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Oscars 2018 as it happened: Shape of Water triumphs with Best Picture and Best Director awards

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Christopher Hooton,Jack Shepherd,Roisin O'Connor

Monday 05 March 2018 06:38 GMT

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Oscars 2018: Frances McDormand uses acceptance speech to demand inclusion rider from Hollywood

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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

All the stars of the ceremony will be heading off to post-ceremony parties by now - Viola Davis just tweeted this wonderful photo

https://twitter.com/violadavis/status/970541979338653697

roisin.oconnor5 March 2018 06:23

While this year's ceremony was relatively uneventful (especially compared to last year) there were still some historic moments. Jordan Peele became the first black screenwriter to win the award for Best Original Screenplay

Get Out's Jordan Peele becomes first black screenwriter to win Best Original ScreenplayThe IndependentGet Out writer-director Jordan Peele has won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay providing the evening with a landmark - he is the first black screenwriter to ever win the award. The category was one of the ceremony's most hotly-contested with the horror satire beating out the likes of The Big Sick, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to scoop the trophy.

roisin.oconnor5 March 2018 06:26

Jimmy Kimmel entertained the audience with his opening ceremony speech

The most brutal jokes from Jimmy Kimmel's opening Oscars monologueThe IndependentJimmy Kimmel kicked off this year's Oscars with a witty if rather safe opening monologue which poked fun at Harvey Weinstein and Mike Pence while paying homage to #MeToo and Time's Up. The standout joke as the chtshow host branded the oscar trophy Hollywood's "most beloved and respected man" stating: "He keeps his hands where you can see them, never says a rude word and, most importantly, he has no penis."

roisin.oconnor5 March 2018 06:31

For the fashion fanatics among you, here's what everyone was wearing on the red carpet

The best-dressed stars on the Oscars red carpetThe IndependentThe Academy Awards mark the grand finale of what has been a highly politically-charged awards season thanks to the #MeToo and Times Up movements. As Hollywood’s major players respond to the myriad sexual misconduct allegations sweeping through their industry, the red carpet has seen a seismic shift in cultural and sartorial significance.

roisin.oconnor5 March 2018 06:34

Thoughts on the night from culture editor Chris Hooton

Oscars 2018 wrapped: The Shape of Water charms the Academy at mildly political awardsThe IndependentHelen Mirren may have taken to the stage on the back of a jet-ski, but that still constitutes an understated Oscars ceremony in 2018, the 90th Academy Awards not proving as dramatic as the Trump-defying, wrong-winner-announcing year that came before it.

roisin.oconnor5 March 2018 06:43

Blade Runner 2049 took home the Oscar for Best Cinematography this year - here's a piece about how the movie contains months of VFX work that you can't even see Blade Runner 2049 contains months of VFX work you can't even see with the naked eyeThe IndependentWith VFX, the goal is for it to be so good that you can't even tell its VFX, and this was particularly true for Blade Runner 2049, which uses computerised elements so naturally and artfully. Visual Effects Supervisor Paul Lambert and his team at Double Negative won a BAFTA at the weekend for their work and are frontrunners for this year's VFX Oscar.

roisin.oconnor5 March 2018 06:46

We're going to wrap up the liveblog, but make sure you keep up to speed with all our post-ceremony coverage including reactions, commentary and pictures from the night. Thanks all for following!

roisin.oconnor5 March 2018 07:05

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