The 2018 Oscars were awarded Sunday night (full list of winners here), and Twitter was in top form making snarky comments and growing more inebriated as the night wore on. As is our usual custom, we’re going to highlight some of the funnier comments and moments.
Due to the gaffe at last year’s Academy Awards, people were checking their envelopes:
The #Oscars are making sure you know you have the right envelope this year. pic.twitter.com/S6QdGyDkEq
— Travon (@Travon) March 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/e_alexjung/status/970523756216094720
Guillermo del Toro got to check more than one envelope. He won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his merman sex romp (this might be the wrong genre description but we’re rolling with it) The Shape of Water:
https://twitter.com/JJ_Avrams/status/970514278250770433
Some on Twitter envisioned alternate reality versions of his acceptance speech:
What a touching acceptance speech from Guillermo del Toro! pic.twitter.com/YmMdZcAtPR
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) March 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/curtofranklin/status/970523664083927041
The Shape of Water was, predictably, the subject of many jokes:
isn’t the answer just ‘the shape of its container’
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) March 5, 2018
THE SHAPE OF WATER better be sold overseas as YOU FUCKIN' THAT FISH?
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) March 5, 2018
I can't believe they snubbed The Shape of Water's original song, I Can't Wait To Fuck This Fish
— Tatered (@tatered) March 5, 2018
I'd pay serious money to hear Tiffany Haddish describe the plot of The Shape of Water. "They're gonna kill that fish monster but she's not done fucking him YET."
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) January 23, 2018
And somebody referenced (without attribution) comedian Mike Mendez’s frequently-stolen joke about the movie:
https://twitter.com/veronicamarche/status/970468300303069184
But Grinding Nemo wasn’t the only subject of jokes. Plenty of shade was thrown at other people, like Kevin Spacey and Ryan Seacrest.
Nice to see Kevin Spacey on the red carpet https://t.co/YBPk2kpWRA pic.twitter.com/EXxdqc7sEI
— NYT Styles 💖 (@NYTStyles) March 4, 2018
Holy shit Taraji just put a curse on Ryan Seacrest 😂 pic.twitter.com/GSknn3NozF
— sara (@sarajeanhughes) March 5, 2018
"I'm great now that I'm in your company." –Taraji P. Henson to the interviewer who talked to her right after Ryan Seacrest
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) March 5, 2018
Best Oscars segments:
1. Tribute to actors who died this year
2. Tribute to actors who didn’t die this year but we wish were dead— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) March 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/SeanMBurns/status/970479552672694272
if you correctly pronounce Gal Gadot's name i guess E! just fires you
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 4, 2018
looks like the team from Call Me By Your Name is on its way to the red carpet pic.twitter.com/608szC70up
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 4, 2018
Plenty of jokes were made regarding fashion choices, like Rita Moreno awesomely resurrecting her 1962 Academy Awards dress for 2018.
i am also wearing the same clothes i wore on this day in 1962
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 5, 2018
Rest in peace, sleeves… #Oscars pic.twitter.com/Qw99KtWiEy
— Lights, Camera, Barstool (@LightsCameraPod) March 5, 2018
Jordan Peele won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, and even he was gobsmacked:
I just won an Oscar. WTF?!?
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) March 5, 2018
Kumail Nanjiani was gracious about The Big Sick not getting the win:
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/970503935164235776
And Twitter loved Peele’s win:
This hug just extended Black History Month 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾#Oscars #GetOut pic.twitter.com/TYgcAeooKy
— Jasmyn (@JasmynBeKnowing) March 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/CorporationStan/status/970506163149295617
i wish it could have won best original screenplay three times pic.twitter.com/f4R0Czwcxm
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 5, 2018
Sufjan Stevens took a break from wearing hats wrong to give a performance:
tonight is the first time sufjan stevens has taken a physical form instead of wafting through the air as the wisp of an extinguished unscented candle
— Matt Bellassai (@MattBellassai) March 5, 2018
And people were having strong feelings about plenty of things:
https://twitter.com/bobbyfinger/status/970500799284555777
Looked up and saw Kobe Bryant holding an Oscar next to BB8 I think my edibles just kicked in.
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) March 5, 2018
meryl streep is about that life #oscars pic.twitter.com/Xq6m32eAlJ
— ziwe (@ziwe) March 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/970480232510582784
It’s always powerful to see queer people win awards but it is doubly powerful to see them win jet skis.
— Joel Kim Booster (@ihatejoelkim) March 5, 2018
Allison Janney won for Best Supporting Actress, which required some hard choices.
I never wanted a world where we had to choose between Allison Janney and Laurie Metcalf
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 5, 2018
Frances McDormand’s Best Actress win provided us with a GIF that will come in handy for so many situations.
Me, at every staff meeting pic.twitter.com/xpFi75CoB0
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) March 5, 2018
Gary Oldman won his first Best Actor Oscar for something.
congratulations to gary oldman for his stunning performance as fat bastard
— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) March 5, 2018
People pointed out what was missing from the In Memoriam:
La La Land’s brief Best Picture win should have been in the In Memoriam
— CRlT (@anecdxche) March 5, 2018
And then there was the HOT DOG CANNON.
https://twitter.com/BillCorbett/status/970528674297647104
omg can you imagine being stoned in a movie theater and suddenly the lights come on, Armie Hammer walks in and throws a giant hot dog at your face
— Robbie Couch (@robbie_couch) March 5, 2018
IMAGINE GETTING HIGH AND GOIN TO A MOVIE AND THEN GUILLERMO DEL TORO BRINGS A GIANT SANDWICH
— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) March 5, 2018
What a time to be alive. What else could the future possibly hold?
Incredible. pic.twitter.com/3coNhQVnej
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) March 5, 2018
Shape of Water was great, but Hollywood often learns the wrong lessons from successful movies. That's why so many movies in 2019 will include frank explanations of how fish dicks work.
— Joseph Scrimshaw (@JosephScrimshaw) March 5, 2018
