The red carpet for the 90th Academy Awards kicked off on Sunday afternoon with a bang.
Several ladies stepped onto the runway outside the Dolby Theater in Hollywood in impressive gowns that Cinderella would be jealous of.
The Oscars is hosted again by Jimmy Kimmel and the top films nominated include Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Stealing the show: The red carpet for the 90th Academy Awards kicked off on Sunday afternoon with a bang. Several ladies stepped onto the runway outside the Dolby Theater in Hollywood in impressive gowns that Cinderella would be jealous of. Here is Kristin Cavallari
Lovely lady: The blonde beauty looked like a walking fairy tale in a strapless gown in beige and gold. Her hair was worn up and she had on small earrings
Now with Brad: The jewelry designer posed arm in arm with Brad Goreski
Presenters include Sandra Bullock, Jodie Foster, Jennifer Lawrence and Matthew McConaughey.
First on the carpet was E! News correspondent Kristin Cavallari of The Hills fame.
The blonde beauty looked like a walking fairy tale in a strapless gown in beige and gold. Her hair was worn up and she had on small earrings.
The dress was so long, the shoes could not be seen on the wife of Jay Cutler.
Elegant: Giuliana Rancic looked ethereal in her one-shoulder white and beige dress with floral designs. The wife of Bill Rancic wore her blonde hair down and had on small earrings too; she added a large diamond ring
Back in black: Maria Menounos did not disappoint in this sweetheart-neckline dress that came in at the waist and had a very full ballgown style bottom portion
She nailed it: The TV host, who is a cancer survivor, wore her hair up in a top knot and had on bronze makeup
Another E! host followed. Giuliana Rancic looked ethereal in her one-shoulder white and beige dress with floral designs.
The wife of Bill Rancic wore her blonde hair down and had on small earrings too; she added a large diamond ring.
Maria Menounos did not disappoint in a sweetheart-neckline dress in black that came in at the waist and had a very full ballgown style bottom portion.
She nailed it: The TV host, who is a cancer survivor, wore her hair up in a top knot and had on bronze makeup.
We’ve spent three months admiring couture gowns, spotting Times Up pins and listening to politically charged speeches.
Yet while awards season may sparkle, it’s all just a dress rehearsal for the big night.
And as the stars walked the red carpet on Sunday, they showed just why the Oscars is the crown jewel of Hollywood.
But while the red carpet looked as glitzy as ever, beneath the surface the Oscars has changed to reflect a changed Hollywood.
And that was shown in this year’s most recognized films – with the Academy Awards showering outsiders, on screen and off, with milestone-setting nominations that celebrated Guillermo del Toro’s full-hearted ode to outcasts The Shape of Water, embraced first-time filmmakers like Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele, and made Mudbound director of photography Rachel Morrison the first woman ever nominated for best cinematography.
He was ready to talk: Goreski wore a brown velvet smoking jacket with dark slacks and dress shoes
With a diverse selection of nominations that spanned young and old, studio blockbusters and passion-fueled indies, the 90th annual Academy Awards gave many who have long been shunned by the movie business — women directors, transgender filmmakers, minority actors, even Netflix — something to cheer about.
Leading all nominees with 13 nods, including best picture, is The Shape of Water, by veteran Mexican filmmaker del Toro, whose Cold War-era fantasy is about a mute office cleaner (Sally Hawkins) who falls in love with an amphibious creature.
But the nominations also carried forward some of the ongoing reckoning of the Me Too movement that has been felt especially acutely in Hollywood, where male filmmakers outnumber women by a ratio of approximately 12-to-1.
Gerwig, the writer-director of the nuanced coming-of-age tale Lady Bird, is just the fifth woman nominated for best director, following Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola and Kathryn Bigelow, the sole woman to win, for The Hurt Locker.
Dame Helen Mirren, Emily Blunt, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman will be among the presenter, along with Dave Chappelle, Eugenio Derbez, Ansel Elgort, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, Eiza Gonzalez, Ashley Judd, Matthew McConaughey, Rita Moreno, Lupita Nyong’o and Christopher Walken.
Judd and Nyong’o are among the high-profile actresses who have accused disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment.
However host Jimmy Kimmel has said he will not focus on the scandal when he opens the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Other presenters already announced for the ceremony include Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot and Mark Hamill, as well as last year’s winners Mahershala Ali, Emma Stone and Viola Davis.
It is customary for the previous winners to present to the new winner at the subsequent ceremony.
However, the last winner of the best actor award, Casey Affleck, will not be attending the ceremony this year.
Ready for their selfie: Three women looked at their phones as they stood behind a wall of chains
At work: Right up until Sunday morning, contractors were laying down wires and cords for the TV crew
The Manchester By The Sea star would have been expected to present the best actress award, according to the show’s tradition, but in January he withdrew from the hosting role.
In 2010 Affleck was sued by two women for alleged sexual harassment before the lawsuits were settled out of court.
He has vehemently denied the sexual harassment claims which were alleged to have happened during the making of the film I’m Still Here.
The nominations for the Oscars are led by Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape Of Water, which has 13 nods, while Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan, has eight.
ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATIONS 2018
BEST ACTOR
Timothee Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary OIdman – Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Meryl Streep – The Post
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary J Blige – Mudbound
Alison Janney – I, Tonya
Lesley Manville – Phanton Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Ladybird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape Of Water
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Edith + Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Mighty River – Mudbound
Mystery Of Love – Call Me by Your Name
Remember Me – Coco
Stand Up For Something – Marshall
This Is Me – The Greatest Showman
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
BEST ADAPTATED SCREENPLAY
Call Me By Your Name – James Ivory
The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber
Logan – Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green
Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Big Sick – Emily V Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out – Jordan Peele
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (story by Guillermo del Toro)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
BEST PICTURE
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bladerunner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
Shape of Water
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul
BEST SOUND EDITING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmet
The Silent Child
Watu Wota / All of Us
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049
Guardian of the Galaxy vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
BEST FILM EDITING
Baby Driver
I,Tonya
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST SOUND MIXING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
BEST MAKE UP AND HAIR STYLING
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder