The 91st Academy Awards, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, concluded at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Interestingly, this was for the first time in three decades, since the 61st Academy Awards in 1989, that the ceremony was conducted with no host. Here, we have a timeline of the event:
>> Green Book won the best picture
>> Alfonso Cuaron won Best Director Oscar for Roma. The Mexican filmmaker won the Oscar over Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite), Adam McKay (Vice), Paweł Pawlikowski (Cold War), and Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman). This is the second time that he has won the Best Director Oscar. The filmmaker triumphed at the 86th Academy Awards in 2014 for his direction of Gravity.
>> Olivia Colman won the best actress Oscar for her role in The Favourite. Colman beat Glenn Close, Lady Gaga, Yalitza Aparicio and Melissa McCarthy to the prize.
>> Rami Malek won the Oscar for best actor at the 91st Academy Awards for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. Malek defeated a strong field, including Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in Vice and Bradley Cooper as musician Jack Maine in A Star Is Born.
>> Black Panther won best Original Score while Shallow wins best Original Song.
>> Spike Lee won his first Oscar for BlackKklansman in the best Adapted Screenplay category
>> Green Book took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in a controversial win for a movie that has been called a white savior narrative and been accused of stretching the facts of the true story on which it is based.
>> Director Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong biopic First Man won Visual effects.
>> Period. End Of Sentence won Oscar Best Documentary Short Subject. The documentary revolves around the stigma around menstruation in rural India and is directed by 25-year-old Rayka Zehtabchi and produced by Guneet Monga who was also the producer of Masaan and Lunchbox. It is currently available for streaming on Netflix.
>> Bao won best animated short film.
>> Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. The first animated feature in the Spider-Man franchise is written by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, and directed by Rothman, Peter Ramsey, and Bob Persichetti.
>> Mahershala Ali won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role as Don Shirley in Green Book in the 91st Academy Awards. This is Ali's second Oscar win, after he took the award in the same category in 2017 for Moonlight, becoming the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar.
>> Best editing went to Bohemian Rhapsody making it third award for the movie.
>> Director Alfonso Cuaron's Roma was declared Best Foreign Film of the year. Cuaron's Spanish-language tone poem, filmed in black and white is inspired by the filmmaker's Mexico City upbringing.
>> Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody won for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.
>> Best cinematography went to Alfonso Cuaron for Roma, a film he also wrote and directed. The black and white Netflix film is semi-autobiographical, based on his childhood memories growing up in Mexico City in the 1970s and the life of his family’s indigenous live-in maid played by Yalitza Aparicio.
>> Black Panther won again for best Production Design.
>> Best costume design went to Black Panther helmed by Ruth E Carter.
>> Vice won for Make up and hair styling
>> Free Solo won Oscar For Best Documentary Feature. The nonfiction film, directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, chronicles rock climber Alex Honnold’s death-defying quest to perform a free solo climb up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
>> Regina King won the best supporting actress Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk.
>> A montage video about how great film was played
>> The Oscars opened with a performance by Queen band.
