Retrospective 2018- A Year in Film

March

The March Mix

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Once again the start of spring brought UK audiences an eclectic mix of releases, led by Hollywood blockbusters from Kaiju monster sequel ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising‘ and the ‘Tomb Raider‘ cinematic reboot, to Steven Spielberg’s pop-culture nostalgia fest ‘Ready Player One‘ and pleasant comedy surprise ‘Game Night‘. The release slate was balanced by smaller studio and independent fare like Lynne Ramsay’s vigilante thriller ‘You Were Never Really Here‘ and Ruben Östlund’s Swedish 2017 Palme d’Or winner ‘The Square‘, plus plus Steven Soderbergh’s experimental iPhone-shot thriller ‘Unsane‘ and Wes Anderson’s wonderful stop-motion animation ‘Isle of Dogs‘.

And the Award Goes To…

The Big Golden Kahuna

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The final stop for the awards season railway brought the great and the good of cinema to Hollywood later than usual this year, thanks to ABC’s coverage of the winter Olympics, as the 90th Academy Awards rolled into town with no clear front-runner, but with Guillermo del Toro’s realist fantasy creature-feature romance ‘The Shape of Water‘ taking home the most awards and the biggest prize of the night.

Once again we can endlessly debate who should have won what and whether any of it matters, but the Oscars can make careers and give publicity to films that normally wouldn’t get much, not to mention celebrating legitimate achievements in filmmaking, so here are some of 2018’s notable winners;

Best Picture

• The Shape of Water

Best Director

• Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water

Best Cinematography

• Roger A. Deakins for Blade Runner 2049

Actor and Actress in a Leading Role

• Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour

and

• Frances McDormand for The Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actor and Actress

• Sam Rockwell for The Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

and

• Allison Janney for I, Tonya

Best Screenplay (Original)

• Get Out

Best Screenplay (Adapted)

• Call Me By Your Name

You can see our full recap of all the winners at the 2018 Academy Awards here.

Those We Lost

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March meant the loss of veteran American actor David Ogden Stiers (75) (M*A*S*H, Beauty and the Beast) and British comedy legends Ken Dodd (90) (Doctor Who, Hamlet) and Jim Bowen (80) (Bullseye, Jonathan Creek), as well as Norwegian TV actress Anna-Lisa (84) (77 Sunset Strip, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and British actor Bill Maynard (89) (Carry On Matron, Robin and Marian).

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