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.
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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.