Fantasy from del Toro wins best picture
Academy members make a strong stand for inclusion and diversity in Hollywood
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THE 90th Academy Awards ceremony skittered between the serious and the silly on Sunday night, taking time both to acknowledge #MeToo and to hand out hot dogs at an adjacent movie theatre, but the show ultimately emerged as a powerful call for inclusion and diversity in Hollywood.
Guillermo del Toro's outcast parable, The Shape of Water, was honoured as best picture, and Mr del Toro won the best director Oscar. Jordan Peele collected the best original screenplay award for Get Out, a movie centred on racism in the liberal white suburbs. And Frances McDormand, winning best actress for her portrayal of a mother seeking justice for her murdered daughter in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, made a dramatic stand for gender equality in Hollywood.
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