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The host of the Oscars treated the 3,400 attendees to snacks to sustain them through Sunday night’s ceremony while making a donation to a food bank in Los Angeles for each “lunchbox” provided.

The 90th Academy Awards producers made sure there would be no envelope screw ups this year by putting the name of the category in giant letters on the envelope.

The fantastical tale of a mute woman falling in love with a sea creature in “The Shape of Water” won the Oscar for Best Picture on Sunday, and people had a lot to say about that.

Miles Dale, who shared the best picture Oscar with director Guillermo del Toro, called the achievement “a watershed moment” for Toronto and the Canadian film industry at large. “The Shape of Water” has 13 nominations more than any other film this year.

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“I was a kid enamored with movies growing up in Mexico”.

“But I thought the Mike Pence stuff, the Fox News stuff, but it all feels so political all the time and it feels very anti-Trump and anti-Republican”, she continued. “This is a door; kick it open and come in”.

Frances McDormand wins Best Actress for the ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.’ She paid tribute to the women in the room. With McDormand finishing second to last in her category, a long way behind victor Margot Robbie, and Oldman finishing 3, again – a long way behind online victor Denzel Washington. An inclusion rider is a clause in film contracts that allows A-list actors to insist that the cast and crew of their film meets a certain level of diversity.

“I’m hopeful that things will go smoothly tonight”, he said. It played the Ross for about a month previous year.

Sam Rockwell: Actor dedicated his best supporting actor award to “my old buddy” – the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

“Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) is the first woman to be nominated for director in eight years”, he said, before addressing pay inequality. Peele told the crowd that though he had some trepidation about the movie, “I knew if someone let me make this movie that people would hear it and people would see it”.

“The academy, as you are no doubt aware, took action a year ago to expel Harvey Weinstein from their ranks. Young said they asked, “‘What’s going on, you’re on the Oscars? The song “Remember Me” from “Coco” was was named the Best Original Song.

He referred to the debacle during last year’s ceremony, when Best Picture presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were handed the wrong envelope by PwC’s star-struck accountants backstage and accidentally announced that “La La Land” had won Best Picture instead of the real victor “Moonlight“.