A Fantastic Woman&nbsp;has won the Oscar for best foreign language film at the 90th Academy Awards.&nbsp;A Fantastic Woman&nbsp;(Spanish:&nbsp;Una mujer fant&aacute;stica) is a 2017 Chilean&nbsp;drama film&nbsp;directed by&nbsp;Sebasti&aacute;n Lelio which came out in 2017.

The movie surrounds&nbsp;Marina Vidal, a transgender woman played by Daniela Vega, who is in a relationship with Orlando, a man 30 years her senior and wants to plan a future but dies on the same day as her birthday.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Orlando&#39;s ex-wife forbids her from attending the funeral. And to make matters worse, Orlando&#39;s son threatens to throw Marina out of the flat she shared with Orlando. Marina is a trans woman and for most of Orlando&#39;s family, her gender identity is an aberration, a perversion.

When Orlando dies of an aneurysm, Marina becomes an object of suspicion for his family, who see and treat her as a rogue, and she must figure out how to work through her grief while external forces make things even more difficult.&nbsp;

So Marina struggles for the right to be herself. She battles the very same forces that she has spent a lifetime fighting just to become what she is now - a complex, strong, forthright and fantastic woman.

It was selected as the Chilean entry for the&nbsp;Best Foreign Language Film.&nbsp;

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The movie surrounds Marina Vidal, a transgender woman played by Daniela Vega, who is in a relationship with Orlando, a man 30 years her senior

A Fantastic Woman has won the Oscar for best foreign language film at the 90th Academy Awards. A Fantastic Woman (Spanish: Una mujer fantástica) is a 2017 Chilean drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio which came out in 2017. The movie surrounds Marina Vidal, a transgender woman played by Daniela Vega, who is in a relationship with Orlando, a man 30 years her senior and wants to plan a future but dies on the same day as her birthday. Orlando's ex-wife forbids her from attending the funeral. And to make matters worse, Orlando's son threatens to throw Marina out of the flat she shared with Orlando. Marina is a trans woman and for most of Orlando's family, her gender identity is an aberration, a perversion. When Orlando dies of an aneurysm, Marina becomes an object of suspicion for his family, who see and treat her as a rogue, and she must figure out how to work through her grief while external forces make things even more difficult. So Marina struggles for the right to be herself. She battles the very same forces that she has spent a lifetime fighting just to become what she is now - a complex, strong, forthright and fantastic woman. It was selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film. Follow the live updates on the Oscars 2018 here!

Best Foreign Language Film at Oscars: 'A Fantastic Woman' is complex & strong

Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Motion Picture Academy&rsquo;s 90th annual awards ceremony will be the pinnacle and culmination of the awards season.&nbsp;The Shape of Water&nbsp;leads this year&rsquo;s nominations with 13, followed by&nbsp;Dunkirk with eight and&nbsp;Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri&nbsp;with seven.&nbsp;

Here is the complete list of Oscar nominees:&nbsp;

Best Picture

Call Me By Your Name 
Darkest Hour 
Dunkirk 
Get Out 
Lady Bird 
Phantom Thread 
The Post 
The Shape of Water 
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Director 
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk 
Jordan Peele, Get Out 
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird 
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread 
Guillermo del Toro, Shape of Water

Actor in a Leading Role 
Timoth&eacute;e Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name 
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread 
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out 
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour 
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Actress in a Leading Role 
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water 
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya 
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird 
Meryl Streep, The Post

Actress in a Supporting Role 
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound 
Allison Janney, I, Tonya 
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird 
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread 
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Actor in a Supporting Role 
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project 
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water 
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World 
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 
Adapted Screenplay 
James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name 
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist 
Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, Logan 
Aaron Sorkin, Molly&rsquo;s Game 
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound

Original Screenplay 
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick 
Jordan Peele, Get Out 
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird 
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water 
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Animated Feature Film 
The Boss Baby 
The Breadwinner 
Coco 
Ferdinand 
Loving Vincent

Foreign Language Film 
A Fantastic Woman (Chile) 
The Insult (Lebanon) 
Loveless (Russia) 
Body and Soul (Hungary) 
The Square (Sweden)

Documentary Feature 
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail 
Faces Places 
Icarus 
Last Men in Aleppo 
Strong Island

Cinematography 
Roger A. Deakins, Blade Runner: 2049 
Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour 
Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk 
Rachel Morrison, Mudbound 
Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water

Film Editing 
Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos, Baby Driver 
Lee Smith, Dunkirk 
Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya 
Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water 
Jon Gregory, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 
Production Design 
Beauty and the Beast (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer) 
Blade Runner: 2049 (Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola) 
Darkest Hour (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer) 
Dunkirk (Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis) 
The Shape of Water (Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin)

 
Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast 
Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour 
Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread 
Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water 
Consolota Boyle, Victoria &amp; Abdul

 
Makeup and Hairstyling 
Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, and Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour 
Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard, Victoria &amp; Abdul 
Arjen Tuiten, Wonder

 
Original Score 
Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk 
Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread 
Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water 
John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi 
Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 
Original Song 
&ldquo;Mighty River,&rdquo; Mudbound 
&ldquo;Mystery of Love,&rdquo; Call Me by Your Name 
&ldquo;Remember Me,&rdquo; Coco 
&ldquo;Stand Up for Something,&rdquo; Marshall 
&ldquo;This Is Me,&rdquo; The Greatest Showman

 
Sound Editing 
Julian Slater, Baby Driver 
Mark Mangini and Theo Green, Blade Runner 2049 
Richard King and Alex Gibson, Dunkirk 
Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira, The Shape of Water 
Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

 
Sound Mixing 
Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, and Mary H. Ellis, Baby Driver 
Ron Bartlett, Dough Hemphill, and Mac Ruth, Blade Runner 2049 
Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landarker, and Gary A. Rizzo, Dunkirk 
Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, and Glen Gauthier, The Shape of Water 
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Stuart Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Visual Effects 
Blade Runner 2049 (John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover) 
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, and Dan Sudick) 
Kong: Skull Island (Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, and Mike Meinardus) 
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould) 
War for the Planet of the Apes (Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, and Joel Whist)

 
Animated Short Film 
Dear Basketball 
Garden Party 
Lou 
Negative Space 
Revolting Rhymes

 
Live Action Short Film 
DeKalb Elementary 
The Eleven O&rsquo;Clock 
My Nephew Emmett 
The Silent Child 
Watu Wote: All of Us

 
Documentary Short Subject 
Edith and Eddie 
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 
Heroin(e) 
Knife Skills 
Traffic Stop

The academy already made some historic choices with this year’s crop of nominees

Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Motion Picture Academy’s 90th annual awards ceremony will be the pinnacle and culmination of the awards season. The Shape of Water leads this year’s nominations with 13, followed by Dunkirk with eight and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with seven. Here is the complete list of Oscar nominees: Best Picture Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Director Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk Jordan Peele, Get Out Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread Guillermo del Toro, Shape of Water Actor in a Leading Role Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq. Actress in a Leading Role Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Margot Robbie, I, Tonya Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird Meryl Streep, The Post Actress in a Supporting Role Mary J. Blige, Mudbound Allison Janney, I, Tonya Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water Actor in a Supporting Role Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Adapted Screenplay James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, Logan Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound Original Screenplay Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick Jordan Peele, Get Out Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Animated Feature Film The Boss Baby The Breadwinner Coco Ferdinand Loving Vincent Foreign Language Film A Fantastic Woman (Chile) The Insult (Lebanon) Loveless (Russia) Body and Soul (Hungary) The Square (Sweden) Documentary Feature Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Faces Places Icarus Last Men in Aleppo Strong Island Cinematography Roger A. Deakins, Blade Runner: 2049 Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk Rachel Morrison, Mudbound Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water Film Editing Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos, Baby Driver Lee Smith, Dunkirk Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water Jon Gregory, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Production Design Beauty and the Beast (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer) Blade Runner: 2049 (Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola) Darkest Hour (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer) Dunkirk (Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis) The Shape of Water (Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin) Costume Design Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water Consolota Boyle, Victoria & Abdul Makeup and Hairstyling Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, and Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard, Victoria & Abdul Arjen Tuiten, Wonder Original Score Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Original Song “Mighty River,” Mudbound “Mystery of Love,” Call Me by Your Name “Remember Me,” Coco “Stand Up for Something,” Marshall “This Is Me,” The Greatest Showman Sound Editing Julian Slater, Baby Driver Mark Mangini and Theo Green, Blade Runner 2049 Richard King and Alex Gibson, Dunkirk Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira, The Shape of Water Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce, Star Wars: The Last Jedi Sound Mixing Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, and Mary H. Ellis, Baby Driver Ron Bartlett, Dough Hemphill, and Mac Ruth, Blade Runner 2049 Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landarker, and Gary A. Rizzo, Dunkirk Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, and Glen Gauthier, The Shape of Water David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, and Stuart Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi Visual Effects Blade Runner 2049 (John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert, and Richard R. Hoover) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, and Dan Sudick) Kong: Skull Island (Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, and Mike Meinardus) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould) War for the Planet of the Apes (Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon, and Joel Whist) Animated Short Film Dear Basketball Garden Party Lou Negative Space Revolting Rhymes Live Action Short Film DeKalb Elementary The Eleven O’Clock My Nephew Emmett The Silent Child Watu Wote: All of Us Documentary Short Subject Edith and Eddie Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 Heroin(e) Knife Skills Traffic Stop

Oscars 2018: The complete list of nominees

Hollywood is set for a real-life cliffhanger Sunday at the Oscars -- the race for best picture is coming down to the wire to cap an awards season overshadowed by scandal over sexual misconduct in showbiz.

Dark crime comedy &quot;Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri&quot; has begun to pull away in late betting for the industry&#39;s biggest prize, but Oscarologists believe fairy tale romance &quot;The Shape of Water&quot; and socially-conscious horror movie &quot;Get Out&quot; will make it a photo finish.&nbsp;

&quot;I don&#39;t remember a year with so much uncertainty. There are at least four strong possibilities to win,&quot; Variety&#39;s awards editor Tim Gray said, adding Christopher Nolan&#39;s sweeping war epic &quot;Dunkirk&quot; to the mix.

&quot;I&#39;m guessing that &#39;The Shape of Water&#39; will win, but that&#39;s just a guess.&quot;&nbsp;

The 90th Academy Awards -- hosted for the second straight year by late night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel -- will be beamed live around the world by ABC from Hollywood&#39;s Dolby Theatre.

The show caps a difficult few months during which the industry has declared war on the pervasive culture of sexual impropriety unearthed by the downfall of movie mogul and alleged serial sex attacker Harvey Weinstein.

With the #MeToo and Time&#39;s Up campaigns against sexual misconduct and gender inequality dominating the 2018 awards circuit, this year&#39;s Oscars gala is seen as an opportunity for Tinseltown to support female filmmaking.

Greta Gerwig is only the fifth woman in Oscars history to be nominated for best director, but faces tough competition from Guillermo Del Toro, the runaway favorite for &quot;The Shape of Water.&quot;

There was also the first nod in history for a female cinematographer, Rachel Morrison, who shot Dee Rees&#39;s racial drama &quot;Mudbound.&quot;

Avoiding another flub

The Time&#39;s Up initiative is not planning a coordinated protest on Sunday -- like the striking red carpet &quot;blackout&quot; at the Golden Globes.

But leaders of the movement told journalists there would be &quot;a moment that&#39;s been carved out&quot; during the ceremony.

&quot;It&#39;s really important that you know that Time&#39;s Up is not about the red carpet,&quot; said powerhouse Hollywood producer Shonda Rhimes (&quot;Grey&#39;s Anatomy,&quot; &quot;Scandal&quot;).

&quot;And those women you saw on the red carpet representing Time&#39;s Up are now off the red carpet working their butts off being activists.&quot;

In another nod to the women&#39;s movements, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has tapped past winners Jennifer Lawrence and Jodie Foster to present the best actress Oscar, according to Variety.

Traditionally, the previous year&#39;s best actor winner would present that statuette, but Casey Affleck, who triumphed in 2017 for &quot;Manchester by the Sea,&quot; withdrew under a cloud of sexual harassment accusations he denies.

One political statement on the red carpet may come in bright orange -- some A-listers will reportedly wear orange US flag pins in a call for tougher gun control.

Organizers are looking to rebound after last year&#39;s flubbed announcement by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway of the best picture winner -- the trophy was initially given to &quot;La La Land,&quot; when the actual winner was &quot;Moonlight.&quot;

In a surprise turn of events, Beatty and Dunaway have been tapped to present the same prize this time around, according to The Hollywood Reporter, although the Academy did not respond to AFP&#39;s request for confirmation.&nbsp;

McDormand, Oldman in pole position

&quot;The Shape of Water,&quot; a Cold War-set story of love between a mute cleaning woman and a mystery merman-like creature, tops the nominations with 13, although observers expect the spoils to be fairly evenly spread.&nbsp;

&quot;Dunkirk&quot; heads into Sunday&#39;s gala in second place with eight nods, while &quot;Three Billboards&quot; picked up seven.

Frances McDormand (&quot;Three Billboards&quot;) and British veteran Gary Oldman (&quot;Darkest Hour&quot;), who have dominated the awards season, are expected to bag the lead acting statuettes.

Disney-Pixar&#39;s &quot;Coco&quot; seems a near-sure bet to pick up the award for best animated film.

And &quot;A Fantastic Woman&quot; -- a love story from Chilean director Sebastian Lelio with a much-praised star turn from transgender actress Daniela Vega -- is tipped to win best foreign-language film honors.&nbsp;

The intermittent weekend rain is expected to taper off in time for Sunday&#39;s ceremony, but temperatures will be a bit cool as around 3,400 guests descend on Hollywood Boulevard.

The race for best picture is coming down to the wire to cap an awards season overshadowed by scandal over sexual misconduct in showbiz

Hollywood is set for a real-life cliffhanger Sunday at the Oscars -- the race for best picture is coming down to the wire to cap an awards season overshadowed by scandal over sexual misconduct in showbiz. Dark crime comedy "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" has begun to pull away in late betting for the industry's biggest prize, but Oscarologists believe fairy tale romance "The Shape of Water" and socially-conscious horror movie "Get Out" will make it a photo finish. "I don't remember a year with so much uncertainty. There are at least four strong possibilities to win," Variety's awards editor Tim Gray said, adding Christopher Nolan's sweeping war epic "Dunkirk" to the mix. "I'm guessing that 'The Shape of Water' will win, but that's just a guess." The 90th Academy Awards -- hosted for the second straight year by late night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel -- will be beamed live around the world by ABC from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre. The show caps a difficult few months during which the industry has declared war on the pervasive culture of sexual impropriety unearthed by the downfall of movie mogul and alleged serial sex attacker Harvey Weinstein. With the #MeToo and Time's Up campaigns against sexual misconduct and gender inequality dominating the 2018 awards circuit, this year's Oscars gala is seen as an opportunity for Tinseltown to support female filmmaking. Greta Gerwig is only the fifth woman in Oscars history to be nominated for best director, but faces tough competition from Guillermo Del Toro, the runaway favorite for "The Shape of Water." There was also the first nod in history for a female cinematographer, Rachel Morrison, who shot Dee Rees's racial drama "Mudbound." Avoiding another flub The Time's Up initiative is not planning a coordinated protest on Sunday -- like the striking red carpet "blackout" at the Golden Globes. But leaders of the movement told journalists there would be "a moment that's been carved out" during the ceremony. "It's really important that you know that Time's Up is not about the red carpet," said powerhouse Hollywood producer Shonda Rhimes ("Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal"). "And those women you saw on the red carpet representing Time's Up are now off the red carpet working their butts off being activists." In another nod to the women's movements, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has tapped past winners Jennifer Lawrence and Jodie Foster to present the best actress Oscar, according to Variety. Traditionally, the previous year's best actor winner would present that statuette, but Casey Affleck, who triumphed in 2017 for "Manchester by the Sea," withdrew under a cloud of sexual harassment accusations he denies. One political statement on the red carpet may come in bright orange -- some A-listers will reportedly wear orange US flag pins in a call for tougher gun control. Organizers are looking to rebound after last year's flubbed announcement by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway of the best picture winner -- the trophy was initially given to "La La Land," when the actual winner was "Moonlight." In a surprise turn of events, Beatty and Dunaway have been tapped to present the same prize this time around, according to The Hollywood Reporter, although the Academy did not respond to AFP's request for confirmation. McDormand, Oldman in pole position "The Shape of Water," a Cold War-set story of love between a mute cleaning woman and a mystery merman-like creature, tops the nominations with 13, although observers expect the spoils to be fairly evenly spread. "Dunkirk" heads into Sunday's gala in second place with eight nods, while "Three Billboards" picked up seven. Frances McDormand ("Three Billboards") and British veteran Gary Oldman ("Darkest Hour"), who have dominated the awards season, are expected to bag the lead acting statuettes. Disney-Pixar's "Coco" seems a near-sure bet to pick up the award for best animated film. And "A Fantastic Woman" -- a love story from Chilean director Sebastian Lelio with a much-praised star turn from transgender actress Daniela Vega -- is tipped to win best foreign-language film honors. The intermittent weekend rain is expected to taper off in time for Sunday's ceremony, but temperatures will be a bit cool as around 3,400 guests descend on Hollywood Boulevard.

Hollywood braced for best picture photo finish at Oscars