MOVIE – we watch and enjoy it for two hours and usually forget about it later. But there are some movies that compel us to watch again and again. There are some actors who stay in our thoughts for the pretty long time thereafter. There are some visuals that kind of seem the 8th wonder. And there are many aspects of a movie that sometimes leave a long lasting impression on us. To honor such fantastic films and creative artists, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science started giving awards in 1929, what we call Oscars in short. The glamorous show has come a long way to celebrate its 90th edition on 4th March 2018 and here we got the complete list of winners for you.
Hollywood is known for films that eat up and bring in hundreds of millions for the makers. That’s true! If you call a million dollar profit a profit, what would you call 250 million on just 4.5 million? If there is a movie with fifty times more profit, well, that’s nothing but Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Not only at the box-office, the film also shone at the Oscars too and won the award for Achievement in Writing Original Screenplay. The director cum screenplay writer, Jordan Peele, created history in the Oscars for being the first ever Black filmmaker to win a nomination in the Big Three i.e., producing, writing and, directing. He won the award only for writing, though.
Winning the Academy Award for the adapted screenplay for Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory set a record as the oldest man ever to win an Oscar. At an age of 89, the director-producer-writer won the Oscar for his work for Luca Guadagnino’s film Call Me by Your Name, an adaptation to André Aciman’s novel of the same name.
John Nelson and team won the Oscar for creating fabulous visuals for Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049. The film is a remake of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi film Blade Runner.
Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, and Mark Weingarten won the golden statuette for the achievement in sound mixing for Christopher Nolan’s war film Dunkirk. This is Gregg’s fourth Academy award, whereas Gary and Mark won their second and first Oscar respectively.
It’s Dunkirk again! Richard King and Alex Gibson won the academy award for best sound editing for Nolan’s film. For Richard, this is a fourth Academy award in sound editing, while the third one for his work with Nolan.
British short film by Rachel Shenton, The Silent Child won the Academy Award for the best short film in live action. The film was inspired by Shenton’s very own experiences.
Legendary Basketball player Kobe Bryant wrote a letter to The Players’ Tribune, at the time of his retirement. The letter tells Kobe’s love for the game and the same was brought as an animated short film by Glen Keane by the name Dear Basketball. Winning the academy award for this film, Bryant became the first ever NBA player to do so.
Guillermo Del Toro’s spectacular film, The Shape of Water won the Academy award in the best Production Design category. Paul Denham Austerberry received the golden statuette along with Shane Vieau and Jeffrey A Melvin, who did the set decoration for the film.
The song, Remember Me, from Pixar’s Coco, won the Oscar for the best original song. The song was composed by the husband and wife duo – Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
Alexandre Desplat bagged the award for the best original score for his fabulous work for The Shape of Water. This is the second Oscar award for the French composer.
For their Winston Churchill prosthetics in The Darkest Hour, makeup artists Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, and Lucy Sibbick won the academy award in makeup and hairstyling category.
Chilean film A Fantastic Woman won the award as the best foreign language film of 2017. This Sebastián Lelio’s directorial is the first ever Chilean film to win an Oscar.
Australian film editor Lee Smith who worked for all of Christopher Nolan’s films stood the best film editor of 2017 for the film, Dunkirk.
The story of a brilliant, yet tortured artist Mindy Alper, Heaven is A Traffic Jam on the 405 won awarded the best documentary short film award at the recent Oscars ceremony. The film was written, cinematographed, produced, and directed by Frank Stiefel.
Bryan Fogel’s documentary Icarus won the award this year. The film deals with the doping in Russian sports for which the country had to return 41 Olympic medals.
Costume designer Mark Bridges bagged his second golden statuette for his designs in the film Phantom Thread. As a telecast stunt, the Academy announced a special prize for the one who would give the shortest speech. With his speech as short as 36 seconds, Mark won the Jet Ski too.
After failing for thirteen times at the Oscar stage, Roger Deakins kissed his first Oscar for the film Blade Runner 2049. Deakins is known as the preeminent cinematographer of our time.
Pixar’s Coco won great acclaim at the Oscars and won the award. With this win, director Lee Unkrich won his second Oscar and both the films are produced by Pixar.
The troubled police officer in the film ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’, Sam Rockwell voted as the best actor in supporting role by the members of the academy.
For her performance in a supporting role in the biographical film ‘I, Tonya’, Allison Janney grabbed the Oscar for 2017.
The stunning performance of Gary Oldman as former British Prime-minister Winston Churchill spellbound the audiences to bring an Oscar for Gary.
Legendary American actress, Frances McDormand received her second Oscar award for her ultimate performance in the film Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Mexican film director, Guillermo Del Toro, won the Best Director award in the latest Academy awards ceremony for the year 2017 for his recent fantasy drama, The Shape of Water. This is Del Toro’s first Oscar as a director.
It’s Guillermo Del Toro’s spectacular fantasy, The Shape of Water to stand tall in the Academy Awards with 13 nominations out of which it won four that include the Best Picture.
With glamorous stars on the red carpet, an opening monologue by the host Jimmy Kimmel, and freaked out stars at the afterparty – the 90th Academy Awards ceremony was a great grand event. The year 2018 has already seen several amazing films like Red Sparrow and the Black Panther and lot many to hit the screens. Let’s see who will shine in the 91st Oscars.
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