2019 Oscars 91st Academy Awards

2019 Oscars 91st Academy Awards

  • Winners announced on February 24, 2019
  • The ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  • No host for this year’s ceremony
  • Pre-show hosts were Ashley Graham, Maria Menounos, Billy Porter, Ryan Seacrest, Elaine Welteroth
  • Films from 2018 were eligible for awards
  • Noteworthy Moments: Green Book won Best Picture amid controversy; Olivia Colman won Best Actress for The Favourite, beating Glenn Close; Rami Malek won Best Actor for Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Trivia:
    1. The Oscars had no host for the first time in 30 years
    2. Black Panther was the first superhero movie nominated for Best Picture
    3. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s performance of Shallow became a viral sensation
    4. Spike Lee’s first competitive Oscar win for BlacKkKlansman Best Adapted Screenplay
    5. A record seven Black men and women won in various categories

2019 Oscar Nominees and Winners

Best Picture:
Green Book – Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga (WINNER)
Black Panther – Kevin Feige
BlacKkKlansman – Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee
Bohemian Rhapsody – Graham King
The Favourite – Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos
Roma – Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
A Star Is Born – Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor
Vice – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick
Best Director:
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma (WINNER)
Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
Pawel Pawlikowski – Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
Adam McKay – Vice
Best Actor:
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury (WINNER)
Christian Bale – Vice as Dick Cheney
Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson “Jack” Maine
Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate as Vincent van Gogh
Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Tony Vallelonga
Best Actress:
Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Queen Anne (WINNER)
Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleodegaria “Cleo” Gutiérrez
Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel
Best Supporting Actor:
Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley (WINNER)
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Philip “Flip” Zimmerman
Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock
Sam Rockwell – Vice as George W. Bush
Best Supporting Actress:
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers (WINNER)
Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney
Marina de Tavira – Roma as Sofía
Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Masham
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill
Best Original Screenplay:
Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly (WINNER)
The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
First Reformed – Paul Schrader
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
Vice – Adam McKay
Best Adapted Screenplay:
BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee based on the book by Ron Stallworth (WINNER)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ;All Gold Canyon is based on a story by Jack London; The Gal Who Got Rattled is inspired by a story by Stewart Edward White.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the memoir by Lee Israel
If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins based on the book by James Baldwin
A Star Is Born – Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and 1976 screenplay by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne and Frank Pierson; based on a story by Robert Carson and William A. Wellman
Best Animated Feature Film:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (WINNER)
Incredibles 2 – Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle
Isle of Dogs – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson
Mirai – Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito
Ralph Breaks the Internet – Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer
Best Foreign Language Film:
Roma (Mexico) in Spanish and Mixtec – Directed by Alfonso Cuarón (WINNER)
Capernaum (Lebanon) in Arabic – Directed by Nadine Labaki
Cold War (Poland) in Polish and French – Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Never Look Away (Germany) in German – Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Shoplifters (Japan) in Japanese – Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Best Documentary – Feature:
Free Solo – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill (WINNER)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim
Minding the Gap – Bing Liu and Diane Quon
Of Fathers and Sons – Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert
RBG – Betsy West and Julie Cohen
Best Documentary – Short Subject:
Period. End of Sentence. – Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton (WINNER)
Black Sheep – Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn
End Game – Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Lifeboat – Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser
A Night at the Garden – Marshall Curry
Best Live Action Short Film:
Skin – Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman (WINNER)
Detainment – Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon
Fauve – Jérémy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon
Marguerite – Marianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset
Mother – Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado
Best Animated Short Film:
Bao – Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb (WINNER)
Animal Behaviour – Alison Snowden and David Fine
Late Afternoon – Louise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco
One Small Step – Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas
Weekends – Trevor Jimenez
Best Original Score:
Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson (WINNER)
BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard
If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman
Best Original Song:
“Shallow” from A Star Is Born – Music and Lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt (WINNER)
“All the Stars” from Black Panther – Music by Mark “Sounwave” Spears, Kendrick Lamar and Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith; Lyrics by Kendrick Lamar, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith and SZA
“I’ll Fight” from RBG – Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns – Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Music and Lyrics by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
Best Sound Editing:
Bohemian Rhapsody – John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone (WINNER)
Black Panther – Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker
First Man – Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
A Quiet Place – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
Roma – Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay
Best Sound Mixing:
Bohemian Rhapsody – Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali (WINNER)
Black Panther – Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter J. Devlin
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
Best Production Design:
Black Panther – Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart (WINNER)
The Favourite – Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
First Man – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas
Mary Poppins Returns – Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
Roma – Production Design: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Bárbara Enríquez
Best Cinematography:
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón (WINNER)
Cold War – Lukasz Zal
The Favourite – Robbie Ryan
Never Look Away – Caleb Deschanel
A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique

Best Makeup: and Hairstyling:

Vice – Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney (WINNER)
Border – Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer
Mary Queen of Scots – Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks
Best Costume Design:
Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter (WINNER)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Mary Zophres
The Favourite – Sandy Powell
Mary Poppins Returns – Sandy Powell
Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne
Best Film Editing:
Bohemian Rhapsody – John Ottman (WINNER)
BlacKkKlansman – Barry Alexander Brown
The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Green Book – Patrick J. Don Vito
Vice – Hank Corwin
Best Visual Effects:
First Man – Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm (WINNER)
Avengers: Infinity War – Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick
Christopher Robin – Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould
Ready Player One – Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk
Solo: A Star Wars Story – Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy
Academy Honorary Awards:
Cicely Tyson – American actress
Lalo Schifrin – Argentine-American composer
Marvin Levy – American publicist
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award:
Kathleen Kennedy
Frank Marshall