--- title: Frances McDormand Asks Female Nominees to Stand During Speech description: Frances McDormand gave an emotional speech before asking every female nominee in the audience across all categories to stand. canonical: https://time.com/5185406/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-acceptance-speech-women/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-05T05:25:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:53:34.818Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Frances McDormand Calls on Female Nominees to Stand During Passionate Oscars Speech og:description: The Best Actress winner called on Hollywood to tell more female stories og:url: https://time.com/5185406/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-acceptance-speech-women/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22a17a26d61844b4/698929a0cf40a878a1c4b8a0/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-best-actress.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TOPSHOT-US-OSCARS-SHOW og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Frances McDormand Calls on Female Nominees to Stand During Passionate Oscars Speech twitter:description: The Best Actress winner called on Hollywood to tell more female stories twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22a17a26d61844b4/698929a0cf40a878a1c4b8a0/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-best-actress.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Frances McDormand Calls on All Female Nominees to Stand With Her During Oscars Speech > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. ## Video: FIRSTS Rachel Morrison [Watch (HLS stream): FIRSTS Rachel Morrison](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/J5PebTPW.m3u8) (3:42)  _Published 2018-02-28. Rachel Morrison is the first woman to be nominated for an Oscar in Cinematography._ by [Ale Russian / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Ale Russian / People Mar 5, 2018 5:25 AM UTC  Frances McDormand delivers a speech after she won the Oscar for Best Actress in "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" during the 90th Annual Academy Awards show on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Frances McDormand delivers a speech after she won the Oscar for Best Actress in "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri" during the 90th Annual Academy Awards show on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California.MARK RALSTON—AFP/Getty Images by [Ale Russian / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Ale Russian / People Mar 5, 2018 5:25 AM UTC Frances McDormand won Best Actress at the 90th Annual Academy Awards. The actress gave an emotional speech before asking every female nominee in the audience across all categories to stand. McDormand then gave an impassioned plea for Hollywood to tell more female stories. “So I’m hyperventilating a little bit so if I fall over pick me up cause I got some things to say,” McDormand joked at the beginning. “I think this is what Chloe Kim must have felt like after she did back to back 1080s.” McDormand continued, “We all have stories to tell. Invite us into your offices and we’ll tell you all about them.” She ended her speech with two words: “inclusion rider.” According to Dr. Philip Goff, President of The Center for Policing Equity, an inclusion rider is “a clause in an actor’s contract that requires the cast and crew be diverse in order to retain the actor.” > [](https://twitter.com/DrPhilGoff/status/970519240523599877) Host Jimmy Kimmel joked after, “I hope she wins an Emmy for that speech because that was unbelievable.” The actress was up against [Meryl Streep](http://people.com/tag/meryl-streep) for _The Post_, [Saoirse Ronan](http://people.com/tag/saoirse-ronan) for _Lady Bird_, [Margot Robbie](http://people.com/tag/margot-robbie) for _I, Tonya_ and [Sally Hawkins](http://people.com/tag/sally-hawkins) for _Shape of Water._ McDormand was the frontrunner leading up to the show as she swept the major awards in the months before. The veteran actress picked up the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA awards on her way to claim the big prize. The actress was bizarrely bleeped during her Golden Globes acceptance speech after the censors were triggered for words like “tectonic shift” and the movie’s studio Fox Searchlight. The 2018 Oscars ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4 and will be televised live on ABC at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/movies/oscars-2018-frances-mcdormand-best-actress/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5185406/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-acceptance-speech-women/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5185406/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-acceptance-speech-women/"},"headline":"Frances McDormand Calls on All Female Nominees to Stand With Her During Oscars Speech","datePublished":"2018-03-05T05:25:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:53:34.818Z","description":"The Best Actress winner called on Hollywood to tell more female stories","url":"https://time.com/5185406/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-acceptance-speech-women/","keywords":["awards"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22a17a26d61844b4/698929a0cf40a878a1c4b8a0/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-best-actress.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ale Russian / People"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22a17a26d61844b4/698929a0cf40a878a1c4b8a0/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-best-actress.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TOPSHOT-US-OSCARS-SHOW","caption":"Frances McDormand Best Actress speech","creditText":"MARK RALSTON—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/awards/","name":"awards"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5185406/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-acceptance-speech-women/","name":"Frances McDormand Calls on All Female Nominees to Stand With Her During Oscars Speech"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"FIRSTS Rachel Morrison","description":"Rachel Morrison is the first woman to be nominated for an Oscar in Cinematography.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/J5PebTPW/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-02-28T23:21:25.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/J5PebTPW.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5185406/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-acceptance-speech-women/","duration":"PT3M42S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5185406/frances-mcdormand-oscars-2018-acceptance-speech-women/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```