now as the ninety eighth annual academy awards the night's big winner was filmmaker guillermo del toro's the shape of water scoring for oscars with its fantastical cold war a love story and six months after the launch of the me too movement women look to seize the spotlight and more opportunity. i the highlight of the oscars fade away and warren beatty handed out the coveted best picture award. i it was guillermo del toro second trip to the stage having earlier picked up the oscar for best director. del toro's fantasy romance a corky love story between a mystery merman like creature and a mute cleaning lady was a favorite throughout the awards season it took home a golden globe and a director's guild award before grabbing for oscars. best actor accolades went to gary oldman for his portrayal of winston churchill in the gritty world war two drama the darkest hour. old man had to endure up to five hours and make up every day during filming to complete his transformation to britain's storied wartime leader. the best actress oscar went to frances mcdormand for her role as a grieving mother i

angeles for the ninety eighth annual academy awards on sunday the night's big winner it was filmmaker guillermo del toro the shape of water which netted him two oscars for best picture and best view director gary oldman picked up his first oscar for his portrayal of winston churchill in the gritty world war two drama the darkest hour and frances mcdormand took best actress for audience favorite three billboards outside and being ms story by fall of a pick me up if i've got something to. well for more on the oscar action we're joined by our film buff scott roxboro shape water one of the favorites nominated thirteen times for four awards is the movie really worthy of receiving the best picture award yeah i think so i mean it's one of these big fairytale fantasy stories which the academy often really likes to give best picture to story of of a mute woman who falls in love with the sea creature in one nine hundred fifty s. america but it's not only this sort of very visually spectacular film that shows that the magic of cinema it's also quite in some ways quite socially relevant because it literall

this is news coming to you live from berlin and this year's best picture oscar goes to director guillermo del toro he takes home the gold statue for his cold war fantasy the shape of the water and of the whole round up of the academy awards big winners and losers and how me to dominate the night. also in the program italy faces political gridlock after an inconclusive national vote the center right alliance led by former prime minister silvio berlusconi has a slight edge over the anti establishment five star movement but it's not enough seats for a majority in parliament. plus germany social democrats give the grand coalition the green light clearing the way for a new government for our political correspondent tells us about the challenges piling up for uncle americal if he takes on a fourth term as transfers. and historic changes underfoot in china as a legislator start opening the path for president xi jinping to stay in office indefinitely we look at how he's managed this assent to power. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us. hollywood's brightest stars gathered in los angel

guillermo must take on knows this all too well for he relies on the irrigation for his fields he grows wheat corn potatoes and turnips in custody and so. this is all outdated these canals have been here for over forty years they are leaky that accounts for about ten percent of the water lost before it reaches me but they are connected so that even older there they might lose up to forty percent. get a moment the corn wants to repair the aqueducts but it's not up to him to decide if the open concrete channels are replaced by subterranean pipes first the regional pharma corporative must vote on it but many aren't willing to shoulder the cost themselves and feel that politics have abandoned them. they are cutting an increasing amount of subsidies. if there are more subsidies i'm sure more farmers would be in favor of modernizing. many are discouraged by the high costs of. the regional government of christina and leon is prepared to invest six hundred million euros into renovating the irrigation system under one condition. look. we want the farmers to merge their fields so that each plant

the shape of i it was guillermo del toro second trip to the stage having earlier picked up the oscar for best director. del toro's fantasy romance a quirky love story between a mystery merman like creature and a cleaning lady was a favorite throughout the awards season it took home a golden globe and a director's guild award before grabbing for oscars. best actor accolades went to gary oldman for his portrayal of winston churchill in the gritty world war two drama the darkest hour old man had to endure up to five hours and make up every day during filming to complete his transformation to britain's storied wartime leader. the best actress oscar went to frances mcdormand for her role as a grieving mother in the comedic drama three billboards outside of being missouri mcdormand use the podium to make a stand for more diversity. if i may be so honored to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight the actors marrow if you do it everybody else will come on third filmmaker the producer the director the right to the city because of. the thunder you. de

pushing a book you are my director guillermo del toro fantastical cold war romance makes a splash winning for academy awards we'll have that in the whole roundup of oscar night highlights. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us german chancellor angela merkel is ready to get back to work after more than five month wait she earned the backing for a new coalition of social democrats have voted yes to another alliance with her conservatives michael will soon be sworn in for a fourth term miss chancellor speaking in berlin a little while ago she urged lawmakers to be quick about getting a government up and running. wouldn't that be but believe this and he lays the good groundwork for governing the country together just as a night it is brutal and important that we get down to business in zero g.'s days time because without coalition agreement being we have set ourselves as a challenging program the things we want to implement focusing on improving the lives of people in germany you are right to expect not to have a government able to act six months after elections nearly they are

in los angeles for the nineteenth annual academy awards on sunday night's big winner was filmmaker guillermo the totals the shape of water which netted him two oscars from best picture and best director the scary old man picked up his first oscar first portrayal of winston churchill in the gritty world war two drama darkest hour and frances mcdormand took best actress for audience favorite three billboards outside of being hyper ventilating a little bit if i fall over and didn't use film buff scott rockstar stayed up late to watch the oscars scott what was their favorite moment yet my family actually is that last that we saw there the clip of france that dormant who won best best actress for the billboard as a missouri i love france but on anyway she was an amazing tough tough as nails character in this but a woman who's trying to get vengeance or justice for her daughter who was brutally murdered and is accusing the police of not doing enough but what was great about it was she went up to accept the oscar and then she put it down on the stage and she addressed the entire audience there in l

evening's biggest winner was the shape of water from mexican director guillermo del toro it won four oscars in all including best picture best director and best original music school it was the second time french composer alexandra display was on a trip with the prize. this season to seek i'm very grateful to the academy my mother is also turning ninety soon so i think she'd be very happy tonight. not the ninetieth academy award ceremony european film industry professionals took home gold in five out of twenty four categories. staying with the subjects of film. directed loving vincent the oscar nominated bio pic of vincent fun the film is the worst welds first fully painted feature each and every one of its thousands of frames is an oil painting on canvas using the same technique as fun falk did for his own works and this week. your remarks series we celebrate women who have broken ground in their fields so we met up with a director who has revolutionized animation using the oldest visual medium. loving vincent brings to life the story of dutch post-impressionist painter vincent van

guillermo must take on knows this all too well for he relies on the irrigation for his fields he grows wheat corn potatoes and turnips in castillian so to the elevator. this is all outdated these canals have been here for over forty years they are leaky that accounts for about ten percent of the water lost before it reaches me but they are connected so that are even older and there they might lose up to forty percent. and . get a moment the corn wants to repair the aqueducts but it's not up to him to decide if the open concrete channels are replaced by subterranean pipes first the regional farmer corporative must vote on it but many aren't willing to shoulder the cost themselves and feel that politics have abandoned them. they are cutting an increasing amount of subsidies and if there are more subsidies i'm sure more farmers would be in favor of modernizing. many are discouraged by the high costs. and i would ask. the regional government of castillo and leon is prepared to invest six hundred million euros into renovating the irrigation system under one condition. look. we want the farm

for the shape of i it was guillermo del toro second trip to the stage having earlier picked up the oscar for best director. del toro's fantasy romance a quirky love story between a mystery merman like creature and a mute cleaning lady was a favorite throughout the awards season this is intelligent capable language. to become a golden globe and the directors guild award before grabbing two oscars. best actor accolades went to gary oldman for his portrayal of winston churchill in the gritty world war two drama the darkest hour. old man had to endure up to five hours and make up every day during filming to complete his transformation to britain's storied wartime leader. the best actress oscar went to frances mcdormand for her role as a grieving mother in the comedic drama three billboards outside of being missouri mcdormand use the podium to make a stand for more diversity. if i may be so honored to have all the female nominees in every category stand with me in this room tonight thank the actors marrow if you do it everybody else will come on third filmmaker thank you to thank you thank yo

los angeles for the ninetieth annual academy awards on sunday the night's big winner was filmmaker guillermo del toro's the shape of water which netted him two oscars for best picture and for best director gary oldman picked up his first oscar for his portrayal of winston churchill in the gritty world war two drama the darkest hour. and frances mcdormand best actress for audience favorite three billboards outside missouri. well for more on the oscars our film buff scott ross perot's with us here hey scott the shape of water was one of the favorite son was nominated thirteen times is this movie in your opinion worthy of receiving the best picture award yeah i think so i mean i thought it was a pretty strong line up this year compared to some previous years where you it's obviously one film could win here you had a number of films that could have won best oscar best picture i think shape of water is a worthy winner i mean if you look at the oscar winners in years past they tend to either pick the academy tends to pick either a film that shows sort of the magic of cinema the visual splendor of

and a closer look at the favorites in this sunday's academy awards including guillermo del toro's the shape of the water which leads the pack with thirteen nominations. a magic watson welcome to the program we begin in burke you know found so where the government says it's repelled a deadly attack by islamist militants in the capital ouagadougou the government says several militants and members of the security forces died after a gunman launched a ordinated attack near the army headquarters and french embassy. back in our basic you're see forces rushed to the french embassy to deal with an apparent jihadist attack. gunfire was exchanged for around two hours a government official reports of casualties on both sides. witnesses said five attackers course out of this car before setting it on fire then they started shooting french special forces were flown into the area france is fighting jihad is in west africa with the four thousand strong force. the attacks appear to have been coordinated at the same time in four to six people who got fired that there was an explosion but we saw a lot o