Los Angeles: Hollywood’s biggest night concluded and “The Shape of Water” emerged as the big winner with four honours at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony — including Best Picture — where celebration of cinema was laced with political jibes as well as powerful statements on debates like sexual harassment, immigration and gender balance that are plaguing Hollywood.
Gary Oldman won Best Actor award for his role as Winston Churchill in “Darkest Hour” and actress Frances McDormand nabbed her second best actress Oscar for “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri”, two decades after winning an award for “Fargo”.
Also, Indian actor Ali Fazal-starrer “Victoria & Abdul” and Anupam Kher-starrer “The Big Sick” lost on their chance to win an Oscar.
Apart from these, here’s the full list of winners –
BEST PICTURE:
The Shape of Water
BEST ACTOR:
Gary Oldman, The Darkest Hour
BEST ACTRESS:
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
DIRECTING:
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
A Fantastic Woman, Chile.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Jordan Peele, Get Out
PRODUCTION DESIGN:
The Shape of Water
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049
SOUND MIXING:
Dunkirk
SOUND EDITING:
Dunkirk
ORIGINAL SCORE:
The Shape of Water, Alexandre Desplat.
ORIGINAL SONG:
“Remember Me” from Coco
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Icarus
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT):
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
FILM EDITING:
Dunkirk
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:
Darkest Hour
ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
Dear Basketball
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:
The Silent Child
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Coco
VISUAL EFFECTS:
Blade Runner 2049
COSTUME DESIGN:
Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread
The ceremony was about hope and positivity, as Judd said the next 90 years of the Academy Awards will “empower these limitless possibilities of equality, diversity, inclusivity, intersectionality — that’s what this year has promised us”.
With IANS inputs