March 5, 2018–Well everyone, it’s a wrap! Thank goodness for everyone (except maybe the ratings) that there wasn’t another Oscar-level flub with an envelope mix-up like last year. The rather uneventful and somewhat predictable telecast still stood out for making a notable effort to acknowledge the #metoo movement and overall inclusiveness, pushing for diversity in Hollywood.
Shaking it up a little allowed the event to avoid more awkward moments. For instance, last year’s Best Actor winner would traditionally have presented this year’s Best Actress award. But with Casey Affleck having gone off the grid dealing with his own sexual misconduct allegations, it was better in many ways to have past badass winners Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence present the award. (Our Oscar party couldn’t help commenting on their height difference, making it seem like something was not to scale on the TV!)
Considering the political climate, the telecast was surprisingly politically muted, other than many shout-outs to Dreamers and immigrants (and a pointed rap by Common). Look at the representation of Mexico, Britain, Kenya, Pakistan, and more, just in the more visible nominees and presenters. There may not have been many surprises in the winners, but after last year, that probably brought a sigh of relief from the Academy when the last award was handed out successfully.
Note to the show’s producers: If you want to liven things up, please get Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph to host next year’s event. They were HI-LA-RI-OUS!
BEST PICTURE
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water ✔
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour ✔
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
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 ✔
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ✔
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya ✔
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
BEST DIRECTOR
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan
Get Out, Jordan Peele
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig
Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro ✔
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco ✔
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus ✔
Last Men In Aleppo
Strong Island
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Edith+Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 ✔
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Fantastic Woman, Chile ✔
The Insult, Lebanon
Loveless, Russia
On Body and Soul, Hungary
The Square, Sweden
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Call Me by Your Name ✔
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Big Sick
Get Out ✔
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
ORIGINAL SONG
“Mighty River,” Mudbound
“Mystery of Love,” Call Me by Your Name
“Remember Me,” Coco ✔
“Stand Up for Something,” Marshall
“This is Me,” The Greatest Showman
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
The Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water ✔
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049 ✔
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water
COSTUME DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread ✔
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul
SOUND EDITING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk ✔
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
SOUND MIXING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk ✔
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water ✔
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Dear Basketball ✔
Garden Party
Negative Space
Lou
Revolting Rhymes
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
The Silent Child ✔
All of Us
My Nephew Emmett
VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049 ✔
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
FILM EDITING
Baby Driver
Dunkirk ✔
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Darkest Hour ✔
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder
