Frances McDormand accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Towards the end of actress Frances Dormand's Academy Award speech Sunday night, she asked women in the industry to stand up and to make contractual demands on film studios, NBC News reported. Dormand ended her

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