The Oscars 2019 nominations are full of popular films! Which one is your favourite?
Finally, the nominees of the 91st year of the Oscar Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been announced. Eight films have been nominated for the Best Picture Award, equally dominated by the films Roma and The Favourite, each with ten nominations. Closely behind are films, A Star Is Born, Vice and Black Panther with eight nominations each.
The Czech film Všechno bude (Winter Flies) didn’t earn a nomination
The American Motion Picture Academy will hold the awarding ceremony of the Oscars on the 24th February. The opportunity to cast a ballot to receive this award, which is the highest award one can get in the film world, was available for about 350 films. On the 22nd of January, this number was reduced by the Academy to 10 films. Which ones are they? Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Green Book, Roma, A Star Is Born, and Vice.
The Czech’s iron in the fire, film Všechno bude (Winter Flies), didn’t make it to the second nominee selection round, in which an expert jury chooses the final contestants for the Oscars.
The American Motion Picture Academy started giving the award in 1929
The yearly ceremony began taking place two years after the director of MGM Louis Mayer established the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The first award ceremony was held in Los Angeles on the 16th of May 1929 at the Roosevelt hotel. The ceremony was the summary of two years, therefore there were two award recipients: Wings and Sunrise. The listed categories were film, directing, female acting performance, male acting performance, camera and script. Today, there is a total of 24 categories.
The Oscars ceremony was first televised in 1953, but only in USA and Canada. The amount of viewers wasn’t very high, because there were only a few hundred thousand people who sat down to their TV. Today, the ceremony is streamed live in more than 200 countries, and is watched by around 50 million viewers.
You’ll find a complete list of this year’s nominees below:
BEST PICTURE
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 Cuarón / Roma
Adam McKay / Vice
BEST ACTOR IN LEADING ROLE
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 IN LEADING ROLE
Yalitza Aparicio / Roma
Glenn Close / The Wife
Olivia Colman / The Favourite
Lady Gaga / A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy / Can You Ever Forgive Me?
ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE
Mahershala Ali / Green Book
Adam Driver / BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott / A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant / Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell / Vice
ACTRESS IN SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams / Vice
Marina de Tavira / Roma
Regina King / If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone / The Favourite
Rachel Weisz / The Favourite
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Favourite / Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
First Reformed / Paul Schrader
Green Book / Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
Roma / Alfonso Cuarón
Vice / Adam McKay
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs / Joel Coen , Ethan Coen
BlacKkKlansman / Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee
Can You Ever Forgive Me? / Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
If Beale Street Could Talk / Barry Jenkins
A Star Is Born / Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Capernaum (Lebanon)
Cold War (Poland)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Detainment / Vincent Lambe
Fauve / Jeremy Comte
Marguerite / Marianne Farley
Mother / Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Skin / Guy Nattiv
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Incredibles 2 / Brad Bird
Isle of Dogs / Wes Anderson
Mirai / Mamoru Hosoda
Ralph Breaks the Internet / Rich Moore, Phil Johnston
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse / Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Animal Behaviour / Alison Snowden, David Fine
Bao / Domee Shi
Late Afternoon / Louise Bagnall
One Small Step / Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas
Weekends / Trevor Jimenez
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Free Solo / Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Hale County This Morning, This Evening / RaMell Ross
Minding the Gap / Bing Liu
Of Fathers and Sons / Talal Derki
RBG / Betsy West, Julie Cohen
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Black Sheep / Ed Perkins
End Game / Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Lifeboat / Skye Fitzgerald
A Night at the Garden / Marshall Curry
Period. End of Sentence / Rayka Zehtabchi
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cold War / Lukasz Zal
The Favourite / Robbie Ryan
Never Look Away / Caleb Deschanel
Roma / Alfonso Cuarón
A Star Is Born /Matthew Libatique
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
BlacKkKlansman / Terence Blanchard
Black Panther / Ludwig Goransson
If Beale Street Could Talk / Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs / Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns / Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
BEST SONG
All The Stars, Black Panther, Kendrick Lamar, SZA
I’ll Fight, RBG, Diane Warren, Jennifer Hudson
The Place Where Lost Things Go, Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
Shallow, A Star Is Born” by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice
When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Willie Watson, Tim Blake Nelson
BEST SOUND EDITING
Black Panther / Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker
Bohemian Rhapsody / John Warhurst
First Man / Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan
A Quiet Place / Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl
Roma / Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay
BEST SOUND MIXING
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Roma
A Star Is Born
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Black Panther / Hannah Beachler
First Man / Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas
The Favourite / Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
Mary Poppins Returns / John Myhre, Gordon Sim
Roma / Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enrı́quez
BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Vice
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ballad of Buster Scruggs / Mary Zophres
Black Panther / Ruth E. Carter
The Favourite / Sandy Powell
Mary Poppins Returns / Sandy Powell
Mary Queen of Scots /Alexandra Byrne
BEST EDITING
BlacKkKlansman / Barry Alexander Brown
Bohemian Rhapsody / John Ottman
Green Book / Patrick J. Don Vito
The Favourite / Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Vice / Hank Corwin
BEST VISUAL EFFECTSS
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story
