2019 Oscars Nominees and Winners: A Recap of Hollywood’s Big Night

2019 Oscars Winner Rami Malek
Rami Malek accepts his Best Actors Oscar during the 2019 Academy Awards
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The 2019 Oscars will be remembered for going hostless and nailing it, for finally recognizing Spike Lee with an Oscar win, for historic wins by black artists in a variety of categories, and for one of the most intimate, show-stopping performances of a Best Song nominee (by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper). It also saw Marvel’s Black Panther enter the record books as the studio’s first Oscar winner. The comic book-inspired film won Best Costume Design, Production Design, and Best Score Academy Awards. Ruth Carter became the first black woman to take home an Oscar in the Costume Design category, and Hannah Beachler is the first black Production Designer to win an Academy Award.

Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma was beat out by Green Book in the Best Picture category, but nevertheless his trophy shelf will need to be expanded after the 2019 Academy Awards. It will need to accommodate Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Cinematography statuettes. Green Book pulled off the biggest shock of the night by being named Best Picture, something few saw coming. Green Book also took home Oscars in the Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) categories.

20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody won four Oscars, topping the list of this year’s winners. Rami Malek was obviously moved as he accepted his Best Actor Oscar, noting he’s a first generation American who couldn’t have dreamed of this moment as a child. “I think about what it would have been like to tell little Bubba Rami that one day this might happen to him, and I think his curly-haired little mind would be blown. That kid was, he was struggling with his identity, trying to figure himself out. And I think to anyone struggling with theirs and trying to discover their voice, listen we made a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life just unapologetically himself. And the fact that I’m celebrating him and this story with you tonight is proof that we’re longing for stories like this,” said Malek. “I am the son of immigrants from Egypt. I’m a first generation American and part of my story is being written right now and I could not be more grateful to each and every one of you, and everyone who believed in me for this moment. It is something I will treasure for the rest of my life.”

The music-driven biopic also won in the Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Editing categories.

Other standout moments from this year’s Academy Awards include an important, timely speech by Javier Bardem as he introduced Best Picture nominee Roma and Olivia Colman gaining thousands of new fans with a heartfelt, hysterical and yet moving Best Actress acceptance speech which ended with her blowing a kiss to Lady Gaga. And while we’re talking about Colman’s competitor in the Best Actress category, Lady Gaga didn’t take home that Oscar but she did earn one for “Shallow” from A Star is Born.

Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, and Amy Poehler were the first presenters to take the stage, joking about not being the award show’s hosts while doing the high speed version of jokes featuring topics a host would normally touch upon. On the music front, Queen with Adam Lambert opened the show with a rousing version of “We are The Champions,” Jennifer Hudson belted out “I’ll Fight” from RBG, and Bette Midler took to the Oscar stage to sing “The Place Where the Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns.

    BEST PICTURE
    BlacKkKlansman
    Black Panther
    Bohemian Rhapsody
    The Favourite
    WINNER: Green Book
    Roma
    A Star Is Born
    Vice

    BEST DIRECTOR
    WINNER: Alfonso Cuaron for Roma
    Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman
    Adam McKay for Vice
    Pawel Pawlikowski for Cold War
    Yorgos Lanthimos for The Favourite

    BEST ACTRESS
    Yalitza Aparicio in Roma
    Glenn Close in The Wife
    WINNER: Olivia Colman in The Favourite
    Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born
    Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

    BEST ACTOR
    Christian Bale in Vice
    Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born
    Willem Dafoe in At Eternity’s Gate
    WINNER: Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody
    Viggo Mortensen in Green Book

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
    WINNER: Mahershala Ali in Green Book
    Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman
    Sam Elliott in A Star Is Born
    Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    Sam Rockwell in Vice

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
    Amy Adams in Vice
    Marina de Tavira in Roma
    WINNER: Regina King in If Beale Street Could Talk
    Emma Stone in The Favourite
    Rachel Weisz in The Favourite

    BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
    The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    WINNER: BlacKkKlansman
    Can You Ever Forgive Me?
    If Beale Street Could Talk
    A Star Is Born

    BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
    The Favourite
    First Reformed
    WINNER: Green Book
    Roma
    Vice

    BEST SONG
    “All the Stars” from Black Panther
    “I’ll Fight” from RBG
    “The Place Where the Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns
    WINNER: “Shallow” from A Star is Born
    “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

    BEST SCORE
    BlacKkKlansman
    WINNER: Black Panther
    If Beale Street Could Talk
    Isle of Dogs
    Mary Poppins Returns

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Cold War
    The Favourite
    Never Look Away
    WINNER: Roma
    A Star Is Born

    BEST FILM EDITING
    BlacKkKlansman
    WINNER: Bohemian Rhapsody
    The Favourite
    Green Book
    Vice

    BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
    Avengers: Infinity War
    Christopher Robin
    WINNER: First Man
    Ready Player One
    Solo: A Star Wars Story

    BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
    WINNER: Black Panther
    The Favourite
    First Man
    Mary Poppins Returns
    Roma

    BEST COSTUME DESIGN
    The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
    WINNER: Black Panther
    The Favourite
    Mary Poppins Returns
    Mary Queen of Scots

    BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR
    Border
    Mary Queen of Scots
    WINNER: Vice

    BEST SOUND EDITING
    Black Panther
    WINNER: Bohemian Rhapsody
    First Man
    A Quiet Place
    Roma

    BEST SOUND MIXING
    Black Panther
    WINNER: Bohemian Rhapsody
    First Man
    Roma
    A Star Is Born

    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
    Capernaum (Lebanon)
    Cold War (Poland)
    Never Look Away (Germany)
    WINNER: Roma (Mexico)
    Shoplifters (Japan)

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
    Incredibles 2
    Isle of Dogs
    Mirai
    Ralph Breaks the Internet
    WINNER: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    BEST ANIMATED SHORT
    Animal Behaviour
    WINNER: Bao
    Late Afternoon
    One Small Step
    Weekends

    BEST DOCUMENTARY
    WINNER: Free Solo
    Hale County This Morning, This Evening
    Minding the Gap
    Of Fathers and Sons
    RBG

    BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
    Detainment
    Fauve
    Marguerite
    Mother
    WINNER: Skin

    BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
    Black Sheep
    End Game
    Lifeboat
    A Night at the Garden
    WINNER: Period. End of Sentence.