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Page 6 The Skanner March 7, 2018 Arts & Entertainment 2018 OSCAR RECAP: Diversity-Themed Evening Celebrates Inclusion in Hollywood ‘The Shape of Water’ sweeps, and ceremony is peppered with mentions of #MeToo and #TimesUp By Kam Williams For The Skanner News Jordan Peele, winner of the award for best original screenplay for “Get Out,” arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party March 4 in Beverly Hills, Calif. fore assuring DACA par- ticipants with “We stand with you.” Others also turned the podium into a soapbox for a political platform For instance, moments before handing Guill- ermo his statue, Emma Stone bemoaned the fact that the nominees in the directing category were “four men and Greta Ger- wig,” implying that fe- males had been slighted. But that jab ignored the fact that a Latino and an African-American, Jor- dan Peele, were among the contenders. It was almost as if last year’s cause celebre, #Os- carsSoWhite, had been supplanted by #MeToo and #TimesUp, hashtag movements supporting victims of sexual harass- ment. Jordan Peele did walk away with an Oscar for Get Out’s screenplay, but he and Kobe Bryant (Best Animated Short Film, “Dear Basketball”) were the only Afri- can-American winners from among the dozen nominated. Did anybody else no- tice that there were few- er white men among the presenters? Yes, they still dominated the ranks of the Academy Award winners, but that didn’t discourage oth- ers in attendance from taking potshots at them. At times, it felt like a celebration of cultural diversity, with the im- migrant, feminist, black and LGBTQ communities sharing the limelight, everyone except white males. Kumali Nanjiani, the star of The Big Sick, took delight in chastis- ing them. ‘Now, straight white dudes can watch movies starring me, and relate to that,” he said. It’s not that hard.” As usual, the In Me- moriam montage failed to pay tribute to a num- ber of Hollywood icons. Among the dearly de- parted omitted were Adam West, Rose Marie, Della Reese, director PHOTO BY CHARLES SYKES/INVISION/AP PHOTO BY EVAN AGOSTINI/INVISION/AP “T he Shape of Wa- ter” was the big winner at the 90th Academy Awards Sunday, netting four Oscars, including Best Picture. Mexican directors have now won four of the past five years, with Guillermo del Toro joining his com- padres Alejandro Inar- ritu (Birdman and The Revenant) and Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) in the elite fraternity. “I am an immigrant,” del Toro began his emotional acceptance speech suggesting that we should be “erasing the lines in the sand” in- stead of building walls, a thinly-veiled criticism of President Trump. He was not the only person to weigh-in on the issue. Earlier in the evening, co-presenters Kenyan Lupita Nyong’o and Pa- kistani Kumail Nanjiani defiantly declared them- selves “Dreamers” be- Kaia Burke, left, and Tarana Burke arrive at the Oscars on March 4 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Cinematography: Roger A. Deakins, “Blade Runner: 2049” Original Score: Alexandre Desplat, “The Shape of Water” Original Song: “Remember Me,” “Coco” Makeup and Hairstyling: “Darkest Hour” Costume Design: “Phantom Thread” Best Documentary Feature: “Icarus” Sound Editing: “Dunkirk” Sound Mixing: “Dunkirk” Production Design: “The Shape of Water” Best Foreign Language Film: “A Fantastic Woman” Best Animated Short Film: “Dear Basketball” Best Animated Feature Film: “Coco” Visual Effects: “Blade Runner: 2049” Film Editing: “Dunkirk” Documentary Short Feature: “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405” Live Action Short Film: “The Silent Child” Tobe Hooper, Robert Guillame, Mary Tyler Moore, David Cassidy, Glen Campbell, Miguel Ferrer, Oscar-winner Dorothy Malone, two- time nominee John Hurt, Nanette Fabray, Dina Merrill and Jim Nabors. Gone but not forgotten, may they rest in peace. Complete List of Oscar Winners Best Picture: “The Shape of Water” Best Actress: Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Best Actor: Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour” Best Director: Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water.” Best Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri” Best Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, “I, Tonya” Original Screenplay: Jordan Peele, “Get Out” Adapted Screenplay: James Ivory, “Call Me By Your Name” Kam Williams Movie Previews at Award winning movie crit ic Revealing celebrity s interview NEW MOVIES OPENING EVERY WEEK!
