The 91st Academy Awards will air live February 24, 2019 with leading Oscar contenders ROMA and The Favourite coming in with 10 nominations each. Check out the full list of nominees here:
A lot of people were pretty bummed out over Bohemian Rhapsody winning top honours at this year’s Golden Globes ceremonies and since then, film critics have been wallowing in agony over the impending doom that would be the 2019 Oscar nominations… The time is here and as it turns out, nobody gives a shit either way. The Favourite is a surprise in my opinion with 10 nominations while ROMA getting 10 as well is not surprising in the least. I haven’t seen either movie and I just… don’t want to. But this is coming from a guy who watched a half hour of A Star is Born and then shut it right off.
Some interesting observations: Black Panther landed a Best Film nomination, which is really great for Marvel Studios and I hope they feel proud for purchasing such a significant spot in the broadcast. Shame it won’t matter. Honestly, Bohemian Rhapsody could win once again in this category, but I’m betting the Academy goes for a shocker and we get a movie like BlacKkKlansman or Vice winning Best Film. I just don’t see ROMA (which is a black and white foreign flick) or A Star is Born taking it this year but we’ll see….
There are a lot of people saying that 2018 was a weak year for film, but in my opinion it was one of the best of the past decade with some incredible releases like Mandy, Annihilation, Mission Impossible Fallout, Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (which MUST WIN animated film of the year), the list goes on and on. BUT – these are typically considered genre films and the Academy just doesn’t honour these types of movies above the technical categories and that’s a shame. I knew Mandy wouldn’t get recognised but seeing a more mainstream release like Annihilation snubbed so hard is shocking to me.
I skipped the Globes this year and I’m probably going to skip the Oscars too and save myself 3+ hours of grief, but that doesn’t mean I’ll stop speculating the results. Stay tuned for our annual OSCAR BATTLE ROYALE to see who will reign supreme and also to get a glimpse of our website’s collective predictions on who will win every single category below:
BEST FILM
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star Is Born
Vice
BEST DIRECTOR
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Pawel 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
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Capernaum
Cold War
Never Look Away
Roma
Shoplifters
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Favourite
First Reformed
Green Book
Roma
Vice
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cold War
The Favourite
Never Look Away
Roma
A Star Is Born
BEST SOUND EDITING
Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker, Black Panther
John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone, Bohemian Rhapsody
Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan, First Man
Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl, A Quiet Place
Sergio Diaz and Skip Lievsay, Roma
BEST SOUND MIXING
Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin, Black Panther
Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali, Bohemian Rhapsody
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montano, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis, First Man
Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and Jose Antonio Garcia, Roma
Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow, A Star Is Born
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Black Panther
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Mary Zophres, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Ruth Carter, Black Panther
Sandy Powell, The Favourite
Sandy Powell, Mary Poppins Returns
Alexandra Bryne, Mary Queen Of Scots
BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
Goran Lundstrom and Pamela Goldammer, Border
Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks, Mary Queen of Scots
Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney, Vice
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle Of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns
BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Free Solo
Hale County
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End Of Sentence
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Incredibles 2
Isle Of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks The Internet
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
BEST FILM EDITING
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice