LOS ANGELES: The wait for the Oscar awards is over now. The result has been out. All the winners of the 91st Academy Awards is listed below:
Actor in a leading role: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (Rami Malek)
Actor in a supporting role: GREEN (Mahershala Ali)
Actress in a leading role: THE FAVOURITE (Olivia Colman)
Actress in a supporting role: IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Regina King)
Best animated feature film of the year: SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Cinematography: ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón)
Costume design: BLACK PANTHER (Ruth Carter)
Direction: ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón)
Best documentary: FREE SOLO
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill
Best documentary short: PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE
Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton
Film editing: BOHEMIAN RHAPSOD (John Ottman)
Best foreign language film of the year: ROMA
Mexico
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Makeup and Hairstyling: VICE
Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney
Original score: BLACK PANTHER (Ludwig Goransson)
Original song: “Shallow” from A STAR IS BORN
Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt
Best motion picture of the year: GREEN BOOK
Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers
Production design: BLACK PANTHER
Production Design: Hannah Beachler
Set Decoration: Jay Hart
Best animated short film: BAO
Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb
Best live action short film: SKIN
Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman
Sound editing: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone
Sound mixing: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali
Visual effects: FIRST MAN
Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm
Adapted screenplay: BLACKkKLANSMAN
Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
Original screenplay: GREEN BOOK
Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
(Agencies)
The 91st edition of the Oscars is at our doorstep, finally. Most of the world’s eyes are on the Oscar’s winners. The nominees hearts’ are beating fast and looking for the announcement. The grand finale of the Oscar will begin at 6:45 am on Monday (February 25). Live coverage of the red-carpet festivities will start at 5:45 am.
Best Picture
Actor in a Leading Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Directing
Adapted Screenplay
Original Screenplay
Foreign Language Film
Animated Feature
Original Score
Original Song
Documentary Short
Cinematography
Best Documentary Feature
Production Design
Sound Mixing
Costume Design
Film Editing
Sound Editing
Animated Short Film
Live Action Short
Makeup and Hairstyling
Visual Effects
(Agencies)
Black Panther took the top award at Sunday’s 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards, giving Ryan Coogler’s superhero sensation its most significant awards-season honour yet and potentially setting up Wakanda for a major role at next month’s Academy Awards.
The two leading Oscar nominees — Roma and The Favourite — were bypassed by the actors guild for the best ensemble field that also included BlacKkKlansman, Crazy Rich Asians, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star Is Born. But though Black Panther wasn’t nominated for any individual SAG Awards, it took home the final award at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Before a stage-full of actors, Chadwick Boseman tried to put into context the moment for the trailblazing Black Panther, which also won for its stunt performer ensemble. “To be young, gifted and black,” he said, quoting the Nina Simone song.
We know what it’s like to be told there isn’t a screen for you to be featured on, a stage for you to be featured on. … We know what’s like to be beneath and not above. And that is what we went to work with every day,” said Boseman. “We knew that we could create a world that exemplified a world we wanted to see. We knew that we had something to give.”
The win puts Black Panther squarely in contention for best picture at the Academy Awards. Actors make up the largest percentage of the academy, so their preferences can have an especially large impact on the Oscar race. In the last decade the SAG ensemble winner has gone on to win best picture at the Academy Awards half of the time.
In the lead acting categories, Glenn Close and Rami Malek solidified themselves as front-runners with wins that followed their triumphs at the Golden Globes. The 71-year-old Close, a frequent nominee but never an Oscar winner, won best actress for her performance in The Wife. “One of the most powerful things we have as human beings are two eyes looking into two eyes,” said Close. “Film is the only art form that allows us the close-up.”
Malek dedicated his best-actor award for his performance in Bohemian Rhapsody to Mercury, as he did at the Globes. With the win over Christian Bale (Vice) and Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born), Malek seemingly sealed the best-actor Oscar many are predicting for him. “I get some power from him that’s about stepping up and living your best life, being exactly who you want to be and accomplishing everything you so desire,” said Malek.
More surprising was Emily Blunt’s best supporting actress win for her performance in the horror thriller A Quiet Place. Blunt’s win was a shocker, particularly for the actress, herself. Blunt, also nominated by the guild for her lead performance in Mary Poppins Returns, was visibly surprised. She wasn’t among Tuesday’s Oscars nominees for either film.
“Guys. That truly has blown my slicked hair back,” said Blunt, who praised her husband and A Quiet Place director John Krasinski as a “stunning filmmaker.” ”Thank you for giving me the part. You would have been in major trouble if you hadn’t.” Best supporting actor in a film went more as expected. Mahershala Ali, who won two years ago for Moonlight, won for his performance in Peter Farrelly’s interracial road trip Green Book. Ali thanked his co-star, Viggo Mortensen, and Farrelly.
The Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel won the first three awards handed out Sunday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. It won best ensemble in a comedy series, as well as individual honours Rachel Brosnahan and Tony Shalhoub, whose win was a surprise in a category that included Bill Hader (Barry) and Michael Douglas
Before a stage full of actors, Chadwick Boseman tried to put into context the moment for the trailblazing Black Panther, which also won for its stunt performer ensemble. (Source: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
“We cannot thank you enough,” said Shalhoub, speaking for the cast. “Stay with us.”
Tom Hanks presented the lifetime achievement award to Alan Alda, who in July revealed that he had been living with Parkinson’s disease for more than three years. The 83-year-old actor took the stage to a standing ovation while the theme to M.A.S.H. played. He said the award came at a reflective moment for him.
“And I see more than ever now how proud I am to be a part of our brotherhood and sisterhood of actors,” said Alda. “It may never have been more urgent to see the world through another person’s eyes. When a culture is divided so sharply, actors can help — a least a little — just by doing what we do. And the nice part is it’s fun to do it. So my wish for all of us is: Let’s stay playful.”
For the second time, the cast of This Is Us won best ensemble in a drama series. Other TV winners included Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Darren Criss for Assassination of Gianni Versace, Jason Bateman (Ozark) and Patricia Arquette (Escape at Dannemora). Arquette thanked Special Counsel investigator Robert Mueller “and everyone working to make sure we have sovereignty for the United States of America.”
The SAG Awards have one thing the Oscars don’t: a host. Emcee Megan Mullally kicked off the awards by tweaking their role among the many honours leading up to next month’s Oscars. She called the SAGs “the greatest honour an actor can receive this weekend.”
Among the attendees Sunday was Geoffrey Owens, the Cosby Show actor who caused a stir when he was photographed working at a New Jersey Trader Joe’s. He was among the performers who began the show with the SAG Awards’ typical “I am an actor” testimony. Reunited as presenters were Fatal Attraction stars Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.
(Agencies)
The nominations for the 91st Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday. Alfonso Cuarón’s black and white drama, Roma, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ period drama The Favourite jointly lead the nominations this year with 10 nods each. The 91st Oscars will be held on February 24 at Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California.
Roma is the first Netflix film to earn Best Picture Oscars Roma has had a great run this awards season. Now, it has become the first ever Netflix film to score a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Roma also leads in the total number of nominations alongside The Favourite with ten nominations.
Black Panther is the first superhero movie to be nominated in Best Picture category
Spike Lee scores his first Best Director nomination
Spike Lee on Tuesday received his first nomination in the Best Director category for his Ku Klux Klan comedy-drama BlacKkKlansman. Lee has previously been nominated in the Best Original Screenplay and Best Documentary Feature categories.
Lady Gaga scored two nominations this year – one in Best Actress category (A Star is Born) and the other in Best Song category for Shallow. She is only the second person to do so. Interestingly, Mary J Blige is the first person to get this honour, and she did that just last year.
Roma actor Yalitza Aparicio is the second Mexican actor to score the Best Actress Oscar nomination