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Oscars 2018 LIVE updates: Salma Hayek discusses #MeToo; conversation around Time's Up dominates red carpet
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I'm alive: Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya, of Get Out and Black Panther fame (Get Out is nominated for the Best Picture) says, "I'm alive, I'm feeling well."
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Adam Rippon looks adorably high fashion
And the winter Olympians are here too! Adam Rippon looks adorably high fashion in a bondage-inspired Moschino look. They're calling it the Moschino Harness.
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Rita Moreno presenting this year
The legendary Rita Moreno (who won best actress in 1962 for west side story) is presenting this year. She's 86 years old, and she's wearing the exact same dress she'd worn at the '62 ceremony.
— Twitter Movies (@TwitterMovies) March 1, 2018
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'Wakanda forever!'
Chadwick Boseman shouts 'Wakanda forever!' on the red carpet. #BlackPanther
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Salma Hayek talks about the #MeToo movement
Salma Hayek came by in a very eloborately bejewelled fuschia pink dress. Michael Strahan (who was interviewing her) didn't ask her about her clothes, though. Instead, he talked about how Ashley Judd inspired her to come out with her own story, and she talked about how her young daughter is already a feminist. I guess #askhermore is finally here!
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The buzz on Time's Up and #MeToo dominates the red carpet as Salma Hayek discusses #MeToo.
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Here is the full list of nominations:
Best Picture
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBest Director
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
Jordan Peele (Get Out)
Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread)
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)Best Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq)Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)
Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)
Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)
Meryl Streep (The Post)Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)
Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water)
Christopher Plummer (All the Money in the World)
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Mary J. Blige (Mudbound)
Allison Janney (I, Tonya)
Leslie Manville (Phantom Thread)
Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water)Best Adapted Screenplay
Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly's Game
MudboundBest Original Screenplay
The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBest Original Song
'Remember Me' (Coco)
'Mystery of Love' (Call Me By Your Name)
'This Is Me' (The Greatest Showman)
'Mighty River' (Mudbound)
'Stand Up For Something' (Marshall)Best Original Score
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBest Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of WaterBest Live Action Short
DeKalb Elementary
The 11 O'Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
All Of UsBest Documentary Short
Edith & Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam
Heroin(e)
Knifeskills
Traffic StopBest Film Editing
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBest Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the ApesBest Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of waterBest Animated Feature
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving VincentBest Animated Short
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting RhymesBest Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
The Square (Sweden)Best Sound Mixing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Dunkirk
The Shape of WaterBest Sound Editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last JediBest Documentary Feature
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong IslandBest Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria and AbdulBest Makeup and Hairstyling
Darkest Hour
Victoria and Abdul
Wonder
Hollywood's most prestigious awards show, The Academy Awards or the Oscars, will take place on Sunday, 4 March. This is a standout year for Hollywood, not just for a volatile few months surrounding the #MeToo and Time's Up campaign, but also since this year, there is no clear front-runner for the awards.
With a staggering nine nominations in the Best Picture category, this year's ceremony is sure to be nail-biting.
From a quirky fairy tale romance to a dark comedy about a murder investigation, via a couple of coming-of-age tales and a horror satire, the contenders for the best picture Oscar offer audiences an array of genres and themes.
The Best Picture nominees.
Here is a brief summary of the nine films vying for the most prestigious prize at Sunday's Oscars ceremony:
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh's darkly funny tragicomedy has surged at the 11th hour to go into Sunday as the narrow favorite in what most experts are characterising as a four-way race with The Shape of Water, Get Out and Lady Bird.
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro's romantic Cold War-era fantasy tells the story of a mute cleaning woman who falls in love with a captive magical river creature in a secret US government lab in 1960s Baltimore.
Get Out
The bold satire about race relations -- told by first-time feature director Jordan Peele in the form of a fantastical horror movie -- is one of the top five best critically-received movies of all time, according to Rotten Tomatoes, which collates reviews.
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig's solo feature directorial debut -- a moving and authentic portrait of a volatile mother-daughter relationship -- could see her become only the second woman ever to win the Oscar for best director.
Dunkirk
The tense retelling of the storied 1940 evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from a beach in northern France, starring One Direction singer Harry Styles, is an outsider for the top prize going into Sunday.
Darkest Hour
British actor Gary Oldman, who disappears entirely into the role of Churchill thanks to some convincing make-up and padding, is expected to bring home his first Oscar for best actor, although the movie is another outsider for best picture.
Call Me by Your Name
Luca Guadagnino's paean to the universal heartbreak of first love, set in northern Italy in the 1980s, has three nominations other than best picture -- for Ivory's screenplay, a best actor nod for Chalamet's performance and best original song.
The Post
Steven Spielberg's celebration of journalism and the free press recounts the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story of the 1971 publication by The Washington Post of the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the lies behind US involvement in the Vietnam War.
Phantom Thread
In a movie full of noteworthy performances, the most remarkable thing about this project is the fact that its towering, iconic star — triple Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis — says it will be his last.
Anderson's tender but brutal story of the romance between a dressmaker and his muse is also up for best director and actor, best supporting actress for Lesley Manville, best score for Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and best costume design.
(With inputs from AP)
Published Date: Mar 05, 2018 05:19 AM | Updated Date: Mar 05, 2018 05:19 AM
