Oscars 2018: Watch Frances McDormand win best actress and raise a battle cry for ‘inclusion rider’
Frances McDormand won the best actress Oscar on Sunday for playing an angry woman seeking justice in the dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
It was the second Academy Award for McDormand, 60, following her best actress win in 1997 for crime drama Fargo.
“If I may be so honoured to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight,” McDormand said accepting the award and leading an ovation.
“Look around ladies and gentleman, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed,” the actress added, capping an awards season marked by women’s stories.
Best Actress winner Frances McDormand rallies the crowd. Presented by @ATT. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/6loAtYheKZ
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 5, 2018
McDormand was the front-runner for the Oscar after winning a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and numerous film critics prizes for her role.
Three Billboards director and writer Martin McDonagh has said he wrote the role of Mildred Hayes expressly for McDormand.
Hayes is a divorced mother furious at the local police in her small town for not doing more to find the person who raped and murdered her daughter, and puts …read more
