David Farnor | On 05, Mar 2018

Netflix nabbed its first feature film Oscar at the 2018 Academy Awards last night, with Icarus winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary. The evening, however, belonged to The Shape of Water, which waltzed away with Best Picture, and scooped Best Director for Guillermo del Toro in the process.

The prize was presented by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, in a nod to 2017’s awkward Oscars mix-up, which saw La La Land accidentally almost-awarded the gong that went to Moonlight. But this was a year that wasn’t primed for such upsets, as nobody went into the ceremony as the clear frontrunner.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri had enjoyed a lot of success on the awards circuit, with Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor going to Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell as expected. But Get Out, which won Best Original Screenplay, was a constant threat to Best Picture, while Dunkirk and Lady Bird could not be ruled out for either that or the Best Director prize. Winning Production Design and Original Score too, del Toro’s fishy romance emerged with the most awards, but there were more than enough golden statues to be shared around the nominees, with Darkest Hour winning Best Actor for Gary Oldman, I, Tonya winning Best Supporting Actress for Allison Janney, while Dunkirk was honoured for Best Editing.

Netflix’s documentary win was all but guaranteed this year, with sports doping expose Icarus beating Strong Island, another Netflix nominee, to take the non-fiction crown. It was a much coveted prize for the streaming giant, marking its fifth year in a row being nominated for Best Documentary Feature – last year, it won its first Oscar for documentary short The White Helmets. Netflix went home empty handed in other categories, though, with Mudbound losing both Best Original Song (not to The Greatest Showman’s This Is Me, but Coco’s Remember Me) and Best Supporting Actress for Mary J Blige. It also failed to convert another Best Documentary Short nomination into a win for Heroin(e).

Nonetheless, it was a success for Netflix on a night where its rival, Amazon, did not win anything: The Big Sick lost out on Best Original Screenplay to Jordan Peele’s sharply constructed horror. Streaming, meanwhile, has become a vital way for many moviegoers to catch up with the major contenders: Call Me By Your Name was released early on digital HD by Sony, so that it could be downloaded before the ceremony by UK audiences, while MUBI’s On Body and Soul was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (also brought back by the subscription service to its catalogue for March). The latter lost out to A Fantastic Woman, a Chilean masterpiece that was released day-and-date in the UK last Friday, meaning that film lovers can also catch up with that winner in their living rooms right now.

As for the ceremony itself, it was a fairly conventional affair, overseen with wit by Jimmy Kimmel. But it commendably didn’t shy away from the Time’s Up movement or the allegations that have plagued Hollywood in recent months. Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra, all accusers of Harvey Weinstein, delivered a speech and introduced a montage that was all about the importance of diversity in movies – a message that was reinforced by del Toro’s success later in the evening, and Frances McDormand’s acceptance speech, in which she got all the women nominated for Oscars to stand up, calling for recognition, plus more financial backing from producers.

“I want to dedicate this, to every young filmmaker, the youth that is showing us how things are done. In every country in the world,” said del Toro, when accepting his prizes. “This is a door. Kick it down and come in.”

Here’s the full list of the 2018 Oscar winners – plus which ones are available on VOD and how to watch them. (For the rest of the nominees, click here.)

BEST PICTURE

Darkest Hour
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Coco
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Blade Runner 2049, Roger A. Deakins
Watch Blade Runner 2049 online

COSTUME DESIGN

Phantom Thread
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

DIRECTING

The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

Icarus
Watch on Netflix UK

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Watch on YouTube

FILM EDITING

Dunkirk
Watch Dunkirk online

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A Fantastic Woman
Watch A Fantastic Woman online

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Darkest Hour
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

The Shape of Water
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

“Remember Me” from Coco
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Shape of Water
Currently unavailable on UK VOD.

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

Dear Basketball
Watch the Oscar nominated shorts online

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

The Silent Child
Watch the Oscar nominated shorts online

SOUND EDITING

Dunkirk
Watch Dunkirk online

SOUND MIXING

Dunkirk
Watch Dunkirk online

VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049
Watch Blade Runner 2049 online

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

Call Me by Your Name
Watch Call Me by Your Name online

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

Get Out
Watch on Sky Cinema / NOW

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