In her rousing acceptance speech for Best Actress, after she put her Oscar on the floor and asked all of the other female nominees to stand up, Frances McDormand brought a new phrase into the lexicon that very few people had ever heard about: inclusion rider. For those who still haven’t googled it, it’s a clause in a contract given to A-list talent providing that women and people of color be hired for other positions on a given film, television or digital project.
McDormand, who had scooped up every award along the way during awards season for her memorable role as a mother furious about the lack of justice in her daughter’s murder in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, also made headlines after the show when a crazy-ass dude stole her statuette at the Governors Ball, and posted it on Facebook, as if he would get away with it. He was promptly arrested, but the more important question is how he even got in there in the first place.
That was perhaps the biggest surprise of the night of which there were…none. The Shape of Water came in with 13 nominations and despite several pundits’ contention that the best picture race was wide open, it wasn’t. The film’s Guillermo del Toro was also a lock for best director after having picked up all the prestigious prizes along the awards trail.
That was another historic aspect to the ceremonies, addressing the ongoing attention to sexual harassment and sexual misconduct that ran rampant in Hollywood until the Harvey Weinstein scandal last October started heads rolling.
Three of Weinstein’s most prominent accusers, Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra took the stage together to introduce a video of this year’s nominees calling for more inclusion in Hollywood.
“This year, many spoke their truth, and the journey ahead is long, but slowly a new path has emerged,” said Sciorra, alluding to sexual misconduct allegations against powerful players in the entertainment industry.
“The changes we are witnessing are being driven by the powerful sound of new voices, of different voices, of our voices, joining together in a mighty chorus that is finally saying ‘time’s up,’” Judd said, referencing the “Time’s Up” movement to end inequality and sexual misconduct in the workplace.
Hayek added: ″So we salute those unstoppable spirits who kicked ass and broke through the biased perceptions against their gender, their race and ethnicity to tell their stories.”
Greta Gerwig, who is unbelievably only the fifth a woman to ever be nominated for a directing Oscar, came away empty-handed as did her Sacramento-set coming-of-age film Lady Bird. Many had been touting it for original screenplay but that honor instead went to Jordan Peele for his groundbreaking racial horror drama Get Out. Peele made history as the first African-American to win in that category. He had also been nominated as best director.
The story of also-ran cinematographer Roger Deakins will also be rewritten, as he finally scored an Oscar for his work in Blade Runner 2049.
Perhaps due to the incessant headlines about Russian meddling, the Netflix documentary Icarus won over the favored Faces Places, whose principal players Agnes Varda and JR had charmed awards voters along the campaign trail.
And that’s a wrap on the 2018 film awards season.
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.
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
Directing
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
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 Supporting Role
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Original Screenplay
The Big Sick, Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out, Written by Jordan Peele
Lady Bird, Written by Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water, Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Written by Martin McDonagh
Adapted Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name, Screenplay by James Ivory
The Disaster Artist, Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Logan, Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
Molly’s Game, Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound, Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
Original Song
”Mighty River” from Mudbound
Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, and Taura Stinson
”Mystery Of Love” from Call Me by Your Name
Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens
”Remember Me” from Coco
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
”Stand Up For Something” from Marshall
Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren
”This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman
Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Original Score
Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread, Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water, Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Carter Burwell
Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049, Roger A. Deakins
Darkest Hour, Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk, Hoyte van Hoytema
Mudbound, Rachel Morrison
The Shape of Water, Dan Laustsen
Live Action Short Film
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us
Documentary (Short Subject)
Edith+Eddie
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
Film Editing
Baby Driver, Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
Dunkirk, Lee Smith
I, Tonya, Tatiana S. Riegel
The Shape of Water, Sidney Wolinsky,
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Jon Gregory
Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049, John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, and Dan Sudick
Kong: Skull Island, Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, and Mike Meinardus
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould
War for the Planet of the Apes, Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, and Joel Whist
Animated Feature Film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
Animated Short Film
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square
Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Blade Runner 2049
Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola
Darkest Hour
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Dunkirk
Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
The Shape of Water
Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin
Sound Mixing
Baby Driver, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
Blade Runner 2049, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, and Mac Ruth
Dunkirk, Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, and Gary A. Rizzo
The Shape of Water, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, and Glen Gauthier
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Stuart Wilson
Sound Editing
Baby Driver, Julian Slater
Blade Runner 2049, Mark Mangini and Theo Green
Dunkirk, Richard King and Alex Gibson
The Shape of Water, Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce
Documentary (Feature)
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast, Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour, Jacqueline Durran
Phantom Thread, Mark Bridges
The Shape of Water, Luis Sequeira
Victoria & Abdul, Consolata Boyle
Makeup and Hairstyling
Darkest Hour, Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
Victoria & Abdul, Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
Wonder, Arjen Tuiten
