The 90th annual Academy Awards has proven to be the greatest flop of the year with ratings for the 2018 Oscar awards shop at an all-time low.
The heavily politicised awards show has proved increasingly off putting for audiences as in recent years it has been used more and more to push the political agenda of the Hollywood elite.
Ireland’s own Saoirse Ronan lost out in her third Oscar nomination for her performance in Lady Bird to Frances McDormand who won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.
However, entertainment was not the primary focus of the night as celebrities uniformly pushed anti-Trump tropes and lamented the still high number of white actors nominated for awards.