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FINAL-1 Sat, Feb 24, 2018 5:30:10 PM Your Weekly Guide to TV Entertainment for the week of March 3 - 9, 2018 OLD FASHIONED SERVICE Glitz and glam FREE REGISTRY SERVICE Jimmy Kimmel hosts the 90th Annual Academy Awards The biggest celebration in filmmaking returns Massachusetts’ First Credit Union with the 90th Annual Academy Awards, airing Located at 370 Highland Avenue, Salem John Doyle St. Jean's Credit Union INSURANCEDoyle Insurance AGENCY Sunday, March 4, on ABC. Every year, the most 3 x 3 Voted #1 1 x 3 glamorous people in Hollywood stroll down Serving over 15,000 Members • A Part of your Community since 1910 Insurance the red carpet, hoping to take home that Agency Supporting over 60 Non-Profit Organizations & Programs shiny Oscar for best film, director, lead actor or actress and supporting actor or actress. 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It Oldman for “Darkest Hour,” Daniel pect the long-standing gag be- Video awards he’s won. was nominated twice for Best Doc- Kaluuya in “Get Out,” Timothée tween Kimmel and Matt Damon releases illions of movie lovers and Netflix has already made Acad- umentary Feature (“Icarus” and Chalamet in “Call Me by Your (“The Martian,” 2015) to continue. entertainment profes- emy Award history as the first “Strong Island”) this year. Name” and Daniel Day-Lewis in Though it might be getting a little Msionals tune in to the Os- streaming service to land eight “Three Billboards Outside Ebb- “Phantom Thread.” old at this point, Kimmel will cars each year, cheering on the nominations, including four for its ing, Missouri” got seven nods, in- The host joked that there were (hopefully) trim the bit this year year’s achievements in filmmak- feature film “Mudbound.” Mary J. cluding one for leading actress some snubs he didn’t agree with, and give poor Damon a break from ing. The 90th Annual Academy Blige has gotten a nod for her per- Frances McDormand. Her biggest citing “Wonder Woman” as a his chirping. Awards, hosted once more by Jim- formance as an actress in a sup- competition is Saoirse Ronan for prime example while venting on It will also be interesting to see my Kimmel (“Jimmy Kimmel porting role. She’s up against Lau- “Lady Bird.” “Three Billboards” his show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” if Kimmel delivers food to the audi- Live!”), airs live on ABC on Sun- rie Metcalf in “Lady Bird,” Leslie also garnered a double nomina- He also thought Steven Spielberg ence this year, which is quickly be- day, March 4. Manville in “Phantom Thread” tion for Best Actor in a Supporting and Tom Hanks should have been coming a tradition. The first time, Though the 89th Academy and Allison Janney in “I, Tonya.” Role for Woody Harrelson and Sam nominated for “The Post,” but the the emcee fed the crowd peanut Awards ceremony is a whole year “Mudbound” also shares an- Rockwell. Willem Dafoe joins them two nods the film did receive are butter and jelly sandwiches; the gone, no one has forgotten the other milestone: the first nomina- for the supporting actor nomina- certainly nothing to sneeze at. second round included parachutes Best Picture incident, when “La La tion of a woman for achievement tion for his role in “The Florida In reality, Kimmel seems surpris- of candy, cookies and doughnuts Land” was mistakenly announced in cinematography for Rachel Mor- Project.” “Three Billboards” is also ingly calm about his hosting gig, floating from the ceiling. What culi- as the winner of the coveted rison, who’s up against “Darkest competing with “Lady Bird” for despite what the promo implies nary display he comes up with this award. The error was quickly cor- Hour,” “Dunkirk,” “The Shape of Best Original Screenplay, along about his lingering fear of enve- year remains to be seen, or he may rected and “Moonlight” received Water” and “Blade Runner 2049.” with “The Big Sick,” “Get Out” lopes. With the fallout from the re- drop the nibbles all together. the Oscar as due, but the blunder Though Netflix has yet to com- and “The Shape of Water.” cent Harvey Weinstein scandal, we Don’t miss the glamour and ex- is now infamous. The snafu haunts pletely win over the Academy with Denzel Washington has another can expect the air to be rife with citement of the red carpet when Kimmel to this day — a promo the Best Picture nomination (like nomination this year for his lead- tension, and for there to be a few the 90th Annual Academy Awards video shows his nightmares and Amazon’s nomination for “Man- ing role in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” speeches on the subject. airs Sunday, March 4, on ABC. sudden phobia of envelopes. Nevertheless, ABC Entertain- ment president Channing Dungey has great faith in bringing back Kimmel to host the event for a sec- ond time. “After just one year, we can’t imagine anyone else hosting the Oscars,” he said in a state- Chris Hemsworth stars in ment. “Jimmy’s skillful command “Thor: Ragnarok” of the stage is invaluable on a night when anything can happen Thor: Ragnarok — and does.” After his father, Odin (Hop- This year, “The Shape of Wa- kins), dies, Thor’s (Hems- ter” leads the pack with 13 nomi- worth) older sister, Hela nations: Best Director (Guillermo (Blanchett), is released from del Toro), Best Cinematography the prison that’s held her (Dan Laustsen), Best Lead Actress captive for eons. She de- (Sally Hawkins), Best Supporting stroys Thor’s hammer and Actress (Olivia Spencer) and Best drives both him and his Supporting Actor (Richard Jen- kins). It’s also competing with adoptive brother, Loki (Hid- “Dunkirk,” “Lady Bird,” “Three dleston), from their home Billboards Outside Ebbing, Mis- world, which she swiftly souri,” “Call Me by Your Name,” takes control of with the “Darkest Hour,” “Phantom help of the ancient, resur- Thread,” “The Post” and “Get rected dead. Thor ends up a Out” for Best Picture. prisoner on a distant planet, The second out of the gate is where he’s forced to fight in “Dunkirk.” It’s up for awards in di- a gladiatorial arena, but recting (Christopher Nolan), pro- with an old friend and a po- duction design and sound editing, tential ally there as well, he among others. Nolan is competing may have just the tools he with Paul Thomas Anderson’s needs to return home and “Phantom Thread,” Greta Ger- save his people from his sis- wig’s “Lady Bird” and Jordan ter’s tyranny — if he can Peele’s “Get Out” for Best Director. convince him to help. Peele is the fifth black director Director: Taika Waititi. Stars: nominated for the award, and Ger- Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hid- wig is the fifth woman. dleston, Cate Blanchett, Id- “Dunkirk” is also going up ris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Karl against “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Urban, Mark Ruffalo, Antho- and “Three Billboards Outside ny Hopkins. 2017. 130 min. Ebbing, Missouri” for Best Original Action. Score. 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