The 2018 Academy Awards have come and gone, and while certain winners were as expected, there were a few surprises. The show itself was a lot of fun, Jimmy Kimmel did a fine job of hosting in his second year on the stage, at one point taking a group of A-list stars across the street to an unsuspecting movie screening audience just to thank them for loving movies. Major names like Gal Gadot, Mark Hamill, Armie Hammer, Margot Robbie, Emily Blunt, Lupita N’Yongo and even director Guillermo del Toro handed out candy and hot dogs to shocked audience members, effectively interacting the Oscars telecast with the real moviegoing world. The evening was all about the empowerment of women and inclusion, gender and race, and you could feel the energy and passion. THE SHAPE OF WATER took home several key awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Production Design and more. DUNKIRK won big in the technical categories, and Roger Deakins finally won his long overdue Oscar for cinematography in BLADE RUNNER 2049. THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI took home Best Actress for Frances McDormand, and Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell (his first Oscar). You can see a full list of the nominees and winners below, and see how our original predictions held up as well. Our happiest moments? Watching Gary Oldman finally get his well-deserved Best Actor Oscar, and Guillermo del Toro winning Best Director… did you watch? What moments blew you away? Tell us in the comments below.

I always note, for what it’s worth, the picks defined below (from when we originally posted the nominees) of what we thought will win were not necessarily what we thought should win, rather what we expected would win…

Best Picture
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water – WINNER!
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – our pick to WIN!

Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Actress in a Leading Role
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Meryl Streep – The Post

Actor in a Supporting Role
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!

Actress in a Supporting Role
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Allison Janney – I, Tonya – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water

Animated Feature Film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049 – WINNER!
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water – our pick to WIN!

Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread – WINNER!
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul – our pick to WIN!

Directing
Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out

Documentary Feature
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus – WINNER!
Strong Island
Last Men in Aleppo – our pick to WIN!

Documentary Short Subject
Edith+Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 – WINNER!
Heroin(e) – our pick to WIN!
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop

Film Editing
Baby Driver
Dunkirk – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman (Chile) – WINNER!
The Insult, Ziad Doueiri (Lebanon)
Loveless, Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden) – our pick to WIN!

Makeup and Hairstyling
Darkest Hour – WINNER!
Victoria and Abdul – our pick to WIN!
Wonder

Original Score
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Original Song
“Mighty River” – Mudbound
“Mystery of Love” – Call Me By Your Name
“Remember Me” – Coco – WINNER!
“Stand Up for Something” – Marshall
“This Is Me” – The Greatest Showman – our pick to WIN!

Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!

Animated Short Film
Dear Basketball – WINNER!
Garden Party
Lou – our pick to WIN!
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

Live Action Short Film
Dekalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child – WINNER!
Watu Wote/All of Us

Sound Editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk – WINNER!
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – our pick to WIN!

Sound Mixing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049 – WINNER!
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes – our pick to WIN!

Adapted Screenplay
Call Me By Your Name – WINNER!
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game – our pick to WIN!
Mudbound

Original Screenplay
The Big Sick
Get Out – WINNER!
Lady Bird – our pick to WIN!
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Agree with the winners? Disagree? Let us know in the comments below. The 2018 Academy Awards was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. ABC broadcasted the show live on Sunday, March 4, 2018.

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