2018 Academy Awards Ceremony Sunday March 04,2018 - Sam Rockwell Wins Best Supporting Actor For Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Actor Sam Rockwell took the first Oscar of the night. He won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

  Viola Davis, who won Best Supporting Actress Oscar last year presented the award. Sam, who was nominated for the first time, bested Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project, his Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri co-star Woody Harrelson, Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water, Christopher Plummer and All the Money in the World.

In Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Sam Rockwell plays the role of racist cop, whose character arc takes a turn for good after a life altering event. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was Sam Rockwell's third collaboration with director Martin McDonagh after 2012's Seven Psychopaths and 2010 Broadway production A Behanding in Spokane.