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Olivia Colman celebrates Oscars victory with all-night bender in private party bus
THE Favourite’s Olivia Colman thrashed the yanks at the Oscars on Sunday night – and celebrated her huge victory by hiring a party bus for an all night bender.
The Brit actress, 45, took five of her pals on a ride around Los Angeles at midnight after taking home the coveted Best Actress award at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
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She saw off stiff competition from The Wife star Glenn Close, 71, – the bookies favourite ahead of the event—despite snubbing A-list bashes in the lead up to it.
Mum-of-three Olivia broke down on stage as she accepted her gong, telling the audience: “It's genuinely quite stressful. This is hilarious, I've got an Oscar.
"I have to thank lots of people and if I forget anybody I'll find you later and give you a massive snog.
"My mum and my dad and my kids who are at home watching, well if you're not then well done, but I sort of hope you are. This is not going to happen again.
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Hilarious moment Olivia Colman swears at Oscars staff as they try to cut short her Best Actress winner's speech
"Any little girl who's practising their speech on the telly - you never know! I used to work as a cleaner, I used to love that job.”
She also paid tribute to husband Ed Sinclair in the emotional speech and blew a raspberry while flicking the V sign to bosses when they to tried to hurry her up.
It was the only Oscar win of the night for the Yorgos Lanthimos film, also starring nominees Emma Stone, 30, and Brit actress Rachel Weisz, 48, which was up for a total of nine gongs.
Best Picture went to Green Book, a biopic about African-American pianist Dr Don Shirley, while Best Actor was taken home by Rami Malek, 37, for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody – the night’s most successful flick with four gongs.
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Lady Gaga, 32, and Bradley Cooper, 44, scooped a trophy for Best Original Song for Shallow from A Star Is Born – which they performed during the night.
Speaking backstage after her victory Olivia revealed she’d be keeping the trophy between her and husband Ed – in bed.
Asked where she’d be keeping the gold statuette, she replied: “In bed with me, between me and my husband. He doesn’t know yet. He won't mind."
She went straight from the starry ceremony to the Governors Ball where sources saw her “larking about” in the photo booth and then on to the Vanity Fair party after a brief pit stop at her suite at the Chateau Marmont to pick up the party bus at midnight.
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A source close to the star told The Sun: “Olivia didn’t want anything uber posh like a fancy executive star so the party bus was the perfect idea to carry on the celebrations.
“She invited her glam squad and a couple of her mates and they drove around Los Angeles with the music pumping finishing off at a private bash where they stayed until the early hours.
“Olivia was on cloud nine and couldn’t be taken down.”
The Sun revealed yesterday how mum-of-three Olivia had upset snobby Hollywood bosses after snubbing several A-list bashes in the lead up to the big night.
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She instead chose to spend her time in Los Angeles with her sons Finn, 14, and Hal, 12, plus the daughter, three, who she has not named in public.
They were photographed having a day out at Disneyland on Friday morning.
Olivia's next film Them That Follow, a thriller in which she plays the lead, is out in June this year with Netflix hit The Crown expected to land in July.
The Sun Says
YOU don’t normally achieve full “national treasure” status at just 45.
But Olivia Colman — of Peep Show, Broadchurch, The Favourite and many more — did so even before she bagged her magnificent Best Actress Oscar.
We all love a British winner.
But who couldn’t warm to one so charming, down-to-earth and plain fun?
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