Oscars 2019 Winners: 5 Things The Academy Got Wrong (& 5 They Got Right)

3. Bohemian Rhapsody Takes Both Sound Awards

Musicals - or films containing lots of music and about the subject - often do well in the sound awards, but even with that it's hard to find a good reason to Bohemian Rhapsody to win here. That's especially so when you consider most of the sound was already done for them, given it's Queen's music. They do a good job of syncing that to Rami Malek's lip movements, but that's about the extent of it.

In contrast, you have First Man, which is one of the best sounding films ever made. The way it both engineers those sounds and then mixes them together is what contributes to the film making space so terrifying, and to keeping the emotional threads running throughout the film. It's capable of blowing your ears off, but also making your heart soar.

A Quiet Place would've been more deserving too, in the Editing category. This is a film built around staying silent, and that makes its soundscape completely unique and in need of working perfectly with everything else in the movie, which it absolutely does. Roma and A Star Is Born could feel hard done by here too (A Star Is Born does a lot of what Bohemian Rhapsody does, but with more original elements, and done better too).