to a humanoid amphibian creature, made by Mexican Director Guillermo del Toro, who also bagged the award for Best Director. Gary Oldman won Best Actor for his role as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour and Frances McDormand, a little unsurprisingly, took home the award for Best Actress for her role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, as Mildred Hayes, a mother seeking justice for her murdered daughter. Her co-star, Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor while Allison Janney won Best Supporting Actress for her role as LaVona Golden in I, Tonya.

The Oscars, notorious in the past for being a whitewashed representation of the best Hollywood had to offer, saw more people of colour included this year. Women too stole the show, with an inspiring speech by McDormand that highlighted solidarity and inclusion, and a hilariously tongue-in-cheek acceptance speech by Allison Janney which she began, “I did it all by myself”, following it up a few seconds later with, “Nothing further from the truth”.

While in terms of representation of people of colour it is by no means as inclusive and diverse as one would like, here is the definitive list of winners at the 90th Academy Awards held yesterday at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, LA, California:

Best Picture

The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale

Best Director

Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water

Best Actor

Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill

Best Actress

Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes

Best Supporting Actor

Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Officer Jason Dixon

Best Supporting Actress

Allison Janney – I, Tonya as LaVona Golden

Best Original Screenplay

Get Out – Written by Jordan Peele

Best Adapted Screenplay

Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory based on the novel by André Aciman

Best Animated Feature Film

Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson

Best Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic Woman (Chile) in Spanish – Directed by Sebastián Lelio

Best Documentary Feature

Icarus – Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan

Best Documentary – Short Subject

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 – Frank Stiefel

Best Live Action Short Film

The Silent Child – Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton

Best Animated Short Film

Dear Basketball – Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant

Best Original Score

The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat

Best Original Song

“Remember Me” from Coco – Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

Best Sound Editing

Dunkirk – Richard King and Alex Gibson

Best Sound Mixing

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

Best Production Design

The Shape of Water – Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin

Best Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049 – Roger A. Deakins

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Darkest Hour – Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick

Best Costume Design

Phantom Thread – Mark Bridges

Best Film Editing

Dunkirk – Lee Smith

Best Visual Effects

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

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