There are hardly any people on the planet who have not heard anything about the Oscars. This award is annually presented at the end of winter - beginning of spring in Los Angeles and is broadcasted all over the world. In 2018, the awards and statuettes were presented on March 4.
What kind of award is this "Oscar"?
The Oscar is considered one of the most prestigious awards in cinema. The history of this award goes back to 1929, when the head of the world famous film studio "Metro Goldwyn Mayer" Louis Barth Mayer conceived it in order to recognize the figures who made the greatest contribution to the development of US cinema. In the future, the prize began to be awarded for films not only American, but also for others. The award is given in different nominations: best film, best actor / actress, also best supporting actors and actresses, for director's work, for a script, for a film in a foreign language. In addition, the award is given for the categories: music for a film, song for a film, sound, editing, sound effects, costumes and other nominations. That is, not a single stage of the creation of the film is forgotten, everything in these nominations is taken into account.
Oscar Nominated Films 2018
Each film can be nominated for different categories. In 2018, they were nominated for Best Film: Call Me by Your Name, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Dark Times, The Shape of Water, Dunkirk, The Secret Dossier, Phantom Thread "," Get Out "," Lady Bird ". These films were nominated for Best Actor: Timothy Chalamet, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya, Gary Oldman.
Best Actress nominees in the same films: Sally Hawkins, Frances McDormand, Saoirse Ronan, Meryl Streep. Best Supporting Actor nominees for these films: Woody Harrelson, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, Sam Rockwell. Best Supporting Actress nominees for the following films: Laurie Metcalf, Leslie Manville and Octavia Spencer. In addition, in the films "Roman Israel, Esq." Denzel Washington was nominated for Best Actor in Tonya Against All, Margot Robbie was nominated for Best Actress.
In Project Florida and All the Money in the World, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Plummer were nominated for Best Supporting Actor. In The Farm, Mudbound and Tonya Against All were nominated for Best Supporting Actress Mary J. Blige and Allison Jenny. Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peel, Greta Gerwig, Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo del Toro were nominated for Best Director.
In addition to the above works, films participated in various nominations: Love-Sickness, Woe Creator, Logan, The Big Game, Blade Runner 2049, Baby on a Drive, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Beauty and the Beast, Victoria and Abdul, Marshall, The Greatest Showman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Part 2”,“Kong: Skull Island”,“Planet of the Apes. War "," Miracle ".
From the animation films were presented: "The Boss Baby", "The Hunter", "The Secret of Coco", "Ferdinand", "Van Gogh. Love, Vincent, Dear Basketball, Garden Party, Lou, Empty Place, Hooligan Tales.
Documentary and short films were presented by works: "Faces of the Village", "Icarus", "The Last People of Aleppo", "Strong Island", "Edith + Edith", "Paradise is a traffic jam on Highway 405", "Heroin (i)”,“The Art of the Knife”,“Stop”,“De Kalb Elementary School”,“11 o'clock”,“My nephew Emmet”,“Dumb Child”,“Watu Wote: We All”.
It is especially worth noting the nomination "Best Foreign Language Film", because it also presented the Russian film "Dislike" directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, who had already nominated his film "Leviathan" at the 87th Academy Awards in the same nomination and not got it. However, at the 90th ceremony, he was not given an Oscar either. The films Fantastic Woman, Insult, About Body and Soul, and Square were also presented in this nomination. These are the nominees that were presented at the 90th Academy Awards.
Winners of various Oscar nominations in 2018
The winners are: in the category "l" Gary Oldman, in the category " Francis McDorman. Allison Jenny's acting was recognized as the best female supporting role, and Sam Rockwell's male role. Jordan Peel was awarded for the statuettes, and James Ivory was awarded for.
recognized "The Secret of Coco", he also received an award for the best song. spotted in Phantom Thread, but in Dark Ages. became a very controversial and provocative work called "Icarus", and the best short documentary film - "Paradise is a traffic jam on highway 405". Awarded for the painting "Blade Runner 2049", for - "Dunkirk". The Chilean “Fantastic Woman” was chosen from all the participants.
Best Film, Academy Awards 2018
The best film of all the presented was the film "The Shape of Water" directed by, producer, screenwriter Guillermo del Toro, who also received a statuette for directing in this film. This film also won the Best Music Award (given to Alexandre Desplat) and Best Artistic Design.
Incidents, interesting moments
Like all previous award ceremonies, the anniversary, ninetieth in a row, also did not go without inconvenient moments, without various memes and jokes on social networks. It was not the first time that the actress Jennifer Lawrence shocked the audience; she had already experienced various incidents at ceremonies of different years. This time, she absolutely did not want to go to her place, like all ordinary people - along the passages provided for this purpose, she climbed through all the chairs and armchairs straight with a full glass.
Andra Day decided to take a photo on the Oscar red carpet while lying down, and Ansel Ergot in flight, jumping high, legs tucked in. Among those invited to the ceremony, one could see a man - an amphibian. So one of the crew members decided to support the film "The Shape of Water". One of the surprises for the unsuspecting viewers, who were quietly sitting and watching a movie in a nearby cinema, was the arrival of a group of cinema stars there with various sweets, huge hot dogs and jokes. During their short hike, the remaining ceremony attendees watched the event live on-line.
The host of the ceremony, Jamie Kimmel, at the beginning of the ceremony, stipulated the time that the winners' speech should last. He told them to speak for no more than a minute and even promised a kind of bonus prize for the smallest speech. The winner in this nomination was Mark Bridges, who went on stage to receive a statuette for the film "Phantom Thread" and the best costumes for it. Rita Moreno, when she went on stage, almost fell, apparently the champagne "hit in the head."
Alain Gibson walked around the stage with his shirt coming out of his trousers, and Sam Rockwell came on stage too relaxed and began to drink right there. Maya Rudolph and Tiffany Haddish generally wore slippers, holding their stiletto heels in their hands. Another meme circulates on the net: a photo of Meryl Streep at the ceremony compared to the Fairy Godmother from Shrek.
Guillermo del Toro managed to look into the envelope to make sure that this time the envelopes were not mixed up like last year. This time there was no podium on the stage, so the statuettes were placed on the floor, it would not be possible to hold them in your hands for a long time, because their weight was about four kilograms. Such interesting moments were at the ninetieth ceremony of one of the prestigious awards of the film industry.
