Gary Oldman has regrets, even after his Oscar win
Gary Oldman in the Oscars photo room. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Gary Oldman won his first Oscar for playing Winston Churchill in “Darkest Hour,” and even though the film is set during World War II the actor feels it still speaks to today.
“[Director] Joe [Wright] would say that part of the movie is about doubt. But those insecurities and fears, we want to do things with the best intentions, and I would like to give people the benefit of the doubt and say they are motivated by a good heart and that they have the best intentions,” Oldman said in the press room backstage after his Oscar win.
“When you are in a position like I think Winston was in 1940, he sends 4,000 men to their deaths to save 300,000 … in war, those are the types of decisions you have to make. Then of course I don't know how you would sleep soundly in your bed on the evening you sent 4,000 men to their death.
“The Silent Child” writer Rachel Shenton signed along to her acceptance speech when she won the Oscar for live-action short film.
Joined onstage by the director, Chris Overton, also her fiancé, Shenton said she promised their 6-year-old lead actress Maisie Sly that she’d do it.
“Our movie is about a deaf child being born into a world of silence. It’s not exaggerated or sensationalized for the movie. This is happening. Millions of children all over the world live in silence and face communication barriers and particularly access to education,” Shenton said.
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By SONAIYA KELLEY
Director Guillermo del Toro, left, and producer J. Miles Dale of "The Shape of Water," pose for photos at the 90th Academy Awards. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Guillermo del Toro, who won two of the night's top honors (director and best picture for "The Shape of Water"), arrived at the press room after the show with the film's producer, J. Miles Dale in tow.
The Mexican director volleyed questions in both English and Spanish about diversity and the significance of Mexican storytellers and stories.
"What we have to bring to the world discourse, to the world conversation is extremely important," he said. "It's honoring your roots and honoring your country."
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By BY LOS ANGELES TIMES STAFF
Accepting his Oscar for director on Sunday, Guillermo del Toro extolled the virtues of filmmaking.
“I am an immigrant like [fellow Mexican directors] Alfonso [Cuarón] and Alejandro [G. Iñárritu], my compadres. Like Gael [García Bernal], like Salma [Hayek] and like many, many of you.
In the last 25 years I've been living in a country all of our own. Part of it is here, part of it is in Europe, part of it is everywhere. Because I think that the greatest thing our art does and our industry does is to erase the lines in the sand. We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper.
The place I like to live the most is at Fox Searchlight because in 2014, they came to listen to a mad pitch with some drawings and the story and a maquette. And they believed that a fairy tale about an amphibian god and mute woman done in the style of Douglas Sirk, and a musical and a thriller was a sure bet.
I want to thank the people that have come with me all the way: Kimmy, Robert, Gary, Wayne and George. And my kids. And I wanna say, like Jimmy Cagney said once, ‘My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my brothers and sisters thank you. And I thank you very much.’”
The place I like to live the most is at Fox Searchlight because in 2014, they came to listen to a mad pitch with some drawings and the story and a maquette. And they believed that a fairy tale about an amphibian god and mute woman done in the style of Douglas Sirk, and a musical and a thriller was a sure bet.
I want to thank the people that have come with me all the way: Kimmy, Robert, Gary, Wayne and George. And my kids. And I wanna say, like Jimmy Cagney said once, ‘My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my brothers and sisters thank you. And I thank you very much.’”
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Jordan Peele, backstage with his Oscar for original screenplay for "Get Out." (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
“Am I about to be auctioned off right now?”
That’s how Jordan Peele started off his question-and-answer session backstage at the Academy Awards on Sunday, when the “Get Out” writer-director faced a crowd of reporters after winning the Oscar for best original screenplay. He noted the honor was about more than him.
“I didn’t know how important this was,” he said. “I always wanted this, but the campaign is grueling and there were times where I questioned what it was all about [because] you’re watching your last jumpshot for a year. As an artist, that doesn't feel right.”
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By JESSICA GELT
Frances McDormand onstage after winning the Oscar for lead actress. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Frances McDormand arrived in the press room after winning the Oscar for her work in Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” and she had just been informed of the online confusion that arose after she ended her rousing acceptance speech with two words: inclusion rider.
“I just found out about this last week — there has always been available to everybody that does negotiation on film, an inclusion rider, which means you can ask for, and/or demand, at least 50% diversity, in not only the casting, but in the crew, so I just learned that after 35 years of being in the film business: We’re not going back,” she said to loud applause.
McDormand stopped short of saying that this year was a historic year for the idea of inclusion, instead citing the 2017 win of the indie-film-that-could, “Moonlight,” as the beginning of the tide that has swept the industry.
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By VALLI HERMAN
Margot Robbie, left, Chadwick Boseman and Nicole Kidman attends the 90th Academy Awards. (Matt Petit / A.M.P.A.S via Getty Images)
We did an Instagram poll during the Oscars on Sunday to find out what our followers thought were the best/worst looks on the red carpet. Like today's political climate, there were a few truly polarizing choices.
Overwhelmingly, viewers appeared to like risk-taking menswear, whether it meant pink satin jackets, all-white ensembles or regally embellished coats. Initially ridiculed, now ankle-high men's trousers appear to have passed the acceptance test.
For men, there was a tie. Top honors went to “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” co-star Darrell Britt-Gibson.
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By MARK OLSEN
This year's nominees for documentary feature all had some pretty phenomenal stories behind the scenes along with what went on the screen.
The Oscar went to "Icarus," a real-life espionage story about Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, a scientist turned whistleblower who helped bring down the immense state-sponsored apparatus in place for the illicit doping of Russian Olympic athletes.
The win marked the first Oscar to go to a feature film from the streaming service Netflix.
The win marked the first Oscar to go to a feature film from the streaming service Netflix.
In the 90th Oscars' opening monologue, host Jimmy Kimmel riffed on last year's best picture gaffe, Harvey Weinstein and the representation of women and minorities in Hollywood.
And he actually made those things kind of funny. All that with only about a bajillion Swarovski crystals sparkling on the set behind him.
Hey, it is Hollywood.
Check out Kimmel’s opening monologue in the video above, or if you just want the highlights, read on.
By JEN YAMATO
Mirai Nagasu, left, and Adam Rippon on the Oscars red carpet. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Mingling near the Oscars’ lobby bar, Olympic skaters Mirai Nagasu and Adam Rippon just barely missed a swiftly exiting Margot Robbie as the “I, Tonya” star rushed back into the Dolby Theatre for presenting duties.
The Pyeongchang bronze medalists, who were at the 90th Academy Awards for “Access Hollywood,” were of course rooting for Robbie, who portrayed Tonya Harding in the biopic.
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