
Oscars 2018: Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney won awards in Best Supporting roles (Image courtesy: AFP)
New Delhi: Hollywood's big day is here. The 90th Academy Awards is set to begin in a few hours with host Jimmy Kimmel taking the centrestage. Expect jokes on last year's oopsie (remember how Warren Beatty mixed-up the Best Picture winner?), which is considered to be the biggest flub in the history of Oscars. The Academy Awards, like the Grammys and Golden Globes before it, will of course include the 'Me Too' and 'Time's Up' campaigns in speeches and maybe even on the red carpet. This year, the fight to win the Best Film Oscar is between
The Shape Of Water (leading with 13 nominations) and
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
There are also several pleasant 'first time at Oscars' this year. Like
Mudbound director Dee Rees is the first black woman nominated for best adapted screenplay while Yance Ford (
Strong Island) is the first openly transgender director ever nominated.
The Silent Child wins Best Live Action Short
Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405 wins Best Documentary Short
"Hi Meryl, I want you to be my mama one day" - Maya Rudolph
Maya and Tiffany are presenting 2 Oscars - Best Documentary Short and Best Live Action Short
Everyone wants a hot dog. They don't really care that Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph are on stage right now
Hot dogs are indeed being handed out - by Margot and Lupita
Jimmy Kimmel is plotting with Gal Gadot, Margot Robbie and Lupita Nyong'o. Gal has a bag of snacks to hand out but the words 'hot dog cannon' were mentioned
11 categories still left, among them the 4 biggies - Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture
The Shape Of Water, which led the nominations list with 13, has won 1 Oscar so far. Dunkirk has 3 wins
Jimmy Kimmel has time to tweet in-between hosting
The moment Allison Janney won Best Supporting Actress. Her
I, Tonya co-star Margot Robbie was thrilled

Dunkirk's current tally is 3 wins - Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing
It's also up for Best Picture and Christopher Nolan has a Best Director nomination
Dunkirk wins Best Film Editing
Blade Runner 2049 wins the Oscar for Best Visual Effects
Pre-show, Jennifer Garner won the red carpet in this royal blue Versace dress with a train

Coco wins Best Animated Feature, to rousing cheers
And now for Best Animated Feature
And the Oscar goes to... "Don't say La La Land, don't say La La Land," - Mark Hamill
He didn't. Dear Basketball wins Best Animated Short
Guess who's presenting? Luke Skywalker
Mark Hamill, Oscar Issac, Kelly Marie Tran and BB8 present the Oscar for Best Animated Short
This is Allison Janney's first Oscar
Allison Janney wins Best Supporting Actress for I, Tonya
Mahershala Ali, last year's Best Supporting Actor, presents the award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominees
Allison Janney
Mary J Blige
Octavia Spencer
Laurie Metcalf
Lesley Manville
A Fantastic Woman from Chile wins Best Foreign Language Film
This year, Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence will present the Oscar for Best Actress. The award is usually presented by last year's Best Actor - this year, Casey Affleck, who won in 2017, is not attending the show. He, among several other Hollywood men, has been dogged by sexual harassment accusations
Gael Garcia Bernal, Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade perform Remember Me from Coco, nominated for Best Original Song
Rita Moreno, then and now
The Shape Of Water, nominated for 13 Oscars, wins Best Production Design
"Wait till you see what I'm wearing" - presenter Rita Moreno, 86, tweeted some days ago
What she wore was the same dress she wore to the Oscars in 1962, when she won Best Supporting Actress for
West Side Story

"Hi, what's your name?" Jimmy Kimmel asks Steven Spielberg. "Steven," he anwers
Ali Fazal isn't too upset Victoria & Abdul didn't win
Dunkirk also wins Best Sound Mixing
Dunkirk wins the Oscar for Best Sound Editing
Best Actress nominee Saoirse Ronan in soft pink Calvin Klein

Victoria & Abdul, starring Ali Fazal who is at the Oscars, has lost in both categories it was nominated in - Phantom Thread won Best Costume Design and Darkest Hour won Best Makeup and Hair
Meantime, how stunning is Nicole Kidman in her cobalt Armani dress?

Taraji P Henson introduces the first nominee for Best Original Song - Mighty River from Mudbound. Mary J Blige performs
And the Oscar goes to - Icarus
Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig and Laura Dern are presenting the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
Phantom Thread wins Best Costume Design
And the Oscar goes to Darkest Hour, in which Gary Oldman transforms into Winston Churchill
Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer are presenting the Oscar for Hair and Makeup
Emma Stone is wearing this cool Louis Vuitton suit

Sam Rockwell wins his first Oscar for his role as a racist cop in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
And the Oscar goes to - Sam Rockwell

First award of the show - Viola Davis presents Best Supporting Actor
Nominees
Willem Dafoe
Sam Rockwell
Richard Jenkins
Woody Harrelson
Christopher Plummer
"You can see where his hands are and best of all, no p***s at all": Jimmy Kimmel explains why Oscar is the most respected man in Hollywood right now (bonus: this jibe - "We made a movie called What Women Want and it starred Mel Gibson")
"Oscar is 90 years old tonight which means he's probably at home watching Fox News": Jimmy Kimmel
You do you, Jennifer Lawrence (while wearing metallic Dior)

Salma Hayek's slightly strange purple dress. It's Gucci - but we've seen her do better

Presenter Laura Dern signs in
Timothee Chalamet is just one of tonight's several first-time nominees - and here's some trivia

I, Tonya star Allison Janney, front-runner for Best Supporting Actress, is wearing scarlet Reema Acra

A throwback from Reese Witherspoon to when she won her Best Actress Oscar
An oldie but a goldie. Rita Wilson just tweeted this
For Jimmy Kimmel, who is hosting Oscars for the second time, a good luck message by Ellen DeGeneres: