Oscars 2018: 9 Ups & 8 Downs

1. Gary Oldman Wins Best Actor

This will be an unpopular opinion, but as brilliant an actor as Gary Oldman is, he shouldn't have won the Best Actor Oscar this year, as set-in-stone as it's been for months.

Oldman's performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour is more cartoonishly over-the-top than a genuinely convincing portrayal of the man, though the magnificent makeup effects do nevertheless allow him to disappear into the part.

Timothée Chalamet and Daniel Day-Lewis were far more deserving of the win in this particular instance, and this really just felt like an easy way to give Oldman the Oscar that's absurdly eluded him for so long.

For everything that didn't work this year, though, the show got a hell of a lot right, too...