The Oscars: Everything Went According To Plan This Time!
March 19, 2018
This year’s 90th Academy Awards were quite uneventful compared to their predecessor, last year’s 89th Academy Awards, in which the best picture award was mistakenly given to Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land”, instead of the actual winner, Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight.”
Ironically, and seemingly to redeem themselves, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty once again presented this year’s best picture award to “The Shape of Water.”
Best director went to “The Shape of Water’s” Guillermo Del Toro, which made him the third Latin man in five years to win that award.
There were really no surprises this year.
Everyone that won was predicted to do so…
So to most, the highlight of the evening was Jimmy Kimmel awarding the winner with the shortest acceptance speech a brand new Jet Ski. The person that ended up winning the ski was the costume designer for “The Phantom Thread,” Mark Bridges, who enthusiastically sat upon the ski at the end of the show with Dame Helen Mirren.
But breaking records-wise, James Ivory became the oldest oscar winner ever for his work on the best picture nominated film, “Call Me By Your Name,” which starred Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet. Over the duration of the awards season, Chalamet seemed to be everywhere. He also broke a barriers, at 22, becoming the youngest best actor nominee since 1939 and swept the independent award circuit.
The award for best actor went to Gary Oldman for his portrayal of Prime Minister Winston Churchill in, “The Darkest Hour.”
Another best actor nominee, Daniel Day Lewis, is a veteran actor, who declared his role in “The Phantom Thread” to be his last movie role, EVER. As of the Oscars, Lewis is retired from acting, ending a career that won him three Academy Awards.
Finally, the best actress and best supporting actress winners, were Frances McDormand and Allison Janney.
McDormand won for her role in “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri,” and Janney won for her portrayal of Olympic figure skater Tonya Hardings mother in “I, Tonya.”