90th Academy Awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().[27]

Guillermo del Toro, Best Director winner and Best Picture co-winner

Gary Oldman, Best Actor winner

Frances McDormand, Best Actress winner

Sam Rockwell, Best Supporting Actor winner

Allison Janney, Best Supporting Actress winner

Jordan Peele, Best Original Screenplay winner

James Ivory, Best Adapted Screenplay winner

Sebastián Lelio, Best Foreign Language Film winner

Kobe Bryant, Best Animated Short Film co-winner

Roger Deakins, Best Cinematography winner

The Academy held its 9th annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 11, 2017, during which the following awards were presented:[28]

Academy Honorary Awards

• Agnès Varda – "Whose compassion and curiosity inform a uniquely personal cinema."[29]
• Charles Burnett – "A resolutely independent and influential film pioneer who has chronicled the lives of black Americans with eloquence and insight."[29]
• Donald Sutherland – "For a lifetime of indelible characters, rendered with unwavering truthfulness."[29]
• Owen Roizman – "Whose expansive visual style and technical innovation have advanced the art of cinematography."[29]

Special Achievement Academy Award

• Alejandro G. Iñárritu – "For Carne y Arena virtual reality installation, in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling."[29]

At the time of the nominations announcement on January 23, 2018, the combined gross of the nine Best Picture nominees at the North American box offices was $568.2 million, with an average of $63.1 million per film.[50] When the nominations were announced, Dunkirk was the highest-grossing film among the Best Picture nominees with $188 million in domestic box office receipts. Get Out was the second-highest-grossing film with $175.6 million, followed by The Post ($45.7 million), Darkest Hour ($41 million), Lady Bird ($39.1 million), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ($32.2 million), The Shape of Water ($30.4 million), Call Me by Your Name ($9.1 million), and Phantom Thread ($6.3 million).[51]

The show received a mixed reception from media publications. Some media outlets received the broadcast positively. Hank Stuever of The Washington Post remarked, "In his second year, Kimmel has shown that the telecast needn't be anything but sharp and sure, with a funny host whose bits are manageable, shareable and – best of all – forgotten. We're not making showbiz history here; we're just trying to get through another Oscar night."[52] CNN's Brian Lowry quipped, "The Oscars are a big, unwieldy beast, which invariably try to serve too many masters. Yet if the intent was ultimately to maintain a celebratory tone without ignoring either the outside world or the elephant in the room throughout this year's awards, host Jimmy Kimmel and the show itself largely succeeded."[53] Television critic Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "How did Kimmel do overall? With the exception of the theater stunt and two unnecessary toss-off Matt Damon jokes — Kimmel really can't resist — I thought he was good, probably even better than last year."[54]

Others were more critical of the show. Television critic Maureen Ryan of Variety said, "All things considered, the show had a more or less low-key vibe. Normally it takes about two hours for the numbing effect to set in, but despite host Jimmy Kimmel's best efforts, Sunday's telecast started to feel a bit languid and low-energy far earlier." She also added, "The ceremony probably felt so ambiguous and conflicted in part because everyone in that room — and many at home — know how much more work needs to be done before true inclusion is the norm and all the offenders are driven from the industry."[55] Time television columnist Daniel D'Addario commented, "Kimmel, a talk show host who has been inspiring and catalyzing in the past year while discussing issues personally connected to him, seemed flat and uninspired in his monologue when dealing with topics that demanded laceration."[56] David Wiegand of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Even the hope that the noise of clapping might keep the audience at home and in the theater awake, there was little of that for anything except the entrance of actors of advance age."[57]

The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 26.5 million people over its length, which was a 19% decrease from the previous year's ceremony.[58][59] The show also earned lower Nielsen ratings compared to the previous ceremony with 14.9% of households watching the ceremony.[60] In addition, it garnered a lower 18–49 demo rating with a 6.8 rating among viewers in that demographic.[61] At the time, it earned the lowest viewership for an Academy Award telecast since figures were compiled beginning with the 46th ceremony in 1974.[62] In July 2018, the ceremony presentation received eight nominations for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards.[63] Two months later, the ceremony won one of those nominations for Glenn Weiss's direction of the telecast.[64]