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I have an autistic curse that makes me gay for most cartoon or video game characters I hyperfixate on.

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☢︎ character x character ☢︎ OCs ☢︎ incest, pedophilia n all that bad jazz

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5 of Swords ~ Bachus Tarot

The Five of Swords is a battle with no winners. One person might gain from the experience—he is collecting the swords of his opponents. But it’s not clear that he actually won, or if others simply abandoned their weapons as they were leaving the scene of battle. It is a card where one person attempts to connect with another, but instead of using their hands or their words, they use weapons. And no one wins in that scenario. Possibly a fight that must be abandoned, possibly a situation from which nothing can be gained.

In 1998 director Terry Gilliam had an idea for a film of Miguel de Cervantes’s classic, Don Quixote. He signed up an all-star cast, led by Johnny Depp and Miranda Richardson, he had a clever twist on the story, and he was coming off of the successes of his Academy Award–nominated and financially successful films The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys, and the cult-film favorite Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. But from the very beginning, the production was plagued with problems. There was a flood, and then military planes kept flying overhead, making the audio useless. The actor playing Quixote suffered an injury and had to be flown to a hospital. Then there were issues with the investors and the insurance company. The whole production had to be shut down, and the film was believed to be dead.

Gilliam would not give up. He assembled a new cast and began moving the film toward production. But again problems arose almost immediately, and actors had to quit because of scheduling conflicts. Gilliam still would not give up. He assembled a new cast and began again.

Meanwhile, he worked on other projects. His previous films, before he began working on Don Quixote, were all financial and artistic risks, but most paid off and became classics. Brazil shows up regularly on the lists of the best movies of the twentieth century, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a beloved film that has been wildly influential and adapted into a successful Broadway musical, Spamalot. But the films that came after Gilliam refused to give up on Don Quixote, from The Brothers Grimm to The Zero Theorem, have been seen as self-indulgent and too cerebral with no heart. They have failed to connect with critics or audiences. It’s as if his iron grip on Don Quixote, refusing to abandon the project, had drained the joy out of his work.

That’s a Five of Swords situation. You are engaged in a fight even though you know deep down there is no way to win. But you’ve invested so much time, so much thought and money, that you can’t give up on the dream. Your pride is such that it’s not that you can’t stand not winning, it’s that you can’t stand the idea of losing. It has blinded you to the reality that this is not going to work. The only thing you can do is to drop the idea wholesale and walk away. Put that energy into a new project instead of squandering it on something that isn’t meant to be.

RECOMMENDED MATERIALS

Lost in La Mancha, documentary film directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe Juneteenth, book by Ralph Ellison The War of the Roses, film directed by Danny De Vito The Creative Tarot. Jessa Crispin

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I absolutely love Vito and Carmela too! By all accounts they had a happy and loving marriage, so good for them :3 Is Vito your inspiration for Daniel’s dad in Mobland? Is his mom Lucille or Carmela?

Hi Nonnie, if you want to learn more about Daniel's family, I have a lot of these fills archived on my Ao3:

Yes, Vito is the main inspiration, but there's also the pictures of Ralph and Bob on Broadway:

And Cobra Kai canon. So Daniel's father was born Antonio Andolini, who changed his name to Anthony LaRusso because he was extremely good at knifing people to death. His wife is Lucille (who is not unlike the mom in A Bronx Tale), children are Louie/Luigi, Vanessa, Michael/Miguele and Daniel/Daniele. Antonio's younger brother is Vincent LaRusso, who is married to Lisa, with their son Billy.

Which, you know is still 90% Vito, of course, but he ages not into Brando but into De Niro's other characters. Michael is still 100% Al Pacino, but he's not acting as Don. I like Daniel LaRusso with Michael because they're each others inversions: two beautiful men, one with all Vito's cunning and ambition but none of his heart and one with all of his heart, plenty of cunning but none of his ambition. The Fredo character here is Louie, who doesn't mind being a henchman as long as his mate Anoush is safe and happy and his children like him. Michael is rather happily married to Apollonia after Daniel's urging to for heaven's sake stop pestering sweet Kay. Michael's children are Antonio (because Daniel beat him to Anthony) and Mary, for now.

I'm sorry to not include Carmela, but I love Daniel's dynamic with his Mom, and how she might react to Terry!

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Joe Pesci  on The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder - De Niro & Scorsese Story (1998)

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Episode 295

Comic Reviews:

Rorschach 7 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart

Batman: The Detective 1 by Tom Taylor, Andy Kubert, Brad Anderson

Infinite Frontier Secret Files 1 by Brandon Thomas, Joshua Williamson, Valentine De Landro

Let Them Live 6 by Elliott Kalan, Mike Norton, Marissa Louise

Darkhawk: Heart of the Hawk by Danny Fingeroth, Mike Manley, Tom DeFalco, Dan Abnett, Kyle Higgins, Andrea Di Vito, Juanan Ramirez, Lebeau Underwood, Chris Sotomayor, Erick Arciniega, Sebastian Cheng

Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow 1 by Chip Zdarsky, Pasqual Ferry, Matt Hollingsworth

Home 1 by Julia Anta, Anna Wieszczyk

Jules Verne's Lighthouse 1 by Brian Haberline, David Hine

Jenny Zero 1 by Dave Dwonch, Magenta King

Canto and the City of Giants 1 by David Booher, Sebastian Piriz

Locke & Key / The Sandman Universe: Hell and Gone 1 by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez, Jay Fotos

Black Hammer Visions 3 by Chip Zdarsky, Johnnie Christmas, Dave Stewart

Phantom On the Scan 1 by Cullen Bunn, Mark Torres

Unikorn 1 by Don Handfield, Joshua Malkin, Rafael Loureiro

Man-Goat and the Bunny Man 1 by Ralph Tedesco, Joe Brusha, Dave Fanchini, Edgar Salazar

Everything Vol 2 by Christopher Cantwell, INJ Culbard

Riverdale: The Ties That Bind OGN by Micol Ostow, Thomas Pitilli

Peanuts: Scotland Bound Charlie Brown by Charles Schulz

99 Cent

Abducted by Zach Herring, Jay Red, Maja Opacic

The Fools 1 by Gabe Harris

Additional Reviews: Falcon/Winter Soldier, Infinity Train final season, more on Avatar, Arlo the Alligator Boy

News: Skybound X, DC Round Robin 3, Joe Cornish directing Starlight movie, Zdarsky's Justice League gets prestige roll-out, Mike Flanagan's next project, JLQ creative team, new Amazing Fantasy mini by Kaare Andrews, Batman/Catwoman special, World War She-Hulk, Predator legal issues, X-Men creative team, new Avatar mini-series coming this week, Queen Crab gets a tv shows, Alfred Molina confirms MCU Spider role, Heather Antos to IDW

Comics Countdown:

Rorschach 7 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart

Spider-Man: The Spider's Shadow 1 by Chip Zdarsky, Pasqual Ferry, Matt Hollingsworth

Locke & Key/Sandman: Hell and Gone 1 by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez, Jay Fotos

Black Hammer Visions 3 by Chip Zdarsky, Johnnie Christmas, Dave Stewart

Joker 2 by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns, Mirka Andolfo, Guillem March, Arif Prianto, Romulo Fajardo Jr.

Daredevil 29 by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Marcio Menyz

Usagi Yojimbo 18 by Stan Sakai, Hi-Fi

American Vampire 1976 7 by Scott Snyder, Francesco Francavilla, Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Tula Lotay, Dave McCaig

Sweet Tooth: The Return 6 by Jeff Lemire, Jose Villarrubia

Proctor Valley Road 2 by Alex Child, Grant Morrison, Naomi Franquiz, Tamra Bonvillain

Check out this episode!

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My Cousin Vinny (1992) dir- Jonathan Lynn

some facts about the movie i find interesting-

•this is one of my favourite movies. a lot of people were considered for the role of vinny gambini, (including robert de niro and danny devito) but joe pesci was cast finally.

•the character of mona lisa vito (played by marisa tomei) was almost cut out of the film entirely, but the scene about the 'biological clock' was what saved it finally.

•this movie is extremely accurate pertaining to the legal court parts of the film, and clips are also shown in law schools

•vinny gambini was originally supposed to be dyslexic

•will smith was originally considered for the role of stanley rothenstein played by mitchell whitfield

•the scenes in the prison were shot in a real prison with real prisoners shouting at the actors in the scene (mitchell whitfield as stan and ralph machhio as gambini)

(i may or may not know this film by heart heh)

[madsenatthemovies]

My 2019 Oscar Ballot (for Gambling Purposes Only)

While the lead up to this year’s annual pat-on-the-back ceremony has been a real sh!tshow, there are some great and terrible films being honored. But this isn’t about what’s best, this is about $MONEY$

If you like to gamble on 5-hour award shows, here are my picks that may help you on your way to winning.

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Animal Behaviour Bao ✅ Late Afternoon One Small Step Weekends

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Black Sheep End Game Lifeboat A Night at the Garden Period. End of Sentence ✅

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

Detainmnet Fauve Marguerite ✅ Mother Skin

BEST SOUND EDITING

Black Panther Bohemian Rhapsody <---- Neck in Neck First Man ✅ A Quiet Place <---- Neck in Neck Roma

BEST SOUND MIXING

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

BEST MAKEUP & 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 ORIGINAL SONG

“All The Stars” Black Panther, Kendrick Lamar & SZA “I’ll FIght" RGB, Diane Warren “The Place Where Lost Things Go" Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaiman “Shallow” A Star Is Born, Mark ROnson & Lady Gaga ✅ “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Black Panther, Ludwig Goransson BlacKkKlansman, Terence Blanchard If Beale Street Could Talk, Nicholas Britell ✅ Isle of Dogs, Alexandre Desplat Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaima

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Black Panther ✅ The Favourite Mary Poppins Returns Mary Queen of Scots <—Potential Upset

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Black Panther <—Potential Upset The Favourite ✅ First Man Mary Poppins Returns Roma

BEST FILM EDITING

BlacKkKlansman, Barry Alexander Brown Bohemian Rhapsody, John Ottman <—Potential Upset The Favourite, Yorgos Mavropsaridis Green Book, Patrick J. Don Vito Vice, Hank Corwin ✅

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

A Star Is Born, Matthew Libatique Cold War, Łukasz Żal The Favourite, Robbie Ryan Never Look Away, Caleb Deschanel Roma, Alfonso Cuarón ✅

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Hale County This Morning, This Evening Free Solo✅ Minding The Gap Of Fathers and Sons RGB

BEST FOREIGN FILM

کفرناحوم (Capernaum) Zimna wojna (Cold War) Werk ohne Autor (Never Look Away) 万引き家族  (Shoplifters) Roma ✅

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

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

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

A Star Is Born, by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen BlacKkKlansman, by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee ✅ Can You Ever Forgive Me?, by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty If Beale Street Could Talk, by Barry Jenkins

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Favourite, by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara  ✅ First Reformed, by Paul Schrader Green Book, by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly Roma, by Alfonso Cuarón Vice, by Adam McKay

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams, Vice Emma Stone, The Favourite Marina de Tavira, Roma Rachel Weisz, The Favourite <—Potential Upset Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk ✅

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman Mahershala Ali, Green Book ✅ Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me? <—Potential Upset Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born Sam Rockwell, Vice

BEST LEAD ACTRESS

Glenn Close, The Wife ✅ Lady Gaga, A Star is Born Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Olivia Colman, The Favourite <—Potential Upset Yalitza Aparicio, Roma

BEST LEAD ACTOR

Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born Christian Bale, Vice <—Potential Upset Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody ✅ Viggo Mortensen, Green Book Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate

BEST DIRECTOR

BlackKlansman, Spike Lee Cold War, Pawel Pawlikowski The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos Roma, Alfonso Cuarón ✅ Vice, Adam McKay

BEST PICTURE

A Star Is Born Black Panther BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Green Book Roma ✅ Vice

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Enforcer II VHS (Ralph De Vito, 1976)

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2019 Academy Awards - The List.

Best Picture

Green Book – Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga

Black Panther – Kevin Feige

BlacKkKlansman – Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee

Bohemian Rhapsody – Graham King

The Favourite – Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos

Roma – Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón

A Star Is Born – Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor

Vice – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin J. Messick

Best Director

Spike Lee – a

Spik

Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War

Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite

Adam McKay – Vice

Best Actor

Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury

Christian Bale – Vice as Dick Cheney

Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson "Jack" Maine

Willem Dafoe – At Eternity's Gate as Vincent van Gogh

Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga

Best Actress

Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleodegaria "Cleo" Gutiérrez

Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman

Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine

Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley

Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Philip "Flip" Zimmerman

Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine

Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock

Sam Rockwell – Vice as George W. Bush

Best Supporting Actress

Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers

Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney

Marina de Tavira – Roma as Sofía

Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Masham

Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill

Best Original Screenplay

Green Book – Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly

The Favourite – Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara

First Reformed – Written by Paul Schrader

Roma – Written by Alfonso Cuarón

Vice – Written by Adam McKay

Best Adapted Screenplay

BlacKkKlansman – Screenplay by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee; based on the book by Ron Stallworth

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen; based on the short stories All Gold Canyon by Jack London, The Gal Who Got Rattled by Stewart Edward White, and short stories by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty; based on the book by Lee Israel

If Beale Street Could Talk – Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; based on the book by James Baldwin

A Star Is Born – Screenplay by Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters; based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and the 1976 screenplay by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne & Frank Pierson; based on a story by Robert Carson & William A. Wellman

Best Animated Feature Film

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Incredibles 2 – Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle

Isle of Dogs – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson

Mirai – Mamoru Hosoda and Yūichirō Saitō

Ralph Breaks the Internet – Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer

Best Foreign Language Film

Roma (Mexico) in Spanish and Mixtec – Directed by Alfonso Cuarón

Capernaum (Lebanon) in Arabic – Directed by Nadine Labaki

Cold War (Poland) in Polish and French – Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

Never Look Away (Germany) in German – Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Shoplifters (Japan) in Japanese – Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

Best Documentary – Feature

Free Solo – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill

Hale County This Morning, This Evening – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim

Minding the Gap – Bing Liu and Diane Quon

Of Fathers and Sons – Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert

RBG – Betsy West and Julie Cohen

Best Documentary – Short Subject

Period. End of Sentence. – Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton

Black Sheep – Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn

End Game – Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

Lifeboat – Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser

A Night at the Garden – Marshall Curry

Best Live Action Short Film

Skin – Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman

Detainment – Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon

Fauve – Jérémy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon

Marguerite – Marianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset

Mother – Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado

Best Animated Short Film

Bao – Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb

Animal Behaviour – Alison Snowden and David Fine

Late Afternoon – Louise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco

One Small Step – Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas

Weekends – Trevor Jimenez

Best Original Score

Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson

BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard

If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell

Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat

Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman

Best Original Song

"Shallow" from A Star Is Born – Music and Lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt

"All the Stars" from Black Panther – Music by Mark Spears, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Anthony Tiffith; Lyrics by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Anthony Tiffith and Solána Rowe

"I'll Fight" from RBG – Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren

"The Place Where Lost Things Go" from Mary Poppins Returns – Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman

"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Music and Lyrics by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch

Best Sound Editing

Bohemian Rhapsody – John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone

Black Panther – Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker

First Man – Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan

A Quiet Place – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl

Roma – Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay

Best Sound Mixing

Bohemian Rhapsody – Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali

Black Panther – Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter J. Devlin

First Man – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis

Roma – Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio Garcia

A Star Is Born – Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve A. Morrow

Best Production Design

Black Panther – Hannah Beachler (production design); Jay Hart (set decoration)

The Favourite – Fiona Crombie (production design); Alice Felton (set decoration)

First Man – Nathan Crowley (production design); Kathy Lucas (set decoration)

Mary Poppins Returns – John Myhre (production design); Gordon Sim (set decoration)

Roma – Eugenio Caballero (production design); Bárbara Enríquez (set decoration)

Best Cinematography

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

Cold War – Łukasz Żal

The Favourite – Robbie Ryan

Never Look Away – Caleb Deschanel

A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Vice – Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney

Border – Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer

Mary Queen of Scots – Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks

Best Costume Design

Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Mary Zophres

The Favourite – Sandy Powell

Mary Poppins Returns – Sandy Powell

Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne

Best Film Editing

Bohemian Rhapsody – John Ottman

BlacKkKlansman – Barry Alexander Brown

The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Green Book – Patrick J. Don Vito

Vice – Hank Corwin

Best Visual Effects

First Man – Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm

Avengers: Infinity War – Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick

Christopher Robin – Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould

Ready Player One – Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk

Solo: A Star Wars Story – Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy

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The 91st Academy Awards

I’m lousy at predicting the Academy Award winners and losers but since I’ve seen MOST of the films and do think the Awards do matter as much as they don’t, I’ve got stakes in the game. Here are my PREDICTIONS of who would win. This isn’t necessarily who I’d vote for. I’ve omitted categories in which I’ve seen less than half of the nominees and have indicated with an asterisk (*) the films I have not seen. Here we go:

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 as Dick Cheney

Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson "Jack" Maine

Willem Dafoe – At Eternity's Gate as Vincent van Gogh

Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury

Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga

Best Actress

Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleodegaria "Cleo" Gutiérrez

Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman

Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine

Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel*

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley

Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Philip "Flip" Zimmerman

Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine

Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock*

Sam Rockwell – Vice as George W. Bush

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney

Marina de Tavira – Roma as Sofía

Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers

Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Masham

Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill

Best Original Screenplay

The Favourite – Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara

First Reformed – Written by Paul Schrader

Green Book – Written by Nick Vallelonga & Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly

Roma – Written by Alfonso Cuarón

Vice – Written by Adam McKay

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen; based on the short stories All Gold Canyon by Jack London, The Gal Who Got Rattled by Stewart Edward White, and short stories by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen*

BlacKkKlansman – Screenplay by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee; based on the book by Ron Stallworth

Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty; based on the book by Lee Israel*

If Beale Street Could Talk – Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; based on the book by James Baldwin

A Star Is Born – Screenplay by Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters; based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and the 1976 screenplay by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne & Frank Pierson; based on a story by Robert Carson & William A. Wellman

Best Animated Feature Film

Incredibles 2 – Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle

Isle of Dogs – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson

Mirai – Mamoru Hosoda and Yūichirō Saitō*

Ralph Breaks the Internet – Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Best Original Score

Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson

BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard

If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell

Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat

Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman

Best Original Song

"All the Stars" from Black Panther

"I'll Fight" from RBG

"The Place Where Lost Things Go" from Mary Poppins Returns

"Shallow" from A Star Is Born

"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs*

Best Sound Editing

Black Panther – Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker

Bohemian Rhapsody – John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone

First Man – Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan

A Quiet Place – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl

Roma – Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay

Best Sound Mixing

Black Panther

Bohemian Rhapsody

First Man

Roma

A Star Is Born

Best Production Design

Black Panther

The Favourite

First Man

Mary Poppins Returns

Roma

Best Cinematography

Cold War – Łukasz Żal*

The Favourite – Robbie Ryan

Never Look Away – Caleb Deschanel*

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique

Best Costume Design

The 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 Film Editing

BlacKkKlansman – Barry Alexander Brown

Bohemian Rhapsody – John Ottman

The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Green Book – Patrick J. Don Vito

Vice – Hank Corwin

Best Visual Effects

Avengers: Infinity War

Christopher Robin

First Man

Ready Player One

Solo: A Star Wars Story

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2019 Oscar Nomination:

Best Picture:

“Black Panther” “BlacKkKlansman” “Bohemian Rhapsody” “The Favourite” “Green Book” “Roma” “A Star Is Born” “Vice”

Lead Actor:

Christian Bale, “Vice” Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born” Willem Dafoe, “At Eternity’s Gate” Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody” Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book”

Lead 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?”

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”

Supporting Actress:

Amy Adams, “Vice” Marina de Tavira, “Roma” Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk” Emma Stone, “The Favourite” Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”

Director:

Spike Lee, “BlacKkKlansman” Pawel Pawlikowski, “Cold War” Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Favourite” Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma” Adam McKay, “Vice”

Animated Feature:

“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

Animated Short:

“Animal Behaviour,” Alison Snowden, David Fine “Bao,” Domee Shi “Late Afternoon,” Louise Bagnall “One Small Step,” Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas “Weekends,” Trevor Jimenez

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

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

Cinematography:

“Cold War,” Lukasz Zal “The Favourite,” Robbie Ryan “Never Look Away,” Caleb Deschanel “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón “A Star Is Born,” Matthew Libatique

Best Documentary Feature:

“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 Live Action Short Film: 

“Detainment,” Vincent Lambe “Fauve,” Jeremy Comte “Marguerite,” Marianne Farley “Mother,” Rodrigo Sorogoyen “Skin,” Guy Nattiv

Best Foreign Language Film:

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

Film Editing:

“BlacKkKlansman,” Barry Alexander Brown “Bohemian Rhapsody,” John Ottman “Green Book,” Patrick J. Don Vito “The Favourite,” Yorgos Mavropsaridis “Vice,” Hank Corwin

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

Sound Mixing:

“Black Panther” “Bohemian Rhapsody” “First Man” “Roma” “A Star Is Born”

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

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

Original Song:

“All The Stars” from “Black Panther” by Kendrick Lamar, SZA “I’ll Fight” from “RBG” by Diane Warren, Jennifer Hudson “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns” by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born” by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch

Makeup and Hair:

“Border” “Mary Queen of Scots” “Vice”

Costume Design:

“The 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

Visual Effects:

“Avengers: Infinity War” “Christopher Robin” “First Man” “Ready Player One” “Solo: A Star Wars Story”

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Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Regina King in "If Beale Street Could Talk" (WINNER)

Amy Adams in "Vice"

Marina de Tavira in "Roma"

Emma Stone in "The Favourite"

Rachel Weisz in "The Favourite"

Best documentary feature

"Free Solo" Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill (WINNER)

"Hale County This Morning, This Evening" RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim

"Minding the Gap" Bing Liu and Diane Quon

"Of Fathers and Sons" Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert

"RBG" Betsy West and Julie Cohen

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

"Vice" Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney (WINNER)

"Border" Goran Lundstrom and Pamela Goldammer

"Mary Queen of Scots" Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks

Achievement in costume design

"Black Panther" Ruth Carter (WINNER)

"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" Mary Zophres

"The Favourite" Sandy Powell

"Mary Poppins Returns" Sandy Powell

"Mary Queen of Scots" Alexandra Byrne

Achievement in production design

"Black Panther" production design: Hannah Beachler; set decoration: Jay Hart (WINNER)

"The Favourite" production design: Fiona Crombie; set decoration: Alice Felton

"First Man" production design: Nathan Crowley; set decoration: Kathy Lucas

"Mary Poppins Returns" production design: John Myhre; set decoration: Gordon Sim

"Roma" production design: Eugenio Caballero; set decoration: Barbara Enriquez

Achievement in cinematography

"Roma" Alfonso Cuaron (WINNER)

"Cold War" Lukasz Zal

"The Favourite" Robbie Ryan

"Never Look Away" Caleb Deschanel

"A Star Is Born" Matthew Libatique

Achievement in sound editing

"Bohemian Rhapsody" John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone (WINNER)

"Black Panther" Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker

"First Man" Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan

"A Quiet Place" Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl

"Roma" Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay

Achievement in sound mixing

"Bohemian Rhapsody" Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali (WINNER)

"Black Panther" Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin

"First Man" Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montano, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis

"Roma" Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and Jose Antonio Garcia

"A Star Is Born" Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow

Best foreign language film of the year

"Roma" Mexico (WINNER)

"Capernaum" Lebanon

"Cold War" Poland

"Never Look Away" Germany

"Shoplifters" Japan

Achievement in film editing

"Bohemian Rhapsody" John Ottman (WINNER)

"BlacKkKlansman" Barry Alexander Brown

"The Favourite" Yorgos Mavropsaridis

"Green Book" Patrick J. Don Vito

"Vice" Hank Corwin

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Mahershala Ali in "Green Book" (WINNER)

Adam Driver in "BlacKkKlansman"

Sam Elliott in "A Star Is Born"

Richard E. Grant in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"

Sam Rockwell in "Vice"

Best animated feature film of the year

"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (WINNER)

"Incredibles 2" Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle

"Isle of Dogs" Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson

"Mirai" Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito

"Ralph Breaks the Internet" Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer

Best animated short film

"Bao" Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb (WINNER)

"Animal Behaviour" Alison Snowden and David Fine

"Late Afternoon" Louise Bagnall and Nuria Gonzalez Blanco

"One Small Step" Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas

"Weekends" Trevor Jimenez

Best documentary short subject

"Period. End of Sentence." Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton (WINNER)

"Black Sheep" Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn

"End Game" Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

"Lifeboat" Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser

"A Night at The Garden" Marshall Curry

Achievement in visual effects

"First Man" Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm (WINNER)

"Avengers: Infinity War" Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick

"Christopher Robin" Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould

"Ready Player One" Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk

"Solo: A Star Wars Story" Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy

Best live action short film

"Skin" Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman (WINNER)

"Detainment" Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon

"Fauve" Jeremy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon

"Marguerite" Marianne Farley and Marie-Helene Panisset

"Mother" Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Maria del Puy Alvarado

Original screenplay

"Green Book" written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly (WINNER)

"The Favourite" written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara

"First Reformed" written by Paul Schrader

"Roma" written by Alfonso Cuaron

"Vice" written by Adam McKay

Adapted screenplay

"BlacKkKlansman" written by Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee (WINNER)

"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

"Can You Ever Forgive Me?" screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty

"If Beale Street Could Talk" written for the screen by Barry Jenkins

"A Star Is Born" screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

"Black Panther" Ludwig Goransson (WINNER)

"BlacKkKlansman" Terence Blanchard

"If Beale Street Could Talk" Nicholas Britell

"Isle of Dogs" Alexandre Desplat

"Mary Poppins Returns" Marc Shaiman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

"Shallow" from "A Star Is Born" music and lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt (WINNER)

"All The Stars" from "Black Panther" music by Mark Spears, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Anthony Tiffith; lyric by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Anthony Tiffith and Solana Rowe

"I'll Fight" from "RBG" music and lyrics by Diane Warren

"The Place Where Lost Things Go" from "Mary Poppins Returns" music by Marc Shaiman; lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman

"When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" from "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" music and lyrics by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Rami Malek in "Bohemian Rhapsody" (WINNER)

Christian Bale in "Vice"

Bradley Cooper in "A Star Is Born"

Willem Dafoe in "At Eternity's Gate"

Viggo Mortensen in "Green Book"

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Olivia Colman in "The Favourite" (WINNER)

Yalitza Aparicio in "Roma"

Glenn Close in "The Wife"

Lady Gaga in "A Star Is Born"

Melissa McCarthy in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"

Achievement in directing

"Roma" Alfonso Cuaron (WINNER)

"BlacKkKlansman" Spike Lee

"Cold War" Pawel Pawlikowski

"The Favourite" Yorgos Lanthimos

"Vice" Adam McKay

Best motion picture of the year

"Green Book" Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, producers (WINNER)

"Black Panther" Kevin Feige, producer

"BlacKkKlansman" Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, producers

"Bohemian Rhapsody" Graham King, producer

"The Favourite" Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, producers

"Roma" Gabriela Rodriguez and Alfonso Cuaron, producers

"A Star Is Born" Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, producers

"Vice" Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, producers

I am terrible at keeping up with news /awards and I can’t get to them all, but I thought a list might be nice.

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The Morning After - Oscars 2019 Edition

My favourite photo from the 91st Academy Awards

My two favourite moments from last night’s Oscars are better represent in audio, those being Olivia Coleman’s speech when she won Best Actress over the heavily favoured Glenn Close, and when Rayka Zehtabchi exclaimed “I can’t believe a film on menstruation won an Oscar!”

It was fun keeping up with everyone’s reactions and remarks during the awards, and chiming in with many of my own even though I do, as always, find the speed of twitter a little breakneck. Also friends and colleagues who, knowing that I’m a big movie buff, came by or message me to discuss last night’s show.  At times we got animated enough that random passerbys and company VPs felt the need to chime in, which is the best gathering of the minds possible in my world.

Here’s a list of the winners and what I thought of each recipient:

Best Picture

“Black Panther” “BlacKkKlansman” “Bohemian Rhapsody” “The Favourite” “Green Book” (WINNER) “Roma” “A Star Is Born” “Vice”

While not entirely classy of Spike Lee to turn his back when Green Book was announced, he was able to joke about it later that every time a film about driving was pit against his own film, he would lose to it (Do the Right Thing lost to Driving Miss Daisy) My silver lining was knowing that TIFF audiences picked yet another Best Picture winner.  We do have quite a track record, don’t we? I really thought the Academy was going to make a different type of history in diversity by awarding a foreign film (Roma) with Best Picture. Or at least Black Panther, that would’ve been cool too.

Director

Spike Lee, “BlacKkKlansman” Pawel Pawlikowski, “Cold War” Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Favourite” Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma” (WINNER) Adam McKay, “Vice”

I agree with this win.

Lead Actress

Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma” Glenn Close, “The Wife” Olivia Colman, “The Favourite” (WINNER) Lady Gaga, “A Star Is Born” Melissa McCarthy, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

I was ecstatic to have guessed wrong in my Oscar picks for this category.  Both Olivia Coleman and Glenn Close were such strong contenders (as was Melissa McCarthy).  Glenn Close carried her film, Olivia Coleman elevated her already very good movie to another level.

Lead Actor

Christian Bale, “Vice” Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born” Willem Dafoe, “At Eternity’s Gate” Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody” (WINNER) Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book”

It’s nice that Rami Malek won, and I guessed he would. But I think Christian Bale was still better.

Original Song

“All The Stars” from “Black Panther” by Kendrick Lamar, SZA “I’ll Fight” from “RBG” by Diane Warren, Jennifer Hudson “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns” by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born” by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice (WINNER) “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch

I don’t think any other song legitimately had a chance. 

Original Score

“BlacKkKlansman,” Terence Blanchard “Black Panther,” Ludwig Goransson (WINNER) “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Nicholas Britell “Isle of Dogs,” Alexandre Desplat “Mary Poppins Returns,” Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman

One last time I’ll say this: Where was First Man? After not seeing it on the list I really had no one to root for.

Adapted Screenplay

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” Joel Coen , Ethan Coen “BlacKkKlansman,” Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee (WINNER) “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

I think a writing Oscar is an excellent award for Spike Lee to win. I’m rarely familiar with the original story vs its adaptation, therefore it’s hard to say who did the best job of adapting their source material.  That said, any way you slice it, BlacKkKlansman was a great script.

Original Screenplay

“The Favourite,” Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara “First Reformed,” Paul Schrader “Green Book,” Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly (WINNER) “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón “Vice,” Adam McKay

While I put my money on Green Book, I can’t fathom why anyone would think it’s a better script than The Favourite nor Vice (I didn’t see First Reformed, and I think Roma is at least on par with Green Book) Destroyer was an original script right? I’m personally disappointed it wasn’t up for any writing awards.

Live Action Short Film

“Detainment,” Vincent Lambe “Fauve,” Jeremy Comte “Marguerite,” Marianne Farley “Mother,” Rodrigo Sorogoyen “Skin,” Guy Nattiv (WINNER)

I didn’t watch any of the shorts this year.

Visual Effects

“Avengers: Infinity War” “Christopher Robin” “First Man” (WINNER) “Ready Player One” “Solo: A Star Wars Story”

Again, please to be wrong in this category.  If anything I would have said First Man stood out more in audio achievement, but visual effects were also excellent and I’m glad the film got at least one Oscar because it is such a fine technical achievement.

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 (WINNER)

Amazing acceptance speech.  I want to see this now.

Animated Short

“Animal Behaviour,” Alison Snowden, David Fine “Bao,” Domee Shi (WINNER) “Late Afternoon,” Louise Bagnall “One Small Step,” Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas “Weekends,” Trevor Jimenez

Also a fine, inspiring acceptance speech by Domee Shi. I didn’t see any other shorts but I did watch Bao several times over and my Torontonian pride swelled when it won.  Growing up Asian, there’s a lot of embedded humour in this short as well, the husband character is still my absolute favourite. 

Animated Feature

“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 (WINNER)

I really gotta see this movie.

Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali, “Green Book” (WINNER) Adam Driver, “BlacKkKlansman” Sam Elliott, “A Star Is Born” Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Sam Rockwell, “Vice”

As expected. Though Richard E Grant is still my favourite, anyone catch his interview with Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet? And how he’s besties with Melissa McCarthy now? Love it.

Film Editing

“BlacKkKlansman,” Barry Alexander Brown “Bohemian Rhapsody,” John Ottman (WINNER) “Green Book,” Patrick J. Don Vito “The Favourite,” Yorgos Mavropsaridis “Vice,” Hank Corwin

Fixing up a film in editing doesn’t warrant it as best edited film of the year! I cannot believe Bohemain Rhapsody won in this category. Especially again films such as The Favourite and Vice, the former’s editing has a hand in shaping its visual mastery, the latter is entirely built from the art of editing. What the hell?

Foreign Language Film

“Capernaum” (Lebanon) “Cold War” (Poland) “Never Look Away” (Germany) “Roma” (Mexico) (WINNER) “Shoplifters” (Japan)

Capernaum was still better ;) 

Sound Mixing

“Black Panther,” Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali (WINNER) “First Man,” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis “Roma,” Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García “A Star Is Born,” Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow

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Sound Editing

“Black Panther,” Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker “Bohemian Rhapsody,” John Warhurst (WINNER) “First Man,” Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan “A Quiet Place,” Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl “Roma,” Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay

Just because a film is about music doesn’t automatically qualify it for best sound! Have all the Academy voters gone out of their mind??? If you’re gonna go by that misguided logic then at least give it to A Star is  Born. It’s been a day and I still can’t fathom how anyone could think the sound editing of Bohemian Rhapsody is better than First Man, A Quiet Place, and Roma!

Cinematography

“Cold War,” Lukasz Zal “The Favourite,” Robbie Ryan “Never Look Away,” Caleb Deschanel “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón (WINNER) “A Star Is Born,” Matthew Libatique

This was a pretty stacked category and Alfonso Cuaron did make a beautiful looking film. I don’t know if it was more striking that Cold War or The Favourite, but all in all he did deserve the win.

Production Design

“Black Panther,” Hannah Beachler (WINNER) “First Man,” Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas “The Favourite,” Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton “Mary Poppins Returns,” John Myhre, Gordon Sim “Roma,” Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enrı́quez

Fine. At least it wasn’t Roma, and I get that more often than not the period film usually wins it, so it’s cool to shake it up. The Favourite is still my fav.

Costume Design

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” Mary Zophres “Black Panther,” Ruth E. Carter (WINNER) “The Favourite,” Sandy Powell “Mary Poppins Returns,” Sandy Powell “Mary Queen of Scots,” Alexandra Byrne

Again, I like The Favourite more.

Makeup and Hairstyling

“Border,” Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer “Mary Queen of Scots,” Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks “Vice,” Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney (WINNER)

I’d have been surprised if anyone else won.

Documentary Feature

“Free Solo,” Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (WINNER) “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” RaMell Ross “Minding the Gap,” Bing Liu “Of Fathers and Sons,” Talal Derki “RBG,” Betsy West, Julie Cohen

:) That’s the one I picked.

Supporting Actress

Amy Adams, “Vice” Marina de Tavira, “Roma” Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk” (WINNER) Emma Stone, “The Favourite” Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”

I preferred Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone’s performances. Amy Adams even.

So, that’s it for awards season 2019. I did pitiful in my predictions this year because I was way off on the technical awards, not to mention some big ones too like Best Picture. 

I’ll wrap it up by recommending that you watch First Man (with a good sound set up as it is superb technical, has a great score, and supporting actress Claire Foy), Destroyer (for its story and Nicole Kidman), The Hate U Give (that delivers a much stronger message than Green Book ever will), and Beautiful Boy (where supporting actor Timothee Chalamet actually has a sizable role).

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(updated 3/11/19)

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These FIVE Oscar Pool Players Will Now Receive a Prize-In-the-Mail!!

First place: Jane!

This is Jane’s 5th Oscar Pool and 4th win!

Jane is the Meryl Streep and Katherine Hepburn of the Oscar Pool...

Second Place Three-Way Tie: Caroline, Josh, and Sam!

This is Caroline’s 3rd Oscar Pool and 1st win!

This is Josh’s 5th Oscar Pool and 1st win!

This is Sam’s 5th Oscar Pool and 2nd win! - see new 3/11/19 press posting with his prize-in-the-mail. The Academy confirms all prizes are now in the mail. 

In last, but not least place, Diana who also was the first to join this year’s pool – thank you!

Final scores:

Jane                 17

Caroline           14

Josh                 14

Sam                  14

Lizz                  13

Ben                  12

Sarah                11

David                10

Holly                10

Mollie               10

Debbie              9

Rebecca           9

Amanda             7

Tracy                7

Jeanne             6

John                 5

Patty                5

Diana                4

My ballot doesn’t count, but I got 9 correct 😊

I liked this year’s Oscars; had to watch it over two days on DVR…but it was fun. I especially liked 3 of the song nominee performances: Bette Midler (Mary Poppins), Jennifer Hudson (RGB), Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper (A Star if Born). Loved Olivia Colman’s and Alfonso Cuaron’s acceptance speeches, too.

Thanks to the 19 of you who played; the biggest turnout thanks to Sam getting his friends to play! This was fun.

Winners: stand-by your mail boxes for your coveted 2019 Oscar Pool prize-in-the-mail!! (small type: you must send me a photo of you with your prize-in-the-mail and be available at anytime for interviews and TV appearances!)

Congratulations again Jane, Caroline, Josh, Sam, and Diana!

2019 official Oscars website with stuff:

https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2019

Random comments below from me with the full list (updated 3/11/19):

Best Picture:

“Black Panther” - JT: Fun but sometimes get bored by marvel-type movies

“BlacKkKlansman” - JT: Sam says problematic FBI wrong doings, we liked it

“Bohemian Rhapsody” - JT: well done. Debbie has seen this at least 3 times! 

“The Favourite” - JT: I liked it but a bit dark for me

“Green Book” - winner. JT: entertaining, but bit dated, formulaic. Lots of criticism out there on this choice. 

“Roma” - JT: great

“A Star Is Born” - JT: I want to see this. There’s an “encore” version playing in NY for one week w/20 extra minutes..

3/11/19 update: we saw the “Encore” this weekend. 12 extra minutes...I loved it and thought Bradley Cooper did a great job and what a good singer! Lady Gaga was amazing, what a good actress! Very sweet, romantic, believable (except for two glaring moments to me: one when they first met and two, when they first sing together). Otherwise, now I want to get to know the soundtrack and see the other versions (Streisand, Judy Garland, Mitzi Gaynor). I just bought “American Sniper” with Bradley Cooper on Google Play for $3.99...

“Vice” 

Lead Actor:

Christian Bale, “Vice”

Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born”

Willem Dafoe, “At Eternity’s Gate”

Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody” - winner

Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book” - JT: just saw yesterday at the schmancy dine-in IPic theatre South Street Seaport. Thought he was really good and should have won best actor, though I loved, loved Rami’s performance. Haven’t seen much Viggo - his movies are too rough for me

Lead Actress:

Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma”

Glenn Close, “The Wife” - she was good, but I found the movie mediocre, so not surprised she didn’t win this time

Olivia Colman, “The Favourite” - winner

Lady Gaga, “A Star Is Born”

Melissa McCarthy, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” - JT: excellent movie and she was amazing; could have won this. 

Supporting Actor:

Mahershala Ali, “Green Book” - winner

Adam Driver, “BlacKkKlansman”

Sam Elliott, “A Star Is Born”

Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” - JT: he was excellent

Sam Rockwell, “Vice”

Supporting Actress:

Amy Adams, “Vice”

Marina de Tavira, “Roma”

Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk” - winner - JT: want to see this

Emma Stone, “The Favourite”

Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”

Director:

Spike Lee, “BlacKkKlansman” - JT: should have won in my opinion even though Roma was great

Pawel Pawlikowski, “Cold War” - JT: want to see

Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Favourite”

Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma” - winner

Adam McKay, “Vice”

Animated Feature:

“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 - winner - JT: so good, trippy, fun to see on big screen

Animated Short:

“Animal Behaviour,” Alison Snowden, David Fine

“Bao,” Domee Shi - winner - JT: want to see

“Late Afternoon,” Louise Bagnall

“One Small Step,” Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas

“Weekends,” Trevor Jimenez

Adapted Screenplay:

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” Joel Coen , Ethan Coen

“BlacKkKlansman,” Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee - winner - JT: good choice

“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

Original Screenplay:

“The Favourite,” Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

“First Reformed,” Paul Schrader

“Green Book,” Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly - winner

“Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón

“Vice,” Adam McKay

Cinematography:

“Cold War,” Lukasz Zal

“The Favourite,” Robbie Ryan

“Never Look Away,” Caleb Deschanel

“Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón - winner

“A Star Is Born,” Matthew Libatique

Best Documentary Feature:

“Free Solo,” Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi - winner

“Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” RaMell Ross

“Minding the Gap,” Bing Liu

“Of Fathers and Sons,” Talal Derki

“RBG,” Betsy West, Julie Cohen - JT: still need to see this

Best Documentary Short Subject:

“Black Sheep,” Ed Perkins - JT: Sam told us this was produced by The Guardian newspaper!

“End Game,” Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

“Lifeboat,” Skye Fitzgerald

“A Night at the Garden,” Marshall Curry

“Period. End of Sentence.,” Rayka Zehtabchi - winner - JT: this is free on Netflix, excellent, funny, touching

Best Live Action Short Film:

“Detainment,” Vincent Lambe

“Fauve,” Jeremy Comte

“Marguerite,” Marianne Farley

“Mother,” Rodrigo Sorogoyen

“Skin,” Guy Nattiv - winner

Best Foreign Language Film:

“Capernaum” (Lebanon) - JT: must see, so moving and well done

“Cold War” (Poland) - want to see

“Never Look Away” (Germany)

“Roma” (Mexico) - winner

“Shoplifters” (Japan) - JT: we are probably renting it for $3.99 today..

3/11/19 update: wow, what a wonderfully filmed, acted film. Sweet, but also very heartbreaking. 

Film Editing:

“BlacKkKlansman,” Barry Alexander Brown

“Bohemian Rhapsody,” John Ottman - winner

“Green Book,” Patrick J. Don Vito

“The Favourite,” Yorgos Mavropsaridis

“Vice,” Hank Corwin

Sound Editing:

“Black Panther,” Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker

“Bohemian Rhapsody,” John Warhurst - winner

“First Man,”  Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan

“A Quiet Place,” Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl

“Roma,” Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay

Sound Mixing:

“Black Panther”

“Bohemian Rhapsody” - winner

“First Man”

“Roma”

“A Star Is Born”

Production Design:

“Black Panther,” Hannah Beachler - winner

“First Man,” Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas

“The Favourite,” Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton

“Mary Poppins Returns,” John Myhre, Gordon Sim

“Roma,” Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enrı́quez

Original Score:

“BlacKkKlansman,” Terence Blanchard

“Black Panther,” Ludwig Goransson - winner

“If Beale Street Could Talk,” Nicholas Britell

“Isle of Dogs,” Alexandre Desplat

“Mary Poppins Returns,” Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman

Original Song:

“All The Stars” from “Black Panther” by Kendrick Lamar, SZA

“I’ll Fight” from “RBG” by Diane Warren, Jennifer Hudson

“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns” by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman

“Shallow” from “A Star Is Born” by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice - winner

“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch

Makeup and Hair:

“Border”

“Mary Queen of Scots”

“Vice” - winner

Costume Design:

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” Mary Zophres

“Black Panther,” Ruth E. Carter - winner

“The Favourite,” Sandy Powell

“Mary Poppins Returns,” Sandy Powell

“Mary Queen of Scots,” Alexandra Byrne

Visual Effects:

“Avengers: Infinity War”

“Christopher Robin”

“First Man” - winner

“Ready Player One”

“Solo: A Star Wars Story”

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[pauloveracker]

THE 91ST ACADEMY AWARDS

The 91st Academy Awards are this Sunday, February 24, 2019. Taking place in the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center.  Honoring movies released in 2018. The following is the list of all the 2019 nominees. How well do you think you know your Nominees? Maybe this will help you. You wouldn’t believe how small this industry is unless you work in it.  I love each category and think of each craft as an artform. I want to wish each and every person nominated the best of luck and hope you’ll hear your name after the phrase “… and the Oscar goes to…”

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE - NOMINEES

(pic above Paul Overacker and Willem Defoe)

(pic above Paul Overacker, Rami Malek and Marjorie DeHey)

CHRISTIAN BALE Vice

BRADLEY COOPER A Star Is Born 

VIGGO MORTENSEN Green Book

WILLEM DAFOE At Eternity's Gate 

RAMI MALEK Bohemian Rhapsody - WINNER

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - NOMINEES

(pic above Paul Overacker, Marjorie DeHey and Adam Driver)

MAHERSHALA ALI Green Book - WINNER

ADAM DRIVER BlacKkKlansman

SAM ELLIOTT A Star Is Born

RICHARD E. GRANT Can You Ever Forgive Me?

SAM ROCKWELL Vice

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE - NOMINEES

(pic above Paul Overacker and Olivia Coleman)

(pic above Melissa McCarthy,  Marjorie DeHey and Paul Overacker)

YALITZA APARICIO Roma

GLENN CLOSE The Wife

OLIVIA COLMAN The Favourite - WINNER

LADY GAGA A Star Is Born

MELISSA MCCARTHY Can You Ever Forgive Me?

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - NOMINEES

AMY ADAMS Vice

MARINA DE TAVIRA Roma

REGINA KING If Beale Street Could Talk - WINNER

EMMA STONE The Favourite

RACHEL WEISZ The Favourite.

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM - NOMINEES

INCREDIBLES 2 Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle

ISLE OF DOGS Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson. MIRAI Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer. 

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller - WINNER

CINEMATOGRAPHY - NOMINEES

COLD WAR Łukasz Żal. 

THE FAVOURITE Robbie Ryan

NEVER LOOK AWAY Caleb Deschanel

ROMA Alfonso Cuarón - WINNER

A STAR IS BORN Matthew Libatique.

COSTUME DESIGN - NOMINEES

THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Mary Zophres

BLACK PANTHER Ruth Carter - WINNER

THE FAVOURITE Sandy Powell

MARY POPPINS RETURNS Sandy Powell

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Alexandra Byrne

DIRECTING - NOMINEES

(pic above Spike Lee and Paul Overacker)

BLACKKKLANSMAN Spike Lee

COLD WAR Paweł Pawlikowski

THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos

ROMA Alfonso Cuarón - WINNER

VICE Adam McKay

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE) - NOMINEES

FREE SOLO Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill - WINNER

HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim

MINDING THE GAP Bing Liu and Diane Quon

OF FATHERS AND SONS Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert

RBG Betsy West and Julie Cohen

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT) - NOMINEES

BLACK SHEEP Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn

END GAME Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

LIFEBOAT Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser

A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN Marshall Curry

PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE. Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton - Winner

FILM EDITING - NOMINEES

(pic above Paul Overacker, Hank Corwin and Barry Alexander Brown)

(pic above Paul Overacker, Stephen E. Rivkin, Sidney Wolinsky, Yorgos Mavropsaridis)

(pic above Patrick J. Don Vito and Paul Overacker

BLACKKKLANSMAN Barry Alexander Brown

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Ottman - WINNER

THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Mavropsaridis

GREEN BOOK Patrick J. Don Vito

VICE Hank Corwin.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM - NOMINEES

CAPERNAUM Lebanon

COLD WAR Poland

NEVER LOOK AWAY Germany

ROMA Mexico - WINNER

SHOPLIFTERS Japan.

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING - NOMINEES

(pic above Paul Overacker and Jenny Shircore)

(pic above Marc Pilcher and Paul Overacker)

BORDER Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks

VICE Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney - WINNER

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) - NOMINEES

BLACK PANTHER Ludwig Goransson - WINNER

BLACKKKLANSMAN Terence Blanchard

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Nicholas Britell

ISLE OF DOGS Alexandre Desplat

MARY POPPINS RETURNS Marc Shaiman.

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) - NOMINEES

ALL THE STARS from Black Panther; Music by Kendrick Lamar, Mark “Sounwave” Spears and Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith; Lyric by Kendrick Lamar, SZA and Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith

I'LL FIGHT from RBG; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

THE PLACE WHERE LOST THINGS GO from Mary Poppins Returns; Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyric by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman

SHALLOW from A Star Is Born; Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt - WINNER

WHEN A COWBOY TRADES HIS SPURS FOR WINGS from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Music and Lyric by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

BEST PICTURE - NOMINEES

(pic above Paul Overacker, Marjorie DeHey and Jordan Peele)

(pic above Paul Overacker, Marjorie DeHey and Peter Farrelly)

BLACK PANTHER Kevin Feige, Producer

BLACKKKLANSMAN Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Graham King, Producer

THE FAVOURITE Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers

GREEN BOOK Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers - WINNER

ROMA Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers

A STAR IS BORN Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers

VICE Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers

PRODUCTION DESIGN - NOMINEES

BLACK PANTHER Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart - WINNER

THE FAVOURITE Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton

FIRST MAN Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas

MARY POPPINS RETURNS Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim

ROMA Production Design: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Bárbara Enríquez.

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) - NOMINEES

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR Alison Snowden and David Fine

BAO Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb - WINNER

LATE AFTERNOON Louise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco

ONE SMALL STEP Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas

WEEKENDS Trevor Jimenez.

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) - NOMINEES

DETAINMENT Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon

FAUVE Jeremy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon

MARGUERITE Marianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset

MOTHER Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado

SKIN Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman - WINNER

SOUND EDITING - NOMINEES

(pic above Paul Overacker, Ryker Overacker, Craig Barron and Ben Burtt)

BLACK PANTHER Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone - WINNER

FIRST MAN Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan

A QUIET PLACE Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl

ROMA Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay.

SOUND MIXING - NOMINEES

(pic above Nicholai Baxter, Ai-Ling Lee, Steven Gizicki, Marjorie DeHey, Damien Chazelle, Paul Overacker and Steven Morrow) 

A STAR IS BORN Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder & Steve Morrow

BLACK PANTHER Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali - WINNER

FIRST MAN Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis

ROMA Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García. 

VISUAL EFFECTS - NOMINEES

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick. 

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould

FIRST MAN Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles & J.D. Schwalm - WINNER

READY PLAYER ONE Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler & David Shirk

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) - NOMINEES

(pic above Paul Overacker, Marjorie DeHey, Becky Willmott and Kevin Willmott)

(pic above Paul Overacker and Eric Roth)

(pic above Paul Overacker and Berry Jenkins)

THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

BLACKKKLANSMAN Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee - WINNER

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Written for the screen by Barry Jenkins

A STAR IS BORN Screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) - NOMINEES

(pic above Peter Farrelly, Marjorie DeHey and Paul Overacker)

(pic above Paul Overacker and Adam McKay)

(pic above Paul Schrader and Paul Overacker)

THE FAVOURITE Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara

FIRST REFORMED Written by Paul Schrader

GREEN BOOK Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly - WINNER

ROMA Written by Alfonso Cuarón

VICE Written by Adam McKay.