Here's how Punjab National Bank fraud case has made banks cautious in issuing LoUs

NEW DELHI: As the alleged Rs 12 600-crore fraud at PNB appears spread across various countries Mauritius has promised necessary regulatory action against all entities found to be linked with any fraudulent practices. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) of Mauritius said in a statement that it has taken cognizance of the media reports about the purported fraud allegations with regards to Punjab National Bank Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi. The FSC is assessing the reported information and is closely monitoring the matter in collaboration with the Bank of Mauritius the Mauritius Revenue Authority and the Financial Intelligence Unit. The FSC is also in constant communication with its international counterparts under existing exchange of information agreements it said. The FSC regulator of non-banking financial services and global business sectors in Mauritius said it will take necessary regulatory action against any of its licensee as also individuals or companies under its jurisdiction found to be linked with any illegal harmful and/or fraudulent http://univer.tneu.edu.ua/user/kkmyntra/ practices that may cause any prejudice to the good repute of Mauritius . The alleged loan fraud said to be perpetrated by billionaire diamantaire Nirav Modi and his associates including Mehul Choksi came to light last month after state-run Punjab National Bank disclosed it has detected fraudulent issuance of LoUs (Letters of Undertaking) from a Mumbai branch. The fraud is already being probed by multiple agencies in India which are also seeking details from their counterparts in various other countries including Mauritius and Hong Kong about the details of the financial transactions related to the case. The overseas branches of some Indian banks are said to have credited thousands of crores into the accounts linked to Modi on the basis of the LoUs which serve as credit guarantees obtained by Modi and Choksi.
CommentsClose X Mumbai: In what can impact the exim trade the Rs 12 700-crore Nirav Modi fraud at Punjab National Bank has affected trade finance activities as lenders have become extra cautious while the premium on Indian paper has shot up by 10-50 bps say bankers. The PNB fraud has already affected trade financing. No bank is now prepared to extend letters of understanding (LoUs). The ability of a company to raise money through LoUs from abroad has been affected badly a senior official from a state-run bank has told PTI.A private sector banker closely associated with the activity echoed the same saying lenders have taken a cautious approach in the aftermath of the largest financial fraud in the history of the nation.Despite the immediate setback bankers however feel that there will not be a complete freeze so that a genuine businessman s operations are affected.The fraud unearthed at the Brady House branch of PNB had diamontiare Nirav Modi and his various company officials colluding with senior officials of the state-run lender wherein LoUs were issued without proper checks and securities.The fraud went undetected for many years as the SWIFT the financial transaction messaging system was not linked to PNB s core banking system. As a result of this the issues LoUs were not shown in the bank s books.An LoU is a guarantee by a bank to pay another lender for import by companies and is considered very crucial for cross-border trade which helps the importer access funds at lower costs.Meanwhile bankers said the cost of funds for domestic exporters/importers has gone up considerably following the scam as for the LoUs already issued a risk premium has already been set in for any Indian paper.While one private sector banker said the trade is availing of the same LoU-based short-term loans are coming in at a premium of 10-30 basis points another private banker said in some cases it has gone up to even 50 bps.One of the two bankers cited above said calls are being made to the issuer bank for re-confirming the genuineness even though it is not supposed to be done because an LoU is generally taken at face value. Historically there has been no default on buyer s credit as it is guaranteed by another bank and so we take it as 100 per cent safe business. This is for the first time that we saw a problem. We are building some mechanisms to strengthen it Union Bank of India managing director and chief executive Rajkiran Rai G told PTI. In the Nirav Modi case our people got carried away by the PNB guarantee and they took that risk. Now we are taking care of that and even though it is a guarantee from government-run bank we ll evaluate counter-parties. We are putting certain limits in place so that in future such things do not happen again Rai added.The scam came to light only on February 14 has also dented the country s profile at the world stage said some other bankers who spoke off-the-record adding the delay in finding a resolution will further dent the image. If PNB does not honour the commitment of paying up as newer LoUs mature it will affect the country us a lot as it may not be only Indian lenders which will be having exposures to Modi s firms through PNB issued LoUs said another bankr.Although PNB managing director and chief executive Sunil Mehta had said the bank would honour all bonafide commitments under the LoUs there are reports about some disputes between PNB and other lenders on repayment.Bankers say more than the interest income they look at trade finance as a source of fee income. This results in many banks using a vibrant secondary market to pass on their dollar exposure to other lenders including foreign ones too. This is a business that we cannot stop. In foreign branches 60-70 per cent business happens through letters of credit buyer s credit and bill discounting. We are not slowing down but checks will be tougher Rai said.It can be noted that as of now Modi has already defaulted on loans of over Rs 280 crore but more loans will be coming up for repayment as months pass by.Another state-run banker said demand for LoUs has also come down following the scam. It s not the time that companies will choose to raise money through LoUs. They will wait for sometime till the Modi issue settles down the official said.Lenders have also begun a process to improve their own practices so that a similar incident does not reoccur say another banker.Rai said UBI has improved monitoring mechanisms at its foreign branches and has also mandated a monthly training module to the staff and will be careful about the quality of staff being sent on overseas assignments from now on.(Except for the headline this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
The CBI today examined Punjab National Bank s Managing Director and CEO Sunil Mehta and its Executive Director K V Brahmaji Rao in connection with the Rs 11 400 crore PNB scam allegedly involving diamantaire Nirav Modi and owner of Gitanjali Gems Mehul Choksi officials said. They said the examination is focussed on understanding how the crime was detected by the bank and other procedural issues and their violations. They are not being treated as accused the officials said. It has been alleged that fraudulent guarantees were issued to the uncle-nephew duo of Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi through 293 Letters of Undertakings. Refusing to give out any further details the officials said the agency is also questioning the 12 accused arrested by the agency so far. They said this is the first time the agency has examined the top brass of the Punjab National Bank in connection with the fraud which remained undetected state for over six years shaking up the banking system of the country. According to the website of the PNB Rao is in-charge of the integrated risk management division credit (operations) monitoring of accounts with exposure of above Rs 50 crores including stock audit and Portfolio Management Service (PMS) industrial rehabilitation and action taken on borrowal frauds reported from Mumbai where the alleged fraud took place. Rao started his banking career in Vijaya Bank in the year 1982 as a Probationary Officer it said. Mehta started his banking career as an agriculture field officer at the Allahabad Bank in 1982. The CBI has so far arrested 12 accused in the case. Vipul Ambani president (finance) of Fire Star Diamond executive assistant Kavita Mankikar and senior executive Arjun Patil (all from Nirav Modi s companies) were arrested on Tuesday. Kapil Khandelwal CFO of Nakshatra group and Gitanjali group and Niten Shahi manager of Gitanjali group were also arrested by the agency the same day. An authorised signatory of Nirav Modi s company was also arrested. From the PNB the agency had arrested Rajesh Jindal a general manager retired official Gokulnath Shetty and Single Window Operator Manoj Kharat besides three other officials -- Bechhu Tiwari Yashwant Joshi and Praful Sawant. Shetty and Kharat allegedly sent messages of the LoUs using an international messaging system for banking systems called SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) which is used to pass instructions among banks globally to transfer funds but did not make entries in the bank s system to avoid detection. Based on these instructions and guarantees funds were released by overseas branches of Indian banks. It is alleged that Rs 11 400 crore of LoUs were fraudulently issued to the firms of Nirav Modi and Choksi.
The Budget Session of Parliament which resumes on Monday after a month-long recess is likely to begin on a stormy note the Opposition is all set to target the government over the Rs 12 700 crore Punjab National Bank scam. The first half of the session was marked by frequent adjournments in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha as Telugu Desam Party leaders from Andhra Pradesh maintained a continuous protest against the government for allotting little to the state in the Budget. They demanded a special package for their state. Five days after the Budget Session was adjourned on February 9 the Punjab National Bank informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that it had detected fraudulent and unauthorised transactions amounting to Rs 11 380 crore at its Brady House branch in South Mumbai. It later said the amount could be Rs 1 323 crore higher.When the Parliament session resumes on Monday Opposition parties are likely to corner the Narendra Modi government over the multi-crore bank fraud. Congress Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma has submitted a notice for a discussion on the alleged scam bank fraud PTI reported. We will demand answers from the government Sharma told PTI. We will also demand answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the scam happened right under his watch. Sharma said the Congress will also highlight the BJP-led government s selective vendetta to target political opponents a reference to the arrest of Karti Chidambaram the son of former Finance Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram in the INX Media case.Communist Party of India leader D Raja said his party will bring up the PNB fraud bur also discuss the new bills the government proposes to introduce in Parliament. We will demand answers...The banking sector is in deep crisis and its credibility is at stake he told PTI. Trinamool Congress leader Derek O Brien said his party will coordinate with other Opposition parties to expose this BJP government that has not delivered on its promises . The government however is hoping to counter the Opposition with its Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill which once passed will give it the power to attach the assets of offenders declared fugitives. Among the other bills the government has listed are the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill Specific Relief (Amendment) Bill and the Dentists (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha. In the Rajya Sabha the government has listed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill and the State Banks (Repeal and Amendment) Bill. The Centre also is likely to push to have the triple talaq bill passed.
New Delhi: The second part of Parliament s Budget Session is likely to begin on a stormy note with the Congress and other opposition parties set to raise the issue of multi-crore financial scams involving public-sector banks in both the Houses.The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet today after a month-long recess in the session.Opposition parties would seek answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on how the multi-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and other banking scams took place under his watch and how the government failed to stop them.The government on its part is seeking to counter the opposition s offensive by bringing the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill.The legislation once passed will grant powers to the government to attach assets of persons declared fugitive. This will include benami assets too.While the opposition has not planned any joint strategy so far it is likely to meet in a day or two to chalk out a plan for the Parliament session.Sources said that while the financial sector and banking scams would dominate the proceedings in both Houses issues related to crime against Dalits and women farmers the economy and unemployment would also be raised by the opposition benches.The Congress will also raise the issue of vendatta at the hands of the BJP-led government aimed at targeting its political opponents.This comes in the wake of the CBI arresting Karti Chidambaram the son of former Union finance minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram in connection with the INX Media case.He is currently in custody of the probe agency for five days till March 6.The second part of the session would primarily see discussions on the demand for grants for various ministries.The opposition would also press for a debate on a number of contentious matters and important issues confronting the country.The government has listed a few bills for consideration and passage in both Houses.In the Lok Sabha it intends to bring The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill 2017 and The Specific Relief (Amendment) Bill 2017 today and The Dentists (Amendment) Bill 2017 on Tuesday.In the Rajya Sabha the government has listed The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2017 and The State Banks (Repeal and Amendment) Bill 2017 for the first day of the session.The government also is likely to press for the passage of a bill to ban instant triple talaq.Congress leaders said that they would soon be holding a meeting with other opposition parties to chalk out a joint strategy for the session.The aim is to corner the government unitedly and demand answers from it on various issues which it has evaded in the past a leader from the party said.Congress deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma has given a notice for a discussion under Rule 267 of the House on the bank fraud issue. We will demand answers from the government on the bank fraud scam. We will also demand answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the scam happened right under his watch he said.Mr Sharma said the party is also set to raise the issue of selective vendatta at the hands of investigative agencies by the BJP-led government to target key political opponents.CPI leader D Raja said the issue of PNB fraud will be taken up and the new bills that the government proposes to bring would also be discussed. We will demand answers from the government on how the fraud happened. The banking sector is in a deep crisis and its credibility is under stake he told PTI.Raja also said that issues pertaining to atrocities and crimes against Dalits and women would also be taken up.The Left leader claimed that such crimes were on the rise.He however said the financial crimes would be the highlight of the session.TMC leader Derek O Brien said his party is for a debate and a discussion in Parliament and would evolve a joint opposition strategy soon. We will coordinate with other opposition parties to expose this BJP government that has not delivered on their promises. I don t want to name any particular issue as there are many. We have issues for every day in Parliament he said.Mr O Brien also claimed that the BJP had gone overboard with its victory in Tripura. If you look at the bypoll results of Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan and Odisha it is very clear that their tally will come down he said. CommentsClose X The TMC leader claimed that Prime Minister Modi will not deliver his address from the Red Fort in 2019. If their target is West Bengal out target is Red Fort. BJP did not win Tripura the Left surrendered it he said.
.story-content span .story-content p .story-content div color:#000!important;font-family: open sans Arial!important;font-size:15px!important ALSO READ PNB fraud: Rs 45 billion in LoU scam diverted to Choksi firms says CBI PNB scam: Won t tolerate irregularities in financial sector says PM Modi Before PNB fraud: Nirav Modi Choksi left 18 businessmen 24 firms bankrupt PNB fraud: Nirav Modi s art collection seized Rs 114-billion PNB scam: Govt weighs bank s recapitalisation hike span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 A report published in Business Standard (Probe finds staff collusion systemic failure at PNB) had wrongly mentioned that Punjab National Bank Managing Director and CEO Sunil Mehta came to know about the letters of undertaking fraud on January 3. The correct date is January 23 2018. The error is regretted. Punjab National Bank s (PNB s) managing director and chief executive Sunil Mehta admitted the collusion of employees in the letters of undertaking (LoUs) scam while being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday according to sources. Mehta s statement was recorded by the probe agency under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with the case registered against Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi in the Rs 127-billion fraud at the government-owned lender. Mehta was in the ED office at Ballard Pier here for nearly six hours. He was summoned soon after being questioned in the same matter by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). ALSO READ: Home car loans to get expensive as SBI ICICI PNB Axis Bank hike rates According to ED sources he said the fraud took place due to systemic failure and procedural lapses owing to lack of interface or proper links between the core banking software and the SWIFT interbank messaging system. ED officers questioned Mehta on procedural aspects of the banking system and whether he was aware about the malicious use of the SWIFT infrastructure. Also to explain the inefficiency of the system in not generating alerts despite LoUs getting encashed at regular intervals. The ED underlined its present focus was on operational issues at the bank not the criminal aspect. Top bankers were called to gather information about the rationale of the issues. We would decide further action depending on the outcomes said an ED official. ALSO READ: PNB is not shown as creditor in US bankruptcy filing by Nirav Modi s firms Messages sent to PNB officials remained unanswered. The ED is also said to have cited Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cautionary notes and alerts on SWIFT misuse issued to banks since August 2016. Their sleuths asked PNB why it did not act on those or if the alerts did not come under its lens. Mehta who took charge in 2017 reiterated he had no clue about the external and internal factors which had contributed to the fraud. He reportedly said he came to know about the mega fraud only on January 23. Two employees did unauthorised transactions the bank began an internal inquiry and registered a complaint with the CBI on January 29. So far the biggest fraud in Indian banking in size two junior employees at its Mumbai branch are accused of colluding with Modi and Choksi to issue unauthorised LoUs. Which were eventually used by the Modi and Choksi companies to get credit from foreign branches mostly of Indian banks. PNB itself has stated the fraud was on since 2011 and remained undetected as the employees did not enter the transactions into its Core Banking System after sending instructions to banks abroad by using SWIFT. The ED has asked Mehta to corroborate the details in his statement with supporting documents said the source. Their officers indicated he could be asked to come again if they required more information. It seems (PNB) had not fully implemented all the measures required to prevent potential misuse of SWIFT said the ED official cited above. The sources also said the ED was waiting to question PNB s retired deputy manager Gokulnath Shetty among the prime accused and now in custody. The agency believes Shetty s statement would be crucial in the matter. Other top executives could be called after the CBI questioning which is on. On Thursday the CBI had arrested a retired chief auditor of PNB responsible for concurrent audit between 2011 and 2015 at its Brady House Mumbai branch where the LoUs were issued. CBI sought his custody from court as he was apparently responsible for auditing the procedures and practices followed during the period. Read our full coverage on Nirav Modi scam at PNB
span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 A youth allegedly committed suicide in Bihar s Supaul district on Thursday after he was refused a loan for his plastic factory by Punjab National Bank police said. ALSO READ: EMIs set to rise as SBI PNB raise lending rates Sanjay Mandal was said to be depressed after his loan application was rejected by officials of the PNB branch at Basbitti Road in Supaul. District police official Vidhassgar said police has begun an investigation from all angles. ALSO READ: PNB fraud: Gitanjali Gems tanks 5% as ED attaches Rs 12 bn assets of Choksi Sanjay s neighbours told police he had repeatedly approached the PNB for the loan for his factory in his native village.
New Delhi: PNB MD and CEO Sunil Mehta got chastised from unexpected quarters when a globally acclaimed doctor V Shanta censured him for using the word cancer to describe the Rs 12 717 crore fraud at http://www.authorstream.com/kfckk/ the bank by billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and his associates. Corruption is something to be ashamed of cancer is not she said. ... do not try to find parallels where none exist. Do not mix cancer with corruption. Ever. said the Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and cancer specialist in a letter to Mehta. Punjab National Bank. AFP. While addressing a press conference in connection with the 2 billion scam earlier in the month the Punjab Nation Bank chief had said: This cancer that s been going on since 2011 we have brought it out and we are resolving it. Strongly objecting to the use of the word cancer the legendary cancer specialist who was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2006 and is currently Chairman of Chennai based Cancer Institute (WIA) said one ought to be ashamed of corruption but not of cancer. I was extremely disturbed to read your reference to cancer in the context of the recent scam unearthed at your bank. Corruption is a crime and something to be ashamed of; cancer is not Shanta said in her letter. Observing that several cancer patients are cured and lead productive lives she said we do not want the word cancer to be associated with guilt hopelessness or dread. And definitely not with the shame. She also appealed to the others not to use the word in cancer in such sense as it could outrage medical personal working in the field of cancer prevention and cure. The spate of frauds in the banking sector running into thousands of crores or rupees have outraged common people who often liken deep-rooted corruption to something pernicious as cancer. The worried government yesterday asked all state-owned banks to scrutinise non performing assets (NPAs) exceeding Rs 50 crore for fraud and accordingly report the matter to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Guillermo del Toro wins best director award for Shape of Water at Oscars 2018

Guillermo del Toro has won the best director prize at the 90th Academy Awards for The Shape of Water defeating film-makers such as Paul Thomas Anderson (for Phantom Thread) Greta Gerwig (for Lady Bird) and Jordan Peele (for Get Out). In his acceptance speech del Toro said: I am an immigrant ... The best thing our industry does is to help erase the lines in the sand when the world tries to make them deeper. The Shape of Water review an operatic plunge into Guillermo del Toro s immersive cinema Read more This was Del Toro s first nomination as director (and one of 13 for The Shape of Water the most of any film this year) and he becomes the third Mexican film-maker in the last five years to win best director after Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity in 2014 and Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman and The Revenant in 2015 and 2016 respectively. The Shape of Water stars Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaner working in a cold war-era lab facility who bonds with a sea creature being kept there. Del Toro was the strong favourite in this category having taken a string of major awards this year including best director at the Golden Globes and Baftas as well as winning the Directors Guild award a key bellwether http://www.sxe.com/forum/member.php?346855-kfrecharge. However shortly before the Academy Awards the family of playwright Paul Zindel launched legal action over glaring similarities between The Shape of Water and Zindel s 1969 play Let Me Hear You Whisper. The film s studio Fox Searchlight have denied the allegations. Topics Oscars 2018 Oscars Guillermo del Toro The Shape of Water Awards and prizes news Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Reuse this content
Guillermo del Toro has the opportunity to continue an unlikely streak of Mexican success at the Academy Awards on Sunday. If as expected the Guadalajara-born film-maker wins the best director Oscar for his fantasy drama The Shape of Water at this year s ceremony it will be the fourth time a Mexican has taken home the prize in the last five years after Alfonso Cuarón won in 2014 and Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2015 and 2016. The three directors close friends who are often referred to in the industry as the Three Amigos have transformed their nation s fortunes at the Academy Awards while proving major draws at the international box office. All three have proved as adept at managing grand Hollywood productions as they are at working on smaller homegrown films. Del Toro has directed big-budget blockbusters including Pacific Rim as well as Spanish-language magic-realist works such as Pan s Labyrinth. Cuarón masterminded the audacious deep-space thriller Gravity (for which he won the best director Oscar) and was handed the reins of a Harry Potter film but has also made more intimate Mexico-set dramas such as Y Tu Mamá También. Iñárritu who made his name with the savage dog-fighting drama Amores Perros has burnished a reputation for technically complex films starring Hollywood A-listers including Oscar best picture winner Birdman starring Michael Keaton and the Leonardo DiCaprio-fronted survival epic The Revenant both of which landed him best director Oscars. After Weinstein: why this year s Oscars are make or break Read more If the mainstream success of the Three Amigos seems a recent phenomenon it is one that has been built decades of work. As Del Toro says it has taken him more than 20 years to get to where he is now says Anna Marie de la Fuente a journalist who covers the Latin American film industry for Variety. Like many immigrants before them they have been embraced by Hollywood thanks to their prodigious raw talent perseverance hard work and in some measure luck. Crucial too has been the involvement of the Mexican film industry. A raft of initiatives in past decades have helped the likes of these film-makers and many before and after them so it can take some credit for their success says De la Fuente. It s not just the Amigos who have benefited: Emmanuel Lubezki a regular collaborator with Cuarón and Iñárritu is regarded as one of cinema s pre-eminent cinematographers and is the only person to have picked up three consecutive Academy Awards for cinematography. The Three Amigos have now largely left Mexican cinema behind for more universal English-language films though not entirely: later this year Cuarón will release Roma a 70s-set drama about a middle-class family in Mexico City. Still even if the trio are as much now the property of Hollywood as they are of their home country there s a decent chance of the next Del Toro Cuarón or Iñárritu emerging soon says De la Fuente. Mexico has been churning out more than a hundred films a year thanks to more tax incentives in particular one called Eficine which since 2006 gives incentives to private investors in film. So there are many opportunities for new talent to emerge. Topics Oscars 2018 Guillermo del Toro Alejandro González Iñárritu Alfonso Cuarón news Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Reuse this content
Photo From left Alfonso Cuarón Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro G. Iñárritu at the Gotham Awards in 2006. Credit Stephen Lovekin/WireImage for the Independent Filmmaker Project via Getty Images MEXICO CITY In 1960s America a cleaning woman who can t speak and lives next door to a gay artist falls in love with a humanoid sea creature held in a government lab for Cold War experiments. It sounds like a pitch that would make Hollywood producers screw up their faces and scream Next! But the Mexican director Guillermo del Toro not only procured a 19.5 million budget for The Shape of Water but also made it into a commercial and critical success in the running for 13 prizes at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday.If Mr. del Toro wins the best director award at the Oscars it will be the fourth time a filmmaker from Mexico has taken the prize in five years all with unconventional films. Alejandro G. Iñárritu won in 2015 for Birdman the bizarrely hilarious tale of an aging superhero actor trying to get serious on Broadway and he did it again in 2016 with The Revenant a radically different western focused on a quest for revenge in subzero temperatures. Alfonso Cuarón triumphed in 2014 with Gravity a sci-fi story that many said was impossible to make before it made over 723 million at the worldwide box office.Referred to as The Three Amigos the title of a book about their transnational cinema these directors are not the only Mexican filmmakers who have won recent accolades in Hollywood. There is also the cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki who has three Oscars; Rodrigo Prieto who shot The Wolf of Wall Street Argo and Brokeback Mountain ; and another Oscar winner the production designer Eugenio Caballero.The Amigos success shows the strength of an artistic circle; they are longtime friends who have encouraged one another to take risks. They began making their films when the Mexican industry was at a low in the 1980s dominated by raunchy movies about escort bars and overshadowed by telenovela soaps. The Amigos bucked the trend with dark stories about H.I.V. inner-city dogfights and historic horrors. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Their early Hollywood movies such as Mr. Cuarón s Little Princess (1995) and Mr. del Toro s Mimic (1997) had moderate success. In the 2000s their triumphs got steadily bigger as did their budgets; Gravity cost 100 million. Continue reading the main story
ALSO READ Guillermo del Toro to open a cinema named after him Guillermo Del Toro to head Venice film fest jury Guillermo Del Toro reveals why he is not directing Pacific Rim 2 Guillermo Del Toro wins Golden Globe for Best Director Alexandre Desplat praises Guillermo del Toro span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 Oscar-nominated director Guillermo del Toro is slated to open a new cinema named after him in Guadalajara his hometown on March 10. He will open the cinema at Guadalajara Fest reports variety.com. Hopefully he ll have a few Oscars in tow said Guadalajara Film Festival director Ivan Trujillo. The new cinema is one of several that the city is building to improve the festival s offer. Del Toro s acclaimed fable The Shape of Water has received 13 Oscar nominations including Best Director and Best Picture. The 90th Academy Awards ceremony will be held on March 4 here. It will be aired in India live on Star Movies and Star Movies Select on March 5. --IANS sug/nv/dg (This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Girl meets hot fish monster falls in love plots to break him out of a top-secret government research facility. On paper Guillermo del Toro s fantasy-sci-fi-romance-thriller The Shape of Water looks a bit Splash-meets-ET with the addition of an interspecies sex scene. (And you know Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard would never have gone there.) As Oscar bait this film is a tough sell. For starters it s the wrong genre. Academy voters rarely put a tick for best picture next to films featuring big beasties let alone a film with an orgasming big beastie. (The only fantasy film ever to win best picture was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; a sci-fi has yet to scoop the prize.) Del Toro s fish movie ought to be the Oscar race s rank outsider. Instead not only is it bookies second favourite for best picture (a fin or two behind Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) it boasts 2018 s biggest haul of nominations with 13. Sally Hawkins should (but likely won t) win best actress for her role as Elisa Esposito a Baltimore cleaning lady who works the night shift in a bunker-like government lab in the early 1960s. Unable to speak (abused as a child her vocal cords were cut) Elisa uses sign language to communicate. The moment she claps eyes on her 7ft-tall lizardy beau in a murky tank she s smitten. (Not convinced? Wait till you see him; he s a shimmering beauty.) The last of his species Amphibian Man (to use his official name in the credits) was captured in the Amazon where the indigenous people worshipped him as a god. Now American scientists are experimenting on him like a lab rat. Prodder-in-chief is security boss Strickland (played by Michael Shannon in another one of his juicy Mr Nasty roles). To plot her daring rescue Elisa enlists her only two friends in the world: gay neighbour Giles (Richard Jenkins) and chatterbox work pal Zelda (Octavia Spencer) who asks the question we ve all been burning to about Amphibian Man s particulars. ( How? Does he have a ? ). Facebook Twitter Pinterest Even if you don t find the idea of fish sexy or like me have been on the fence about Del Toro in the past this is a movie that might well find its way into your heart. It s beautifully acted. Hawkins is dazzlingly good as Elisa. As critics have pointed out she plays the role like one of the all-time silent-film heroines. And at a time when everyone is banging on about strong female characters her performance says something nuanced about strength: Elisa s vulnerability isn t a sign of weakness. There is inner steel in openness allowing the world to see who she really is at her core without putting up a tough wall of cynicism or world-weariness. Kudos too to Del Toro regular Doug Jones who plays Amphibian Man (it took four people and tubs of lube to squeeze him into his latex suit every morning). For better or worse this is a film that only Del Toro could make. He s always had a thing for monsters. (In Mexico as a child his Catholic grandmother tried to exorcise him twice.) And after bigger budget pictures like Pacific Rim and Crimson Peak The Shape of Water is a return to more artisanal meaningful film-making cue a swooning woman-and-fish song and dance routine straight out of the golden age of Hollywood. So will the Academy bite? Perhaps Three Billboards more meets the mood http://www.good-tutorials.com/users/kkmobik right now for something more raw and real. Personally I d argue that Del Toro s film though set in 1962 is as timely and relevant in its portrayal of an invisible woman taking matters into her own hands. (Elisa is repeatedly ignored and dismissed as a lowly piss-wiper .) And unlike the heroines in the monster movies Del Toro grew up watching she doesn t need to be rescued from the clutches of a monster; she is doing the rescuing. Some I know have found The Shape of Water s heart-on-sleeve sincerity a bit dippily naive or indulgent. But its message of kindness and acceptance left a lump in my throat and ought to leave some statuettes on Guillermo del Toro s mantelpiece too. This article was amended on 1 March 2018 because The Shape of Water is set in 1962 not 1963 as an earlier version said. Topics Oscars 2018 Best picture Oscar hustings The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro Sally Hawkins Romance blogposts Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Reuse this content

Oscars 2018: Meet the Winners of 90th Academy Awards

The Shape of Water won best picture and Guillermo del Toro won best director for the film. Frances McDormand won best actress for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Gary Oldman won best actor for Darkest Hour. Allison Janney won best supporting actress. Sam Rockwell won best supporting actor. See photos from the red carpet. Read a transcript of Jimmy Kimmel s opening monologue. 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Credit Patrick T. Fallon for The New York Times Fantasy from del Toro wins top Oscar.LOS ANGELES Guillermo del Toro s The Shape of Water a fantasy about embracing the outcast and giving voice to the voiceless was named best picture at the 90th Academy Awards prevailing over more traditional Oscar movies such as Dunkirk and the rebel outsiders Get Out and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Advertisement Continue reading the main story I want to dedicate to every young filmmaker the youth who are showing us how things are done said Mr. del Toro who also won the Oscar for directing. The Shape of Water also won for Alexandre Desplat s score and Paul Denham Austerberry s production design. Continue reading the main story
Hello good evening and welcome to the 90th Academy Awards assumes David Frost voice which are due to get under way in a few hours time in Los Angeles. As we drum our fingers and twiddle our thumbs this is a good time to reflect on what surely is a landmark Oscars after a year of turbulence and sea change in Hollywood: the downfall of Harvey Weinstein the emergence of Times Up and red-carpet blackouts and the thrilling rise of diversity at the multiplex. The consensus is that this year s best picture Oscar has boiled down to a two-horse race between The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri the former edging ahead despite the latter winning the equivalent award at the Baftas and coming out on top at the Globes. The other headline awards look like they ll be dead certs: the money is on Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour Frances McDormand for Three Billboards and Sam Rockwell and Alison Janney for the supporting actor nods. Shape heads the nominations count with 13 but if the Baftas are anything to go by no one film will sweep the board. Here s the full list to peruse. As usual your hardworking Guardian team will be on the case covering the red carpet the ceremony and the aftermath. Here are a few pointers as to what to look out for some final predictions and a timetable. Timetable After last year s hopelessness the whole thing has been brought forward half an hour. We ll be launching our live blog at 2:30pm PT 5:30pm ET 10.30pm GMT and 9.30am (Monday) AEDT for live coverage from the red carpet rolling news galleries analysis and comment taking in the ceremony which starts at 5pm PT 8pm ET 1am (Monday) GMT and 12noon (Monday) AEDT and the aftermath. Final predictions Guardian writers have been busily analysing the chances of each of the best picture nominees while Stuart Heritage has cast a beady eye over the annual For Your Consideration adverts. The Guardian s chief film critic Peter Bradshaw also has had his say. And here s our final best guess on how it will go down. Best picture The Shape of WaterBest director Guillermo del Toro The Shape of WaterBest actor Gary Oldman Darkest HourBest actress Frances McDormand Three Billboards Outside Ebbing MissouriBest supporting actor Sam Rockwell Three Billboards Outside Ebbing MissouriBest supporting actress Allison Janney I TonyaBest original screenplay Get OutBest adapted screenplay Call Me By Your NameBest documentary Faces PlacesBest original song This Is Me The Greatest ShowmanBest animated feature CocoBest foreign language film A Fantastic Woman What you need to know The Harvey Weinstein scandal still rolling on casts its shadow over these Oscars: not the least because more than anywhere this was his fiefdom. This year he won t be in attendance and as our writer Hadley Freeman points out the Oscars have a chance to change direction. Meanwhile last year s almighty fiasco seems like small beer in comparison but the powers that be are still taking no chances: they have banned backstage tweeting by the officials handing over the winners envelopes. Efforts to make the Oscar voting pool more diverse seem to be slowly paying off with best picture nominations for Get Out Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird. We heard from some of the Oscar pioneers including Rachel Morrison the first-ever female nominee for cinematography and took a special look at best supporting actress nominee Mary J Blige. The new mood still hasn t stopped some of the nominated films miring themselves in controversy: Three Billboards has been accused of dodgy racial politics Call Me By Your Name of promoting underage sex and Shape of Water film-makers are being sued for plagiarism. One bit of positive news: after vociferous complaints over the exclusion of female directors from the Golden Globe list the Oscars managed to right the wrong by voting Greta Gerwig through in the best director category. To be honest Guillermo del Toro is the nailed-down winner for this one striking (yet another) blow for Mexican film-makers. Nobody s sure what will happen on the red carpet; after the Globe and Bafta blackouts will the Oscars follow suit? The Guardian s fashion team have taken the temperature. Making the best of a bad thing: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are returning to present the best picture award. We trust they ll be a bit more careful this time. Someone who won t be showing up: Kareem Abeed producer of Last Men in Aleppo (nominated for best documentary) who was denied a visa by US authorities. Here s the film s director Feras Fayyad on the hostility his film has provoked. Our music maestro has made his way through the full best song list; read the verdict here. Some Oscar history: the strangest nominations (George Bernard Shaw? Me neither) and the ongoing debate over whether 2004 winner Crash really was the worst ever. Everyone likes a snub too. What happened at the epic class photo picture shoot at the nominees lunch. No one mention the cutout. The Australian and British contenders if that s your thing. The always schadenfreudery rundown of the films that tried but failed to get on the Oscar radar. And finally: the 2018 Oscars in numbers. Oscar numbers 1 Oscar numbers 2 All you need now is your Oscar bingo card. Eyes down! Facebook Twitter Pinterest Illustration: Guardian Design Team Topics Oscars 2018 Film blog Oscars Awards and prizes The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri Harvey Weinstein blogposts Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Reuse this content
The 90 th Annual Academy Awards honoured the most remarkable contributions to the world of cinema in the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The biggest night of Hollywood the 90th Academy Awards celebrated the biggest and best names in the movie business. Here s the complete winners list. Best Picture: The Shape of Water Actress in a Leading Role: Frances McDormand for Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri Actor in a Leading Role: Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour Directing: Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water Original Song: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for Remember Me from Coco Original Score: Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water Cinematography: Roger A. Deakins for Blade Runner 2049 Original Screenplay: Jordan Peele for Get Out Adapted Screenplay: James Ivory for Call Me by Your Name Short Film (Live Action): Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton for The Silent Child Documentary Short Subject: Frank Stiefel for Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 Film Editing: Lee Smith for Dunkirk Visual Effects: John Nelson Gerd Nefzer Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover for Blade Runner 2049 Animated Feature Film: Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson for Coco Animated Short Film: Kobe Bryant and Glen Keane for Dear Basketball Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Allison Janney for I Tonya Foreign Language Film: A Fantastic Woman Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry Shane Vieau and Jeffrey A. Melvin for The Shape of Water Sound Mixing: Gregg Landaker Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten for Dunkirk Sound Editing: Richard King and Alex Gibson for Dunkirk Documentary (Feature): Icarus Costume Design: Mark Bridges for Phantom Thread Makeup and Hairstyling: Kazuhiro Tsuji David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick for Darkest Hour Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
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The 90th Academy Awards show is finally here.And stars were busy all Sunday afternoon getting ready for the splashy event held inside the Dolby Theater in Hollywood and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.Several celebrities even began in the morning as they took to their glam rooms for what is often called the Super Bowl of Hollywood.Scroll down for list of nominations & video Beautiful: Ashley Judd went makeup free as she flashed her diamonds before getting ready to serve as presenter for the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday Not the usual way to get a manicure: Heidi Klum cuddled up to her three dogs as she got her nails painted by Tom Bachik before the Oscars Ashley Judd who will serve as a presenter alongside Salma Hayek shared a photo from bed.The Kiss The Girls star was makeup free and wearing over a milliona dollars worth of diamonds. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Sandra Bullock and Matthew McConaughy rehearse as Oscar presenters | Daily Mail... Finishing touches underway for the Oscars | Daily Mail Online Share this article Share She captioned the image: Nightgown & diamonds. Good morning #oscar day. The night before she was doing a workout in her bedroom hours before the big night. Looks serious: Armie Hammer said that he was still sick and getting a nurse s care Before the paint: Kristin Cavallari who also works for E! was seen enjoying a smoothie while wearing her sunglassesHer caption read My day including makeup by the incomparable @moyramulholland & monkey business with @jasonnemer bumping into friends like @tonygoldwyn@lauradern @berlinstation costars @lelandorser & #oscar nominee #richardjenkins. Judd one of the first actresses to speak out against movie producer Harvey Weinstein for trying to sexually assault her. A lot to go over: Meanwhile Ryan Seacrest - who has been accused of sexual assault by a former employee - shared a photo to Instagram. He said he was in a pre Oscar huddle for the E! Red Carpet Feeling hopeful: Seacrest looked happy as he buttoned his jacket on his way to the Dolby Theater Her selection: His co-host Giuliana Rancic shared a photo of a rack of clothes in her home adding that she had picked the one She has received kudos for her bravery at talking up leading other women to follow.The activist has since been vocal about the need for change in Hollywood.Allison Janney who is nominated for I. Tonya held up a Justice For Vets pin from her Oscar bag of goodies. Last minute fixer: Lea Michele had anti-puffy stickers under her eyes She got the wrong memo: Kelly Marie Tran of Star Wars: The Last Jedi cleaned her house... Then later: The looker got glammed up with the help of some friends Sweets: Tran who will likely be in Star Wars IX shared these images of gift bagsHeidi Klum cuddled up to her three dogs as she got her nails painted by Tom Bachik before the Oscars. Meanwhile Ryan Seacrest - who has been accused of sexual assault by a former employee - shared a photo to Instagram.He said he was in a pre Oscar huddle for the E! Red Carpet. It has been reported that stars will not go to him for interviews on the red carpet. Loving the swag: Allison Janney who is nominated for I. Tonya held up a Justice For Vets pin from her Oscar bag of goodiesHis co-host Giuliana Rancic shared a photo of a rack of clothes in her home adding that she had picked the one. Her caption read Oscar fitting for Sunday s big show. Just picked the one. Can t wait. Among the selection was a pink hot pink orange and dusty rose gown. Kristin Cavallari who also works for E! was seen enjoying a smoothie while wearing her sunglasses. Host Kimmel shared a photo of his daughter eating a pancake. It was in the form of Oscar The Grouch.His caption read Happy Oscar Sunday! Sweet: Host Kimmel shared a photo of his daughter eating a pancake. It was in the form of Oscar The Grouch. His caption read Happy Oscar Sunday! The presenters for the awards show include last year s Best Picture presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty who hope to get it right this time.Also there will be Emily Blunt Chadwick Boseman Sandra Bullock Dave Chappelle Viola Davis Eugenio Derbez and Laura Dern.Ansel Elgort Jane Fonda Helen Mirren Jodie Foster Gal Gadot Jennifer Garner Greta Gerwig Eiza Gonzalez Tiffany Haddish and Mark Hamill will make the scene. Ready to shine: Adriana Lima got a beauty treatment as she wore a black tank top On stage: Sandra Bullock was rehearsing on Saturday to be a presenter at the Oscars She doesn t age! The Speed actress looked incredible in her pink top and black slacksArmie Hammer Salma Hayek Taraji P. Henson Oscar Isaac Ashley Judd Nicole Kidman Jennifer Lawrence Matthew McConaughey are presenting too with Lin-Manuel Miranda Rita Moreno and Kumail Nanjiani.Also there will be Lupita Nyong o Margot Robbie Gina Rodriguez Maya Rudolph Eva Marie Saint Annabella Sciorra Patrick Stewart Emma Stone Wes Studi Tom Holland Kelly Marie Tran Daniela Vega Christopher Walken and Zendaya. While in years past the winners of Best Actor and Best Actress from the year prior have returned to help crown the next generation that tradition will be ending with this ceremony. He was there too: Sandy s ex Matthew McConaughey also went through his lines on SaturdayIn January Casey Affleck who won Best Actor in 2017 for Manchester By The Sea opted to drop out of the 2018 show amid the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. He has previously been accused of sexual harassment. It was revealed earlier this week Lawrence and Foster both Oscar winners as well would likely take his place as the presenters for Best Actress.But the most anticipated presentation of the night will be led by Beatty and Dunaway. They were handed the wrong envelopment last year while presenting Best Picture . That led to the wrong announcement that La La Land had won. The actual winner was Moonlight. The stunning moment led to an unexpectedly confusing end to a celebratory night. ACADEMY AWARDS WINNERS 2018 BEST ACTORTimothee Chalamet - Call Me By Your NameDaniel Day-Lewis - Phantom ThreadDaniel Kaluuya - Get OutGary OIdman - Darkest Hour - WINNERDenzel Washington - Roman J. Israel EsqBEST ACTRESS Sally Hawkins - The Shape of WaterFrances McDormand - Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri - WINNERMargot Robbie - I TonyaSaoirse Ronan - Lady BirdMeryl Streep - The Post BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Mary J Blige - MudboundAlison Janney - I Tonya - WINNERLesley Manville - Phanton ThreadLaurie Metcalf - LadybirdOctavia Spencer - The Shape Of WaterBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Willem Dafoe - The Florida ProjectWoody Harrelson - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing MissouriRichard Jenkins - The Shape of WaterChristopher Plummer - All the Money in the WorldSam Rockwell - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri - WINNERBEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMA Fantastic Woman - WINNERThe InsultLovelessOn Body and SoulThe SquareBEST DOCUMENTARY SHORTEdith EddieHeaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 - WINNERHeroin(e)Knife SkillsTraffic Stop BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATUREAbacus: Small Enough to JailFaces PlacesIcarus - WINNERLast Men in AleppoStrong IslandBEST ORIGINAL SONG Mighty River - MudboundMystery Of Love - Call Me by Your NameRemember Me - Coco - WINNERStand Up For Something - MarshallThis Is Me - The Greatest Showman BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILMThe Boss BabyThe BreadwinnerCoco - WINNERFerdinandLoving VincentBEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAYCall Me By Your Name - James Ivory - WINNERThe Disaster Artist - Scott Neustadter and Michael H WeberLogan - Scott Frank James Mangold and Michael GreenMolly s Game - Aaron SorkinMudbound - Virgil Williams and Dee Rees BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYThe Big Sick - Emily V Gordon and Kumail NanjianiGet Out - Jordan Peele - WINNERLady Bird - Greta GerwigThe Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (story by Guillermo del Toro)Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri - Martin McDonaghBEST ORIGINAL SCOREDunkirkPhantom ThreadThe Shape of Water - WINNERStar Wars: The Last JediThree Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri BEST DIRECTOR Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk Jordan Peele - Get Out Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird http://getcosmetic.com/author/kfrecharge/ Paul Thomas Anderson - Phantom Thread Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water - WINNERBEST PICTURE Call Me By Your NameDarkest HourDunkirkGet OutLady BirdPhantom ThreadThe PostThe Shape of Water - WINNERThree Billboards Outside Ebbing MissouriBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Bladerunner 2049 - WINNERDarkest HourDunkirkMudboundShape of Water BEST COSTUME DESIGNBeauty and the BeastDarkest Hour Phantom Thread - WINNERThe Shape of WaterVictoria and AbdulBEST SOUND EDITINGBaby DriverBlade RunnerDunkirk - WINNERThe Shape of WaterStar Wars: The Last JediBEST ANIMATED SHORT FILMDear Basketball - WINNERGarden PartyLouNegative SpaceRevolting RhymesBEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMDeKalb ElementaryThe Eleven O ClockMy Nephew EmmetThe Silent Child - WINNERWatu Wota / All of Us BEST VISUAL EFFECTSBlade Runner 2049 - WINNERGuardian of the Galaxy vol. 2Kong: Skull IslandStar Wars: The Last JediWar for the Planet of the ApesBEST FILM EDITINGBaby DriverI TonyaDunkirk - WINNERThe Shape of WaterThree Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri BEST SOUND MIXINGBaby DriverBlade RunnerDunkirk - WINNERThe Shape of WaterStar Wars: The Last JediBEST PRODUCTION DESIGNBeauty and the BeastBlade Runner 2049Darkest HourDunkirkThe Shape of Water - WINNERBEST MAKE UP AND HAIR STYLINGDarkest Hour - WINNERVictoria & AbdulWonder

The Shape of Water wins best picture at Oscars 2018

The Shape of Water has won the Oscar for best picture at the 90th Academy Awards defeating strong competition from Get Out Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri in what had been considered the closest Oscar race in many years. The award was presented by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway who had been involved in last year s mix-up over La La Land and Moonlight. Acknowledging the fiasco in 2017 Beatty said: It s so nice seeing you again ; Dunaway added: Presenting is lovelier second time around. On receiving the award del Toro said: I want to dedicate this to the young film-makers; the youth who are showing us how things are done. The cold war-set fantasy thriller stars Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaning woman who discovers a bizarre aquatic-human hybrid in a tank at a secret government lab and helps it escape. Directed by Guillermo del Toro it led to the Mexican film-maker s first nomination for best picture though Del Toro was also nominated in 2007 for best original screenplay and best foreign language film for Pan s Labyrinth. The Shape of Water review an operatic plunge into Guillermo del Toro s immersive cinema Read more Having led the nominations list with 13 The Shape of Water had been considered a strong candidate for the best picture Oscar and it also won best film at the Critics Choice awards and the Producers https://www.threadless.com/@kfckk/activity Guild awards. However it had lost out to Three Billboards at both the Golden Globes and the Baftas. The film s success has come in spite of it being the subject of a plagiarism controversy in recent weeks. After the nominations were announced the family of late playwright Paul Zindel launched legal action over glaring similarities between The Shape of Water and Zindel s 1969 play Let Me Hear You Whisper. The film s studio Fox Searchlight has denied the allegations. Topics Oscars 2018 Oscars The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro Sally Hawkins Awards and prizes news Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Reuse this content
Written by Sampada Sharma | New Delhi | Updated: March 5 2018 10:22:22 am Here s everything you need to know about Oscars 2018. While The Shape of Water took home the Best Picture Oscar Darkest Hour star Gary Oldman and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri star Frances McDormand won the Best Actor and Best Actress Oscar respectively. The Shape of Water won four Academy Awards at the 90th Oscars followed by Dunkirk that won three awards. The Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles with Jimmy Kimmel hosting the event. The night witnessed some powerful performances by the nominees of Best Original Song. Keala Settle even received a standing ovation as she performed This is Me . Oscars 2018 Follow all the updates here: 10:22AM 05 Mar 18 Guillermo del Toro and team as they win Best Picture (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) 10:20AM 05 Mar 18 Frances McDormand gave a powerful speech at the Oscars (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) 10:19AM 05 Mar 18 They actually gave a Jet Ski Mark Bridges won a Jet Ski for giving the shortest acceptance speech at the Oscars and we thought that was a joke! 10:16AM 05 Mar 18 Best Picture - The Shape of Water Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are on the stage to present the award for Best Picture. 9 films were nominated this year including Phantom Thread Get Out Call Me by Your Name The Shape of Water Darkest Hour Dunkirk Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. The Oscar goes to The Shape of Water. The Shape of Water has won 4 Academy Awards. 10:07AM 05 Mar 18 Frances McDormand cheers all the female nominees at Oscars 2018 Frances McDormand requests all the female nominees in the audience to stand up and honours them all. She requests Meryl Streep to stand first and says Meryl if you do it everybody else will . Meryl Streep happily gets up and soon all the female nominees share this proud historic moment. 10:05AM 05 Mar 18 Gary Oldman wins the Oscar for Darkest Hour (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) 10:04AM 05 Mar 18 Best Actress in a Leading Role - Frances McDormand for Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri Jennifer Lawrence and Jodie Foster are presenting the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Frances McDormand wins the award for Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri. 9:57AM 05 Mar 18 Guillermo del Toro wins Best Director for The Shape of Water (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) 9:54AM 05 Mar 18 Best Actor in a Leading Role - Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour Jane Fonda and Helen Mirren are on the stage to present the award to the Best Actor in a Leading Role. Gary Oldman wins the top award for his performance in Darkest Hour. 9:45AM 05 Mar 18 Best Director - Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water Emma Stone is on the stage to present the award for Best Director. She gets a cheer from the audience as she says these four men and Greta Gerwig . The award is won by Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water. 9:41AM 05 Mar 18 The Academy remembers Sridevi and Shashi Kapoor As the In Memoriam segment plays the Oscar stage honours the memory of those who gave us some wonderful times at the movies. These were the people whose contribution will always be treasured by the world of cinema. The Oscars In Memoriam segment also included Indian actors Sridevi and Shashi Kapoor. 9:34AM 05 Mar 18 Best Original Song - Remember Me from Coco Lin-Manuel Miranda and Emily Blunt present the award for Best Original Song. The Oscar goes to the song Remember Me from Coco. Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez collect their award. Kristen gives a shout to the Academy as the list of nominations was quite inclusive this year. 9:30AM 05 Mar 18 Best Original Score - The Shape of Water Christopher Walken is on the stage to present the award for Best Original Score. Alexandre Desplat wins the award for his work in The Shape of Water. 9:24AM 05 Mar 18 Standing ovation for Keala Settle Keala s moving performance led to a standing ovation by the audience members. 9:22AM 05 Mar 18 Keala Settle performs This is Me Zendaya is on the stage to introduce Keala Settle. She is here to perform the Oscar nominated song This Is Me from The Greatest Showman. 9:19AM 05 Mar 18 Best Cinematography - Blade Runner 2049 Sandra Bullock is on the stage to present the award for Best Cinematography. Roger A. Deakins wins the award for Blade Runner 2049. This is his 14th nomination and first win. 9:07AM 05 Mar 18 Best Original Screenplay - Get Out Nicole Kidman is presenting the award for Best Original Screenplay. The Oscar goes to Jordan Peele for Get Out. 9:03AM 05 Mar 18 Best Adapted Screenplay - Call Me by Your Name Margot Robbie and Chadwick Boseman are on the Oscar stage to present the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. James Ivory takes the Oscar for Call Me by Your Name. The screenplay is based on the book of the same name by André Aciman. 9:01AM 05 Mar 18 Oscars lends support to Time s Up The Academy Award stage is addressing the Time s Up movement. The video being played on stage also acknowledges that the movie industry is starting to accept actors writers directors and other technicians and artists despite their colour race nationality gender or anything else that makes them unique. 8:51AM 05 Mar 18 Common and Andra Day perform Stand Up For Something Common and Andra Day perform Oscar-nominated song Stand Up For Something from Marshall. 8:47AM 05 Mar 18 Inside Oscars 2018 See Photos | Oscars 2018 Winners: Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney win big 8:46AM 05 Mar 18 Best Short Film (Live Action) - The Silent Child The Silent Child wins the Oscar. Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton are the winners in this category. 8:43AM 05 Mar 18 Best Documetary (Short Subject) - Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 Maya Rudolph and Tiffany Haddish are excellent as presenters and their presence on stage has filled the room with laughter. They will be presenting the award for Best Documetary (Short Subject) and the Oscar goes to Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405. Frank Stiefel collects the award. 8:33AM 05 Mar 18 Surprise for fans Jimmy Kimmel invited a few celebrities including Mark Hamill Armie Hammer Gal Gadot among others to go to a movie screening across the street where unsuspecting audience will get to meet their favourite stars. The audience is in the middle of a screening of Disney s A Wrinkle in Time. 8:27AM 05 Mar 18 Best Film Editing - Dunkirk Matthew McConaughey is on the stage to present the award for Best Film Editing. Dunkirk s Lee Smith wins the Oscar. 8:24AM 05 Mar 18 Best Visual Effects - Blade Runner 2049 Tom Holland and Gina Rodriguez are on the stage to present the award for the Best Visual Effects. Blade Runner 2049 wins the award. John Nelson Gerd Nefzer Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover collect the honour from the stage. 8:15AM 05 Mar 18 Sufjan Stevens performs Mystery of Love Daniela Vega is on the stage to introduce Sufjan Stevens the creator of Mystery of Love from Call Me By Your Name. The song is nominated for an Oscar. 8:11AM 05 Mar 18 Best Animated Feature Film - Coco Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson win the award for their film Coco. The team of Coco is on the Oscar stage to accept the honour. 8:10AM 05 Mar 18 This is Allison Janney s first Oscar (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) 8:08AM 05 Mar 18 Best Short Film (Animated) - Dear Basketball The actors from Star Wars: The Last Jedi are on the stage to present the award for the Best Short Film (Animated). Dear Basketball wins the award. Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant are on the stage to collect the honour. 8:00AM 05 Mar 18 Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Allison Janney (I Tonya) Mahershala Ali is on the stage to present the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Ali won an Oscar last year for his performance in Moonlight. Allison Janney wins the award for I Tonya. This is her first nomination and win at the Oscars. 7:54AM 05 Mar 18 Best Foreign Language Film - A Fantastic Woman (Chile) Academy Award winner Rita Moreno is on the stage to present the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film. A Fantastic Woman from Chile wins the award. The film is directed by Sebastián Lelio. 7:46AM 05 Mar 18 Miguel performs his Oscar nominated song from Coco Miguel is on the stage performing Remember Me from Coco. 7:46AM 05 Mar 18 Oscars 2018 coverage in Malayalam Read the Oscars 2018 live updates in Malayalam 7:41AM 05 Mar 18 Best Production Design - The Shape of Water Lupita Nyong o and Kumail Nanjiani are on the stage to present the award for Best Production Design. Paul Denham Austerberry (Production Design); Shane Vieau and Jeffrey A. Melvin (Set Decoration) win the award for The Shape of Water. This is the first win for The Shape of Water at the Oscars 2018. 7:34AM 05 Mar 18 The Academy is trying to avoid the envelope confusion at the Oscars To avoid the wrong envelope fiasco the presenters can be seen carrying envelopes with the category name mentioned on top in big bold letters. 7:31AM 05 Mar 18 Best Sound Mixing - Dunkirk Gregg Landaker Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten win the Best Sound Mixing Oscar for Dunkirk. 7:28AM 05 Mar 18 Best Sound Editing - Dunkirk The Oscar for Best Sound Editing goes to Richard King and Alex Gibson for Dunkirk. 7:14AM 05 Mar 18 Mary J. Blige performs Mighty River from Mudbound Taraji P Henson has taken the stage to introduce Mary J. Blige as she performs her Oscar nominated song Mighty River from Mudbound. 7:11AM 05 Mar 18 Best Documentary (Feature) - Icarus Greta Gerwig and Laura Dern present the award for Best Documentary (Feature). Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan win the Oscar for Icarus. This is their first nomination and win. 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The most politically charged Oscars in years will be held in Los Angeles on Sunday evening. The ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel will be broadcast in India from 5.30am on Star Movies Star Movies HD and Star Movies Premiere HD and will also be livestreamed on Hotstar.The nine Best Picture nominations include prestige projects (The Post Darkest Hour) and independent and arthouse films (Lady Bird Call Me By Your Name Phantom Thread). The Shape of Water leads the race with 13 nominations followed by Dunkirk with eight and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri with seven.Among the frontrunners for Best Picture is Martin McDonagh s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri in which a woman seeks justice for her daughter s rape and murder. McDonagh s dark comedy has divided critics because of its depiction of racism in small-town America. An anonymous voter from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which organises the Oscars told The Hollywood Reporter that the movie s representation of the American Midwest was false and pretentious and its characters were caricatures.However Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri leads the odds to win Best Picture according to British bookies as well as Las Vegas bookies. Best Actress nominee Frances McDormand who won the Golden Globe for her performance continues to be a favourite with the punters. Play Martin McDonagh on Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.Another strong favourite for Best Film is Guillermo Del Toro s The Shape of Water an altogether more wholesome affair with no jagged edges to set off a controversy. Set during the Cold War the romantic fantasy drama depicts the relationship between a shy speech-impaired janitor (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibian creature (Doug Jones) who is locked up in a secret American research facility. Del Toro is also a clear favourite to win the Best Director award. Play References and homages in The Shape of Water.Gary Oldman s prosthetic-driven performance as British prime minister Winston Churchill may finally get the actor his first Academy Award. The bookies are favouring Oldman and he has also won the major acting awards so far at the Golden Globes the British Academy of Film and Television Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.Oldman s rivals include 22-year old Timothee Chalamet who has become an overnight star for his performance as a lovelorn teenager in Call Me By Your Name and three-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis who plays a designer who gets involved with his model in Paul Thomas Anderson s Phantom Thread. Play Gary Oldman on the makeup routine for Darkest Hour.Cinematographer Roger Deakins who has missed an Academy Award a staggering 13 times in his career has a strong chance of winning one this year. Deakins s sumptuous cinematography is one of the highlights of Denis Villeneuve s futuristic tech-noir Blade Runner 2049. The movie has also been nominated in the Sound Editing Sound Mixing Visual Effects and Production Design categories. Play Roger Deakins on Blade Runner 2049.Christopher Nolan s Dunkirk hit the sweet spot between critical acclaim and commercial glory (it grossed close to 525 million worldwide). Dunkirk is in the running for eight awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Dunkirk depicts the British effort to fight back German forces on the beaches of Dunkirk in Northern France in 1940. The non-linear plot minimal computer graphics and the use of actual World War II-era warships and fighter planes have lent the movie an air of gritty authenticity which has had quite the effect on critics and Nolan s legion of fans. Play The making of Dunkirk.Actress Greta Gerwig s directorial debut Lady Bird with five nominations has also been warmly received by critics. Gerwig is only the fifth woman in the history of the Academy Awards to be nominated in the Best Director category.Saoirse Ronan s performance as a teenager yearning to escape small-town life has earned the 23-year-old actress plaudits. Ronan is to McDormand in the Best Actress race what Timothee Chalamet is to Gary Oldman breakout stars who have been nominated against two thespians at the top of their game. Play Greta Garwig on Lady Bird.Although Paul Thomas Anderson s Phantom Thread is in the running for six Oscars including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) the movie s best chances are in the Best Costume Design category. Mark Bridges s clothes play an integral role in a story that is set in the 1950s in the London fashion world. Play The costumes of Phantom Thread.Luca Guadagnino s gay romance Call Me By Your Name is likely to get 89-year-old James Ivory his first Academy Award. Ivory has been nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category and he has won four top awards in this category at other events so far including a Writers Guild of America award. Call Me By Your Name the coming-of-age story of a teenager and his love for a much older man is also in the running for other Oscars including Best Actor and Best Song (Sufjan Stevens s Mystery of Love). Play Mystery of Love by Sufjan Stevens.The most American of all the Best Picture nominees is also the most topical. Steven Spielberg s The Post revolves around the efforts of The Washington Post editorial team to publish confidential documents pertaining to the failure of America s war in Vietnam in 1971. The film is in the running for two awards Best Film and Best Actress (Meryl Streep). Play Steven Spielberg Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep on The Post.The outlier of 2018 is comedian Jordan Peele s directorial debut Get Out a horror movie that is also a searing attack on racism. Get Out has strong chances of winning major awards this year at the very least Best Original Screenplay if not Best Film. Play Get Out: A new perspective in horror.No method is full-proof enough to predict the winners on Oscars night. Nate Silver s FiveThirtyEight makes predictions based on how the nominees fared in previous award ceremonies such as the BAFTAs and the Golden Globes. For example over the past 25 seasons the best picture at the BAFTAs won the Oscar 12 out of 25 times making it a fair indicator of which movies are ahead in the race the website s 2018 prediction report notes.FiveThirtyEight predicts wins for The Shape of Water in the Best Picture category with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri being a strong second favourite Gary Oldman for Best Actor Frances McDormand for Best Actress Guillermo Del Toro for Best Director Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) for Best Supporting Actor and Alison Janney (I Tonya) for Best Supporting Actress and Coco for Best Animated Feature.The report acknowledges that predicting Best Film this year is particularly difficult as both frontrunners The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri are popular with different sets of groups. The Shape of Water won the most awards from guilds representing directors producers and editors while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri has won big in the Golden Globes the BAFTAs and the SAG awards. Image credit: FiveThirtyEight.Image credit: FiveThirtyEight.Image credit: FiveThirtyEight.Image credit: FiveThirtyEight.Meanwhile a report in The Guardian has attempted to predict Oscar winners by looking at for your consideration advertisements. For instance the poster of Call Me By Your Name strongly pushes Ivory s multiple wins in the Best Adapted Screenplay category and features the octogenarian s face. When was the last time a screenwriter s face made it to a film poster?Likewise Dunkirk s for your consideration poster has Nolan in a diving suit in the middle of shooting his visionary epic. Look at Christopher Nolan here splashing around in a wetsuit like some kind of hunk the report observes. That perfect hair. That mysterious stubble. Ostensibly the message is: Behold the struggles Nolan endured to achieve perfection.
Oscars 2018: The Shape Of Water is directed by Guillermo del Toro (Courtesy: shapeofwatermovie))New Delhi: Hollywood s big day is here. The 90th Academy Awards began with host Jimmy Kimmel taking the centrestage. The Academy Awards like the Grammys and Golden Globes before it included the Me Too and Time s Up campaigns in speeches. 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. Allison Janney won Best Supporting Actress for I Tonya. Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.The Shape Of Water is the biggest winner with 4 Oscars followed by Dunkirk and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.There were also several pleasant first time at Oscars this year. Like Mudbound director Dee Rees was the first black woman nominated for best adapted screenplay while Yance Ford (Strong Island) was the first openly transgender director ever nominated.Mar 05 201810:23 (IST) Look around ladies and gentlemen. We all have stories to tell and projects we need financed. Invite us into your office in a couple days - or you can come to ours whichever suits you best - and we ll tell you all about them. - Frances McDormand winning her second Best Actress Oscar. In the audience the women - Meryl Streep among them - are on their feetMar 05 201810:19 (IST) No flub this time it seems. The Shape Of Water is the biggest winner of the show with 4 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director And the winner of the jet ski for the shortest speech - Mark Bridges winner of the Oscar for Best Costume Design for Phantom ThreadMar 05 201810:16 (IST) The biggie - The Shape Of Water wins Best PictureMar 05 201810:11 (IST) Nothing could possibly go wrong from here on - Envelopegate is PriceWaterhouse under the bridge - quips Jimmy KimmelWarren Beatty and Faye Dunaway get a second chance at presenting the Best Picture OscarMar 05 201810:09 (IST) Frances wins in more ways than oneFrances McDormand s #oscars speech is my instant favorite - so giddy and serious at the same time- Omar (@omarkhan80) March 5 2018I m not crying at Frances McDormand s speech you are #girlpower#Oscars90- Madison Geery (@MadisonGeery) March 5 2018Frances man. I ve never used forever mood not mockingly before. That is obviously a speech for the annals. #Oscars- Wolf (@wolfmvc) March 5 2018Mar 05 201810:03 (IST) Frances McDormand wins Best Actress for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing MissouriMar 05 201809:59 (IST) TriviaMar 05 201809:55 (IST) This is Gary Oldman s second nomination and first win - likely to be controversial because of past domestic abuse allegationsMar 05 201809:54 (IST) And the Best Actor Oscar goes to Gary Oldman for Darkest HourMar 05 201809:50 (IST) Jane Fonda and Helen Mirren will present Best Actress. Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence will present Best OscarAnd then Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway return to present Best Picture again second year in a rowMar 05 201809:45 (IST) Big win - Guillermo Del Toro wins Best DirectorMar 05 201809:43 (IST) Last year s Best Actress Emma Stone introduces the nominees for Best Director as these four men and Greta Gerwig Mar 05 201809:43 (IST) These guys crashed a screening next door.@GalGadot@AnselElgort@MargotRobbie@HamillHimself@RealGDT Emily Blunt @Lupita_Nyongo@ArmieHammer@Lin_Manuel@IamGuillermo & I crashed a screening of #WrinkleInTime to thank moviegoers for moviegoing #Oscars@ChineseTheatrespic.twitter.com/KRUdM5Y0O4- Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) March 5 2018This was not your average screening of #WrinkleInTime... #Oscars@GalGadot@AnselElgort@MargotRobbie@HamillHimself@RealGDT#EmilyBlunt@Lupita_Nyongo@ArmieHammer@Lin_Manuel@IamGuillermo@ChineseTheatrespic.twitter.com/CdpwRO6NS0- Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) March 5 2018Mar 05 201809:40 (IST) Recap - Allison Janney won Best Supporting Actress for I Tonya. Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing MissouriMar 05 201809:39 (IST) The big 4 coming up after Eddie Vedder s tribute performance for the In Memoriam segment.Current win tallyDunkirk - 3The Shape Of Water - 2Blade Runner 2049 - 2Coco - 2Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri - 1Get Out - 1Call Me By Your Name - 1Darkest Hour - 1Phantom Thread -1Mar 05 201809:35 (IST)Remember Me from Coco wins Best Original SongMar 05 201809:31 (IST) Alexandre Desplat wins Best Original Score for The Shape of WaterMar 05 201809:28 (IST) Christopher Walken presents the Oscar for Best Original ScoreMar 05 201809:23 (IST) Keala Settle singing This Is Me from The Greatest Showman is the show s last performer except for one - Eddie Vedder will perform a special tributeMar 05 201809:22 (IST)Blade Runner 2049 s Roger A Deakins wins Best Cinematography (in which category a woman was nominated for the first time everMar 05 201809:17 (IST) Former Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock here to present the Oscar for Best Cinematography. Wants the house lights dimmed first pleaseMar 05 201809:14 (IST) And yes despite Envelopgate Bonnie and Clyde are presenting Best Picture again this yearWarren Beatty and a PWC rep are locked in the green room practicing envelope handoffs hundreds of times. Faye Dunaway sits nearby with an air horn trying to throw them off.- Mark Lisanti (@marklisanti) March 5 2018Mar 05 201809:11 (IST) 7 categories left now - Best Cinematography Best Original Score Best Original Song Best Actor Best Actress Best Director and Best PictureCurrent tally of winsDunkirk - 3The Shape Of Water - 1Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri - 1Call Me By Your Name - 1Phantom Thread - 1Get Out - 1Darkest Hour - 1Mar 05 201809:08 (IST) Jordan Peele wins Best Original Screenplay for Get OutMar 05 201809:03 (IST) James Ivory wins Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me By Your NameMar 05 201809:01 (IST) Margot Robbie and Chadwick Boseman are presenting the writing awardsMar 05 201809:00 (IST) Folks aren t happy that Kobe accused of rape just won an Oscar. This is the year of Time s Up and #MeToo after allTime s up but not for Kobe!- roxane gay (@rgay) March 5 2018they have the time s up montage in the same oscars that gave kobe an award loool- spencer pratt institute (@hancxck) March 5 2018Mar 05 201808:53 (IST) Co-conspirators in The Great Hot Dog Handout - Margot Robbie Gal Gadot and Lupita Nyong oMar 05 201808:50 (IST) Dave Chappelle introduces Common and Andra Day performing nominated song Stand Up For Something from MarshallMar 05 201808:48 (IST) Kobe Bryant is an Oscar winner now. His Dear Basketball won Best Animated ShortMar 05 201808:46 (IST)The Silent Child wins Best Live Action ShortMar 05 201808:43 (IST)Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405 wins Best Documentary ShortMar 05 201808:42 (IST) Hi Meryl I want you to be my mama one day - Maya RudolphMar 05 201808:42 (IST) Maya and Tiffany are presenting 2 Oscars - Best Documentary Short and Best Live Action ShortMar 05 201808:40 (IST) Everyone wants a hot dog. They don t really care that Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph are on stage right nowMar 05 201808:38 (IST) Hot dogs are indeed being handed out - by Margot and LupitaMar 05 201808:37 (IST) 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 mentionedMar 05 201808:36 (IST) 11 categories still left among them the 4 biggies - Best Actress Best Actor Best Director and Best PictureThe Shape Of Water which led the nominations list with 13 has won 1 Oscar so far. Dunkirk has 3 winsMar 05 201808:34 (IST) Jimmy Kimmel has time to tweet in-between hostingMy 9-year-old self showed up to introduce #StarWars#TheLastJedi stars Kelly Marie Tran Oscar Isaac @HamillHimself & BB-8... #Oscarspic.twitter.com/XS2mmYXhTN- Jimmy Kimmel https://www.steinberg.net/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=103006 (@jimmykimmel) March 5 2018Mar 05 201808:32 (IST) The moment Allison Janney won Best Supporting Actress. Her I Tonya co-star Margot Robbie was thrilled Mar 05 201808:30 (IST)Dunkirk s current tally is 3 wins - Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing Best Film EditingIt s also up for Best Picture and Christopher Nolan has a Best Director nominationMar 05 201808:27 (IST)Dunkirk wins Best Film EditingMar 05 201808:24 (IST)Blade Runner 2049 wins the Oscar for Best Visual EffectsMar 05 201808:20 (IST) Pre-show Jennifer Garner won the red carpet in this royal blue Versace dress with a trainMar 05 201808:11 (IST)Coco wins Best Animated Feature to rousing cheersMar 05 201808:10 (IST) And now for Best Animated FeatureMar 05 201808:08 (IST) And the Oscar goes to... Don t say La La Land don t say La La Land - Mark HamillHe didn t. Dear Basketball wins Best Animated ShortMar 05 201808:07 (IST) Guess who s presenting? Luke SkywalkerMark Hamill Oscar Issac Kelly Marie Tran and BB8 present the Oscar for Best Animated ShortMar 05 201808:00 (IST) This is Allison Janney s first OscarMar 05 201807:59 (IST) Allison Janney wins Best Supporting Actress for I TonyaMar 05 201807:58 (IST) And the Oscar goes to...Mar 05 201807:57 (IST) Mahershala Ali last year s Best Supporting Actor presents the award for Best Supporting ActressNomineesAllison JanneyMary J BligeOctavia SpencerLaurie MetcalfLesley ManvilleMar 05 201807:54 (IST)A Fantastic Woman from Chile wins Best Foreign Language FilmMar 05 201807:53 (IST) 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 accusationsMar 05 201807:45 (IST) Gael Garcia Bernal Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade perform Remember Me from Coco nominated for Best Original SongMar 05 201807:44 (IST) Rita Moreno then and nowLong live Rita Moreno. pic.twitter.com/RCT7cZL9t1- A.B. (@AlannaBennett) March 4 2018Mar 05 201807:42 (IST)The Shape Of Water nominated for 13 Oscars wins Best Production DesignMar 05 201807:41 (IST) Wait till you see what I m wearing - presenter Rita Moreno 86 tweeted some days agoWhat she wore was the same dress she wore to the Oscars in 1962 when she won Best Supporting Actress for West Side StoryMar 05 201807:38 (IST) Hi what s your name? Jimmy Kimmel asks Steven Spielberg. Steven he anwersMar 05 201807:35 (IST) Ali Fazal isn t too upset Victoria & Abdul didn t winAb dekho costume bhi pehen liya.. oscar waala..So happy for the winners. As you can see i am very happy for all of them nominees.Thank you consolata for the tremendous work you did on me and the rest!#AcademyAwards2018#OscarSunday#oscars18#focusfeatures#universalstudiospic.twitter.com/kZaJEOWs7N- Ali Fazal M (@alifazal9) March 5 2018Mar 05 201807:31 (IST)Dunkirk also wins Best Sound MixingMar 05 201807:29 (IST)Dunkirk wins the Oscar for Best Sound Editing Mar 05 201807:24 (IST) Best Actress nominee Saoirse Ronan in soft pink Calvin KleinMar 05 201807:18 (IST)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 HairMar 05 201807:16 (IST) Meantime how stunning is Nicole Kidman in her cobalt Armani dress?Mar 05 201807:15 (IST) Taraji P Henson introduces the first nominee for Best Original Song - Mighty River from Mudbound. Mary J Blige performsMar 05 201807:11 (IST) And the Oscar goes to - IcarusMar 05 201807:08 (IST) Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig and Laura Dern are presenting the Oscar for Best Documentary FeatureMar 05 201807:02 (IST)Phantom Thread wins Best Costume DesignMar 05 201806:57 (IST) And the Oscar goes to Darkest Hour in which Gary Oldman transforms into Winston ChurchillMar 05 201806:56 (IST) Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer are presenting the Oscar for Hair and MakeupMar 05 201806:55 (IST) Emma Stone is wearing this cool Louis Vuitton suitMar 05 201806:51 (IST) Sam Rockwell wins his first Oscar for his role as a racist cop in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing MissouriMar 05 201806:49 (IST) And the Oscar goes to - Sam RockwellMar 05 201806:46 (IST) First award of the show - Viola Davis presents Best Supporting ActorNomineesWillem DafoeSam RockwellRichard JenkinsWoody HarrelsonChristopher PlummerMar 05 201806:36 (IST) 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 )Mar 05 201806:35 (IST) Oscar is 90 years old tonight which means he s probably at home watching Fox News : Jimmy KimmelMar 05 201806:32 (IST) It s showtime folksMar 05 201806:30 (IST) You do you Jennifer Lawrence (while wearing metallic Dior)Mar 05 201806:22 (IST) Salma Hayek s slightly strange purple dress. It s Gucci - but we ve seen her do betterMar 05 201806:15 (IST) Presenter Laura Dern signs inBackstage at the #Oscars with @lauradernpic.twitter.com/U4vhmP5JPR- The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 5 2018Mar 05 201805:57 (IST) Timothee Chalamet is just one of tonight s several first-time nominees - and here s some triviaMar 05 201805:50 (IST)I Tonya star Allison Janney front-runner for Best Supporting Actress is wearing scarlet Reema AcraMar 05 201805:39 (IST) A throwback from Reese Witherspoon to when she won her Best Actress OscarOverwhelmed excited and truly humbled I will never forget this moment. March 5 2006. I am thinking about every nominee today & congratulating them on the incredible hard work that got them to this place. Have a great night! You are all winners. ️ ️ #Oscars#WalkTheLinepic.twitter.com/vRb8beWeW4- Reese Witherspoon (@RWitherspoon) March 4 2018Mar 05 201805:26 (IST) An oldie but a goldie. Rita Wilson just tweeted this.@tomhanks and I at our very first Academy Awards ceremony. #Oscarspic.twitter.com/Z2RaGHEJH9- Rita Wilson (@RitaWilson) March 4 2018Mar 05 201805:07 (IST) For Jimmy Kimmel who is hosting Oscars for the second time a good luck message by Ellen DeGeneres: .@JimmyKimmel tonight s your night! If you get nervous just picture them all naked. I don t know if that helps but it sure is fun. #Oscars- Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 4 2018No more content CommentsClose X
Oh and there s a new Meryl screaming meme to use which is exciting news for anyone sick of that last Meryl screaming meme: Norm Kelly (@norm) We got a new one tonight. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/lVNEVSLfSI March 5 2018