Two years after the campaign against a white dominated Oscars with the hashtag #Oscarssowhite, championed by actress, Jada Pinkett-Smith, this year’s
Two years after the campaign against a white dominated Oscars with the hashtag #Oscarssowhite, championed by actress, Jada Pinkett-Smith, this year’s Oscars was predominantly dominated by white nominees despite the twelve African Americans who were nominated in various categories, with only two out of the nine nominees winning an Oscar. While Jordan Peele who was nominated for best original screenplay, director and picture for his satirical horror film, ‘Get Out,’ became the first African American to win the original screenplay award, retired basket baller, Kobe Bryant’s ‘Dear Basketball,’ which he wrote, won best animated short film.
Jordan Peele
Hosted for the second time by talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, at the Dolby Theatres, Los Angeles, this years’s show was not only the 90th anniversary of the prestigious award ceremony, it thankfully didn’t end on a dramatic note unlike last year where there was a mix up of envelopes bearing the winner of the biggest prize of the night. There was no ‘La La land/Moonlight’ situation. Ironically, the two veteran actors who presented the award at last year’s Oscars, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, were the same set of presenters who presented this year’s Best Picture award which was won by ‘The Shape of Water’.
Just like last year where the host, brought in random people from off the streets to meet with celebrities midway into the show, this year, Jimmy Kimmel surprised movie goers when midway into the show, he got some celebrities to accompany him to a theatre close by the award show venue, to appreciate them for taking time to go see movies at the cinemas. He made sure not to leave them empty handed as the celebrities distributed, candies, sandwiches and handburgers to the excited movie goers.
Kobe Bryant
Below is a full list of Oscar winners who got the trophy
Best picture: “The Shape of Water”
Best actress: Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Best actor: Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
Best director: Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”
Best original song: “Remember Me” by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez from “Coco”
Best original score: Alexandre Desplat, “The Shape of Water”
Best cinematography: Roger Deakins, “Blade Runner 2049”
Best original screenplay: Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
Best adapted screenplay: James Ivory, “Call Me By Your Name”
Best live action short film: “The Silent Child”
Best documentary short subject: “Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405”
Best film editing: Lee Smith, “Dunkirk”
Best visual effects: John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover, “Blade Runner 2049”
Best animated feature film: “Coco”
Best animated short film: ‘Dear Basketball’
Best supporting actress: Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
Best foreign language film: “A Fantastic Woman,” Chile
Best production design: Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, Jeffrey Melvin, “The Shape of Water”
Best sound editing: Richard King and Alex Gibson, “Dunkirk”
Best sound mixing: Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary Rizzo, “Dunkirk”
Best documentary feature: “Icarus”
Best costume design: Mark Bridges, “Phantom Thread”
Best makeup and hairstyling: Kazuhiro Tsuji, Lucy Sibbick and David Malinowski, “Darkest Hour”
Best supporting actor: Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
