The Oscars Film 2018

Hello there, and

welcome to Film 2018.

I'm Clara Amfo - long time no see.

You are looking good!

Tonight we're back with

the glitz and glamour,

bells and whistles of the Oscars.

See look...

No trainers tonight, I've made an

effort and I'm feeling good about

that!

We're live, so why not tweet us

with your pick for Best Picture?

Are you a Lady Bird fan?

Or do you prefer your entertainment

wet and watery - sounds wrong -

with Guillermo Del Toro's

"The Shape of Water"?

Let us know - details

on the screen now.

Right, let's kick things off.

Coming up tonight...

Winners, losers, tantrums and

tiaras. Brace yourself... We are

going headlong into the Oscars

2018...

Victory at all costs!

Going

for gold with Greta Gerwig. Could

she be the second woman to win Best

Director for her debut film Lady

Bebb?

Saying it out loud seems like

bad luck.

Who are you wearing?

Hollywood calls time on business as

usual after Weinstein.

Well if it's intelligence,

glamour and a slight whiff

of nerdiness you're after look no

further - Hollywood has nothing

on these two excellent specimens

gracing the Film Show sofa tonight.

Say hello to critic

Larushka Ivan Zadeh and new film

show regular the brilliant Ellen E

Jones.

Hello...

Are you getting at the bookies on

Oscars night? What are you doing?

I

tend to stay up but my ritual is you

go to bed and you wake up the next

morning, it is like Christmas! You

look at your phone and it's the best

night of the year.

A late night but

an early catch up!

I usually don't

stay up, I try and catch at the next

day but this year I am so excited,

it will be so good that I might try

and pull an all nighter!

Are we

secretly hoping for a La La Land and

moonlight mishap? Not so is said --

not so secretly!

On Sunday the Oscars

celebrate their 90th year.

That's 90 years of tearful speeches

and oh so sincere smiles

from bitter and twisted losers.

2018 promises to be quite

the birthday for this golden

nonagenarian so it's time

to get prepped.

Here's your whistle-stop Oscar night

cheat sheet and it includes

some strong language.

Uncle Oscar may be getting old but

he still knows how to surprise us...

I keep saying to myself that there

is an outside chance... The winner

is Robert De Niro!

You like me!

Is

the first time I've had one of these

in my name. Brace yourself... It is

the 90th Academy Awards.

In three,

two, one...

two, one...

Jimbo, hit the lights!

This year, the best picture race is

wide open...

wide open...

Guillermo Del Toro's

romance The Shape of Water steams

ahead with 13 nominations... Hot on

its slippery heels is Dunkirk with

H...

There is no hiding from this.

The BAFTA favourite, Three

Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,

has seven. Including a nod for the

hotly tipped Frances McDormand,

aiming for her second statuette for

Best Actress... But this year it is

out with the old and in with the

new...

Sink into the floor... Sink.

Fresh talent dominates the major

categories. First-time director

Jordan Peele owning an Oscar nod for

his horror film, yet out. As does

its British star, Daniel Kaluuya.

22-year-old Timothy shall make and

his first acting not for the

bittersweet -- Timothee Chalamet has

been nominated for his film. The

movie Lady Bird earns young veteran

Saoirse Ronan her third nomination.

Watch out for the new kids. Some of

favourites can miss out. Sorry, you

get nothing for thriller All the

Money in the World.

Nobody has been

richer than you are at the moment.

Steven Spielberg is up -- misses out

for The Post but have no fear, some

things never change.

We cannot hold

them accountable if we do not have

the newspaper.

Oscar Queen Meryl

Streep, other actresses are

available, earns a 21st nomination

and a departing Oscar King, Daniel

Day Lewis, could pick up his fourth

Best Actor award for Phantom Thread.

There is nothing the Academy love

more than transformation. Enter

Churchill biopic, the Darkest Hour.

Hot favourite for Best Actor, Gary

Oldman.

Oldman. With all of this year 's

Hollywood controversy, will the

Academy play it safe?

These days

have to be over.

Or will they shake

things up and throw in some surprise

twists? If there is one thing 90

years of Oscar ceremonies have

taught us...

The Academy award...

Is

that anything is possible.

STUDIO: I still shudder at that but

I secretly live for it! That was the

Oscars last year. What about 2018,

has it been the best year for movies

yet?

I think it has been the best

year for the Oscars. A couple of

years ago we thought that we were

moving into irrelevance. There was

the hashtag for "Oscar so white".

Now, they have pulled something out

of the bag. They have fresh voices

and fresh talent and they are

relevant again.

relevant again.

This year we will

find out whether it was a really

embarrassing night for Warren Beatty

or something that will go down in

movie history, when Hollywood

changed forever. Was Moonlight a

fluke or does the Academy recognise

movies that are more representative

of where we are in society now.

It

feels like a shift is happening.

And

you can see it in the nominees for

best picture. You have the old

school movies like Darkest Hour,

with Gary Oldman in his make-up, and

you have writers being noble in The

Post, Hollywood loves that. You have

Lady Bird and between there is Three

Billboards And The Shape of Water.

It is all there.

Whether any

pictures that you felt should have

been nominated, what about surprise

snobs?

We are a bit disappointed

that Mudbound didn't get more

nominations, it was

nominations, it was directed by an

outstanding director. And Mary J

Blige.

Would have liked to have seen

more love for the Florida product.

The lead actress was great, so

funny.

What stood out for you?

Christopher Plummer for getting Best

Supporting Actor, not just because

he is Captain Von Trapp in the Sound

of music, but All the Money in the

World, the thriller with Ridley

Scott, the Kevin Spacey scandal hit

weeks before it was to be released.

So Ridley Scott cut him out

completely and replaced him with

Christopher Plummer. It was a sign

of people going, we do not tolerate

this, we will clamp down on this

kind of sexual abuse. It set an

interesting president about what

will happen with other movies

similarly afflicted with other

actors accused of this, that and the

other.

Christopher Plummer is almost

as old

as the Oscars at 89, and the Oscars

in its 19th year.

So clearly in any other year we'd

all be sat here talking

about Guillermo Del Toro's

'The Shape Of Water'

with its 13 nominations.

But this year all bets are off

as there's really is only one topic

of awkward conversation.

Seems post Weinstein,

Hollywood and the Oscars

are struggling with

business as usual.

Several allegations of sexual

harassment against movie producer

Harvey Weinstein...

The list of

women accusing him is growing.

His

employment was terminated...

Three

allegations of rape...

Being

investigated by police in London and

New York.

Was it an open secret?

It

was the week that changed Hollywood.

It started with several brave women

talking to the New York Times.

My

sister-in-law, Laura, was one of the

first four women who outed him in

the New York Times. She was very

brave, she was his assistant 20

years ago. She never mentioned

anything. I knew nothing about it

even though I'm very close to her.

Harvey Weinstein was probably the

most influential producer working in

Hollywood for the last three

decades. It aspires to him that

people like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck,

Gwyneth Paltrow, Quentin Tarantino,

that they are as famous they are

today.

When I came into the film

industry, he was the person to know.

Of course, we had all heard rumours

about him but nothing on the scale

that has come to light.

This is the

biggest Hollywood scandal since the

Blacklist when Hollywood

screenwriters and actors were outed

as communists. The reason this will

be so big is because it involved so

many people. When Paltrow, Angelina

Jolie, all of them stood up to say

that they had been harassed or

assaulted by Harvey Weinstein. These

are not women who can be dismissed.

It didn't just stop with Harvey

Weinstein...

Fairly soon after

Harvey Weinstein, we heard Kevin

Spacey had been alleged with sexual

misconduct. And Dustin Hoffman...

At

the moment there have been 122

high-profile men accused of

harassment or assault.

The link

between these men is obviously

power, wealth and influence. Nobody

could stop these men. They were

simply too powerful to stand up

against anti-big to fail until it

turned out that they were not...

Soon, the hashtag #MeToo became a

rallying cry against sexual assault

and harassment.

#MeToo was a

powerful moment for women. A lot of

the men in my life who were

extremely liberal and would call

themselves feminists said that they

did not know. They did not know that

it happened to every woman.

The

hashtag absolutely represents a

collective of voices coming together

and saying no more.

Meanwhile, the

women of Hollywood were setting up

the Time's Up camping and using

their

their fame to get it noticed --

campaign.

Definitely before the

Golden Globes, I got e-mails from

different girlfriends in the

business talking about everyone

wearing black. To the Golden Globes

as a visual sign of solidarity for

all of the women coming forward with

their stories and being very brave.

We wanted to show our support.

Men

wearing their little badges, it is

beautiful but it would be more

beautiful if these men stood up and

acknowledged how much they have

benefited from a system of patriarch

year and sexism in the industry.

One

of the things that men can do is

listen. Just listen to when women

are talking. Right now, women are

talking. We really need to shut up

and listen for once.

However, it was

big or systemic problems like equal

pay and lack of representation that

soon came to dominate the

conversation.

Last year only 8% of

the top 100 grossing films in

Hollywood were directed by women,

even though some of the most

successful films last year were

directed by women, like Wonder

Woman.

I think what is really

important now is that we see more

women being decision-makers. In the

industry. And being employed on the

crews onset.

On a selfish level, it

makes for great films. Lady Bird is

proof of that, it's a woman telling

her own story and because we are not

used to seeing that, it feels very

fresh.

My name is Lady Bird.

It's

weird, you shake hands.

Yes.

The

more women we see as barristers and

journalists on screen, that will be

reflected back in the culture.

Audiences are hungry, they are

hungry for female stories. I feel

there is real appetite for change

from the audience and when that

happens and they vote with their

money at the box office, they vote

with their ratings on the

television. That is when change

happens.

It is ground shifting. We

are in the middle of an earthquake

and things are changing and I think

it is about time.

Come on!

Right on, Allison Janney! Is there a

cultural shift or is it just a

hashtag?

It is a gender quake! I

feel it's an exciting time as a

female movie lover as much as a

commentator on film. The ground is

shifting, things are moving so fast

at the moment. I don't believe it is

just the Harvey Weinstein

allegations in October and since

then there has been such a shift.

Every single award ceremony has

acknowledged this in some way,

whether it is the black dress on the

carpet or

carpet or speeches on the night,

everything acknowledging that.

I

want to be the voice urging some

caution. All of these stories have

in common the fundamental power

imbalance which is gendered. We see

it outside of Hollywood. #MeToo

started outside of Hollywood. We

know things are really change when

we see more women in positions of

power behind and in front of the

camera. It hasn't happened yet.

Octavia Spencer tells a good story

about how her and Jessica Chastain

work together to get a pay rise. It

is a good example of how talking the

talk leads to walking the walk.

Of

course,

Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain

are a good example of the

intersexual issue in Hollywood and

between race and gender. Audience

change narrative of what they choose

to go and see at the cinema. With

their money. We saw it with Wonder

Woman and Black Panther. With how

much value there is in being

represented when you are not a white

male, essentially.

Yes, it isn't

just representation on screen but

behind the screen. We had

controversy surrounding Buffy, but

standing back and saying, not the

one to tell this story... And you

go, wouldn't it be great if Batgirl

was directed and told by a woman

like Wonder Woman.

And the films

being nominated, that nomination

increases the box office, in blunt

terms. With Lady Bird, more men will

be going to see that film because it

is nominated and it's a big deal.

The Oscars can help in

that way as well.

The speeches will

be pretty charged this year.

Everyone will be talking about that.

And the red carpet will relate to

that. The Academy is changing. They

are trying to change their

membership up. At the last count

they got a membership of 8247.

That's just my count, I could be

wrong(!) They've really tried in the

last couple of years to get more

mixed members, and we address the

gender and ethnic balance but if you

look at the percentage of Oscar

voters, at 73% male and 83% white,

it is slowly changing and moving in

the right direction.

We are getting

there. It is happening! The

earthquake is happening, you can

feel it.

So it's clear if Hollywood really

wants to really embrace change,

it'll have to start offering

the keys to the kingdom to newer,

more diverse talent.

With five nominations

for her first film "Lady Bird" -

Greta Gerwig is one such voice

and if she wins Best Director

on Sunday night, she'll only be

the second woman ever to do so.

No pressure, eh?

There is some strong

language coming up.

Lady Bird, is that you're given

name?

Yes. I gave it to myself. It

is given to me, by me.

Lady Bird is

about a 17-year-old in her last year

at high school.

You were given a

role, you never turned up to claim

it. What role?

The Tempest. Her name

is Christine, but she makes

everybody call her Lady Bird.

Lady

Bird lives on the wrong side of the

train tracks. I thought it was a

metaphor, but there are actually

train tracks.

It is about before she

goes off to college, and her

relationship with her mum.

The eggs

are not done.

Make your own eggs.

I

wanted to.

wanted to.

Wildly, crazy really

talented. I knew they were equally

matched.

I want to go work culture

is, New York, or at least

Connecticut and New Hampshire.

You

will never get into those schools

anyway.

They punched the same weight

class.

You'll go back to city

College, then to jail and then back

to city College. Then you will pull

yourself up.

Watching the two of

them going through these intricate

scenes, these moments of connection

and then the moments of fracture and

where the trigger moment is for an

argument and Harry gets resolved,

these moments we don't generally get

to see. There aren't as many movies

about mothers and daughters because

there aren't as many women making

films. Studios are in the business

of making a profit and this past

year has proved how much we are

hungry for stories from different

storytellers and different

perspectives and we are willing to

put down our money to go and see it.

I wanted you to be the very best

version of yourself, you can be.

What if this is the best version?

Cuts.

I already want to watch it again.

Are we going to get into an argument

as to who loves Lady Bird the most.

Exciting thing is, it is directed by

a woman and Kathryn Bigelow Paul

Hart locker, that was a war film.

This is a tiny coming of age film

reflecting our experience and you

never saw that as an Oscar film

before. Such a modest film.

It is an

achievement and it shows us

directing incomes in shapes and

sizes and doesn't have to be big and

bon Baskett to be Oscar worthy. I am

a great fan of Greta. She has been

around for a while and being an

actor for a while and has written

lots of things. You can tell that

experience, she got some lovely

performances out of the actors.

How

refreshing to see a coming of age

movie which is in centres about a

happy ending with a guy, it is her

and her mother.

You have the Hoops,

losing her virginity and going to

prom. It is about her relationship

with her mother and not been defined

by a boy. Dirty dancing, she ended

up in his arms. This is more

interesting.

Can we talk about how

hard it is to watch a period film

set in 2000.

I wasn't expecting

that. It was my era, it works for

me, totally.

I remember it well. Is

she going to win, is she going to be

named Best Director?

She is in a

strong category this year, it is

great for her to be nominated. Great

to see Christopher Nolan, his first

nomination for Best Director. It is

astonishing in the history of the

Academy, Alfred Hitchcock didn't get

nominated for decades. Stephen

Spielberg has been nudged aside in

favour of other people.

Martin

McDonald wasn't nominated in that

category around Three Billboards

which I like, but does have some

problems.

problems.

So Greta, all eyes are on

you. Before that we'll be looking at

who is up for best actor.

She is more beautiful.

I saw her

naked once, great body.

Trying to

get me to like her?

Where would be

the harm in that.

You cannot reason

with a tiger when your head is in

its mouth.

Why are you not married?

I make dresses. I was certain I was

never meant to marry. I am a

confirmed bachelor.

Sorry, I see two

sister standing. Why can't they

stunning and the brother is sitting?

We want to sit.

You ladies have got

to speak up for yourselves.

This is

in 40 years ago.

There is no statute

of limitations on chivalry.

Can you

feel that? I can't move.

You are

paralysed now, sinking to the floor.

Wait...

We have had Nicole Kidman and the

nose, Charlies thereon and the face

and the hare. Gary Oldman, great

make-up or great acting?

I think it

is both. You are thinking, where is

Gary Oldman underneath that.

Gary Oldman underneath that.

This is

the category to watch if you want to

know if Hollywood is changing. We

have Gary Oldman where it is all

about the prosthetics and then

Daniel Day Lewis, favourite of the

Academy, he has won many times. Then

the new generation, Timothee

Chalamet. He is very good. Denzel

Washington. Nominated for the second

year running. Cannot have a year

without him.

without him.

We have Daniel

Killingworth for Get Out. Daniel Day

Lewis, who claims it is his last

movie.

Do we believe him? I don't

think anybody believes in. It

doesn't feel like his last role. He

puts him through hell and either

kills an animal needs it alive or

does something crazy. This time, he

was learning to sew. Really, is that

enough?

He is having too much fun.

He is enjoying this character and I

think in about five or ten years,

there will be another great

character for him and he will be

back.

I don't think we have seen the

last of him. Timothee Chalamet, dark

horse?

He is in Lady Bird as well.

People looked at him and think he

has years ahead of him and we will

see him a lot in this category in

the future, but I don't think this

is his year.

Who will win, who should win? Let's

take a look at the best actress

race.

You know what, if you can come

up with $5,000 for a costume for me,

I won't have to make one. Until

then, just stay out of my face.

My

name is Lady Bird.

That is weird, do

you shake hands?

Yes.

My feelings about that, you cannot

be part of this decision to publish

or not. I am here asking your

advice, Bob.

Not your permission.

Hello there.

Hello there. Do you know who threw

that can.

What can?

How about you,

sleeker, do you know who threw that

can?

Frances McDormand, let's talk

about her.

I thought The Shape of

Water, it would be Sally Hawkins who

plays this new to cleaning woman who

falls in love. I suppose the Oscar

idea she is playing a mute woman,

she has to that but this is the year

we want women out there and and not

giving a toss. Frances McDormand is

out avenging best horrible rape and

murder against her daughter.

I think

all of the criticisms of it are

valid, it ignores race and it is

oblivious to certain issues. That

all makes sense, but the

performances are so powerful, the

script is so witty in places and

entertaining, it earns the place on

the nominee's list. And Frances

McDormand deserves to win.

You never

know, this

know, this could be Saoirse Ronan,

she is only 23. We have had some

amazing performances, Octavia

Spencer in The Shape of Water.

I am

not a massive fan of that

performance. I tell you who I would

love to be nominated in this

category, Tiffani had each.

category, Tiffani had each.

And also

the trans-actress coming up and that

is the next barrier to break.

Everyone is like, is this going to

be the year where there is the first

nomination.

Still work to do and all

will be revealed on Sunday. The top

prize of the night is best picture.

Let's take a look at the 1910 is --

nine contenders.

nine contenders.

Ten hours until the

deadline, so we dig in.

deadline, so we dig in.

Call me by

your name and I'll call you by mine.

You are very fond of her, are you?

Don't pick a fight by me, you won't

come out alive.

come out alive.

Documents dealing

with the Vietnam War.

Let me see

your true qualities, your courage,

lack of vanity, your sense of

humour.

You know your mum's they are

totally fake.

She made one bad

decision at 19.

Rose...

decision at 19.

Rose...

Where is the

bloody airborne?

He didn't drill a little hole in the

dentist today, did you?

Of course

not.

Got to say it again, my kind of

woman. Nine nominations for Best

picture. Will we have a shock this

year?

I don't know, it seems like a

3-way race between billboards, shape

of water and Lady Bird. I think you

know who has got my vote.

I love

Lady Bird as well but those two

winning all the Best Film prizes at

the moment I live shape of water.

It

is polarising the sofa.

I don't hate

it by any means, but it is a tough

competition this year. It feels

competition this year. It feels a

bit twee. Maybe I have got in for

Sally Hall Kim since Happy-go-lucky.

Wonderful to look at and I think

perhaps it will swing the Best

Director category but also, the

other Oscar contender, it was

another similar, gorgeous to look at

fantasy. Very rooted in society and

historical context. That was the

civil war, this is the Cold War. It

isn't some little fantasy bubble.

People are getting excited about the

fact fantasies will win. It has

before, unless you count Lord of

rings. But there are so many more

exciting, ground-breaking films and

that isn't as impressive. It is not

working for me on that level. If you

want to fill that challenges, the

body snatching horror, Get Out.

I

remember watching in the cinema,

anything like it. Could this be the

film but could it be this year's

Moonlight?

Looking across all the

nominations, it has changed the idea

of what an Oscar film is. Partly to

do with the Harvey Weinstein thing.

He was known as the king of the

Oscars and he would push all these

prestige pictures. The King's

speech, you know where you are. You

have the post, Stephen Spielberg,

Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep. When I was

picking my nominations, I was

thinking, that is going to win. I

don't think it is now.

I was the

same, I thought it was sure, but now

we're not even talking about it.

Dunkirk, are we over the war movies?

It was fantastic, spectacular and

Hughes should I got everybody into

the cinema. It was bigger than

batsman in the UK. It plunges you

into the horrors of war, the

spectacle of war.

It is funny how

British actors are doing exciting

things in these operas, but British

film seems to be stuck in the past.

The church a movie with Gary Oldman,

has the Yanks love the Crown, it has

the Downton and the Crown vote

coming out for it in the economy.

The upper lips are stiff.

Should win

or is definitely going to win, best

picture?

Three billboards, best

picture.

I think it will go to The

Shape of Water.

We have about 100 hours to go before

the decisions on Monday morning. We

are going to play out

are going to play out with The

Greatest Showman. It was slated by

the critics, but it shows the

critics don't know everything.