Oscars 2019: 9 Ups & 8 Downs
7. Bohemian Rhapsody Wins Three Technical Oscars (For Some Reason)
Bohemian Rhapsody ended up winning the most Oscars of the night, scooping a baffling four Academy Awards, three of which were in technical categories no less.
Firstly, proving that most Academy voters know little about sound, the Queen biopic won the Best Sound Editing & Sound Mixing Oscars, despite the film's glaringly inconsistent sound work compared to, say, fellow nominee First Man.
Clearly, the thought process here was "musical movie = best sound", rather than applying any actual critical thought to it.
The more eyebrow-raising win came later, though, when John Ottman won the Best Film Editing Oscar, despite Bohemian Rhapsody being by far the worst-edited of the five nominated films (its competition being BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, Green Book and Vice).
Given that the lip sync in Bohemian Rhapsody was occasionally off and film editing forms one of the most basic poles of filmmaking, it was an extremely odd move to give it the gong here.