"The Shape Of Water" wins best picture in last nights at Oscars.Hmmm... my next trip is to see this movie

• “The Shape of Water” won best picture, and Guillermo del Toro won best director for the film.

• Frances McDormand won best actress for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Gary Oldman won best actor for “Darkest Hour.” Allison Janney won best supporting actress. Sam Rockwell won best supporting actor.

• Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra — three of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers — took the stage and introduced a segment highlighting the importance of diversity in film.

Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water,” a fantasy about embracing the outcast and giving voice to the voiceless, was named best picture at the 90th Academy Awards, prevailing over more traditional Oscar movies such as “Dunkirk” and the rebel outsiders “Get Out” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

“I want to dedicate to every young filmmaker — the youth who are showing us how things are done,” said Mr. del Toro, who also won the Oscar for directing. “The Shape of Water” also won for Alexandre Desplat’s score and Paul Denham Austerberry’s production design.

The academy’s top acting honors went, as widely expected, to Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”) and Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”).

“If I fall over, pick me up, because I’ve got some things to say,” Ms. McDormand said.

She thanked “every single person in this building” and her sister before asking the female nominees in the room to stand. “Look around,” she said. “We all have stories to tell and projects we need financing.”

Ms. McDormand finished her speech by saying, “I have two words to say: inclusion rider,” a reference to stars adding a clause to film contracts insisting on diversity on both sides of the camera.

Jennifer Lawrence and Jodie Foster, appearing on crutches and joking that the reason was run-in with Ms. Streep, presented best actress in lieu of last year’s best-actor winner, Casey Affleck, who bypassed the ceremony amid continued criticism for settling sexual harassment suits in the past.

In a halting acceptance speech, Mr. Oldman thanked the film’s director and producers; Winston Churchill; his wife, Gisele Schmid; and his 99-year-old mother, who he said was home watching on the sofa. “Put the kettle on,” he said. “I’m bringing Oscar home.”

Guillermo del Toro was named best director. The honor was widely expected — he took the top prize at several preceding awards shows — and he was an omnipresent darling of the awards circuit, at one point bringing a case of tequila to an awards function. The win meant that Mr. del Toro had finally won the acceptance of Hollywood, after being looked down on as a horror director for much of his career.

“I am an immigrant,” an emotional Mr. del Toro started his acceptance speech by saying, continuing to note that art has the power to “erase the lines in the sand” between people of different ethnicities. “We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper.”

The oscillation between past and present was encapsulated by the cinematography nominees. The first woman ever nominated for the prize, Rachel Morrison (“Mudbound”), competed against Roger A. Deakins (“Blade Runner 2049”), a 14-time nominee. Voters chose to honor Mr. Deakins, who had never previously won.

“I’ve been at this a long time,” he said. “Thank you. Thank you very much.” He started his career in the 1970s and was first nominated in 1995, for “The Shawshank Redemption.”

Jordan Peele, who wrote and directed “Get Out,” a film centered on racism in the liberal white suburbs, was honored for his original screenplay. Mr. Peele received a raucous standing ovation, indicating the Hollywood establishment’s respect for his movie and also his arrival as a certified member of that elite group. He thanked his mother, who, he said, “Taught me to love even in the face of hate.”

The four-time nominee James Ivory, 89, won his first Oscar, for his adapted screenplay for the gay romance “Call Me by Your Name.” All people, “whether straight or gay or somewhere in between,” can understand the emotions of a first love, Mr. Ivory said, reading from notes. (Mr. Ivory was previously nominated for directing “A Room With a View,” “Howards End” and “The Remains of the Day.”)