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Weird2018’s Biggest Oscar Moments
By Brett White
@brettwhite
Published
March 5, 2018, 2:00 a.m. ET
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What were the biggest moments at the 2018 Oscars? We picked the 10 moments we'll remember now and forever.
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To keep speeches short, host Jimmy Kimmel tried to incentivize all the winners to embrace brevity by offering the winner with the shortest speech a Price is Right style prize package including a jet ski and a trip to the Lake Havasu Days Inn. Modeling the prize was Helen Mirren, kicking off the Oscars on the surreal note of seeing the Oscar winner pose next to a jet ski. The winner, with a speech lasting 36 seconds, was Phantom Thread costume designer Mark Bridges.
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After last year's eternally embarrassing envelope mix-up, the Oscars did not fool around this year. By the time legendary Oscar winner Eva Marie Saint took the stage to present the award for costume design, everyone noticed that this year's envelopes were large and the font on them was in charge. No confusion this year!
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As we proclaimed during the show, Rita Moreno won the Oscars just by being Rita f'ing Moreno. The West Side Story and One Day at a Time actress took the ceremony by storm, stomping it out on the runway in the same dress she wore to her Oscar-winning ceremony in 1962 (!) and then she struck pose after pose on stage. Rita Moreno, the EGOT GOAT.
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Jimmy Kimmel loves introducing celebrities to the regular folk that shell out money to see their movies. This year, Kimmel led a parade of stars-including Gal Gadot, Mark Hamill, Ansel Elgort, Armie Hammer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emily Blunt, Guillermo del Toro, Margot Robbie, and Lupita Nyong'o-across the street to a screening of A Wrinkle In Time to meet the fans... and chuck hot dogs at them.
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Every year, we meet a pair of presenters that are basically auditioning to host the Oscars next year. The academy needs to give that honor to Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph, who injected freewheeling hilarity into the Short Film section of the night. They praised each others' bodily-fluids-based comedy and griped about how there were too many "white dudes with clipboards" backstage. Give us four hours of them next year, Academy.
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The performances of the four Best Original Song nominees were all resonant and special in their own way, but it was Common and Andra Day's performance of the Diane Warren-penned "Stand Up for Something" from Marshall that got the crowd on their feet. Their rousing, topical, and inspirational performance is one you need to find online ASAP.
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The movement that began last fall with the ousting of Harvey Weinstein from Hollywood's elite following dozens and dozens of allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct had a powerful impact on tonight's show. Three Weinstein victims-Ashley Judd, Annabella Sciorra, and Salma Hayek-introduced a must-watch video that not only highlighted the courage displayed by women in Hollywood, but also the success that inclusivity and diversity have led to over the past year. Through discussing diverse films ranging from Get Out and Black Panther to The Big Sick and Lady Bird, this show-stopping moment celebrated the world-changing power of film.
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From a Comedy Central sketch show to the Oscar stage in under three years, Jordan Peele's career hit an even higher height tonight. After getting nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Original Screenplay for his work on Get Out, Peele took home an award for a screenplay he said he stopped writing "20 times."
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Frances McDormand took home the Best Actress award for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, but she didn't celebrate alone. During a powerful, rousing speech, the always unpredictable McDormand set her award down and asked for every single nominated woman in the room to stand. She told them to look around and take the moment in, to see all the women who need to have their stories told and to get ready to take meetings. She also gave all of us non-showbiz types a new phrase to learn: inclusion riders.
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The big award of the night went to The Shape of Water-no, seriously, it went to The Shape of Water and it was meant to go to The Shape of Water. There was no mix-up this year, and Guillermo del Toro (who was just on the stage accepting the Best Director award) got to shout out some words of advice he got from Steven Spielberg should he find himself on stage at that moment. As the legendary director told the new Oscar winner, del Toro is now a part of a filmmaking legacy.
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