2018-2019 Oscars / 91st Academy Awards

[BusSport]

The nominees for the 2018-2019 Oscars / 91st Academy Awards have been announced.

First, nominees for Best Picture, with links to the SportsHoopla thread for the film if there is one, and don't forget to vote in the poll before it closes a month from now, shortly before the ceremony on Sunday, February 24, 2019!

Best Picture:
* Black Panther
* BlacKkKlansman
* Bohemian Rhapsody
* The Favourite
* Green Book
* Roma
* A Star Is Born
* Vice

Again, vote in the poll before it closes a month from now, shortly before the ceremony on Sunday, February 24, 2019!

 

[BusSport]

Best Director:
* Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
* Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
* Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
* Adam McKay (Vice)
* Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)

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 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 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 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 Original Screenplay:
* The Favourite (Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara)
* First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
* Green Book (Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga)
* Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
* Vice (Adam McKay)

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

 

[BusSport]

Best Makeup & Hairstyling:
* Border
* Mary Queen of Scots
* Vice

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 Cinematography:
* The Favourite (Robbie Ryan)
* Never Look Away (Caleb Deschanel)
* Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
* A Star Is Born (Matty Libatique)
* Cold War (Lukasz Zal)

Best Original Song:
* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Tim Blake Nelson and Willie Watson "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings"
* Black Panther - Kendrick Lamar and SZA "All the Stars"
* Mary Poppins Returns - Emily Blunt "The Place Where Lost Things Go"
* R.B.G. - Jennifer Hudson "I'll Fight"
* A Star Is Born - Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga "Shallow"

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 Shaiman)

Best Documentary Feature:
* Free Solo
* Hale County This Morning, This Evening
* Minding the Gap
* Of Fathers and Sons
* R.B.G.

Best Animated Feature:
* Incredibles 2
* Isle of Dogs
* Mirai
* Ralph Breaks the Internet
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Foreign-Language Film:
* Capernaum (Lebanon)
* Cold War (Poland)
* Never Look Away (Germany)
* Roma (Mexico)
* Shoplifters (Japan)

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 Production Design:
* Black Panther (Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart)
* The Favourite (Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton)
* First Man (Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas)
* Mary Poppins Returns (John Myhre and Gordon Sim)
* Roma (Eugenio Caballero and Barbara Enriquez)

Best Visual Effects:
* Avengers: Infinity War
* Christopher Robin
* First Man
* Ready Player One
* Solo: A Star Wars Story

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 Animated Short:
* Animal Behaviour
* Bao
* Late Afternoon
* One Small Step
* Weekends

Best Live-Action Short:
* Detainment
* Fauve
* Marguerite
* Mother
* Skin

Best Documentary Short:
* Black Sheep
* End Game
* Lifeboat
* A Night at the Garden
* Period. End of Sentence.

 

[Duffman]

Out of the beat picture noms I've seen, Black Panther and A Star is Born are overrated as hell, BlacKkKlansmen was awesome, Bohemian was alright, and Green Book will likely win because the movie is the definition of Oscar bait.

 

[calsnowskier]

I have only seen Panther and Klansman.

Panther was good. I enjoyed it. But it was a cookie-cutter MCU flick. Why is it getting singled out as the greatest thing since sliced bread?

That was a rhetorical question. We all know why it is getting singled out.

I have a basic problem with Klansman as well, but I am basically OK with it, because that is what it is. It was a good movie, and I enjoyed it.

Between the two that I have seen, Klansman clearly deserves the Best Pic nod. Although, it doesnt have a “Best Pic feel” to it.

 

[TheDayMan]

I’ve seen none of those. I’ll see myself out.

 

[BusSport]

Incidentally, Black Panther is the first superhero film in history to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar / Academy Award. (2014-2015 Best Picture winner Birdman was not actually a superhero film, though its title makes it sound like one.)

 

[calsnowskier]

Incidentally, Black Panther is the first superhero film in history to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar / Academy Award. (2014-2015 Best Picture winner Birdman was not actually a superhero film, though its title makes it sound like one.)

BP is good. But I don’t think it ranks in the top 5 of superhero movies...

(In no particular order)...
Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Infinity War
Civil War
Winter Soldier
Iron Man

I stopped after that. All those movies were better than BP.

 

[BusSport]

Again, vote in the poll before it closes a month from now, shortly before the ceremony on Sunday, February 24, 2019!

You know what, we can do better than that.

The Academy likes to announce the Best Picture winner shortly after midnight Eastern Standard Time. So I timed the poll to close at 11:59 PM EST that night so everyone can keep voting up until right before the Best Picture winner is announced.

 

[BusSport]

Incidentally, Black Panther is the first superhero film in history to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar / Academy Award. (2014-2015 Best Picture winner Birdman was not actually a superhero film, though its title makes it sound like one.)

But on the subject of superhero films getting nominated, considering the nomination of Black Panther, Avengers 3: Infinity War was badly snubbed.

Black Panther is a good film, but Infinity War is much better, and if Black Panther is good enough to get a nomination, then Infinity War definitely should have gotten one too.

 

[Wazmankg]

The only one I've seen so far that's been nominated for anything was "Can You Ever Forgive Me?". I liked it a lot and Melissa McCarthy and Richard Grant are both worthy nominees, who don't stand a shot from what I've read. That's all I've got.

 

[Taddy Mason]

Out of the beat picture noms I've seen, Black Panther and A Star is Born are overrated as hell, BlacKkKlansmen was awesome, Bohemian was alright, and Green Book will likely win because the movie is the definition of Oscar bait.

I didn't see the Green Book as Oscar bait, fairly cookie cutter. I imagine The Favourite wins. Have a monarch, british accents, wear old timey clothes, but it's not stuffy like past period pieces.

 

[Duffman]

But on the subject of superhero films getting nominated, considering the nomination of Black Panther, Avengers 3: Infinity War was badly snubbed.

Black Panther is a good film, but Infinity War is much better, and if Black Panther is good enough to get a nomination, then Infinity War definitely should have gotten one too.

The biggest knock I think you can give Infinity War is that it’s half a movie and so while it’s still definitely better than Black Panther I don’t think either deserve to be nominated.

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

This honestly looks like a shit list. One of the worst I have seen in a while. Award shows are just another platform for people to tout their politics anymore.

Shits whack.

 

[Clayton]

Have me down as "Roma" winning it all.

The Favourite only has a 62% audience RT score. Bohemian Rhapsody has a 62% critic score. Both are fringe contenders at best. Vice has a bad critic score and a bad audience score so its only on there for political reasons as far as I can tell.

I think that leaves Roma and A Star is Born as the main contenders.

 

[BusSport]

Have me down as "Roma" winning it all.

The Favourite only has a 62% audience RT score. Bohemian Rhapsody has a 62% critic score. Both are fringe contenders at best. Vice has a bad critic score and a bad audience score so its only on there for political reasons as far as I can tell.

I think that leaves Roma and A Star is Born as the main contenders.

Which film do you think deserves to win, though? Not the one you think will win, but the one you think deserves to win and which you would vote for if you were a voter?

 

[Toadman005]

I didn't see the Green Book as Oscar bait, fairly cookie cutter. I imagine The Favourite wins. Have a monarch, british accents, wear old timey clothes, but it's not stuffy like past period pieces.

Plus lots of sex and lesbianism.

 

[Duffman]

Have me down as "Roma" winning it all.

The Favourite only has a 62% audience RT score. Bohemian Rhapsody has a 62% critic score. Both are fringe contenders at best. Vice has a bad critic score and a bad audience score so its only on there for political reasons as far as I can tell.

I think that leaves Roma and A Star is Born as the main contenders.

I think BlacKkKlansman has a pretty good shot.

 

[PhilSimms11]

I didn't see the Green Book as Oscar bait, fairly cookie cutter. I imagine The Favourite wins. Have a monarch, british accents, wear old timey clothes, but it's not stuffy like past period pieces.

So, you're saying The Favourite is the favorite? Makes sense.

 

[Taddy Mason]

Have me down as "Roma" winning it all.

The Favourite only has a 62% audience RT score. Bohemian Rhapsody has a 62% critic score. Both are fringe contenders at best. Vice has a bad critic score and a bad audience score so its only on there for political reasons as far as I can tell.

I think that leaves Roma and A Star is Born as the main contenders.

Roma is what I would go with, but not sure if they'd really give it to a netflix release. Plus, it has a built in fall back award for best foreign film. I can't imagine A Star is Born being close to a legitimate contender.