Well, another awards season bites the dust. The 90th Academy Awards show happened last night, and this year’s batch of Oscar statuettes now sit in the homes of their respective recipients. Below is the full list of winners, and while overall the evening was hugely inspiring for many reasons, there were some disappointments that I think are worth addressing.
None of the men who beat women in their categories acknowledged the women they were nominated with at all. One would think that this year, of all years, the men who won awards in categories in which women were nominated would at least acknowledge the women they beat in some way to show support or solidarity in their field. Rachel Morrison had a historic nomination as the first woman nominated for Best Cinematographer. She lost to film legend Roger Deakins, whom I’m sure she admires, yet when he took to the stage he didn’t take a moment to acknowledge her, this younger cinematographer who, even though she didn’t win, made history in his field. This is not the first time that Guillermo del Toro has beat out both Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig, and one would think, especially since he talked about the youth and new voices in his speech, that he would acknowledge a fellow man of color as well as the only female nominee in his category, both of whom were nominated for their feature film debuts, in particular. I’m not saying these, and other men should’ve made their speeches all about the marginalized, but it will truly be a mark of how far we’ve come when the male recipients of professional accolades acknowledge the women struggling to achieve what they are given with relative ease when receiving those accolades.
Women were nominated, but the Academy didn’t see fit to actually give them very many awards. Of the 24 awards that were handed out, 20 were in gender-neutral categories (ie: not the actor categories). Of those 20 gender-neutral categories, 14 had female nominees at all (most having only one). Of those fourteen categories, only four had women as solo winners, or as members of a winning team:
- Best Make-up and Hairstyling (Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour)
- Best Animated Feature (Darla K. Anderson, Coco)
- Best Live Action Short Film (writer Rachel Shenton and producer Rebecca Harris, The Silent Child)
- Best Original Song (Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “Remember Me” from Coco)
This year’s Oscars were chock-full of inspiring moments, like this amazing and rousing performance of “This is Me,” from The Greatest Showman:
However, even on evenings as good as this, we shouldn’t be distracted from how far we still have to go. We’re a long way from gender parity, but as all those pins said, the time’s up on that.
Here’s the full list of the Academy Awards that were presented last night:
Actor in a Supporting Role
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ***WINNER
Makeup and Hairstyling
Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, and Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour***WINNER
Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard, Victoria & Abdul
Arjen Tuiten, Wonder
Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast
Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour
Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread***WINNER
Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water
Consolata Boyle, Victoria & Abdul
Documentary Feature
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus***WINNER
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
Sound Editing
Julian Slater, Baby Driver
Mark Mangini and Theo Green, Blade Runner 2049
Richard King and Alex Gibson, Dunkirk***WINNER
Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira, The Shape of Water
Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Sound Mixing
Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, and Mary H. Ellis, Baby Driver
Ron Bartlett, Dough Hemphill, and Mac Ruth, Blade Runner 2049
Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landarker, and Gary A. Rizzo, Dunkirk***WINNER
Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, and Glen Gauthier, The Shape of Water
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Stuart Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Production Design
Beauty and the Beast (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer)
Blade Runner: 2049 (Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola)
Darkest Hour (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer)
Dunkirk (Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis)
The Shape of Water (Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin)***WINNER
Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)***WINNER
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)
Actress in a Supporting Role
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya***WINNER
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Animated Short Film
Dear Basketball***WINNER
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
Animated Feature Film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco***WINNER
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049 (John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover)***WINNER
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, and Dan Sudick)
Kong: Skull Island (Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, and Mike Meinardus)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, and Joel Whist)
Film Editing
Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos, Baby Driver
Lee Smith, Dunkirk***WINNER
Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya
Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water
Jon Gregory, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Documentary Short Subject
Edith and Eddie
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405**WINNER
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
Live Action Short Film
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child***WINNER
Watu Wote: All of Us
Adapted Screenplay
James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name***WINNER
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, Logan
Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound
Original Screenplay
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
Jordan Peele, Get Out***WINNER
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Cinematography
Roger A. Deakins, Blade Runner: 2049***WINNER
Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour
Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk
Rachel Morrison, Mudbound
Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water
Original Score
Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk
Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water***WINNER
John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Original Song
“Mighty River,” Mudbound
“Mystery of Love,” Call Me by Your Name
“Remember Me,” Coco***WINNER
“Stand Up for Something,” Marshall
“This Is Me,” The Greatest Showman
Directing
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water***WINNER
Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour***WINNER
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Actress in a Leading Role
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri***WINNER
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post
Best Picture
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water***WINNER
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(image: AMPAS)
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