Activists like #MeToo creator Tarana Burke were included in a song segment.
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And Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra – three actresses who’ve accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct – introduced a video montage on representation and equality during Sunday’s ceremony. The winners told a slightly different story. Added Dunaway: “As they say, presenting is lovelier the second time around”.
The Shape of Water, a film about a woman and an amphibious creature, won the most Oscars with four, including best director for Guillermo del Toro and best film.
Kimmel went on to say he was assured the accountants would focus on the show and delivering the right envelope this year.
Later in the evening, best actress victor Frances McDormand asked all the women nominees in the room to stand. Jodi Kantor of The New York Times, who led the newspaper’s reporting about the Weinstein scandal, tweeted: “The most striking thing, here in the room, about watching the female nominees stand?” I, Tonya, which starred Allison Janney who won Best Supporting Actress, has only made $28.9 million domestic. He even suggested that Hollywood makes movies like “Call Me By Your Name” to “piss off Mike Pence”, and he said President Donald Trump was thrilled to see black people psychologically tortured in “Get Out”.
Another production design nominee was also Canadian: Vancouver-born Dennis Gassner had been nominated for “Blade Runner 2049”, but lost to the Canadian trio working on “The Shape of Water”. Icarus held off Faces Places and Strong Island to win best documentary feature, marking Netflix’s highest-profile Oscar win yet (kudos to director Bryan Fogel and Netflix docs chief Lisa Nishimura and her team).
He crassly offered this pun about the most noted of executive abusers in Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein: “The academy, as you are no doubt aware, took action a year ago to expel Harvey Weinstein from their ranks”. It’s about not judging people by the way they look, but by the content of their character.
Greta Gerwig’s acclaimed coming of age story Lady Bird a nd Steven Spielberg’s The Post left empty-handed, though Jordan Peele’s Get Out won best original screenplay, prompting a rapturous standing ovation that cemented his elevation to Hollywood’s elite.
During his Oscar acceptance speech, Peele said he had doubts the “Get Out” would ever be made.
The host, along with Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot, first dropped in on the theatre and said: “I have an announcement to make”. “So I want to dedicate this to all the people who raised my voice and let me make this movie”. “If I may be so honored to have every female nominee stand with me in this room”. What ABC and the Academy need to do are attract more viewers who may share their point of view – there are plenty out there, but they couldn’t really be bothered to watch.
Everyone seemed to take this moment of an industry in flux to heart.
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The problem with the show was that once Kimmel was off stage, we had awards, and they were boring. “We’re going forward until we have a safe and equitable world for women”. I wasn’t expecting a Churchill-like speech, but something more than a rambling one in which Oldman ended by thanking his 99-year-old mother.
