90th Academy Awards Ceremony : And The Winners Are...

The Academy Awards ceremony happening tonight at Hollywood is now over and the Winners Are... "The Shape of Water" won the "Best Movie" award and its director Guillermo Del Toro also won the "Best Director" Award. Gary Oldman won the "Best Actor" Award for playing Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hours" in which he is truly incredible. Frances McDormand won the "Best Actress" Award for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri". Dunkirk and The Shape of Water also won several technical awards and Disney Pixar two for Best Song and Best Animated Film ( see post below ). You have the full list of winners on the Oscars website HERE.

Did you missed Jimmy Kimmel great opening monologue of the Academy Awards ceremony? Here it is!




If you wonder how the heavy Oscars statues are made and the two videos below, including a tour inside the Chicago company which is making them, will tell you all about this.








Once the Oscars statues are made they'll go to a winner in each category and the next video will tell you how the oscars voting works.




I have a "one more thing" for you which are these nine great illustrations - one for each movie nominee in the "Best Picture" category, and these were done by artist Olly Gibbs.

Videos: copyright The Oscars, CNN

Pictures: copyright The Oscars, ABC, Olly Gibbs

Oscars Academy Releases For 85th Academy Awards Best Oscar Poster Ever !

The awaited 85th Academy Awards ceremony is on Feb 24 and, as they do each year, the Academy released a poster for the event, the one you can see above. The "light Oscar" is based on Gjon Mili's 1949 Life magazine photographs of Pablo Picasso. For the first time ever, the official poster includes the titles of all the nominated films.

BUT, because it is the 85th Academy Awards they also did ANOTHER poster, a "special edition" which is gorgeous and a brilliant idea! They asked Olly Moss, a great English graphic designer and illustrator who did recently three stunning Star Wars posters - his site is HERE - and Olly did a great job. This special edition poster features 85 Oscar® statuettes, each one distinctly inspired by past Best Picture winners, from 1927 through 2012. In two words, for each year each Oscar is designed differently depending of the movie who won. What a great idea, really.

I found it for you in the highest available size, so download it, click to enlarge the picture and try to discover what movie is related to each "year" thanks to the look of each Oscar. If you don't remember all "best movie" Oscars -  who does? - you'll find the list for each year on Wikipedia HERE, that should be helpful.

We're not done yet with the 85th Academy Awards as the Academy announced that he Avengers Cast will be Present on Oscar Show! Jump to the D&M Facebook page to learn more about this!

Pictures: copyright Academy Awards