Here's The 2018 Oscar Winners and What I Make Of Them.

In case you've been living in some sort of doomsday bunker, you'd be aware that the 90th annual Academy Awards happened just a few days ago and people are rambling on about it . Now, we'll get to my thoughts on this year's results in a moment; but, let's take a look at what won, shall we?

BEST PICTURE: The Shape Of Water

BEST ACTOR: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Jordan Peele, Get Out

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Allison Janney, I, Tonya

BEST ANIMATED FILM: Coco

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: A Fantastic Woman

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:  John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert & Richard R. Hoover, Blade Runner 2049

BEST FILM EDITING: Lee Smith, Dunkirk

BEST SCORE: Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT: The Silent Child

BEST ANIMATED SHORT: Dear Basketball

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "Remember Me" from Coco

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau & Jeff Melvin, The Shape of Water

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan, Icarus

BEST SOUND EDITING: Richard King and Alex Gibson, Dunkirk

BEST SOUND MIXING: Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, & Gary A. Rizzo, Dunkirk

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski & Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour

To be quite honest, this is the most content I've been with the Oscars in eons. First off, what other year has a genre flick (especially a full blown monster movie) won Best Picture? The last time that I recall that happening was with Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and that was fifteen years ago. I'm hoping the acclaim for this and Get Out* (as overrated as I think the latter is) is signaling a possible newfound sense of respecting for science fiction, fantasy, horror and action films for the normally stuffy and pretentious Academy voter set. Plus, it was nice to see talents like Guillermo del Toro, Sam Rockwell and Roger Deakins get their due. Congratulations, guys, you've earned this big time! Aside from that, there weren't really any major upsets. Gary Oldman winning Best Actor was probably the least shocking win of the entire night, considering how much Darkest Hour ticks all the usual Oscar voter boxes and how long Oldman himself has been clamoring for one of these coveted gold statues. Still, I'm not complaining. My only major complaints are Logan losing for Best Adapted Screenplay and Baby Driver losing for literally everything (seriously, that picture was robbed. Robbed, I tell you!). Other than that, the rest of the issues are standard operating procedure. Overlong padding to stretch the ceremony to three hours in length? Check! Awkward attempts at comedy from a host who couldn't look more uncomfortable if he tried?* Check! Forced insertion of political stances that are inevitably going to feel tone deaf? You better bet your bottom dollar that's a big fat check! Anyway, I still came away from this year with an overall positive outlook. Let's just hope next year will bring more of that.

*Seriously, Jimmy Kimmel blows! He sucks as a talk show host and he really sucks as an Oscar host. That and he & his cohorts have slowly hijacked YouTube. That is an especially deplorable vice in my book.