If you thought this year’s Oscars were going to do something crazy or exciting, you haven’t been paying attention. Between the envelope-gate incident of 2017 and the fact that this was a “multiple of ten” anniversary, the 90th Annual Academy Awards was going to do everything it could to right the ship and ensure nothing overshadowed the winners’ list. And for the most part they succeeded—often at the detriment of the show itself. But that’s their fault for alway trying to make it more than what it is: an awards show. Hoping for more inevitably conjures missed expectations.
Jimmy Kimmel was back and unfortunately doubled-down on what was a very good performance last year to deliver much of the same. The jokes landed as though they had been pointed at one time before the producers dulled some of the edges. Rather than bring unsuspecting tourists to them, he brought celebrities to an unsuspecting theater-going audience in what was a misguided stunt if you take a step back and look at it objectively (I truly hope Ava DuVernay was in on it because Kimmel hijacked a screening of her new movie A Wrinkle in Time by interrupting it mid-scene with Oprah visibly still onscreen). And he had Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty back to let them do what they tried to do last year (present Best Picture) before the PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants dropped the ball (it’s no coincidence that ABC had a camera on the Best Picture envelope before the final commercial break).
If anything, Kimmel’s shtick—”Price is Right” shenanigans included—showed us just how tone-deaf things can be despite having one’s heart in the correct place. He said everything right and made us laugh, but there simply wasn’t any electricity when compared with the unforgettable presenting pairs of Lupita Nyong’o/Kumail Nanjiani and Tiffany Haddish/Maya Rudolph. Here are POC who can share the same sentiments everyone else wanted to without that little voice in the back of their head saying, “Don’t go too far.” They can go too far because they’re living it. And that goes double for the women. If you’re going to highlight #TimesUp and #MeToo, let the marginalized groups those movements target hold the microphone. Set an example by giving them the voice rather than just a voice.
Outside the politics, humor, and all-around crystal-studded affair, however, the winners proved obvious too despite the nominee pool being so diverse and up-in-the-air. We anticipated surprises because many races appeared so close. And maybe they were. Maybe some victors found gold with a margin of one vote—we’ll never know. All we’re left remembering is how the potential for inspired choices was squandered so that many pundits found themselves with almost perfect ballots. (We all knew The Silent Child‘s unapologetically blatant PSA could win because it had already gotten this far. We just hoped it wouldn’t.)
Things got shaky in regards to Jordan Peele’s Get Out‘s much-deserved Screenplay Oscar considering reports of older Academy members refusing to watch it, but we thankfully were able to breathe a sigh of relief in the end. And when The Shape of Water took the big prize despite a rising tide of Three Billboards love amongst the guilds (and an even higher tide of derision on behalf of critics who seemed to love hating it), we shrugged our shoulders—happy for Guillermo del Toro and genre work in general while also disappointed the statue went to the film that represented a happy medium of old and new. This fishman seemed perfectly-catered to make the aging voters appear hip while letting the newcomers stay just on the right side of not rocking the boat too much.
In the end the nominee class is one that will not be forgotten anytime soon. Needing to have distinct winners amongst them was simply a byproduct of the system. After all, the producers did eventually stop putting their names on the screen when they won.
And now the tweets:
Artistic Goodness
Here’s my complete #Oscars2018 poster series featuring all the #BestPicture nominees. I hope you like it! pic.twitter.com/0ettUfT2JT
— SG Posters (@SG_Posters) February 27, 2018
Revealing my #Oscars90 illustration of this year’s @TheAcademy Best Picture Nominations 2018! #Oscars2018 #Oscars pic.twitter.com/k7Uol5iuir
— Olly Gibbs (@ollyog) February 28, 2018
HAPPY OSCAR WEEKEND! PER TRADITION, HERE ARE THE 2017 BEST PICTURE NOMINEES… AS EMOJIS:
📖👬🍆💦🍑
⏳🥃✌️🚇⌛️
🇬🇧✈️🚢⛵️🇫🇷
☕️🥄👨🏾🧠🕳
🎒⛪️🎭💏🗽
✂️👗🍄🍳🤒
🤔🇺🇸🗃➡️📰
🤐❤️🧜♂️☔️🌊
🛣🛣🛣🦌🔥
— Aaron Fullerton (@AaronFullerton) March 2, 2018
Pre-Show Red Carpet
Humans give little gold humans out to other humans who pretend to be other humans the best
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) March 3, 2018
still kind of sad i’ll never be able to experience the joy of seeing the look on Frances McDormand’s face when she takes the Oscar from Casey Affleck’s dumb hands
— Britt Hayes (@MissBrittHayes) March 4, 2018
I hear the #Oscars are including this photo in tonight’s In Memoriam segment pic.twitter.com/Ui64BpFV8l
— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) March 5, 2018
I heard somebody refer to “The Shape of Water” as “Grinding Nemo” and I’m never going to get over it.
— Veronica Miller Jamison ✨ (@veronicamarche) March 5, 2018
#Oscars Dress Code has been set by Agnès Varda 🌸 pic.twitter.com/qOk8IRZrEi
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) March 5, 2018
Holy shit Taraji just put a curse on Ryan Seacrest 😂 pic.twitter.com/GSknn3NozF
— Sara Jean Hughes (@sarajeanhughes) March 5, 2018
I salute the phenomenal filmmaker #DeeRees tonight. The craft and care vibrating through every frame of her gem, #Mudbound, is worthy of our celebration. Nominated for script, cinematography, supporting actress and song tonight. All due to her beautiful direction. #Oscars90 pic.twitter.com/rIKb4A0UqR
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) March 4, 2018
I love you guys. Here we go.
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) March 5, 2018
Rita Moreno wearing the same dress she wore to the ‘62 #oscars just proves she honestly IS Lydia from #OneDayAtATime. I love her so much 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/9PrQlmeLEL
— mat whitehead (@matwhi) March 4, 2018
Opening Monologue
“Oscar is the most beloved and respected man in hollywood.”#oscars
i agree. pic.twitter.com/0n6nLGkbJN
— Candice Frederick (@ReelTalker) March 5, 2018
Safe opening. Chalamet / Paw Patrol home is by far best joke. #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Imagine pitching this Price is Right bit to Helen Mirren.
— Chris Feil (@chrisvfeil) March 5, 2018
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actor: San Rockwell #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
“This is for my old buddy Phil Hoffman.” Rockwell’s tag at the end of his acceptance speech really got me.
— Mark Olsen (@IndieFocus) March 5, 2018
Wow look how FUCKING GIANT the category is on the envelope this year, wonder why that could be
— Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey) March 5, 2018
“Three Billboards” is also the font size on the envelopes this year. #Oscars
— Scott Jordan Harris (@ScottFilmCritic) March 5, 2018
Get Out Gag
lakeith better stand on that stage for the rest of the ceremony
— Inkoo Kang (@inkookang) March 5, 2018
I’ll only say I hope to see @lakeithlakeith standing on that stage for a much better reason someday.
— Ty Burr (@tyburr) March 5, 2018
Look at that nigga shoes cuh ! 😂 pic.twitter.com/EogP1R7vsc
— Lakeith Stanfield (@lakeithlakeith) March 5, 2018
Best Hair/Make-Up & Best Costume
Best Hair/Make-up: Darkest Hour #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Eva Marie Saint: “I’m older than the Academy.” 😂
— Runcilmonger (@MrNarci) March 5, 2018
Holy, Eva Marie. Nobody in this business is kinder, gentler or smarter. And same goes to her husband, Jeff Hayden. @tcm
— Ben Mankiewicz (@BenMank77) March 5, 2018
Best Costume Design: Phantom Thread #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Best Documentary
Best Documentary: Icarus #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
“Mighty River” & Supercut
You can tell Mary want to kick up her feet. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/Qu9en5TyKC
— Tre’vell Anderson (@TrevellAnderson) March 5, 2018
And you guys didn’t even nominate #Mudbound #Oscars90 pic.twitter.com/Hr381lfgwF
— The NYC Film Chick 🧝🏾♀️ (@TheNYCFilmChick) March 5, 2018
“epic slo-mo pics from the red carpet” … so is that the eighth or ninth circle of hell? #Oscars90
— David Fear (@davidlfear) March 5, 2018
Wow, Texas Chainsaw Massacre made it into the 90-year #oscar montage. Shoutout to the editor who wedged it in there.
— Katarina G 🍷 (@katarinag) March 5, 2018
The lights go out at the Oscars.
A scream.
The lights rush back on.
Uma Thurman stands on stage holding a bloody Oscar statuette.
“I heard time was up…” Uma whispers into the microphone. “But I just restarted the clock.”
— Ira Madison III (@ira) March 5, 2018
Best Sound Editing & Best Sound Design
Best Sound Editing: Dunkirk #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Best Sound Mixing: Dunkirk #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Walmart’s “The Box” Commercial #1
Proudly presenting an out of this world film created by director Dee Rees. It all begins when #TheWalmartBox arrives. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/OZtoQbRs4h
— Walmart (@Walmart) March 5, 2018
Was that Dee Rees’ audition for Star Wars?
— Edward Douglas (@EDouglasWW) March 5, 2018
Best Production Design
Kumail and Lupita are winning #Oscars right now.
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Kumail for Bond. #KumailForBond @KumailForBond https://t.co/0ZYqyeZHNM
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) March 5, 2018
Who knew @kumailn was the best Chris all along?!?! #Oscars
— Kelly Lawler (@klawls) March 5, 2018
Best Production Design: The Shape of Water #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
This man sells cocaine. pic.twitter.com/KNjMRSM4pH
— Funny Or Die (@funnyordie) March 5, 2018
“Remember Me” & “Price is Right” #2
Ouch – poor Gael
— Chris Bumbray (@cbumbray) March 5, 2018
This episode of MOZART IN THE JUNGLE is weird.
— olilyttelton (@olilyttelton) March 5, 2018
Thank you Miguel for redeeming this performance. No shade. #Oscars
— Tre’vell Anderson (@TrevellAnderson) March 5, 2018
Armie Hammer is the only actor from this year that I can even imagine being on a jet sky and he isn’t even nominated #Oscars
— Justine Peres Smith (@redroomrantings) March 5, 2018
Best Foreign Film
Best Foreign Language Film: A Fantastic Woman #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
A Fantastic Woman: a Chilean film about a trans woman, starring a trans woman, just won a major Oscar. 💖
— Siddhant Adlakha (@SidizenKane) March 5, 2018
A FANTASTIC WOMAN!!! I’m sitting beside TIFF’s Chilean VP, who is screaming. Congratulations Sebastian and Daniela. pic.twitter.com/qTEs3PndGD
— Cameron Bailey (@cameron_tiff) March 5, 2018
Best Supporting Actress
Best Supporting Actress: Allison Janney #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Supporting this year reminds everyone that critics don’t vote for guild awards. They had Dafoe/Metcalf since TIFF. They were wrong. #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
All hail Lesley Manville. Best #Oscar clip EVER.
— Justin Chang (@JustinCChang) March 5, 2018
Best Animated Short
Best Animated Short: Dear Basketball #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Man. If Dear Basketball was generic it would be so inspiring. The fact Kobe made it all about him taints it. Well, it did for me. Guess not The Academy. #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Kobe Bryant has more Oscars than David Fincher.
— Brian Tallerico (@Brian_Tallerico) March 5, 2018
Good job @TheAcademy. You just gave an #oscar to a rapist.
— Melissa Silverstein (@melsil) March 5, 2018
Ugh Dear Basketball, another I’m disappointed to get right. Such a vanity project.
— Christopher Campbell (@thefilmcynic) March 5, 2018
Best Animated Film
Best Animated Film: Coco #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
COCO WINS. Justice in the world. Please, everyone see it. It’s gorgeous and moving and simple and beautifully made and smart and cool.
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) March 5, 2018
“Mystery of Love”
I will never understand how Sufjan Stevens became a thing #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Best Visual Effects
Best Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049 #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Look, Blade Runner is gorgeous, but that shoulda been Apes
— Zach Kindron (@ZachWWMovies) March 5, 2018
How many spoilers were in that BLADE RUNNER 2049 SFX clip, I lost count?
— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) March 5, 2018
Best Editing
Best Editing: Dunkirk #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Didn’t take long for the music to start playing despite Kimmel’s words. #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Movie Theater Bit
Oh great. The music starts playing off winners and then we waste time on a gag again. #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
THANK ME BY NOT WASTING MY TIME, ACADEMY
— Inkoo Kang (@inkookang) March 5, 2018
“Armie has a hot dog canon”
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) March 5, 2018
Did Ava sanction this bit? If so, how is SHE not the one they surprise a WRINKLE IN TIME audience with? #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
tiffany haddish getting her name mangled during the oscars is some kind of karma tho
— Inkoo Kang (@inkookang) March 5, 2018
Gal Gadot screaming “this is so much more fun than the Oscars” is a mood. #Oscars
— Angelica Jade (@angelicabastien) March 5, 2018
Kimmel’s theater bit suggests a significant and profitable link between marijuana and increased multiplex concession sales. #Oscars
— Michael Phillips (@phillipstribune) March 5, 2018
ARMIE HAMMER DO NOT TOUCH OTHER PEOPLE’S FOOD WHEN YOU HAVE THE STOMACH FLU
— Anne T. Donahue (@annetdonahue) March 5, 2018
IMAGINE GETTING HIGH AND GOIN TO A MOVIE AND THEN GUILLERMO DEL TORO BRINGS A GIANT SANDWICH
— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) March 5, 2018
Best Documentary Short & Best Live Action Short
Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph should be hosting this whole show.
— Ren Jender (@renjender) March 5, 2018
LOL Tiffany Haddish waves to Meryl Streep in the audience and says “Hi Meryl, I want you to be my mama one day” before she announces the award.
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) March 5, 2018
Tiffany Haddish is wearing the same white Alexander McQueen dress she wore on the red carpet for Girls Trip, and hosting SNL, a dress that cost more than her mortgage, and the one she vowed to wear again and again. “I don’t give a dang about no taboo!” #Oscars pic.twitter.com/AErmQgkZFt
— Cara Buckley (@caraNYT) March 5, 2018
Best Short Documentary: Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Best Live Action Short: The Silent Child #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
And I got another wrong! How can you let a drama that just winds up being an issue PSA with title cards at the end win? That’s documentary’s game!
— Christopher Campbell (@thefilmcynic) March 5, 2018
“Stand Up For Something” & Supercut
RIP to whomever decided to release a Thurgood Marshall biopic starring Chadwick Boseman *before* BLACK PANTHER came out. #oscars
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) March 5, 2018
Kumail laying it out as simply and concisely as possible in this montage. #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
“Some of my favorite movies are by straight white dudes about straight white dudes. And now straight white dudes can watch movies about dudes like me, and YOU relate. It’s not that hard. I’ve done it all my life.” YES YES @kumailn
— Celeste Ng (@pronounced_ing) March 5, 2018
Geena Davis has been preaching this gospel for DECADES
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) March 5, 2018
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay: James Ivory #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Fantastic. James Ivory’s win for his beautiful Call Me By Your Name script makes him the oldest ever winner of a competitive Oscar.
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) March 5, 2018
James Ivory in his Timmy shirt is the cutest.
— Melissa McDowell (@MelsyTweets) March 5, 2018
I’m happy Virgil Williams and Dee Rees are #Oscars nominees though. They did a great job adapting Mudbound. I didn’t like the book at all. The movie was a work of genius. Rees is also the first black woman nominated in her category, Williams the first Puerto Rican man.
— Women Film Directors (@women_direct) March 5, 2018
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay: Get Out #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
I want Jordan’s antler pin #Oscars
— The NYC Film Chick 🧝🏾♀️ (@TheNYCFilmChick) March 5, 2018
The Big Sick came in second!
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) March 5, 2018
A straight-up wonderful, badass, violent, insightful horror film just won Best Screenplay. #Oscars #GetOut
— Ted Geoghegan (@tedgeoghegan) March 5, 2018
Jordan Peele talking about going back to his script 20 times was so great for writers to hear. And by writers I mean me.
— Aline Brosh McKenna (@alinebmckenna) March 5, 2018
No joke – Jordan Peele will win an Oscar one day.
— Liam O’Donnell (@LiamODin) November 8, 2013
I just won an Oscar. WTF?!?
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) March 5, 2018
Best Cinematography
Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins #BladeRunner2049 #Oscars
The curse is broken.
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
14th time is a charm
— 32 across (@aoscott) March 5, 2018
“This Is Me”
I haven’t seen the film and I don’t want to like the song considering it’s “wunderkind” writers. But this GREATEST SHOWMAN song is the one nominee I truly like. #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
And the Oscar goes to The Greatest Showman song that’ll be in every high-school graduation video until the end of time.
— Matt Patches (@misterpatches) March 5, 2018
There’s no way that “This Is Me” can’t win, right? #Oscars
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 5, 2018
Best Score
Best Score: Alexandre Desplat #TheShapeofWater #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Cue the Radiohead stans riot. https://t.co/bWFEbKQBvt
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Desplat winning over Johnny Greenwood is going to be remembered as a travesty for decades to come. #Oscars
— Jordan Ruimy (@mrRuimy) March 5, 2018
@Jnnyg thank you for my favourite score 🍿
— Lorde (@lorde) March 5, 2018
Best Song
Best Song: Coco #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Wait. He’s talking about a dead relative. Stop the music playoff cue!! #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
In Memorium
I find myself cheering to see people getting Academy recognition, and then remembering that it’s because they died.
— Peter A. Martin (@peteramartin) March 5, 2018
No Tobe Hooper?
— a medium talent (@ethanves) March 5, 2018
No John Mahoney in the Memoriam montage is total bullshit.
— Brian Tallerico (@Brian_Tallerico) March 5, 2018
Best Director
Noted Chinese actress Emma Stone gets woke all of a sudden.
— Walter Chaw (@mangiotto) March 5, 2018
Best Director: Guillermo del Toro #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Three Amigos #Oscars trifecta is complete.
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
Wow wow wow: imagine if, within five years, you and your two best homeboys or homegirls or any mix of the two+ whatever else forms your bond… all win THE most prestigious award in the craft you love and have dedicated your life to. Like… that’s HEAVEN
— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) March 5, 2018
Best Lead Actor
bless Jane Fonda for making a Barbarella joke.
— kyle “kylie” turner (@TyleKurner) March 5, 2018
They need a Most Woke Presenter award.
— Joseph Kahn (@JosephKahn) March 5, 2018
Best Lead Actor: Gary Oldman #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
congrats to Gary Oldman’s fat suit on winning Best Actor #Oscars
— Corey Atad (@CoreyAtad) March 5, 2018
Best Lead Actress
Best Lead Actress: Frances McDormand #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
SAY IT FRANCES #Oscars
— 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates (@oldfilmsflicker) March 5, 2018
tag yourself i’m the woman who rolled her eyes at mcdormand
— Inkoo Kang (@inkookang) March 5, 2018
Frances!!!!! #Oscars
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) March 5, 2018
Frances McDormand is a riot witch and i love it
— Britt Hayes (@MissBrittHayes) March 5, 2018
inclusion rider = provision in contract that requires inclusive hiring practices #Oscars
— Ryan Calo (@rcalo) March 5, 2018
I appreciate that McDormand put the statue down, gestured at how small it is compared to flesh-and-blood people, gave everybody a vocabulary lesson and forced us all into a crash course in contract law.
— Lili Loofbourow (@Millicentsomer) March 5, 2018
Best Picture
Best Picture: The Shape of Water #Oscars
— Jared Mobarak (@jaredmobarak) March 5, 2018
always check the receipts pic.twitter.com/bp2EoI3rR2
— E. Alex Jung (@e_alexjung) March 5, 2018
THE SHAPE OF WATER won best picture, i have never been happier in my entire life
— karen h. (@karenyhan) March 5, 2018
THE SHAPE OF WATER — which I like! — is a classic Oscar pick, Hollywood affirming itself by lauding a film that makes gestures toward the magic of movies and toward classic cinema
But also there is fish sex #oscars
— Alison Willmore (@alisonwillmore) March 5, 2018
Someone give me a gif of Greta Gerwig clutching hand to heart, saying aloud to herself, “I love him,” as Guillermo del Toro speaks.
— April Wolfe (@AWolfeful) March 5, 2018
same greta pic.twitter.com/QRRORp7waf
— Aubrey Page (@aubreypage_) March 5, 2018
Now that @RealGDT won best director and picture he has the clout to finally make At The Mountains of Madness, right? Make it so, Hollywood!
— Eric Vespe (@EricVespe) March 5, 2018
A movie written by a woman and a mexican immigrant abt a disabled woman, a black woman and a gay man fighting against monstrous straight white masculinity just won best picture #Oscars
— “Sweet Mey” Valdivia-Rude (@meyrude) March 5, 2018
how utterly insane is it that there’s a movie where a woman fucks a fishman and it’s the “safe choice” for academy voters this year
— Carlos Dengar (@DavidUzumeri) March 5, 2018
congrats to Not Three Billboards on the Best Picture win!!!!
— Angie J. Han (@ajhan) March 5, 2018
Aftermath
MARK BRIDGES WITH THE JETSKI!!!!!!!!!!
— Cigarettes&RedVines (@cigsandredvines) March 5, 2018
The drawback of limiting the speeches this year, while getting the Oscars to come in under 3 hours, is that it was one of the more forgettable shows in years.
— Alisha Grauso (@AlishaGrauso) March 5, 2018
Me when Get Out lost Best Picture. #Oscars https://t.co/0BwTB8vI4z
— Denizcan James (@MrFilmkritik) March 5, 2018
Incidentally, RIP to the SAG Awards stat we’ve all loved to hate since BRAVEHEART: for the first time in 22 years, a film won the best picture Oscar without landing even a nomination for the best ensemble SAG Award! #RecordsAreMadeToBeBroken
— Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) March 5, 2018
In the interview room, you have to hold up numbers to ask a question. @JordanPeele walked to the mic, looked at the numbers and said, “Am I about to be auctioned off right now? This is… creepy”
— Katie Walsh (@katiewalshstx) March 5, 2018
and then the movies of 2017 went back to being movies rather than hills to die on/crosses to nail yourself to
— Alan Scherstuhl (@studiesincrap) March 5, 2018
Michael Shannon watching the film he starred in, “Shape of Water”, win best picture while sitting in the Old Town Ale House. No sound on the TV, just sub-titles. Of course the juke box was rocking, and the beer flowing. Where else would you want to spend Oscar night? pic.twitter.com/WAC6uc6guZ
— Bruce Elliott (@GeriatricGenius) March 6, 2018