91st Academy Awards


The 91st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 2018 and took place on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by the American Broadcasting Company and was produced by Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, with Weiss also serving as director. This was the first telecast to have no host since the 61st ceremony held in 1989.
In related events, the Academy held its 10th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center on November 18, 2018. The Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host David Oyelowo on February 9, 2019, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Green Book won three awards, including Best Picture. Bohemian Rhapsody won the most awards of the night, with four awards. Black Panther and Roma won three awards, and Bao, BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, First Man, Free Solo, If Beale Street Could Talk, Period. End of Sentence., Skin, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Star Is Born, and Vice each won one. The telecast garnered 29.56 million viewers in the United States.

Winners and nominees



The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were announced on January 22, 2019, at 5:20 a.m. PST, at the Academy headquarters in Beverly Hills, by actors Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross. The Favourite and Roma tied for the most nominations with ten each.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2019. For the second time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, every Best Picture nominee won at least one award. Roma became the fifth film nominated simultaneously for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film in the same year. Alfonso Cuarón was the first person to win Best Director and Best Cinematography for the same film. Black Panther was the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture.
Best Actress nominee Yalitza Aparicio was the first Indigenous Mexican person nominated for an acting Oscar. Best Supporting Actor winner Mahershala Ali became the second black performer to win multiple acting awards after Denzel Washington, who won Best Supporting Actor for 1989's Glory and Best Actor for 2001's Training Day. With her nomination for Best Actress and win for Best Original Song for co-writing "Shallow" from A Star Is Born, Lady Gaga was the second person to receive acting and songwriting nominations for the same film, after Mary J. Blige for 2017's Mudbound, and the first person to do so in a leading role and win in either or both categories. Best Costume Design winner Ruth E. Carter and Best Production Design co-winner Hannah Beachler were the first Black winners in their respective categories and the first Black women to win in a non-acting category since Irene Cara, who won the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling" from 1983's Flashdance.

Awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger.

  • Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
  • * Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
  • * Paweł PawlikowskiCold War
  • * Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
  • * Adam McKay – Vice
  • Rami MalekBohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury
  • *Christian Bale – Vice as Dick Cheney
  • * Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson "Jack" Maine
  • * Willem DafoeAt Eternity's Gate as Vincent van Gogh
  • *Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Tony Vallelonga
  • Olivia ColmanThe Favourite as Queen Anne
  • * Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleodegaria "Cleo" Gutierrez
  • * Glenn CloseThe Wife as Joan Castleman
  • * Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine
  • * Melissa McCarthyCan You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel
  • Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley
  • * Adam DriverBlacKkKlansman as Philip "Flip" Zimmerman
  • * Sam ElliottA Star Is Born as Bobby Maine
  • * Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock
  • * Sam RockwellVice as George W. Bush
  • Regina KingIf Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers
  • *Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney
  • *Marina de Tavira – Roma as Sofía
  • *Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Masham
  • *Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill
  • Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly
  • * The FavouriteDeborah Davis and Tony McNamara
  • * First ReformedPaul Schrader
  • * Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
  • * Vice – Adam McKay
  • BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee; based on the book Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
  • * The Ballad of Buster ScruggsJoel Coen and Ethan Coen; All Gold Canyon is based on a story by Jack London; The Gal Who Got Rattled is inspired by a story by Stewart Edward White.
  • * Can You Ever Forgive Me?Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty; based on the memoir by Lee Israel
  • * If Beale Street Could TalkBarry Jenkins; based on the book by James Baldwin
  • * A Star Is BornEric Roth, Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters; based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and 1976 screenplay by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne and Frank Pierson; based on a story by Robert Carson and William A. Wellman
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseBob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
  • * Incredibles 2Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle
  • * Isle of DogsWes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson
  • * MiraiMamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito
  • * Ralph Breaks the InternetRich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer
  • Roma in Spanish and Mixtec – Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
  • * Capernaum in Arabic – Directed by Nadine Labaki
  • * Cold War in Polish and French – Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski
  • * Never Look Away in German – Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
  • * Shoplifters in Japanese – Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Free SoloElizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill
  • * Hale County This Morning, This EveningRaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim
  • * Minding the GapBing Liu and Diane Quon
  • * Of Fathers and SonsTalal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert
  • * RBGBetsy West and Julie Cohen
  • Period. End of Sentence. – Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton
  • * Black Sheep – Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn
  • * End GameRob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
  • * Lifeboat – Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser
  • * A Night at the GardenMarshall Curry
  • SkinGuy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman
  • * Detainment – Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon
  • * FauveJérémy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon
  • * MargueriteMarianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset
  • * MotherRodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado
  • Bao – Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb
  • * Animal BehaviourAlison Snowden and David Fine
  • * Late AfternoonLouise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco
  • * One Small Step – Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas
  • * WeekendsTrevor Jimenez
  • Black PantherLudwig Göransson
  • * BlacKkKlansmanTerence Blanchard
  • * If Beale Street Could TalkNicholas Britell
  • * Isle of DogsAlexandre Desplat
  • * Mary Poppins ReturnsMarc Shaiman
  • "Shallow" from A Star Is BornMusic and lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt
  • * "All the Stars" from Black Panther – Music by Mark "Sounwave" Spears, Kendrick Lamar and Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith; lyrics by Kendrick Lamar, Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith and SZA
  • * "I'll Fight" from RBG – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren
  • * "The Place Where Lost Things Go" from Mary Poppins Returns – Music by Marc Shaiman; lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
  • * "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Music and lyrics by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
  • Bohemian RhapsodyJohn Warhurst and Nina Hartstone
  • * Black Panther – Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker
  • * First ManAi-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
  • * A Quiet PlaceEthan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
  • * RomaSergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay
  • Bohemian Rhapsody – Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali
  • * Black Panther – Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter J. Devlin
  • * First ManJon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis
  • * Roma – Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García
  • * A Star Is BornTom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow
  • Black Panther – Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart
  • * The Favourite – Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
  • * First Man – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas
  • * Mary Poppins Returns – Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
  • * Roma – Production Design: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Bárbara Enríquez
  • Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
  • * Cold WarŁukasz Żal
  • * The FavouriteRobbie Ryan
  • * Never Look AwayCaleb Deschanel
  • * A Star Is BornMatthew Libatique
  • ViceGreg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney
  • * BorderGöran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer
  • * Mary Queen of ScotsJenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks
  • Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter
  • * The Ballad of Buster ScruggsMary Zophres
  • * The FavouriteSandy Powell
  • * Mary Poppins Returns – Sandy Powell
  • * Mary Queen of ScotsAlexandra Byrne
  • Bohemian RhapsodyJohn Ottman
  • * BlacKkKlansmanBarry Alexander Brown
  • * The FavouriteYorgos Mavropsaridis
  • * Green Book – Patrick J. Don Vito
  • * ViceHank Corwin
  • First Man – Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm
  • * Avengers: Infinity WarDan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick
  • * Christopher RobinChristopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould
  • * Ready Player OneRoger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk
  • * Solo: A Star Wars StoryRob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy