The 91stt Academy Awards are in the books and the big winner was Green Book, who took the trophy for Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and the biggie… Best Picture!
The other big winner of the night was the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. It won all three editing awards, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Editing—as well as the one we knew it was going to win, Best Actor for Rami Malek. No other movie won more Oscars than the film about the incomparable Freddie Mercury and his band-mates.
What’s fascinating about the Queen movie winning, is not one winner thanked director Bryan Singer—which is surprising to no one due to the controversy about him and sexual misconduct with young boys. But that did not dampen the night for the big winners, especially Malek who gave one of the most gracious speeches of the evening.
Joining him in the great speech department was one shocked winner in Olivia Coleman for The Favourite. Glenn Close was the presumptive favorite, after winning every other award throughout award season. But when Coleman’s name was called, one could tell that the British actress was about as shocked as anyone could be, and also… Close took the lose with supreme class.
Spike Lee won his first Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on the stunning BlacKkKlansman. Lee used his speech to employ everyone watching at home to chose love over hate when they head to the ballot box in 2020. It was one of the few political speeches in an otherwise droll night of award-after-award-award. See, the show went without a host this year and here’s betting the farm that they will never do that again.
The show itself lacked heart and soul, something a host could have easily provided.
Here are the winners of this year’s Oscars:
Best Picture: Green Book
Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Best Actress: Olivia Coleman, The Favourite
Best Actor: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Best Supporting Actress: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Original Screenplay, Green Book
Best Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman
Best Foreign Language Film: Roma
Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Sound Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Sound Mixing: Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Visual Effects: First Man
Best Film Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody
Live Action Short: Skin
Animated Short: Bao
Documentary Short: Period. End of Sentence
Original Score: Black Panther
Original Song: Shallow from A Star is Born
Production Design: Black Panther
Costume Design: Black Panther
Cinematography: Roma
Makeup and Hairstyling: Vice
Documentary Feature: Free Solo