Open Thread - Oscar Night and Winners List
Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 7:30PM 
And say whatever you gotta say. We'll have a ton of coverage over the next three days but during the actual show we just watch like the Stockholm Syndrome devotees that we are (though we'll post a winners list during commercial breaks.)
THE WINNERS
Best Supporting Actress Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Awww... Chris Evans, such a gentleman
Best Documentary Feature Free Solo
Best Makeup & Hairstyling Vice
The night's worst acceptance speech
Best Costume Design Ruth E Carter, Black Panther
In praise of Melissa McCarthy's bunny puppet
Best Production Design Black Panther
Best Cinematography Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Best Sound Editing Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Sound Mixing Bohemian Rhapsody
"We are the Champions" LGBT Stories at the Oscars
Best Visual FX First Man
Best Film Editing John Ottman, Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Richard E Grant met his idol Barbra Streisand
Best Animated Feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Animated Short Bao
Best Documentary Short Period. End of Sentence.
Best Live Action Short Skin
Best Screenplay Green Book
Best Foreign Film Roma
Best Adapted Screenplay BlacKkKlansman
The most joyful moment in the ceremony
How many times did you "Jennifer Hudson" on Oscar night?
Best Original Score Ludwig Goransson, Black Panther
Best Original Song "Shallow," A Star is Born
The horniest moment in the ceremony
The musical performances ranked
Best Lead Actor Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Ranking the Oscar Clips - These guys didn't fare well.
Best Lead Actress Olivia Colman The Favourite
Best Reaction Shot... Emma Stone
Best Director Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Best Picture Green Book
Why Green Book's win made me cringe - Not why you think!
Best Picture Nominee Oscar Tallies: Bohemian Rhapsody: 4 wins; Black Panther, Roma, Green Book: 3 wins each; A Star is Born, Vice, The Favourite, BlacKkKlansman: 1 win each. The last time each Best Picture nominee won an award was 2014 but it's not so common since something usually goes home empty-handed.
MORE COVERAGE
How'd you do on your predictions? We went 17/24
Reader Poll Results Who you were rooting for.
New Oscar Trivia since we've wrapped up another year
Glenn Close's Oscar Curse Nathaniel on Glenn's 7th historic loss
With a Friend Like Emma... Hang this in the Louvre
Ranking the Oscar Clips - Ben ranks the 20 from Cringe-worthy to Greatness
Appropriate Acceptance Speeches - Should the speech match the accomplishment?
Caption This - Glenn's Melissa McCarthy Gaze
First Gentleman of the Oscars - Dan Loves Chris Evans
Joe vs Nicholas - Vote on your Favourite fella
Team Reactions Part 1 - Horniest and Most Joyful Moments
Team Reactions Part 2 - Good times, Noticeable Absentees
Best Dressed Supporting Actress - VOTE!
Best Dressed Best Actress - VOTE !
Best Dressed Men - Joe, Chadwick, Nicholas, Henry and More...
Best Dressed Non-Nominees - 20 More Lewks from Oscar Night
"Jennifer Hudsoning" - Ginny did it lots on Oscar night
Melissa McCarthy & Brian Tyree Henry - Tim on the funniest awards presentation
The 5 Musical Performances - Chris Feil, our Soundtracking Man, ranks them
James Baldwin Tribute - Murtada wonders if we'll get more adaptations of his work?
Complicated Feelings about Green Book's Win - Lynn Lee explains
We are the Champions - Deborah on LGBT stories at the Oscars
Reader Comments (220)
Lars,
Olivia is great, but the many mistakes of category fraud!!!!
I am broken once again!
But as Nathaniel says: the films and the actors we love are the reward themselves!
Octavia is black, no? For what it's worth.
Yaaay! Yaaay! So so so happy for Olivia Colman! She gave the year’s best on screen performance and won!
I can't do this anymore. Award shows and shit. I just don't care.
@Anonny: Famous person in period garb. Oscars can't resist these gimmicks. But she gave the role a depth that most actresses wouldn't. I have no issue with her winning in and if itself. It's about how they chose winners. And now look at fucking Green Book. SO done with this travesty.
Guys, at least The Favourite didn’t go home empty handed. That would have been a travesty!
Colman winning was the highlight of the oscars
Gil C - claims he is a liberal yet every comment he has posted has been racist. Go away Gil C and take all the other trolls that have come to this blog just to spew their ' I'm not a racist but I hate all these black people and Mexicans up on stage".
And to all the Glenn Close haters;- A vanity piece is when an actor produces a film and casts themselves in the lead role. Check IMDB.COM and you will notice Glenn Close is NOT a producer of 'The Wife'.
I hope Glenn wins on her 8th nomination - but if she doesn't, she will tie Peter O' Toole who never won any of his 8 nominations.
Happy for Olivia Colman. Charming speech, she was truly shocked!
Enjoyed the Colman surprise although I did feel a bit bad for Close despite the fact that she was my #4 choice amongst the actual nominees.
Gaga and Cooper won the night with that performance that was very nicely and subtly lensed.
Thrilled that Netflix didn’t win for Roma. Still can’t get behind Netflix being invited to the Oscar scene. Honestly, this is probably what made me happiest tonight. That’s to say nothing of the quality of Roma...I just don’t think Netflix belongs at this party.
My jaw is still on the ground.
Poor Glenn!
I wish they could have given two Best Actress Oscars (Olivia is lovely and wonderful, but ... Glenn!) and two best Supporting Actress Oscars and no actor awards this year. I'm boycotting dudes. My husband won't be happy, but whatevs.
I love Olivia Colman, she's incredible, and honestly deserving, but... I cannot fathom Glenn Close STILL losing. What the fuck!
I don't want her to have an honorary Oscar! So lame.
I pray this lights a fire for Sunset Boulevard to get going and she wins for that. ugh. She was such a good sport tho.
The Malek hate is not a good look. Hate the film but don't hate the actor.
As for Close, I am devastated for her. But if she was going to lose to someone, at least it was the amazing Olivia Colman. The royal thing should have been a dead giveaway in retrospect.
Just got off a plane, looked here for the results, and now I am sitting in the airport terminal performing a series of the deepest eye rolls. What a terrible year.
We live in a world where Brie Larson has an Oscar and Glenn Close Lost seven times.
I have watched the Academy awards for decades and will never understand them.
If there was going to be a surprise win, it should have been Richard E. Grant not Olivia Colman.
And on an evening when there is finally some justice for Spike Lee, you don't hand out the Best Picture award to "The Green Book".
Poor Glenn Close, it totally reminds me of the way they took Paul Newman and Peter O'Toole for granted year after year.
Btw. it just goes to show that winning the audience choice award at TIFF really does mean something. Clearly winning that honour can be very predictive of the Academy's taste.
Last thought, Julia Roberts did very nicely giving out the Best Picture winner, and I would like to see a female hand out Best Picture next year too.
@Bruno- Coleman’s performance was not mimicry (who is she copying?) nor gimmicy (fake nose?). saying so is faulty. The Academy just liked her performance better. Also she was in the MUCH better film, wgixh always helps.
Rami supporter here...that performance was electrifying. He captured the essence of Freddie - iconic, inspiring, individual.
Glenn seems the sort who pull want the better performance in the category to win. I’m more upset that commenters have hacked Glenn’s medical records and found she only has a couple years left to live. Or are privy to her immediate and sudden retirement. Which is sad because she has at least another competitive nomination left in her if neither of those things occur.
Hey, guys. I also wanted Glenn to win, but she's NOT dead. This was not her "last chance"! Don't forget that this time Sunset Boulevard IS happening!
Now that that’s over ... Nathaniel’s Top 10!
Maybe this year the Oscars are truly irrelevant?
If I was an Academy voter, and even looking at Glenn's amazing resume, I...still would have voted for Olivia Colman, because I prefer her acting, particularly her ability to hit very specific tones that should somehow be jarring and discordant that she somehow finesses into something magical. Not everyone can do it, and very few can do it the way Olivia does.
That said, I really hope Glenn gets another chance, and that it's a coronation with nothing to mar it even slightly, that it's a steamroll we'd all gladly lie down for. She deserves so many more chances than she has gotten.
Colman is a sweetheart. I'm happy for her. But the Acting upset of the night couldn't have been Grant or Cooper?
Re: Colman Vs Close
The academy still prefers showier performances than subtle but powerful ones
People who have seen the Wife will know Close is amazing in it, and she definitely deserves the Oscar (and please stop saying the movie is “terrible”, it’s decent). But it is still a subtle performance with lots of internal rage.
Close’s agent, any good (period) biopics in the pipeline? Lol
Even a great supporting role would be nice...
Who do you want to see Close work with in the future?
Hey Gil C - Jennifer Lopez is a singer / actress. THAT is why she is asked to present at the Oscars. And if it is OK for actors to present at the Grammys then why can't singers not present at the Oscars?
And the reason Queen was at the Oscars is because a film called Bohemian Rhapsody got 5 nominations including Best Picture and ended up winning 4 of them. And since you don't know who Queen is - they are the band that Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of. And that is the person that Best Actor, Rami Malek, was portraying. And guess what the songs that are played in the film are all written by .....you guessed it ! QUEEN.
Were you as upset when Loretta Lynn, Jake La Motta and Muhammad Ali were at the Oscars when films about them were nominated?
Here's something super special for you to get excited about;- One of the producers and writers of the winning Green Book is a trump supporter.
He was especially careful not to wear his MAGA hat at the ceremonies cos he knew the majority of the audience were anti-racism, anti-homophobia, anti-sexism and anti-trump.
Best news is maybe /3rtful will really not be on this site anymore
Colman was outstanding in my favorite film of the year. I’ll be happier for her as time goes by, but right now the sadness I feel for Glenn’s loss is too big. Just a crap Oscar year overall.
Just realised that Alfonso Cuaron joins the Ang Lee-George Stevens club: two Best Director Oscars without a corresponding Best Picture win
Between all the controversies, scandals, and unpopular winners that are probably only going to look worse in retrospect a few years from now, could this actually be the worst year for the Oscars in history?
They have a lot of saving face to do. It’ll be interesting to see how they approach next season.
Olivia makes sense in hindsight.
Oscars spread the wealth and most best pics win Oscars.
When making my predictions I say - what do you think about when you think about this movie.
Vice the makeup.
Bohemian rami and the sound.
Roma directing and cinematography
Star is born song.
Black panther the world and the music.
For favourite I said screenplay and the acting. I predicted screenplay but with Green Book being the favourite then Colman is the Oscar the film wins. Rachel Weisz would not have made sense as the Oscar win for that film.
There was NO way The Favourite was going home empty-handed. It was just too good of a film.
I am in shock Close lost really hurts....They really do hate her it seems
Bohemian Rapsodie is a bad movie I can't believe it won the most awards. Editing. Really? It goes on forever and ever and ever without knowing where it goes....
Can we stop shitting on each other :(? It makes me sad when people are catty on this site really does, my 15 year old self whimpers. Just ignore the negative posts. That said Im actually not THAT pissed off about Green Book winning best picture. It deflected Vice and BR. At least most of us can agree it was an okay movie. But Best Screenplay!? For that backward ass feel-good fart show? Bleh. And I havent read anyone mention it yet so Ill say it; POOR BRADLEY COOPER OMG what will this poor mf have to do to get an Oscar?! He should have at least one by now :(.
i think even mcdormand thought it was going to close - twice from the stage she made eye contact with someone sitting in the general direction of where close was sitting
they acted together in paradise road and close came to the set of olive kitteridge to meet with janbe anderson who wrote that and the the wife.
Hey @LadyEdith - thanks for mentioning Newman and O'Toole. Two of my faves - proof that you can have an iconic career without an Oscar. If Newman never won an Oscar, would we be talking about him any less? And O'Toole's honorary aside, his electric screen presence speaks for itself.
Oh Brother.
Close’s loss inspired me a decision. This is gonna be the last time I will care for the Academy and I didn’t miss a single edition since 1987. I know Colman is a remarkable actress and I trust that Glenn Close could enjoy at least an honorary price soon. I salute and thank Nathaniel and the wonderful Film Experience Team. I will continue to read you but, as you can say, I’m through with Oscars 😘
It's weird because Colman's performance was the least impressive to me of the actresses in The Favourite.
Close not winning doesn't make me feel any type of way, though. I just feel like this year was a bad year for the Oscars in general. A great year for movies, though.
Wow, to go a whole season seeing the ugly inaccurate (tape recordings and later emails between the Shirley clan and Farrelly confirm he got the character right) vitriol directed at Green Book and then to watch my favorite film, what a moment. Not only is it my favorite film, but it also shows the Academy isn't just going to bow to faux wokeness because PC culture was starting to eat itself out with nearly every film maker coming under attack The only thing is that the preferential voting is starting to hurt the integrity of the BP as the best direcctor prize more often goes to a best picture.
And Black Panther for score!
Black Panther for set design!
Colman for The Favorite!
Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody!
Great great year.
It just needed a host
I agree about Colman @beyaccount. I loved The Favourite, and I thought Colman was great in it. But hers was the showiest performance in the film, not the best one.
GREEN BOOK is worse than CRASH
Trevor Noah was in Black Panther (voice of computer); so I can see why he was on the show.
I can't concentrate - I can't settle - I can't read ... just to upset for Glenn .. it truly hurts. Hurray for Colman but its not feeling right - not right at all - I will cherish her Wife performance as one of my favourites ... and then BRADLEY - poor beautiful Bradley lol ;'-(
I can't begrudge Colman,who is so charming n genuine in her speech! ♥ and I agreed her Queen Anne is really the showiest among the three Leads. This n the Academy rarely pass up a chance to honour a Royalty.
But still, shame o u, Oscars for doing this to Glenn!! 😭
Poor Glenn!! She was this Close!! Why can't thr b a tie when we need it!!
Oh Brother!
@jota....DITTO!
@Brad......"My jaw is still on the ground."
Careful, someone driving a steamroller may witness the event and join The Flat Earth Society, where, unfortunately, Best Picture has taken up roost. Who knew that walls of ice were more effective and secure than walls funded by befuddled Mexicans and their imaginary Mexican allies, who insist that the orgasm you had in that tree, which joined your grounded jaw, was in reality an effective retirement plan!