Frances McDormand wins the Best Actress Oscar for ‘Three Billboards’
March 5, 2018
As much as I was hoping for an upset in the Best Actress category, I came into this evening feeling pretty strongly that Frances McDormand would take it. And she did. I’m not going to say Saoirse Ronan or Margot Robbie were ROBBED, but that’s mostly because I think both of those women will be back and they’ll have their time. I didn’t like Three Billboards, that’s no secret, but I thought Frances’s performance elevated a sub-par script, and she is now – and always has been – an exception, singular talent.
Whenever Frances has won anything during this awards season, I get the feeling that people are always on edge about what she could say. So when she won and announced “I’ve got some things to say!” people were like “OMG what is she going to do.” But then after she thanked her director and her family, she did something wonderful – she got every nominated woman in the room to stand up and applaud for themselves, and then she told the men in the room to take meetings with all of these women. So go ahead and Google “inclusion rider.”
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