This year, the Oscars were placed under the sign of sobriety and unsurprisingly, The Shape of Water was the big winner with 4 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. In second place comes Dunkirk with three statuettes; then Three Billboards with two awards.
A political ceremony in sobriety
Jimmy Kimmel was in charge of this 90th edition of the Oscars. He obviously pointed the finger at the Weinstein case and discrimination against minorities:
"Oscar is the most loved and respected man in Hollywood. And there's a very good reason for that. Look at it. He keeps his hands where you can see them. Never says a rude word and above all, he has no penis."
"Black Panther" and "Wonder Woman" are massive hits, which is almost miraculous because I remember a time when major studios didn't believe that a woman or a minority director could direct a superhero movie. And the reason I remember that time was because it was in March of last year."
"Thanks to Guillermo (del Toro), we will always remember this year as the year when men did so badly that women started dating fish."
The fate of immigrants was also discussed with the touching and anti-Trump speech by Lupita Nyong'o and Kumail Nanjiani. Ashley Judd, Annabella Sciorra and Salma Hayek, three victims of sexual assault, also took the stage to support the "Time's Up" movement and express hope that future editions of the Oscars will be about equality and diversity. But the highlight of the evening was when Frances McDormand made all the women stand up during her feminist speech by receiving the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Three Billboards.
Winners without surprises
No mistakes or bad envelope for this edition: the Oscar for Best Picture was awarded to The Shape of Water. The film also received statuettes for Best Director (Guillermo del Toro), Best Set Design and Best Music.
Not surprisingly, Gary Oldman won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Winston Churcill in The Dark Hours. Frances McDormand won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Three Billboards. The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress went to Allison Janney for I, Tonya.
Dunkirk was celebrated for its technical prowess: Best Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.
With four French nominations (Bruno Delbonnel, Alexandre Desplat, Village, Villages d'Agnès Varda and JR et Garden Party) Alexandre Desplat won an Oscar for Best Original Music in The Shape of Water.
Unsurprising winners, with the possible exception of Lady Bird and Call me by your name. In addition, as every year, films that we would have liked to see at the Oscars do not even have a place in the nominations … So we took stock of the great forgotten of the Oscars 2018 ! Also take a look at the editor's predictions, for which we were more or less right!
Complete list:
Best Film : The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro
Best Director : Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water
Best Actor : Gary Oldman in The Dark Hours
Best Actress : Frances McDormand in Three Billboards: The Panels of Vengeance
Best Supporting Actor : Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards: The Panels of Vengeance
Best Supporting Actress: Allison Janney in I, Tonya
Best Original Screenplay: Jordan Peele for Get Out
Best Adapted Screenplay: James Ivory for Call Me by Your Name
Best Set Design and Art Direction: Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin for The Shape of Water
Best Costume Design: Mark Bridges for Phantom Thread
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick for Les Heures Sombres
Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins for Blade Runner 2049
Best Editing: Lee Smith for Dunkirk
Best Sound Editing: Richard King and Alex Gibson for Dunkirk
Best Sound Mix: Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo to Dunkirk
Best Visual Effects: John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover for Blade Runner 2049
Best Original Song: "Remember Me" from Coco, words and music by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Best Film Music: Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water
Best Foreign Language Film: A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio (Chile)
Best Animated Film: Coco by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
Best Documentary Film: Icarus by Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
Best Short Fiction: The Silent Child by Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
Best Animated Short: Dear Basketball by Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant
Best Short Documentary: Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 by Frank Stiefel
