The 91st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2018 and took place on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and was produced by Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, with Weiss also serving as director. This was the first telecast to have no host since the 61st ceremony held in 1989.
In related events, the Academy held its 10th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center on November 18, 2018. The Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host David Oyelowo on February 9, 2019, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Green Book won three awards, including Best Picture. Bohemian Rhapsody won the most awards of the night, with four awards. Black Panther and Roma won three awards, and Bao, BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, First Man, Free Solo, If Beale Street Could Talk, Period. End of Sentence., Skin, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Star Is Born, and Vice each won one. The telecast garnered 29.56 million viewers in the United States.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were announced on January 22, 2019, at 5:20 a.m. PST (13:20 UTC), at the Academy headquarters in Beverly Hills, by actors Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross. The Favourite and Roma tied for the most nominations with ten each.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2019. For the second time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, every Best Picture nominee won at least one award. Roma became the fifth film nominated simultaneously for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film in the same year. Alfonso Cuarón was the first person to win Best Director and Best Cinematography for the same film. Black Panther was the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture.
Best Actress nominee Yalitza Aparicio was the first Indigenous Mexican person nominated for an acting Oscar. Best Supporting Actor winner Mahershala Ali became the second black performer to win multiple acting awards after Denzel Washington, who won Best Supporting Actor for 1989's Glory and Best Actor for 2001's Training Day. With her nomination for Best Actress and win for Best Original Song for co-writing "Shallow" from A Star Is Born, Lady Gaga was the second person to receive acting and songwriting nominations for the same film, after Mary J. Blige for 2017's Mudbound, and the first person to do so in a leading role and win in either or both categories. Hannah Beachler became the first black Best Production Design nominee. Both her and Best Costume Design winner Ruth E. Carter were the first black winners in their respective categories, as well as the first black women to win in a non-acting category since Irene Cara, who won the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling" from 1983's Flashdance.
Awards Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). {| class=wikitable |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 Messick | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite Adam McKay – Vice |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 Tony Vallelonga | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Queen Anne Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleodegaria "Cleo" Gutierrez 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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara First Reformed – Paul Schrader Roma – Alfonso Cuarón Vice – Adam McKay | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee; The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen; 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 and Will Fetters; |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 Yuichiro Saito Ralph Breaks the Internet – Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
"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 Kendrick Lamar, Mark "Sounwave" Spears and Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith; lyrics by Kendrick Lamar, SZA and Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith "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 Gillian Welch and David Rawlings |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Bohemian Rhapsody – Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali Black Panther – Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin 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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Black Panther – Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart 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
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Roma – Alfonso Cuarón Cold War – Łukasz Żal The Favourite – Robbie Ryan Never Look Away – Caleb Deschanel A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Black Panther – Ruth Carter The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Mary Zophres The Favourite – Sandy Powell Mary Poppins Returns – Sandy Powell Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
Bohemian Rhapsody – John Ottman BlacKkKlansman – Barry Alexander Brown The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis Green Book – Patrick J. Don Vito Vice – Hank Corwin | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;" |
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
Governors Awards The Academy held its 10th annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 18, 2018, where the following awards were presented:
Honorary Awards To Marvin Levy, for an exemplary career in publicity that has brought films to the minds, hearts and souls of audiences all over the world. To Lalo Schifrin, in recognition of his unique musical style, compositional integrity and influential contributions to the art of film scoring. To Cicely Tyson, whose unforgettable performances and personal integrity have inspired generations of filmmakers, actors and audiences.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award The award honors "creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production".
Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.
Films with multiple nominations and awards