--- title: Best Actress Nominees Share Hug After Frances McDormand Wins description: After Frances McDormand collected the award for Best Actress at the 90th Academy Awards, her fellow nominees hugged in a sweet photo. canonical: https://time.com/5186755/oscars-2018-best-actress-nominees-group-hug/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-05T21:49:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:20.012Z og:title: The Best Actress Nominees Hugged in the Sweetest Oscars Photo og:description: Frances McDormand took home the award, but these women celebrated each other og:url: https://time.com/5186755/oscars-2018-best-actress-nominees-group-hug/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bed4f7f1a7e7341/698929c597cdff93866b48b0/oscars-best-actress-nominees-group-hug.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 90th Annual Academy Awards, Show, Los Angeles, USA - 04 Mar 2018 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Best Actress Nominees Hugged in the Sweetest Oscars Photo twitter:description: Frances McDormand took home the award, but these women celebrated each other twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bed4f7f1a7e7341/698929c597cdff93866b48b0/oscars-best-actress-nominees-group-hug.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Best Actress Nominees Hugged it Out in the Sweetest Oscars Photo Ever ## Video: Frances McDormand Mentions 'Inclusion Rider' in Her Oscars Speech [Watch (HLS stream): Frances McDormand Mentions 'Inclusion Rider' in Her Oscars Speech](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PsECGWSD.m3u8) (0:29)  _Published 2018-03-05. On Sunday night, Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Leading Actress at the 90th Academy Awards for her performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri._ by [Maria Pasquini / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Maria Pasquini / People Contributor Mar 5, 2018 9:49 PM UTC  Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Sally Hawkins and Meryl Streep hug at the 90th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Calif. on March 4, 2018. Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Sally Hawkins and Meryl Streep hug at the 90th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Calif. on March 4, 2018.Rob Latour/REX/Shutterstock by [Maria Pasquini / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Maria Pasquini / People Contributor Mar 5, 2018 9:49 PM UTC There’s nothing a group hug can’t cure. After [Frances McDormand](http://people.com/tag/frances-mcdormand) took home the award for [Best Actress](http://people.com/movies/oscars-2018-frances-mcdormand-best-actress/) at the 2018 [Academy Awards](http://people.com/tag/academy-awards), her fellow nominees came together to celebrate each other. Following McDormand’s [emotional speech](http://people.com/movies/oscars-2018-frances-mcdormand-best-actress/), [Meryl Streep](http://people.com/tag/meryl-streep), [Sally Hawkins](http://people.com/tag/sally-hawkins), [Margot Robbie](http://people.com/tag/margot-robbie) and [Saoirse Ronan](http://people.com/tag/saoirse-ronan) were all smiles as they wrapped their arms around one another while the broadcast went on a commercial break. The actresses’ sweet and supportive moment came after McDormand asked every female nominee in the audience — across all categories — to [stand up](http://people.com/movies/oscars-2018-frances-mcdormand-best-actress/) and take a moment to appreciate each other during her acceptance speech. “If I may be so honored to have all the female nominees in categories stand with me tonight, the actors, the filmmakers, the directors, the producers, the writers, the cinematographers, the composers, the designers,” she said. Turning to one, very special, front row attendee, McDormand encouraged, “Meryl, if you do it, everybody else will. C’mon.” She then gave an impassioned plea for Hollywood to tell more female stories. “Look around, everybody. Look around, ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed,” said McDormand. “Don’t talk to us about it at the parties tonight. Invite us into your office in a couple days or you can come to ours, whichever suits you best, and we’ll tell you all about them. I have two words to leave with you tonight. Ladies and gentlemen: [inclusion rider](http://people.com/movies/oscars-2018-frances-mcdormand-inclusion-rider/),” she added. 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.” The 2018 Oscars were held at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4 and were telecast live on ABC. _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/movies/oscars-2018-best-actress-nominees-group-hug/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5186755/oscars-2018-best-actress-nominees-group-hug/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5186755/oscars-2018-best-actress-nominees-group-hug/"},"headline":"The Best Actress Nominees Hugged it Out in the Sweetest Oscars Photo Ever","datePublished":"2018-03-05T21:49:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:20.012Z","description":"Frances McDormand took home the award, but these women celebrated each other","url":"https://time.com/5186755/oscars-2018-best-actress-nominees-group-hug/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bed4f7f1a7e7341/698929c597cdff93866b48b0/oscars-best-actress-nominees-group-hug.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maria Pasquini / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bed4f7f1a7e7341/698929c597cdff93866b48b0/oscars-best-actress-nominees-group-hug.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"90th Annual Academy Awards, Show, Los Angeles, USA - 04 Mar 2018","caption":"90th Annual Academy Awards, Show, Los Angeles, USA - 04 Mar 2018","creditText":"Rob Latour/REX/Shutterstock","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5186755/oscars-2018-best-actress-nominees-group-hug/","name":"The Best Actress Nominees Hugged it Out in the Sweetest Oscars Photo Ever"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Frances McDormand Mentions 'Inclusion Rider' in Her Oscars Speech","description":"On Sunday night, Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Leading Actress at the 90th Academy Awards for her performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/PsECGWSD/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-03-05T05:27:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PsECGWSD.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5186755/oscars-2018-best-actress-nominees-group-hug/","duration":"PT29S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5186755/oscars-2018-best-actress-nominees-group-hug/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```