The winners of the 90th Academy Awards were announced at the Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, at a star-studded ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. His second outing as the host was generously sprinkled with shout-outs to the #TimesUp movement and inevitable jokes about last year’s Best Picture announcement.
The Shape of Water won in four of the thirteen categories it was nominated to, marking the first time since The Artist in 2011 that the winner of the Best Director award — Guillermo Del Toro — also took home the Oscar for Best Picture. Gary Oldman won the Best Actor for his portrayal of Sir Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour and Frances McDormand took home her second Oscar for Best Actress (after Fargo in 1996) for her formidable performance as a mother seeking justice for her daughter’s gruesome murder, thus staying true to the biggest Oscar trends we explored here.
History was also made as Jordan Peele became the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Get Out. Read on for the complete list of winners (highlighted).
Best Picture
The Shape of Water
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Director
Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel Esq.
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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
Best Original Screenplay
Get Out, Jordan Peele
The Big Sick
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Adapted Screenplay
Call Me By Your Name, James Ivory (Based on the novel by André Aciman)
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound
Best Film Editing
Dunkirk, Lee Smith
Baby Driver
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Cinematography
Blade Runner: 2049, Roger A. Deakins
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water
Best Original Score
The Shape of Water, Alexandre Desplat
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Carter Burwell
Phantom Thread, Jonny Greenwood
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, John Williams
Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer
Best Original Song
‘Remember Me’, Coco
‘Mighty River’, Mudbound
‘Mystery of Love’, Call Me By Your Name
‘Stand Up For Something’, Marshall
‘This Is Me’, The Greatest Showman
Best Sound Editing
Dunkirk, Richard King and Alex Gibson
Baby Driver
Blade Runner:2049
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Best Sound Mixing
Dunkirk, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten
Baby Driver
Blade Runner:2049
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Best Animated Feature
Coco
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
Best Animated Short
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
Best Live-Action Short
The Silent Child
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
Watu Wote/All of Us
Best Production Design
The Shape of Water
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner:2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Best Costume Design
Phantom Thread, Mark Bridges
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder
Best Visual Effects
Blade Runner: 2049, John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
Best Documentary Feature
Icarus
Abacus
Faces, Places
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
Best Documentary Short Subject
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Edith + Eddie
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
Best Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman, Chile
The Insult, Lebanon
Loveless, Russia
On Body and Soul, Hungary
The Square, Sweden
With the awards season coming to an end, we look forward to another of great cinema. For now, that’s all folks!
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