Oscars 2019 Winners List: Olivia Colman, Rami Malek And Green Book Win Big
Shocks, surprises and the Academy doing what it always does.
In a night where the Academy did what the Academy always does by awarding Green Book the Best Film Oscar, there were also some surprises. The big talking points of this year's ceremony will no doubt be that victory and Olivia Colman's delightful win for Best Actress.
To be honest, most of the awards went as expected: you could have picked out the Best Animated Film, Best Animated Short, Best Documentary, Best Song and Best Actor (even with a controversial, divisive film behind him) from the minute the nominations were announced. Beyond them, there was some hope that we'd see some deviations from the most predicted winners, but it's all worked out as expected.
Was Green Book the best film of the year? No. Was it the most Oscar-friendly? Undoubtedly. Was Rami Malek's performance as Freddie Mercury the best of the year? No. Was it the one that hit the most Oscar tick boxes? Undoubtedly. The Academy tends to do what the Academy always does, even after they claim they're trying to solve issues of the past.
Inevitably there were some strange victories in there - like Colman's win over Glenn Close (though it's not undeserved, as she's brilliant in The Favourite and an absolute treasure) and the win for Best Editing for Bohemian Rhapsody, which is just plain wrong. The only possible justification for that one is that the Academy were as delighted as I was with the transition shot of the cockerel crowing Gallileo. Nothing else in editing terms in there marks it out as exceptional.
Anyway, it's done now and we all get to look forward to next year when something else goes wrong. Here's your Class Of 2018 winners...
Best Picture
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
WINNER: Green Book
Roma
A Star is Born
Vice
Best Director
BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee
Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski
The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos
WINNER: Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Vice, Adam McKay
Best Actor
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity's Gate
WINNER: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Best Actress
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife
WINNER: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Lady Gaga, A Star is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Joel Coen , Ethan Coen
WINNER: 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
Best Original Screenplay
The Favourite, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
First Reformed, Paul Schrader
WINNER: Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Vice, Adam McKay
Best Supporting Actor
WINNER: Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott, A Star is Born
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Vice
Marina de Tavira, Roma
WINNER: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Best Original Song
"All The Stars" Black Panther, Kendrick Lamar, SZA
"I'll Fight"RBG, Diane Warren, Jennifer Hudson
"The Place Where Lost Things Go",Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
WINNER: "Shallow", A Star is Born, Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice
"When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings", The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Willie Watson, Tim Blake Nelson
Best Animated Feature
Incredibles 2, Brad Bird
Isle of Dogs, Wes AndersonMirai, Mamoru Hosoda
Ralph Breaks the Internet, Rich Moore, Phil Johnston
WINNER: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Best Original Score
WINNER: Black Panther, Ludwig Goransson
BlacKkKlansman, Terence Blanchard
If Beale Street Could Talk, Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs, Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
Best Foreign Language Film
Cold War (Poland)
Capernum (Lebanon)
Never Look Away (Germany)
WINNER: Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)
Best Cinematography
Cold War, Lukasz Zal
The Favourite, Robbie Ryan
Never Look Away, Caleb Deschanel
WINNER: Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
A Star is Born, Matthew Libatique
Best Costume Design
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Mary Zophres
WINNER: Black Panther, Ruth E. Carter
The Favourite, Sandy Powell
Mary Poppins Returns, Sandy Powell
Mary Queen of Scots, Alexandra Byrne
Best Sound Editing
Black Panther, Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker
WINNER: Bohemian Rhapsody, John Warhurst, Nina Hartstone
First Man, Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan
A Quiet Place, Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl
Roma, Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay
Best Sound Mixing
Black Panther
WINNER: Bohemian Rhapsody, Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin, John Casali
First Man
Roma
A Star is Born
Best Makeup And Hairstyling
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
WINNER: Vice, Gene Cannom, Kate Biscoe, Patricia Dehaney
Best Live-Action Short
Detainment, Vincent LambeFauve, Jeremy Comte
Marguerite, Marianne Farley
Mother, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
WINNER: Skin, Guy Nattiv, Jaime Ray Newman
Best Animated Short
Animal Behavior
WINNER: Bao
Late Afternoon
Once Small Step
Weekends
Best Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
WINNER: First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Best Film Editing
BlacKkKlansman, Barry Alexander Brown
WINNER: Bohemian Rhapsody, John Ottman
The Favourite, Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Green Book, Patrick J. Don Vito
Vice, Hank Corwin
Best Production Design
WINNER: Black Panther, Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration, Jay Hart
The Favourite, Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas
First Man, Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
Mary Poppins Returns, John Myhre, Gordon Sim
Roma, Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enrı́quez
Best Documentary Short
Black Sheep, Ed Perkins
End Game, Jeffrey Friedman
Lifeboat, Skye Fitzgerald
A Night at the Garden, Marshall Curry
WINNER: Period. End of Sentence., Rayka Zehtabchi, Melissa Berton
Best Documentary Feature
WINNER: 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, Julie Cohen