Alternative Oscars - Episode 25 - 90th Academy Awards

About this episode

The episode discusses the 90th Academy Awards and highlights overlooked films and performances from 2017.

It’s Awards Season yet again. Here on the Holmes Movies Podcast that means, it is time for the Alternative Oscars episodes! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards! Each episode for this series we pick a different year in Oscars history and attempt to correct the record, stripping the undeserving of their garlands while recognising those who were cruelly overlooked. This time, we will be casting our eye back to… the 90th Academy Awards. The event celebrated all the films released in the year of 2017. The event was held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on March 4th 2018. The host was Jimmy Kimmel. He had hosted the year before. The 90th Annual Academy Awards was a year after the La-La Land/Moonlight Best Picture fiasco. It was the year when Guillermo Del Toro's film The Shape Of Water won 4 Oscars, it was nominated for 13. Timothée Chalamet, at that point 22, was the third youngest person to nominated in an acting category. Greta Gerwig was nominated for Best Director for Lady Bird, the 5th female filmmaker to be nominated in that category. Jordan Peele was the first African American to win Best Original Screenplay. Rachel Morrison became the first woman nominated for…

People in this episode

Host: Anders

Topics covered

• Oscars
• Awards
• Film History
• Film Analysis
• Genre Films

Keywords

• 90th Academy Awards
• The Shape Of Water
• Best Director
• Lady Bird
• Jordan Peele
• Best Original Screenplay
• Rachel Morrison
• Best Cinematography
• genre films
• Oscars history

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Letterboxd

Books & works: Alternative Oscars, Academy Awards, Oscars, La-La Land/Moonlight Best Picture, The Shape Of Water, Best Director, Lady Bird, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Monument Valley Film

Places: Los Angeles, California, US, UK, Finland, Sweden, Oslo, Denmark

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