Frances Mcdormand Is The Best Actress At 2018 Oscars
Two decades after winning her first Academy Award for FargoFrances McDormand today took home her second Oscar for her role of Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.
Two
decades
after
winning
her
first
Academy
Awardfor
playing
Marge
Gunderson
in
"Fargo",
a
police
chiefabout
to
give
birth,
Frances
McDormand
today
took
home
her
second
Oscar
for
her
role
of
Mildred
Hayes,
a
mother
grieving
the
loss
of
her
teenage
daughter,
in
award
season's
favourite
"Three
Billboards
Outside
Ebbing,
Missouri".
This
year,
the
60-year-old
actor
had
also
won
a
Golden
Globe,
a
BAFTA
and
Screen
Actors
Guild
Awards
for
her
role
in
Martin
McDonagh's
film.
Jennifer
Lawrence
and
Jodie
Foster
presented
the
Best
Actress
trophy
to
McDormand,
in
a
break
from
tradition
where
the
previous
year's
Best
Actor
winner
presents
the
award.
But
Casey
Affleck,
last
year's
Best
Actor
winner,
had
withdrawn
as
a
presenter
from
this
year's
ceremony
amid
allegations
of
sexual
harassment,
which
he
settled
out
of
court.
In
her
acceptance
speech,
McDormand
thanked
her
family
and
asked
all
the
other
female
nominees
to
stand
up.
She
also
urged
producers
to
back
small
and
independent
films"I
have
two
words
to
leave
with
you
tonight,
'inclusion'
and
'writer',"
an
emotional
McDormand
said.
McDormand
emerged
victorious
against
Saoirse
Ronan("Lady
Bird")
Meryl
Streep
("The
Post"),
Sally
Hawkins
("The
Shape
of
Water")
and
Margot
Robbie
("I,
Tonya").
In
the
black
comedy
drama,
McDormand
plays
Mildred,
the
disillusioned
and
angry
mother
of
a
young
woman
whose
murder
has
gone
unsolved
in
her
small-town
American
community.
When
local
cops
fail
to
catch
the
culprit,
Mildred
takes
things
into
her
own
hands,
putting
up
a
series
of
brutal
and
hard-hitting
billboards
in
her
neighbourhood,
calling
out
the
police
for
their
indifference
and
inaction.
McDonagh
wrote
the
character
of
Mildred
with
McDormand
in
mind.
However,the
actor
was
initially
not
sure
about
her
casting
in
the
role
as
she
is
older
than
the
character.
Her
filmmaker
husband
Joel
Coen
convinced
her
to
say
yes
to
the
part.
Born
on
June
23,
1957
in
Chicago,
Illinois,
McDormand
earned
her
BA
in
Theater
fromBethany
College
in
1979
and
her
MFA
from
Yale
in
1982.
She
started
her
career
onstage
and
has
retained
her
association
with
the
theatre
throughout
her
career.
She
made
her
film
acting
debut
in
1984
with
"Blood
Simple",
the
first
film
by
the
Coen
brothers
--
Joel
and
Ethan
Coen.
Same
year
she
tied
the
knot
with
Joel
and
in
1995
the
two
adopted
a
son
from
Paraguay,
Pedro
McDormand
Coen.
Since
then
the
couple
have
collaborated
on
many
films
including
"Fargo",
"Burn
After
Reading" and
most
recently
"Hail,
Ceaser!".