2018 Oscar Recap
Maeve Donohue
This year’s Oscars were pretty low key. There was no Moonlight/La La Land situation, nobody fell walking up the stairs, and there was no painful name-butchering. However, the 90th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, were filled with well-deserved awards, beautiful music performances, and plenty of shots fired at Trump and Pence.
This year’s Best Picture was awarded to The Shape of Water, directed by Guillermo del Toro. I think that Call Me By Your Name should’ve taken the award. The directing, acting, and cinematography of Call Me By Your Name was outstanding, and it was a beautiful film. Dunkirk was amazing as well, but I didn’t see it winning Best Picture. Get Out is a superb film, and should have won more awards. Lady Bird was also fantastic, and deserved more recognition than it got.
Emma Stone announced the Best Director nominees and winner, calling out the fact that Greta Gerwig (director of Lady Bird) was the only female nominee. Hollywood does not typically acknowledge female directors, much less nominate them for Academy Awards. The Shape Of Water director Guillermo Del Toro took this award as well. In my opinion, Greta Gerwig should have won Best Director. Lady Bird was Gerwig’s first film that she wrote and directed herself, and she did a wonderful job.
I completely disagree with the choice of Best Actor, as the award went to Gary Oldman for his performance in The Darkest Hour. Awarding someone who has been accused of sexual assault is a faulty choice of the Academy’s, especially during the Time’s Up movement. My personal opinion is that Timothee Chalamet should have won. In all fairness, I have not seen The Darkest Hour. However, Chalamet’s performance in Call Me By Your Name was one of the best I’ve seen, especially in the last four minutes, where Chalamet is acting completely silently, but displays so much emotion that moved many to tears.
As for Best Actress, I don’t have a strong opinion. I’ve heard good things about all the nominees. Margot Robbie was said to be amazing in I, Tonya, Meryl Streep is insanely talented, Sally Hawkins’ performance in The Shape Of Water was also said to be great, and Saoirse Ronan was wonderful in Lady Bird. I have not seen Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, but I heard it was phenomenal, and Frances McDormand’s Oscar was well deserved. I especially liked how McDormand encouraged all female nominees of the night to stand as she accepted her award.
The 90th Academy Awards celebrated almost a century of iconic movies, new and old. This Oscars ceremony in particular showed promising gender equality and racial representation in the film industry.
Maeve Donohue
This year’s Oscars were pretty low key. There was no Moonlight/La La Land situation, nobody fell walking up the stairs, and there was no painful name-butchering. However, the 90th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, were filled with well-deserved awards, beautiful music performances, and plenty of shots fired at Trump and Pence.
This year’s Best Picture was awarded to The Shape of Water, directed by Guillermo del Toro. I think that Call Me By Your Name should’ve taken the award. The directing, acting, and cinematography of Call Me By Your Name was outstanding, and it was a beautiful film. Dunkirk was amazing as well, but I didn’t see it winning Best Picture. Get Out is a superb film, and should have won more awards. Lady Bird was also fantastic, and deserved more recognition than it got.
Emma Stone announced the Best Director nominees and winner, calling out the fact that Greta Gerwig (director of Lady Bird) was the only female nominee. Hollywood does not typically acknowledge female directors, much less nominate them for Academy Awards. The Shape Of Water director Guillermo Del Toro took this award as well. In my opinion, Greta Gerwig should have won Best Director. Lady Bird was Gerwig’s first film that she wrote and directed herself, and she did a wonderful job.
I completely disagree with the choice of Best Actor, as the award went to Gary Oldman for his performance in The Darkest Hour. Awarding someone who has been accused of sexual assault is a faulty choice of the Academy’s, especially during the Time’s Up movement. My personal opinion is that Timothee Chalamet should have won. In all fairness, I have not seen The Darkest Hour. However, Chalamet’s performance in Call Me By Your Name was one of the best I’ve seen, especially in the last four minutes, where Chalamet is acting completely silently, but displays so much emotion that moved many to tears.
As for Best Actress, I don’t have a strong opinion. I’ve heard good things about all the nominees. Margot Robbie was said to be amazing in I, Tonya, Meryl Streep is insanely talented, Sally Hawkins’ performance in The Shape Of Water was also said to be great, and Saoirse Ronan was wonderful in Lady Bird. I have not seen Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, but I heard it was phenomenal, and Frances McDormand’s Oscar was well deserved. I especially liked how McDormand encouraged all female nominees of the night to stand as she accepted her award.
The 90th Academy Awards celebrated almost a century of iconic movies, new and old. This Oscars ceremony in particular showed promising gender equality and racial representation in the film industry.