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Oscars 2018: What Is an Inclusion Rider?

Best Actress winner Frances McDormand demanded that Hollywood contracts include an “inclusion rider” from now on during her Academy Awards acceptance speech tonight. But what exactly is one?

Good question, and while the answer isn’t exactly spelled out in stone, it would suggest that actors and artists up for a movie demand that their contracts include requirements to provide for gender and racial diversity.

If more artists and performers were to demand inclusion riders in their contracts then perhaps more diverse casts and films will make their way to the screen — and to the Academy Awards.

McDormand called for inclusion riders after asking for all the female attendees to stand up during her speech, and said:

Oscars 2018: Full Winners List

The 90th Annual Academy Awards were held Sunday, March 4, in Hollywood in a celebration hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

While no film fully swept the Oscars, the majority of the frontrunners going into the ceremony walked out with their expected awards. Shape of Water led the race with four wins, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Dunkirk and Shape of Water all won three Academy Awards a piece.

For more of IGN’s Oscars coverage, check out how the Academy Awards used envelopes to avoid another Best Picture mistake, relive the biggest surprise stunt of the show and read through Jimmy Kimmel’s best jokes from his opening monologue.

Oscars 2018: Blade Runner 2049 Cinematographer Finally Wins After Being Nominated 14 Times

Blade Runner 2049 cinematographer Roger Deakins has won an Academy Award, after 14 nominations.

Deakins won for his incredible work on Blade Runner 2049. It was his 14th nomination and first win since he was nominated for The Shawshank Redemption in 1994. He was subsequently nominated for Fargo, Kundun, O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Man Who Wasn’t There, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, No Country For Old Men, The Reader, True Grit, Skyfall, Prisoners, Unbroken, and Sicario.

Deakins won against fellow nominees Rachel Morrison (Mudbound), Bruno Delbonnel (Darkest Hour) Dan Laustsen (The Shape of Water), and Hoyte Van Hoytema (Dunkirk).

Australian Greens Announce $100 Million Fund for Game Development

The Australian Greens have announced the commitment of $100 million to a new fund aimed at stimulating and growing the video game development sector in Australia. The purpose of the Games Investment & Enterprise Fund would be to invest in game projects and help create more jobs by assisting successful studios to grow their businesses.

The Greens would also extend the Producer Tax Offset and the Post, Digital and Visual Effects Offset to video game developers. The Producer Offset is a rebate for producers of Australian feature films and TV shows and the Post, Digital and Visual Effects Offset is a 30 per cent tax offset which encourages film producers to carry out post-production and visual effects work in Australia, no matter where the film is actually shot.

Guillermo del Toro Carrying a Party Sub Across Hollywood Wins the Oscars

Gal Gadot, Mark Hamill, Lupita Nyong’o, Margot Robbie, Guillermo del Toro and more crashed a preview screening of Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time during the Oscars this evening.

To celebrate ‘movie-goers’ (and do a bit of promotion for the upcoming fantasy flick), host Jimmy Kimmel and the celebs threw hotdogs into the crowd, handed out candy, and greeted delighted fans. del Toro and Lin-Manuel Miranda solemnly carrying a party-sized sub was possibly the highlight of the evening.

To top off the stunt, Kimmel asked a random audience member, Mike, to introduce hosts Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph.

Watch along with us as we update the full Oscars winners list, check out what’s new with the Oscars envelopes this year, and enjoy our 5 favourite jokes from Kimmel’s opening monologue.

Hearthstone: Talking Tournaments and the Hall of Fame with Team 5

Hearthstone has set a blistering pace so far in 2018. The game has seen its first World Championship Finals outside BlizzCon, has completely revamped its esports structure, has nerfed problematic cards, has adjusted its ranked play system and has held events like Wildfest. I caught up with Lead Game Producer for Hearthstone, Yong Woo, to dig into the details of the latest announcement, which included in-game tournament support and new Hall of Fame cards, as well as to chat about the health of the game in general.

The Walking Dead Tries to Make Us Care About the Scavengers

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

I’ll start out with what I really liked about “The Lost and the Plunderers.” The final scene. Yes, the emotional walkie-talkie exchange between Rick and Negan and how much Negan was genuinely sad to hear that Carl had died.

It fed really well into all the emotion I felt last week when Negan popped up right at the end of Carl’s “dream” community. There are many things to hate about Negan, and many points you can disagree with, but overall he’s also someone who you could totally see, with a few tweaks, being a cooperative and loving member of a larger “greater good” community.

And in some aspects, Negan’s already that. He is – or at least he thinks he is – serving a greater purpose by forcing people to fall in line. His specific truth is that people cannot be trusted to do the right thing on their own so they have to be herded, almost like walkers, and made to contribute and made to be productive. The somewhat faulty aspect of his rule involves the hierarchy and a system that, sometimes, allows brutal bullies to do some pretty nasty things. Still, Negan’s not a homicidal nutter and “The Lost and the Plunderers” did a decent job of splitting him off from someone like – say – Simon. Someone who does want revenge and massive amounts of blood spilled. Negan, despite losing so many, still doesn’t want a lot of people do die.

Notice Anything About the Oscars Envelopes This Year?

The Academy went the extra mile to make sure there was no chance for another envelope mix-up at the 2018 Oscars, and they accomplished it by making sure that all the text was blown up so big that even your grandma could read it from across the room.

Exhibit A:

Oscars 2018: The 5 Best Jokes From Kimmel’s Opening Monologue

During his second stint hosting The Academy Awards, Jimmy Kimmel opened with a mostly hilarious monologue that addressed the #Metoo movement in Hollywood, played it fast and loose with last year’s Best Picture snafu, and kept a vibe of positivity throughout.

Here are our picks for his 5 best gags:

On sexual harassment: “If we can work together to stop sexual harassment in the workplace, women will only have to deal with harassment all the time every other place they go.”

On last year’s La La Land/Moonlight Best Picture announcement screw up: “This year, when you get your name called, don’t get up right away.”

On PricewaterhouseCoopers’ statement on that same screw up: “‘Our singular focus will be on the show and delivering the correct envelopes.'” “What was your focus the other 89 years?”

Watch the Mary Poppins Returns Teaser Trailer

Disney debuted the first teaser trailer for Mary Poppins Returns during the Oscars.

Watch the video below:

Disney also released a new poster for the upcoming sequel. Check it out below:

The sequel to Disney’s beloved 1964 live-action classic stars Emily Blunt as the titular nanny, and Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jack, a lamplighter who is also an apprentice to Dick Van Dyke’s Bert. Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer play the grown-up iterations of Michael and Jane Banks, with Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury, Van Dyke, Colin Firth and Julie Walters also appearing in the film. The movie takes place 25 years after the events of the first film, and sees Mary Poppins coming back into the Banks’ lives after a family tragedy.