{"id":60065,"date":"2018-03-05T07:10:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=60065"},"modified":"2018-03-05T07:10:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:10:05","slug":"oscars-2018-shape-water-wins-best-picture-awards-show-laced-social-political-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/entertainment\/oscars-2018-shape-water-wins-best-picture-awards-show-laced-social-political-statements.html","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2018: \u2018The Shape of Water\u2019 wins best picture at awards show laced with social and political statements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscars 2018: \u2018The Shape of Water\u2019 wins best picture at awards show laced with social and political statements<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Shape of Water,\u201d a Cold War fantasy about a mute woman who falls in love with a humanoid sea creature, won the Oscar for best picture Sunday at the 90th Academy Awards, a ceremony laced with social and political statements, particularly on the issues of diverse representation and sexual assault in the film industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the greatest thing our art does, and our industry does, is erase the lines in the sand,\u201d said the winning film\u2019s creator, Guillermo del Toro, whose victory for best director was the fourth time in the past five years that a Mexican filmmaker took home that prize. \u201cWe should continue doing that, when the world tells us to make them deeper.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The industry confronted its own mistreatment of women, and defied the isolationist and nationalist tone set by President Trump, in between doling out golden statuettes \u2014 which went to a wide spectrum of films, including the horror film \u201cGet Out,\u201d whose writer-director Jordan Peele became the first black filmmaker to win best original screenplay , and the World War II action film \u201cDunkirk,\u201d which scooped up three technical awards.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t let bad behavior slide anymore. The world is watching us. We need to set an example,\u201d said host Jimmy Kimmel, one of Trump\u2019s celebrity foils, during his opening monologue. It was the first Oscars since the avalanche of sexual abuse allegations against numerous Hollywood figures \u2014 most notably the awards-hungry producer Harvey Weinstein, who was booted from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\u2019s rolls in the autumn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frances McDormand and Gary Oldman, two respected veterans of the film industry, won the lead acting prizes. His came for playing a ferocious yet vulnerable Winston Churchill in best-picture nominee \u201cDarkest Hour,\u201d which also took home a prize for best makeup and hairstyling. Hers came for playing a revenge-seeking mother in\u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,\u201d Irish playwright Martin McDonagh\u2019s lacerating and controversial fable about a small town racked by grief and anger, which also won a supporting actor prize for Sam Rockwell as a racist police officer.<\/span><\/p>\n

A hyperventilating McDormand, who won her first Oscar 21 years ago for \u201cFargo,\u201d asked all the female nominees in the audience to stand.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, look around everybody, look around ladies and gentlemen,\u201d McDormand said to a cheering audience. \u201cBecause we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed. Don\u2019t talk to us at the parties tonight; invite us into your office in a couple days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly two and a half hours into the ceremony, three women who\u2019ve accused Weinstein of sexual abuse took the stage: Salma Hayek Pinault, Ashley Judd and Annabella Sciorra.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe changes we are witnessing are being driven by the powerful sound of new voices, of different voices, of our voices, joining together in a mighty chorus that is finally saying, \u2018Time\u2019s up,\u2019\u2009\u201d said Judd, before introducing a montage of women and minority filmmakers talking about representation and intersectionality in cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAmid other montages celebrating nine decades of the Oscars \u2014 including tributes to Eva Marie Saint, Rita Moreno and movies about the military \u2014 virtually every hot-button issue was pressed from the stage of the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Kimmel mentioned last month\u2019s school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in his monologue.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us need to understand the importance of what is real, what is authentic and what is fact,\u201d said presenter Greta Gerwig, the fifth woman ever nominated for best director, in one of several sly jabs at the president\u2019s \u201cfake news\u201d refrain. Her film, the high school dramedy \u201cLady Bird,\u201d was nominated for five Oscars, including best picture, but took home zero.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo all the dreamers out there, we stand with you,\u201d said screenplay nominee and Pakistani American Kumail Nanjiani (\u201cThe Big Sick\u201d), a not-so-veiled gesture of solidarity to the children of undocumented immigrants.<\/span><\/p>\n

The best documentary feature award went to \u201cIcarus,\u201d a Netflix film about institutionalized doping in Russian athletics and at the Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope \u2018Icarus\u2019 is a wake up call \u2014 yes about Russia, but also about the importance of telling the truth, now more than ever,\u201d director Bryan Fogel said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell, now at least we know Putin didn\u2019t rig this competition,\u201d Kimmel said right after.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were prominent shout-outsouts to Haiti, which the president reportedly cited among \u201cshithole countries,\u201d and Puerto Rico, still recovering from Hurricane Maria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Disney\u2019s \u201cCoco,\u201d about a 12-year-old aspiring musician in Mexico, won best animated feature and best original song.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2009\u2018Coco\u2019 would not exist without your endlessly beautiful culture and traditions,\u201d said co-director Lee Unkrich, referring to Mexico. \u201cMarginalized people deserve to feel like they belong. Representation matters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not all jabs at the Trump administration were subtle.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t make movies like \u2018Call Me by Your Name\u2019 for money,\u201d said Kimmel, referring to the same-sex coming-of-age romance between a teen and a young man in 1980s Italy. \u201cWe make them to upset Mike Pence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That film yielded the oldest Oscar winner ever: James Ivory, who at 89 picked up a screenplay award for adapting it from the 2007 novel of the same name.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo everybody who went and saw this movie, everybody who bought a ticket, who told somebody to buy a ticket, thank you,\u201d said Peele, a former sketch comedian now touted as a visionary filmmaker. \u201cI love you for shouting out at the theater, for shouting out at the screen. Let\u2019s keep going.\u201d Worldwide box-office receipts for \u201cGet Out,\u201d his directorial debut, have topped $255 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were a number of Oscar firsts. Chile won its first award for best foreign language film for \u201cA Fantastic Woman,\u201d starring transgender actor and singer Daniela Vega. Kobe Bryant became the first NBA player to win an Oscar, for the animated short \u201cDear Basketball.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs basketball players we\u2019re just supposed to shut up and dribble,\u201d he said, referring to Fox News TV host Laura Ingraham\u2019s demand that LeBron James refrain from talking politics. Almost immediately, Twitter resurfaced reports of a rape allegation against Bryant, whose win embodied the duplicity Hollywood has been trying to overcome. The same happened when Oldman\u2019s name was announced; the actor has denied accusations from ex-wife Donya Fiorentino that he assaulted her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cinematographer Roger Deakins won his first Oscar on his 14th nomination, for \u201cBlade Runner 2049,\u201d the kinetic sequel to Ridley Scott\u2019s 1982 sci-fi original. It also won best visual effects on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Shape of Water,\u2019 which led with 13 nominations, won two other Oscars besides best picture and director, for best production design and original score.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Bridges won his second Oscar for costume design for the couture gowns of \u201cPhantom Thread,\u201d in which Daniel Day-Lewis plays a perfectionist tailor in midcentury London.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI did it all by myself,\u201d quipped Allison Janney, who won best supporting actress for playing Tonya Harding\u2019s snarling, chain-smoking mother in \u201cI, Tonya,\u201d adding an Oscar to her seven Emmys (most for her work on the TV show \u201cThe West Wing\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

McDormand, in closing her rousing speech, distilled her vision for Hollywood equality into two contractual words, which require a project to have a crew that\u2019s diverse in gender and ethnicity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/oscars-2018-the-shape-of-water-wins-best-picture-at-awards-show-laced-with-social-and-political-statements\/2018\/03\/05\/414a0edc-1ff8-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html?utm_term=.04ae42b7d485<\/span><\/p>\n

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