By Sera Gurzumar, Y11 This year, the Oscars happened on the 4th of March, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Although there were no Best Picture mix-ups, the Oscars had a lot of unforgettable moments.
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the show, and in his opening monologue, he covered a lot of topics including sexual harassment in the industry, the Time’s Up and Me Too movements, and the whole “Best Picture” mistake from last year. Since the show is a long one, he also said that he would give out a jet ski to the actor who delivers the shortest acceptance speech.
Kimmel then went on a little stroll to a local movie theatre to surprise moviegoers with a few Oscar stars such as Gal Gadot, Ansel Elgort, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emily Blunt and Margot Robbie; to thank people like you and me who go watch the movies.
Shape of Water won best picture, Gary Oldman won best actor for his performance as Churchill in “The Darkest Hour”; Frances McDormand won best actress for her performance as Mildred Hayes in “Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri”, a character who rents three billboards to bring attention to her daughter’s unsolved murder, and during her acceptance speech asked for all the women in the audience to stand up. Guillermo del Toro won the Oscar for best director for his work in “The Shape of Water”, a fantasy/drama film about a mute woman called Elisa who works as a cleaning lady in a hidden, high-security government laboratory, who finds out that the lab has a mysterious scaled creature kept in a water tank.
The movie “The Shape of Water” won four awards in total; “Dunkirk” three; “Coco”, “Blade Runner 2049”, “Darkest Hour” and “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri” each won two.
There were performances of each of the songs nominated for “Best Original Song” which “Remember me” from “Coco” written by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez won.
When a movie wins an Oscar, not only is it good for its reputation but box sales increase. The artists become more successful. People watch other movies that the winning directors and actors have been in. However, with a 26.5 million U.S viewership, it was the least watched Oscars in the academy’s history.
