New Delhi: Green Book, a biographical comedy-drama film centred around Jazz pianist Don Shirley’s tour of the American South, emerged as the best picture at the 91st Academy Awards, which recognised the best films of 2018.
Green Book won two other awards, while Bohemian Rhapsody bagged four – the most for the ceremony.
For the first time since 1989, the ceremony was held without a host and instead had musical performances as fillers.
Here is a complete list of winners.
Best picture and original screenplay: Comedy-drama Green Book, starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen, bagged the best picture award at the ceremony.
Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen in Green Book. Credit: Promotional image
Best supporting actor: Ali, who played a black pianist touring the segregated US south in the 1960s, took home the best supporting actor award. Two years ago, Ali won in the same category for playing a mentor to a young boy in the film Moonlight.
Best Supporting actress: Regina King bagged the supporting actress award for her role as a mother searching for her pregnant daughter in If Beale Street Could Talk. This was King’s first Oscar.
Best director: Among nominees that included Adam McKay and Spike Lee, Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Curon won the best director award for his semi-autobiographical film Roma. Curaon won the award previously in 2013 for Gravity. In the past six years, three Mexicans – Curaon, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo del Toro – have taken home the award five times.
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Best foreign language film and cinematography: Roma also took home the trophies for best foreign film and best cinematography. The film is about a housekeeper in a middle-class family in 1970 Mexico.
Best lead actress: Britain’s Olivia Colman won the best actress award for essaying the role of Queen Anne in the 2018 film The Favourite. This was the first Academy Award for Colman, who also won the Golden Globe and British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) for her performance.
Best lead actor : Rami Malek, who played the role of singer Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, won his first Oscar.
Best editing and sound-mixing: Bohemian Rhapsody also won the awards for best editing and sound-mixing at the ceremony.
Best animated feature film: Into the Spider-Verse won the best animated feature. It triumphed over blockbusters such as Incredibles 2 and Ralph breaks the Internet. Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs and Japanese anime Mirai were also nominated.
Into the Spider-Verse also won the best animated feature at the BAFTA and the Golden Globe.
Best adapted screenplay: Filmmaker Spike Lee won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for his drama BlackKklansman. He used the platform to urge people to be on “the right side of the history” in next year’s presidential elections.
Set in 1970s Colorado Springs, the film is about the first African-American detective in the city’s police department who sets out to expose the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
Best original score: Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther won the best original score award and became the first superhero film and Marvel studios project to take home the Oscar in the best original score category.
Best documentary short: Set in rural India, the documentary film Period. End of Sentence, won the Oscar for best documentary short subject. Award-winning filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi has directed the film and Indian producer Geeta Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment has produced it.
In 2009, A.R. Rahman and sound engineer Resul Pookutty won the Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire in the best original song and music score category.
Best original song: ‘Shallow’ from the 2018 film A Star Is Born won the best original song award.
Best documentary feature: Nonfiction film Free Solo won the best documentary feature at the Academy Awards. Directed by Elizabeth Chai Varsarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, the film chronicles rock climber Alex Honnold’s death-defying adventure to perform a free solo (without harness or safety ropes) climb up in Yosemite National Park.
Best live action short: Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv’s short film Skin bagged the Oscar for best live action short film. The film is about a gang war that breaks out in a small town after a black man smiles at a white child at a supermarket.
Best animated short: Chinese-Canadian director Domee Shi won her first Oscar for her animated short film Bao. Shi wrote and directed the film about a Chinese-Canadian woman and her little dumpling that magically comes to life.
A still from Period. End of Sentence.
Best production design: Costume designer Ruth Carter became the first black person to win the Oscar for best production design for the film Black Panther.
Best hair and makeup: The American biographical comedy-drama film Vice bagged the Oscar in the category of best hair and makeup. According to Deadline, it is the fourth Academy Award for makeup designer Greg Cannom and the first for his fellow Vice winners Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney.
Best visual effects: American biographical drama First Man won the award for best visual effects. Based on the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R.Hansen, the film traces the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in the year 1969.