2019 Oscar Nominations

After long anticipation and vigorous predictions on how it will all culminate in what’s going to get the top tear trophy, the nominations for the 91st Academy Awards have officially been announced Tuesday morning to see what movies from 2018 will be celebrated on Hollywood’s biggest night. And like every year, there’s gonna be some surprises and snubs.

Kumail Nanjuani and Tracee Ellis Ross announced the nominations this morning with some funny banter between the two of them. How do I feel about this year’s nominations? Pretty lukewarm.

Roma and The Favourite both earned 10 nominations each, including Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, and many more. Then you also have A Star is Born and Vice tying up with 8 nominations.

Black Panther has officially become the first comic book movie to ever be nominated for Best Picture. Also scoring nominations for Production Design, Costume Design, Original Song, etc., everybody at Marvel should be proud for what they accomplished. Who would’ve thought back last February that an MCU movie with the most cultural impact will be recognized by the Academy?

And if I have to be honest, I’m usually always excited about Oscar season, but this year is perhaps the most I’ve been annoyed by not just based on what was nominated, but the people, in general, getting angry about the dumbest of issues.

The two movies that most are complaining about are Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody. Both of these have garnered backlash for their historical inaccuracies. The general audience did enjoy Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody, respectively, even though the latter did get mixed reviews but had success at the box office.

Am I surprised Bohemian Rhapsody landed a Best Picture nod? Not until the Golden Globes when it unexpectedly won Best Picture-Drama. And, of course, people will get furious about it being in there, but, to be fair, there have been weaker movies that shouldn’t have been nominated (Amerian Sniper, The Reader, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close). I still have mixed feeling about the movie itself, but I don’t mind people who did love it.

But there are a lot of snubs and surprises that not a lot of us didn’t see coming. Maybe I’ll have another post for those.

Check out the full list of nominations for the 24 categories below

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 Cuarón – 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 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

Animated Feature:

• Incredibles 2
• Isle of Dogs
• Mirai
• Ralph Breaks the Internet
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Foreign Language Film:

• Capernaum (Lebanon)
• Cold War (Poland)
• Never Look Away (Germany)
• Roma (Mexico)
• Shoplifters (Japan)

Best Editing:

• BlacKkKlansman
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• Green Book
• Vice

Best Cinematography:

• Cold War
• The Favourite
• Never Look Away
• Roma
• A Star is Born

Best Production Design:

• Black Panther
• The Favourite
• First Man
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Roma

Best Costume Design:

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Black Panther
• The Favourite
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Mary Queen of Scots

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 Sound Mixing:

• Black Panther
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• First Man
• Roma
• A Star is Born

Best Sound Editing:

• Black Panther
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• First Man
• A Quiet Place
• Roma

Best Original Score:

• Ludwig Göransson- Black Panther
• Terence Blanchard- BlacKkKlansman
• Nicholas Britell- If Beale Street Could Talk
• Alexandre Desplat- Isle of Dogs
• Marc Shaiman- Mary Poppins Returns

Best Original Song:

• “All the Stars”- Black Panther
• “I’ll Fight”-RGB
• “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

Best Documentary Feature:

• Free Solo
• Sale County This Morning, This Evening
• 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 Live- Action Short:

• Detainment
• Fauve
• Marguerite
• Mother
• Skin

Best Animated Short:

• Animal Behavior
• Bao
• Late Afternoon
• One Small Step
• Weekends