All the best jokes, quotes and speeches from last night’s Oscars

Though top winner The Shape of Water ($57 million domestic to date) hasn’t exactly been a runaway hit, it certainly outpaced 2017’s winner Moonlight ($28 million) and actually ranks as the top-grossing bestpicture winner in five years. The quip earned huge cheers from the audience, before the Oscar was presented to The Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro. “I never thought this could happen and it happens”, said del Toro. I want to tell you everyone dreaming of using genre fantasy to tell the stories about the things that are real in the world today. “This is a door; kick it open and come in”. “We still have a very long way to go in that department, and a very long way to go when it comes to equal pay”, Kimmel said.

Actor and director Jordan Peele won best original screenplay for his film “Get Out“.

Hollywood was sprinkled with stardust Sunday as cinema´s A-list came out for the Oscars, with a photo finish for best picture expected to cap an awards season overshadowed by scandal over sexual misconduct in showbiz.

Britain’s Gary Oldman won his first Oscar for playing World War II leader Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, while Frances McDormand’s woman in a vengeful fury was a popular best actress victor for dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The Instagram photo was a selfie with presenter Ansel Elgort, who was in Oscar-nominated film Baby Driver, and Chalamet’s co-star Armie Hammer.

“Three Billboards” star Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor.

Several cinema legends won their first Oscar.

Along the way, Kimmel also gave a nod to the Parkland students in Florida, poked fun at Donald Trump and Mike Pence, and, with the help of Helen Mirren, offered a free Jet Ski to the Oscar victor with the shortest speech. “The universe has a way of taking care of the good people, you know what I mean?” she said, tweaking Seacrest’s chin. “They are trying to make me think that if I don’t vote for this movie, I’m a racist.’ I was really offended”. One reason for the sharp decline in the Oscar ratings could be the lengthy runtime, which, even though, at three hours and 50 minutes, may have only been a minute longer than last year’s telecast, it was the longest in over a decade, since 2007, and the sixth longest overall. “‘So we were talking about our appreciation for people who go to the movies and those are you people, so we wanted to say thank you to the moviegoers”.