The Oscar is the biggest prize in Hollywood, and the Academy Awards ceremony is Hollywood’s annual opportunity to get dressed up, tout projects, support causes, and hope the host won’t puncture the fun with endless “This is so long and boring, why are we here?” jokes. This year, the awards will be given out on March 4th, and once again, they’ll be shadowed by controversy: not just the diversity struggle highlighted by the #OscarsSoWhite movement, but the lingering effects of the Harvey Weinstein scandals and the seemingly endless sex-abuse stories that followed. Comedian and talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel will once again be hosting, and if other recent award shows are any indication, there will probably be some serious political messaging mixed in with the “I’d like to thank…” speeches and the musical performances. Follow The Verge’s coverage here for news, play-by-play on the 90th Academy Awards ceremony, and thoughts on the winners and losers.
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Oscars 2018: The leadup and the rundown on the 90th annual Academy Awards
In the year of Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo, and Time’s Up, politics is likely to edge into the ceremony
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March 5, 2018
At this year’s Oscars, diverse forces agitated for change
It’s important to acknowledge 2018’s historical gains — and how we can do better
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March 5, 2018
The man who stole Frances McDormand’s Oscar streamed it to Facebook
I guess this counts as a PSA
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March 5, 2018
A cost-benefit analysis says a Jet Ski won’t shorten Oscar speeches
It’s just not a valuable enough incentive to overcome the social pressures behind longer speeches
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March 5, 2018
The 2018 Oscars’ running Jet Ski gag was pure genius
It was a solid riff on the usual interminable ‘Oscars too long’ jokes
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March 5, 2018
Frances McDormand champions ‘inclusion riders’ during her Best Actress speech
The words refer to actors putting diversity requirements into their contracts.
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March 4, 2018
Guillermo del Toro wins Best Director and Best Picture Oscar for The Shape of Water
These are the first Academy Awards for the heralded filmmaker
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March 4, 2018
Netflix’s House of Cards season 6 will focus on Claire Underwood’s rule
‘Hail to the chief’
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March 4, 2018
Roger Deakins wins Cinematography Oscar for Blade Runner 2049
One of the best directors of photography of all time finally gets his due
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March 4, 2018
Get Out wins the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Jordan Peele is the first black winner in the Original Screenplay category
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March 4, 2018
Blade Runner 2049 wins the Oscar for Best Visual Effects
With a movie this beautiful, it was the only possible outcome
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March 4, 2018
Coco wins Best Animated Feature at the Oscars
Pixar beat out four other nominees, plus its own Cars 3, which wasn’t nominated
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March 4, 2018
Phantom Thread’s Oscar-winning costume designer on how to tell stories with couture
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film is a masterclass in creating character with design
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March 4, 2018
Sam Rockwell wins Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The film gets the first win from its seven nominations
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March 4, 2018
Oscars 2018: the complete list of award winners
All the night’s awards, all in one place
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March 2, 2018
How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’ Best Picture race
There are several other factors behind the shift to weirder, more personal nominees in the category, but the statistics are worth considering
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January 23, 2018
Oscar nominations 2018: Three Billboards vs. The Shape of Water
And Greta Gerwig is the fifth woman to be nominated for best director at the Oscars