The 2019 Oscars were hosted on Sunday, February 24 (the early hours of Monday, February 25 for UAE time), and there were some celebrations, some upsets and a whole lot happening.
Some notable wins were Marvel’s Black Panther taking three awards – for best costume design, best set design and best original score. It also resulted in history being made, with Ruth Carter (costume design) and Hannah Beachler (production design) being the first black winners in their categories.
Best-animated motion feature went to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Marvel’s animated film.
Actor, Rami Malek took the Oscar for best actor, becoming the first Arab to win the coveted award, for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. The biopic also took out best film editing, best sound editing and best sound mixing.
Film Editing
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody - WINNER
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice
Production Design
Black Panther - WINNER
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma
Sound Editing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody - WINNER
First Man
A Quiet Place
Roma
Sound Mixing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody - WINNER
First Man
Roma
A Star Is Born
Foreign Language Film
Capernaum, Lebanon
Cold War, Poland
Never Look Away, Germany
Roma, Mexico - WINNER
Shoplifters, Japan
Animated Feature
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - WINNER
Live Action Short
Detainment
Fauve
Marguerite
Mother
Skin - WINNER
Animated Short Film
Animal Behavior
Bao - WINNER
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends
Documentary Short
Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence. - WINNER
Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man - WINNER
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Original Score
Black Panther - WINNER
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns
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 - WINNER
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings,” The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
