Viola Davis’ Oscars win makes history, puts her in elite club

“The students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation are delighted to present the acclaimed television and film artist Viola Davis with the 2017 Artist of the Year award”, said S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation. She raised her arms and shouted, “My God, somebody give her a movie!”

With her win Sunday night Davis is one step closer to winning a storied EGOT.

Viola’s confidence was also helped, in part, thanks to her glam squad – stylist Elizabeth Stewart, hairdresser Jamika Wilson, and make-up artist Autumn Moultrie. “She’s going to talk about her life and that experience as well as her acting roles, recent ones and other ones as well”.

Davis had already been nominated for Oscars twice before, according to the L.A. Times. She is possessed to the blazing, incandescent power.

“I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me”, Viola said. She recalled their first moments working together on Doubt, when Davis was too shy to tell Streep that she was her acting hero.

As she has garnered critical acclaim for her stage, film and television performances, Davis has also earned a reputation for making powerful awards show speeches.

Another victor of the evening was Ezra Edelman for O.J.: Made in America, and there were some heavy competition in the Best Documentary Feature category that included Ava Duvernay’s 13th, Rauol Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, Life, Animate by Roger Ross Williams, and Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea.

“It’s wonderful, glorious. I felt like a princess”.

Even when the competition gets tough, friendship always comes out on top. What surprised many was that she was not competing in the best actress category, as she was obviously the sole, leading lady in Fences.

It only took one name to bring out the cheers at the big Oscar party in Providence. Captioning the pic, she said: ‘My family.

He added that he believes Davis’ strongest asset is “her ability to analyze and dig into the biographies of different types of characters”.

Watch Davis accept her Oscar – and her place in cinematic history – below.