The Oscars for 2018 will be the 90th Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science (AMPAS) will be presenting honouring it the best films of 2017 in various categories. The event will be held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It will occur at 5.00 PM PST on 4th March, 2018.
As usual the vent will be held on late February to avoid the conflict with Winter Olympics, 2018. The awards will be presented by AMPAS in 24 different categories. It will be aired on television on United States by ABC. Jennifer Todd and Michael De Luca will be producing it. Glenn Weiss is the director.
Academy Awards are also known as Oscars. This award is basically is presented to honour the achievements of various films by AMPAS. The winners in various categories related to films receive a golden statuette’s copy known as “Academy Award of Merit”. The award now is known as Oscars.
George Stanley contributed towards sculpting the award. The awards were first presented in 1929 at Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The first ceremony was aired in 1930 on radio. It was first televised in 1953. Now, more than 200 countries can view it. Academy awards are the oldest awards ceremony all over the world.
The Emmy awards (television), Tony Awards (theatre) and Grammy Awards (Music and Recording) were all made up and modelled after the recognition of Academy Awards.
Till date, about 3048 Oscars have been awarded to the individuals for their contribution in movies.
AMPAS is a professional organization that honours the winners with The Oscars. Every year it maintains a membership of 5783 members who come together to recognize and vote for the hard work of the people related to the industry. Ever since 2013, AMPAS has started online voting for the Oscars.
When talking of Awards, there has to be categories. Well presented below are some categories in which the individuals are honoured:
Apart from all these categories, there is a series of some other “special” categories too. These categories are as follows:
The 90th Academy Awards or Oscars 2018 will be hosted by the comedian Jimmy Kimmel. This will be the second time that he would be presenting this award. Last year, also Jimmy hosted the 89th Academy Awards. After Bill Crystal, Jimmy Kimmel is the first person to host ceremonies back to back consecutively. Billy Crystal had hosted in 1197 and then 1998.
Checkout the Golden Globe Awards 2018 here.
The 9th Annual Governors Awards was held by Academy back in 11th November, 2017. The event took place at the Grand Ballroom of Hollywood and Highland Centre.
The voting for the awards will begin on February 20, 2017 and will be closed on 27th February, 2018.
The nominees were announced on 23rd January, 2018 via livestream. It was announced at 5.22 am PST at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills. Actors Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis announced the nominees.
Well, it is of no wonder that The Shape of Water received 13 nominations. Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk left no option and stood second with about eight nominations.
A number of movies received nominations in various categories. Some of the nominations in the various categories are as follows:
2018 Oscars seems to be really competitive and tough. So many movies have received such high number of nominations. No doubt, The Shape of Water outshined all. Here is a list of movies that received the most number of nominations.
| Nominations | Films |
| 13 | The Shape of Water |
| 8 | Dunkirk |
| 7 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 6 | Darkest Hour |
| 6 | Phantom Thread |
| 5 | Blade Runner 2049 |
| 5 | Lady Bird |
| 4 | Call ME by Your Name |
| 4 | Get Out |
| 4 | Mudbound |
| 4 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi |
| 3 | Baby Driver |
| 3 | I, Tonya |
| 2 | Beauty and the Beast |
| 2 | Coco |
| 2 | The Post |
| 2 | Victoria & Abdul |
Well, there are a number of actors and actresses who have won many Oscar. Not only have they received many nominations but also had the 100% success rate. Some of them are as follows:
| No. of awards | Name of actors | Category |
| 4 | Katharine Hepburn | Best Actress |
| 3 | Jack Nicholson | 2 for Best actor in leading role and one in best supporting role |
| 3 | Meryl Streep | 2 for best actress in leading role and 1 in best supporting role |
| 3 | Walter Brennan | Best Actor |
| 3 | Ingrid Bergman | 2 for best actress and one for best supporting actress |
| 3 | Daniel Day Lewis | Best Actor |
| 3 | Marlon Brando | Best Actor and Supporting Actor |
| 2 | Robert de Niro | Best Actor |
| 2 | Tom Hanks | Best actor |
| 2 | Christoph Waltz | Best Supporting actor |
| 2 | Cate Blanchett | Best actress |
| 2 | Denzel Washington | Best Supporting Actor |
| 2 | Kevin Spacey | Best Supporting Actor |
| 2 | Hilary Swank | Best Actress |
| 2 | Sean Penn | Best Actor |
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