February 25, 2019–Well, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that the Oscars survived intact this year. With no host, and trying to scramble up from last year’s all-time low ratings, the Academy Awards hoped to pull viewers back in by nominating not just one, but several blockbuster films (Black Panther, A Star Is Born, and Bohemian Rhapsody) to appeal to a larger audience. This tactic seemed to have worked a little, with viewership apparently up 12% from 2018’s lows. But it sure doesn’t hurt to have a brisker, under-four-hour event, plus getting Queen to open the show with “Bohemian Rhapsody” (rather than featuring a comedian’s awkward, scripted monologue that, more often than not, falls flat). The lack of montages and cute little host moments certainly made the show move along faster, though it had odd side effect of less water-cooler cringe-worthy moments to talk about the next day.
But we watch the Oscars for the unexpectedly great moments. Like how Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper nailed their performance of “Shallow” from A Star Is Born (with such chemistry that the internet has been on fire with speculation that they are in love like their characters), to the fabulous, funny, and unaffected thank you speech by Olivia Colman, who was a surprised as anyone to beat out favorite Glenn Close for Best Actress. Though the final award for Best Picture for Green Book may have gone down with a thud that could be heard across the Twitter-verse, it was still an enjoyable evening. Why? Because we love it! We just do.
Winners are marked with a ✔
BEST PICTURE
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book ✔
Roma
A Star Is Born
Vice
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody ✔
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mahershala Ali, Green Book ✔
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife
Olivia Colman, The Favourite ✔
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams, Vice
Marina de Tavira, Roma
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk ✔
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
BEST DIRECTOR
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma ✔
Adam McKay, Vice
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Incredibles 2, Brad Bird
Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson
Mirai, Mamoru Hosoda
Ralph Breaks the Internet, Rich Moore, Phil Johnston
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman ✔
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Free Solo, Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ✔
Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross
Minding the Gap, Bing Liu
Of Fathers and Sons, Talal Derki
RBG, Betsy West, Julie Cohen
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Black Sheep, Ed Perkins
End Game, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Lifeboat, Skye Fitzgerald
A Night at the Garden, Marshall Curry
Period. End of Sentence., Rayka Zehtabchi ✔
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Capernaum (Lebanon)
Cold War (Poland)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Roma (Mexico) ✔
Shoplifters (Japan)
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
BlacKkKlansman, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee ✔
Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins
A Star Is Born, Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Favourite, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
First Reformed, Paul Schrader
Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly ✔
Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Vice, Adam McKay
ORIGINAL SONG
“All The Stars” from Black Panther by Kendrick Lamar, SZA
“I’ll Fight” from RBG by Diane Warren, Jennifer Hudson
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
“Shallow” from A Star Is Born by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice ✔
“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Black Panther, Hannah Beachler ✔
First Man, Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas
The Favourite, Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
Mary Poppins Returns, John Myhre, Gordon Sim
Roma, Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enrı́quez
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cold War, Lukasz Zal
The Favourite, Robbie Ryan
Never Look Away, Caleb Deschanel
Roma, Alfonso Cuarón ✔
A Star Is Born, Matthew Libatique
COSTUME DESIGN
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Mary Zophres
Black Panther, Ruth E. Carter ✔
The Favourite, Sandy Powell
Mary Poppins Returns, Sandy Powell
Mary Queen of Scots, Alexandra Byrne
SOUND EDITING
Black Panther, Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker
Bohemian Rhapsody, John Warhurst ✔
First Man, Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan
A Quiet Place, Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl
Roma, Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay
SOUND MIXING
Black Panther, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin
Bohemian Rhapsody, Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali ✔
First Man, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis
Roma, Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García
A Star Is Born, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
BlacKkKlansman, Terence Blanchard
Black Panther, Ludwig Goransson ✔
If Beale Street Could Talk, Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs, Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Animal Behaviour, Alison Snowden, David Fine
Bao, Domee Shi ✔
Late Afternoon, Louise Bagnall
One Small Step, Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas
Weekends, Trevor Jimenez
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Detainment, Vincent Lambe
Fauve, Jeremy Comte
Marguerite, Marianne Farley
Mother, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Skin, Guy Nattiv ✔
VISUAL EFFECTS
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man ✔
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story
FILM EDITING
BlacKkKlansman, Barry Alexander Brown
Bohemian Rhapsody, John Ottman ✔
Green Book, Patrick J. Don Vito
The Favourite, Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Vice, Hank Corwin
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Border, Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer
Mary Queen of Scots, Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks
Vice, Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney ✔
