Oscar Night: Winners List & New Trivia
Monday, March 5, 2018 at 12:45AM by Nathaniel R
Warren Beatty presenting to Guillermo del Toro
How'd you do on your Oscar predictions. Your host got 18/24 correct which isn't terrible but isn't great. The Shape of Water emerged as the big winner of the night with 4 Oscars including Picture and Director (no split this year) with Dunkirk on its tail with 3 Oscars. Seven of the nine Best Picture nominees won at least one Oscar with only Lady Bird and The Post suffering the "zip!" fate. We'll have time to discuss the ceremony over the next two days but for now the winners list and trivia made tonight after the jump...
PICTURE The Shape of Water
DIRECTOR Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
ACTRESS Frances McDormand, Three Billboards
ACTOR Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Allison Janney, I Tonya
SUPPORTING ACTOR Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Jordan Peele, Get Out
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name
CINEMATOGRAPHY Blade Runner 2049
PRODUCTION DESIGN The Shape of Water
COSTUME DESIGN Phantom Thread
FILM EDITING Dunkirk
VISUAL EFFECTS Blade Runner 2049
MAKEUP AND HAIR Darkest Hour
ORIGINAL SCORE The Shape of Water
ORIGINAL SONG "Remember Me" from Coco
SOUND MIXING Dunkirk
SOUND EDITING Dunkirk
ANIMATED FEATURE Coco
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Icarus
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Chile's A Fantastic Woman
ANIMATED SHORT Dear Basketball
LIVE ACTION SHORT Silent Child
DOCUMENTARY SHORT Heaven is a Traffic Jam
TRIVIA
Potential Nitpickers: before getting your panties in a bunch please remember that The Film Experience refers to Oscar ceremonies by their film years not the date of the event as that was what was done for decades until IMDb and then internet SEO madness f***ed up people's understanding of what the Oscars were celebrating. It's not like winning a beauty contest. You don't reign for a year. You win for your work the year prior.
• The Shape of Water is the first monster movie ever to win Best Picture
• The Shape of Water is also the first Venice Golden Lion winner to win Best Picture at the Oscars (Brokeback Mountain was the time that record was almost made. Sigh)
• James Ivory became the oldest Oscar winner of all time. He is 89 years old.
• Jordan Peele becomes the first African American winner for Original Screenplay. Only three have been nominated before him: Suzanne de Passe (Lady Sings the Blues), Spike Lee (Do the Right Things) and John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood)
• Get Out becomes the first horror film to win Original Screenplay. Unless you count Crash.
• A Fantastic Woman marks the first time that the country of Chile has won the Oscar, on its second try in the category. It's worth noting that Pablo Larrain who directed Chile's only other Oscar nominee (No) was one of the producers on A Fantastic Woman.
• A Fantastic Woman marks the first time an LGBT character has been the protagonist of a Best Foreign Film winner. The first and only other LGBTQ film to win Best Foreign Film was Pedro Almodóvar's All About My Mother but the lead character was a straight woman.
• Frances McDormand, who is 60, became the 9th oldest woman ever to win in the leading category knocking Julianne Moore's Still Alice (then 54) out of the "oldest women to win Best Actress" top ten list. (Hepburn hogs 33% of that particular top ten also winning at 60, and then again at 61 and 74.)
• Frances McDormand becomes the 14th woman to win multiple lead Oscars. The others are: Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, Glenda Jackson, Vivien Leigh, Luise Rainer, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and Elizabeth Taylor.
• Frances McDormand won her Oscars (Fargo/Three Billboards) 21 years apart. This is not the record. The longest gap between first and second leading Oscars is held by Katharine Hepburn with 34 years between Morning Glory and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and then Meryl Streep with 29 years between Sophie's Choice and The Iron Lady. But this is still quite a feat since most double winners win their second not long after their first. [Sidebar: The longest record between Oscar wins for acting (if you include supporting awards) is Helen Hayes with a stretch of 38 years between her lead win in The Sins of Madelon Claudet and her supporting win for disaster flick Airport.]
• With the win for Coco, Pixar has now won the animated category more than 50% of the time. They've taken 9 of 17 Oscars in the category.
• Guillermo del Toro becomes the third Latino to win Best Director after Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (twice: Birdman and The Revenant). All three are from Mexico so this is quite a thing -- Mexico has really been dominating this category of late with 4 of the past 5 wins !!!
• Guillermo del Toro becomes the fifth director to win Best Director after having a film he directed be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. It's also happened to Iñárritu, Roman Polanski, Miloš Forman, and Ang Lee, though Ang Lee remains the only Best Director winner to have previously won in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
• Roger Deakins previously held the title of "most nominations without a win in Cinematography" but with this win on his 14th nomination, George J Folsey now regains that title. Folsey, who shot classics like Meet Me in St Louis and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, now holds the most frustrating record: 13/0.
• Kobe Bryant is the first professional athlete to win an Oscar.
• Composer Robert Lopez with his win for Original Song is now the first person in history to double EGOT. He previously won the Oscar for "Let it Go" from Frozen and he already has multiple Tonys, Emmys, and Grammys. He's only 43 years old.
• Not specifically Oscar trivia but this is the first time in history that the same exact four actors won SAG, Globes, BAFTA, Critics Choice, and Oscar in an awards season. (sigh.. thank God for the non-televised critics awards of various types which were more erratic and thus more representative of the film year)
• Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (2016 and 2017: Moonlight and Shape of Water) became the 4th presenters to get the Best Picture naming honor in two consecutive years. Previously that was done twice during the non-televised years with Eric Johnston who was head of the MPAA at the time (1945/1946: The Lost Weekend and Best Years of Our Lives) and movie star James Cagney (1949/50: All the King's Men and All About Eve). It has also happened twice in the televised years, though both times the honor went to Jack Nicholson (1976/1977: Rocky and Annie Hall; 2005/2006: Crash and The Departed). Nicholson has of course presented Best Picture more often than any person, dead or alive. He has opened the envelope 8 times, most recently with Argo (2012).
Can you think of any others?
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Reader Comments (78)
Those screenplay wins are to die for.
The rest, not so much.
Is Eva Marie Saint the oldest presenter ever? Either way, nice to see the 80+ Club -- Ivory, Saint, Rita Moreno -- killing it!
I mean it's the first time the Globes, SAG, BAFTA, and Oscar acting winners matched 100%, but I guess you're looking more for Oscar trivia/records.
Um... Icarus is Netflix's first feature win? They won a doc short last year I think.
And no idea how to check this, but is this the first time that TWO of the acting presentations were not presented by the previous winner the year before? Casey Affleck was absent and Emma Stone presented Best Director instead.
Marsha-didn't Kirk Douglas present fairly recently again?
Really lackluster awards show, if I must say. The best part was easily Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph who absolutely must co-host next year (or at least the Globes).
Happy to see Roger Deakins and James Ivory finally get their due. Also happy for Jordan Peele- very well deserved win. And Frances’s speech was cool.
Other than that - blah. I know it’s been a dark and tough year, but there didn’t seem to be an ounce of joy in the festivities. Kimmel looked like he seriously didn’t want to be there.
We count Daytime Emmys in regards to EGOTs? Can we not?
It looks like Kirk Douglas was a presenter at 94. Guess we'll just have to invite Eva back for each of the next two years!
Why does Denzel look so grouchy at awards show? I've seen that same look throughout the years/decades!
Only one of the last 10 Best Director winners was a male American, and even that one (Damian Chazelle) is half French.
My Oscar Trivia: Margot Robbie is the most beautiful actress to be nominated this decade to an Academy Award in the lead category of acting.
Denzel looked fine. He wasn't grouchy. Leave him alone and let that man be.
If I'm not wrong, this is the first winner in the Best Foreign Language Film category where the main character is from the LGBT community, right?
Both Janney and McDormand are over 55. Has there been another year when both female acting winners were at or close to 60 years of age?
I feel weirdly at peace with McDormand claiming number two in Best Actress. Get Out's original screenplay win saved the night for me. You just know Nicole Kidman wants to play whatever Peele imagines for his next movie.
All four Acting winners are more in the Character Actor Category than Movie Star / Lead category. There has to be something there, right?
I actually hope Saoirse keeps netting nods without winning. I feel like that’s best for her career.
I almost feel bad for Shape of Water, because it's a good movie, but it's always going to be remembered as the movie that beat Get Out. Regardless of how you feel about Get Out, it's the movie of the decade and the movie of the Trump presidency. It will be remembered and celebrated long after we are all gone.
All four Acting winners are more in the Character Actor Category than Movie Star / Lead category. There has to be something there, right?
Nope. That's happened before (63rd Oscars).
Beyaccount - Sadly, I actually think you are right. And that just shows a major issue with awards season and with mysogny in general that whichever women steamroll through an awards season usually become so hated that it actually harms their careers (at least temporarily).
I got 18, too! I was proud of myself but still got third in my Oscar pool (my dad got 21).
The Shape of Water is the first Golden Lion winner to get Best Picture? Annette Bening is its lucky charm!
My big two "plausible, but not most likely" wishes came true - Peele and Deakins.
Haddish and Rudolph were the highlight of the night, but I also thought Kumail Nanjiani was great - his presentation with Lupita N'Yongo & his statements in the reels showed how much of a delight he is. His statement about straight white men being able to empathize with his character "It's not so hard - I've been doing it my whole life" was fantastic.
Loved seeing Eva Marie Saint and Rita Moreno. Two legends who are sharp and charismatic.
Although "The Shape of Water" wasn't my favorite, and I actually think it doesn't work, I can't be mad because Guillermo del Toro is so charming. I don't know if anyone noticed, but del Toro and the production design winners were all sporting the same pocket square - it was a custom printed pocket square by one of the production designers based on the wallpaper in the hallway of Elisa and Giles' apartment :)
This is more of a curiosity than trivia.
A former cast member of MadTV (Jordan Peele) won an Oscar before any former cast members of Saturday Night Live (George Coe, Randy Quaid, Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Downey Jr, Bill Murray, Michael McKean, Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wiig, and Laurie Metcalf were nominated).
Of course, this depends on how you feel about former SNL head writer Adam McKay, who won an Oscar for co-adapting The Big Short, but was never a cast member.
@Brevity - I like your trivia/curiosity.
Can't wait to see the ratings
One of my least favorites movies won Best Picture so we're back to normal.
I love that Frances is a two-time Oscar winning considering she only gets offered a lead every 5 years of so. Can we get the movie version of her Tony Award winning play? Such a great role.
I feel a bit sad for Margot Robbie. She got no trophies for her Tonya. I wish I could love the movie a bit more.
P.S. Can we discuss the telecast or should we wait for the next post?
Is Get Out the first horror film to win Best Original Screenplay?
Is Get Out the first horror film to win Best Original Screenplay?
All I have to say is Jane Fonda's Dress and Hair.
Janney’s win now makes four Oscar winning women from the cast of “The Help” since the film was released (and patience wears thin for Chastain to get hers too...)
Billy -- i agree but we lost that battle when Whoopi declared that hers counted ;)
I don't think she qualifies for the record you're judging—but the Kobe Bryant question presents an *excellent* opportunity to mention Geena Davis' archery career. Because why not.
Joel - added. Good one!
JDE -- does this mean Bryce Dallas Howard is getting an Oscar at some point, too?
markgordon -- that's saying plenty!
@Nathaniel - if that happens, then clearly the movie was just blessed, and we should keep an eye out for the girl who played Mae Mobley, since she will eventually topple all of Meryl’s records...
Can I ask why was Emma not there?.
Who hurt Jodie?
Did Meryl give Janney style tips?
The Sin of Madelon Claudet is not silent.
Nathaniel- With the Gary Oldman win, how many acting Oscars have gone to folks, in either Lead or Supporting, for playing real people?
And with Allison Janney's win playing Tonya's mother, LaVona?
With Janney's win, The Help remains two Oscar winners ahead of The Hours, 6 (Davis, Stone, Spencer, Janney, Spacek, Steenburgen) to 4 (Streep, Moore, Kidman, Janney). Janney is their only common link.
Double nominees in Costume Design and Production Design lost. Don't know if it a first time.
What a lovely lady Eva Marie Saint is! What she said about the "old days" and Edith Head was like teaching them the history of Costume Design with a touch of what sexism was all about at the time and how women banded together to "do it [their] own way". Then there was Rita Moreno. Thank God for keeping her with us to enjoy her. And it was great of the Academy to invite them both. But it was not enough.
The presence of Hollywood legends in Oscar's 90th Anniversary was pitiful. Shame on the Academy! To paraphrase Tiffany Haddish "Is Hollywood too diverse?" Yes! Mind you, I mean it only in the sense of my previous comment. They were so preoccupied with #mettoo and with inviting a totally inclusive array of presenters that they forgot to invite those who really built Hollywood. Two sets of elderly presenters more would have sufficed. I don't know. Go through Nat's 200 Oldest Living Screen Stars and you can have your pick. Go to 80 through 90. Ellen Burstyn and Rip Torn, Joanne Woodward and Gene Hackman, there are so many...
Ron Cruz—- if you consider Ghost an horror movie, it won original screenplay Oscar in its year.
Fun piece of trivia - with the win of The Shape of Water all of the four elements have been in titles of movies that won best pictue - The Shape of Water, Chariots of Fire, Gone with the Wind and The Greatest Show on Earth.
i presume that since casey was definitely not going to present best actress, they moved emma stone to director so last year's winner would still get to present in an end-of-evening category, and then had duos of best lead actress winners present the top acting awards as a move of solidarity with times up, no?
(did nicholson present best picture to argo? i thought that was michelle obama on livestream?)
Ryan T, the previous year acting winner presentations is actually only about... 30 years old, I think. Or, at least, it wasn't every year. Maybe.
Speaking of age, is Sam Rockwell at 49 the oldest youngest acting winner of an Oscar night?
haha Marsha Mason, that's a good question. would be hell to research though!
Charles O - it was Nicholson on stage and Obama on the live stream
Marsha and Nat: Apparently that honor goes to Maureen Stapleton at the 1981 ceremony at 56.