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)
Of course I meant to say the 1982 ceremony for the 1981 Oscars. Grr argh.
Ryan T. -- Of course! How could I forget that night when yours truly was robbed yet again!
Are Frances McD and Joel Coen the only married couple in history to have multiple oscars each?
To refine a bit of trivia I suggested a few days ago:
In the history of the Oscars, there have been three acting nominees for playing British Prime Ministers, and all three of them won (George Arliss as Benjamin Disraeli, Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill). On the other hand, out of six Oscar nominated performances for playing a US President, only Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln won (the others being Raymond Massey as Lincoln, Alexander Knox as Wilson, Anthony Hopkins and Frank Langella as Nixon and Hopkins again as John Quincy Adams).
If you throw in an additional two wins out of ten nominations for British kings and three wins out of ten nominations for British queens and queen consorts, it seems like playing British heads of state or government just pays off better, Oscar-wise.
@Matthew No, the winning songwriters of Coco also won for Frozen
If you count Honoraries, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier had two Oscars apiece while married (and Laurence earned one more Honorary after they divorced).
I think it's time to give Jimmy Kimmel the axe. His monologue and his skits were painful to watch. I know it's a tough gig but he's delivered a mediocre-to-awful performance two years in a row.
Co-sign the Tiffany Haddish love. I also thought Sandra Bullock was one of the best presenters, charming and succinct.
Bring back Ellen,she gets this crowd.
Kobe Bryant is first Olympic gold medalist and Oscar winner!
Other than Robert Lopez this year, how many Asians have won multiple Oscars?
In addition to Frances McDormand being the 9th oldest woman to win Best Actress, Gary Oldman is the 8th oldest man to win Best Actor. Allison Janney just barely missed the top 10 oldest Supporting Actress winners, she's in the 11th spot.
I got 21/24 (got all shorts wrong), so actually 21/21 on feature length movies! Pretty damn shocked and impressed with myself!
When I was predicting the hard to guess ones, (eg SHAPE OF WATER vs 3BB for Best Picture, BABY DRIVER vs DUNKIRK for Editing), I just predicted who I wanted to win, and got them all right as a result!
I always went on with the winner or the alternate pic (I failed Picture - the only one, my third option won!) so I missed Original Screenplay, Visual Effects, Song and Documentary Feature. I did not do the shorts, however I guessed correctly that Dear Basketball would win - and honestly did not know in advance, the duo Kobe - John Williams was behind it!)... So I did really fine but missed Picture and Original Screenplay thinking 3B was the winner and would win that combo, Song because I thought the b.o. would launch "This is me" to the gold and VFX just because it seemed a no-brainer that Apes would win specially given it had been snubbed so far.
I also thought Varda would win, but Icarus was my alternate. So, not bad.
@Marcos, there are people from Hollywood's Golden Age that are a part of underrepresented groups too so....
Allison Janney thanked Joanne Woodward obviously because she played a small part in Woodward's 1993 TV Movie "Blind Spot", which costarred Laura Linney. That's where Woodward must have given her some very useful advice!
“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.”
I’m not sure Manuela (or any of the women) of AAMM could be described as straight! She describes herself as “a bit lesbo,” staying with Lola after transitioning. Maybe Agrado and Sister Rosa’s mom.
Regardless, I’m so happy for A Fantastic Woman. I loved it. I wish Daniela Vega was nominated; I liked her better than all five of the actual nominees.
Other than Robert Lopez this year, how many Asians have won multiple Oscars? (Brad)
There are several: Ang Lee twice for director and another for foreing film, the composer of Slumdog Millionaire, James Wong (cinematographer), Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in documentary short subject, Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki.
Interesting stat from another site that highlights the gender disparity: including acting winners 6 women went home with an Oscar compared to 34 men!!
Every time Octavia Spencer is nominated, somebody from The Help wins (including her). Last year two people from The Help won.
For someone with a better database than I have - what percentage of the time in the last ninety ceremonies has the film receiving the most Oscar nominations won Best Picture? And has there ever been an instance when the film receiving the most Oscar nominations did not received a nomination for Best Picture?
Was Icarus an upset in Best Doc Feature? Only one person in my 13-person pool got that right.
Carl: I don't know the first answer off the top of my head, but the second answer is easy: Dreamgirls had the most nominations (eight) in 2006 but was not nominated for Best Picture. (The highest-nominated Best Picture nominee that year was Babel, with seven nominations.)
@nikki: I understand and agree with what you say. I can't think of many people from the underrepresented groups who are more than 80 or 90 years old. Most of them are deceased. You've got Sidney Poitier, Cicely Tyson, James Hong, Nichelle Nichols, Wes Studi was a good choice and Linda Cristal. Then you'd have to look into people 70-odd years-old. I'm sure there are dozens more.
Nathaniel, thank you so much for that explainer about the Oscar year. That has driven me insane how some always use the date of the ceremony. You are great for setting the record straight. Hugs.
With what the culture is facing, why the fuck didn't they let Helen Reddy present Best Song?
Jakey, all the predictions left out Icarus, that was indeed a shocker!
James Ivory winning was the highlight of the evening- the show was TOO political at times it looked like a pep rally for the political correct gestapo.
To Edward L.: thanks, and it appears that "Dreamgirls" is the only case.
As to my other query - to a first approximation, it looks like films receiving the most nominations win Best Picture only about 41.5 percent of the time. This figure is made worse than it might otherwise be by the fact that there have been 21 years where two or more films have tied in a given year for the most nominations. I included all multiple entries in the calculations to obtain the above percentage. Anyone else with a better number on better data, do let me know.
OK. It's taken me a day or two to check this, and I think it may be correct
Is "You'll Never Know" the first Oscar-winning song to feature in a Best Picture winning film AFTER it won the Oscar?