Guillermo del Toro Wins Oscar For Best Director For 'Shape Of Water'

There was no joy for Saoirse Ronan or Lady Bird on Oscar night

There was no joy for Saoirse Ronan or Lady Bird on Oscar night

The Academy Awards attracted its smallest USA television audience ever on Sunday, according to Nielsen data reported by Walt Disney Co's ABC network, tracking a similar slide for other recent award shows and sports events.

Mike Young was watching a special screening of A Wrinkle in Time at the TCL Chinese Theatre when Kimmel suddenly burst in with some of Hollywood's most famous faces. Are you trying to tell me that Luke Skywalker goes into a theater and no one absolutely lost it?

"I'm ecstatic, euphoric, we're incredibly happy and proud and surprised and shocked off our feet", Dale said.

At 89, James Ivory became the oldest Oscar-winner for his adapted screenplay for "Call Me By Your Name". Or Rita Moreno, Warren Beatty, Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Walken or Christopher Plummer won or introduced awards. Unfortunately, they don't know how to relate to regular people-handing out candy?

Margot Robbie and Denzel Washington the "most searched for" nominees in the "best actress / actor" categories.

The acting awards, which have been locked for three months, went to the expected winners - all esteemed veterans and three of whom had never been nominated before: Frances McDormand won best actress for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and her co-star Sam Rockwell won for his supporting performance. Del Toro's delicate, beautiful, unusual little movie created its own wave, and brought a genuine thrill to the exhausting ceremony when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway - brought back for a do-over after last year's disastrous La La Land/Moonlight mix-up - announced the victor.

He crassly offered this pun about the most noted of executive abusers in Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein: "The academy, as you are no doubt aware, took action past year to expel Harvey Weinstein from their ranks". She said that millions of people had used the famous hashtag, and they all had stories and needs that must be addressed.

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"So many of tonight's nominees are making history, and, in fact, if you are a nominee tonight who isn't making history - shame on you!" The Shape of Water is a wonderful film and a worthy Best Picture victor, bringing overdue Academy recognition to its creator, Guillermo del Toro, who also won Best Director. "We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper", Del Toro said from the podium.

Former Los Angeles Laker superstar Kobe Bryant added an Oscar to his five NBA championship rings when "Dear Basketball", the film based on a letter he wrote in 2015 when he announced his retirement from the game, won the Academy Award for best short animated film.

Best actor went to runaway favorite Gary Oldman, who sat in make-up for three hours a day to disappear entirely into the role of British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill for "Darkest Hour". "We made a movie called "What Women Want" and it starred Mel Gibson". This phenomenon was so pronounced that it earned the derisive label of "Oscar So White".

From left, Ashley Judd, Annabella Sciorra and Salma Hayek joined to talk about the #MeToo movement and Time's Up initiative.

Peele said he stopped writing it "20 times", skeptical that it would ever get made.

Roger Deakins won for Blade Runner: 2049's cinematography. It took home the most wins of the evening with best director, production design and score.

Mark Bridges, center right, best costume design victor for "Phantom Thread", was presented the prize by Helen Mirren.

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