By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | January 22, 2019 |
By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | January 22, 2019 |
They’re finally here. The 91st Academy Award nominations were announced this morning/afternoon (well, I’m on GMT, don’t know about you) by Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross (someone put them in a rom-com already). And the results?
Well…
Look, I expect nothing from the Oscars now and I’m still kinda bummed. Bohemian Rhapsody getting a Best Picture nomination truly stings but alas, I was predicting it so I wasn’t as devastated as I could have been. but what a slap in the face its presence in that category is, for very obvious reasons. Fuck Bryan Singer. Also isn’t it stupid that we have this Best Picture system where we don’t just fill out the category to 10 nominees? There’s room for If Beale Street Could Talk, among many others!
I would say the biggest actual shock of the morning is no Bradley Cooper in Best Director. We’d all just assumed it would happen because the narrative was in his favour, but nope, he isn’t there. Adam McKay is, which makes me wonder if a lot of these voters actually saw Vice. The big surprise name in that category is Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski for Cold War.
Some other surprises: Two acting nominations for Roma, which is wonderful and well-deserved; nothing for Ethan Hawke in First Reformed - for my money the best performance of 2018 - which wasn’t a shock but Willem Dafoe getting in there ahead of him certainly was; no Best Documentary Feature nomination for Won’t You Be My Neighbor?; No Claire Foy in Best Supporting Actress; No women directors nominated… Okay, not a surprise but I still feel like we should be mad about that; that editing category is weird and full of bad choices that could easily have been rectified; no If Beale Street Could Talk in Best Cinematography but the German film Never Look Away squeaked in there, giving another Oscar nomination to Caleb Deschanel.
Here are your nominees for the 2019 Academy Awards.
BEST PICTURE
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star is Born
Vice
BEST DIRECTOR
Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman
Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite
Alfonso Cuaron - Roma
Adam McKay - Vice
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale - Vice
Bradley Cooper - A Star is Born
Willem Dafoe - At Eternity’s Gate
Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen - Green Book
BEST ACTRESS
Yalitza Aparicio - Roma
Glenn Close - The Wife
Olivia Colman - The Favourite
Lady Gaga - A Star is Born
Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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
Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone - The Favourite
Rachel Weisz - The Favourite
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star is Born
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Favourite
First Reformed
Green Book
Roma
Vice
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Animal Behaviour
Bao
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Detainment
Fauve
Marguerite
Mother
Skin
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cold War
The Favourite
Never Look Away
Roma
A Star is Born
BEST SOUND EDITING
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
A Quiet Place
Roma
BEST SOUND MIXING
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Roma
A Star is Born
BEST SCORE
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns
BEST EDITING
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Free Solo
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence.
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Capernaum
Cold War
Never look Away
Roma
Shoplifters
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Vice
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Black Panther
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
All the Stars - Black Panther
I’ll Fight - RBG
The Place Where Lost Things Go - Mary Poppins Returns
Shallow - A Star is Born
When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs