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)
Guys....I'm afraid that Glenn has been designated to be the Susan Lucci of the Oscars.
Bette - You are the only one intolerant of other people's views. I have never denigrated anyone here in the forum. Two of my comments were changed and racist comments inserted. If this wasn't done by a moderator then it was hacked, which is even worse.
Yes, I know who Queen are. I have their greatest hits cd. My statement was about using so many music acts for a show that's supposed to be about celebrating movies...including Kacey Musgraves,
Guess what, I was happy for Spike Lee though he acted like the usual egotistical dick he is. I went to see Do The Right Thing in a theater and a couple other movies of his and have seen most all his movies...because i love movies. I can keep different thoughts in my head at the same time instead of labelling others racist because I pointed out a fact that the academy had an agenda to put as many black presenters on stage as possible...including ones that had nothing to do with the movies that were nominated...as has been done in the past.
In a way, the biggest fear of the season is true...Lady Gaga is now an Oscar winner and Glenn Close still isn't.
Have all of you Glen fans actually seen 'The Wife'?
Glenn Close's bitter loss has left me heartbroken. Colman is a deserving winner (and absolutely loved her shoutout to Glenn) but not as deserving as Close .. It's sad. And cruel. I hope and pray she wins next time. What happened to her today was criminal . The best of luck next time, my beloved Glenn
@Aaron, I was just talking to my brother, now Gaga has an Oscar and Close is still Oscarless 😔.
What bothers me about this decision is the flimsiness of the Academy. When does “due” status works and when it doesn’t? Why does it work for some and doesn’t work for some? Is it really just a big popularity contest? (I know many consider Close to be “cold”, but she really is just a warm introvert).
I really want her to play Jill Bolte Taylor since her story has some dramatic elements for Oscar checklist (e.g. sorta biopic, stroke, personality change etc).....
In my opinion... this was very better than last year. I was not in love nor with the Shape of Water and neither with 3 Billboards. Green Book is the only Best Pic nominated (and now winner) that I didn't see yet.. but now I think I should.
Anyways the big emotionals moments were obviously Spike Lee and Olivia Colman winning. On the other hand I think that we had a lot of deserved wins but not the very best of every category. I find that Malek was great... but Dafoe (I know that outside of Europe nobody have seen this movie, but you should). Regina King was moving, but Nicole in Boy Erased? And Richard E Grant? Or Lukas Zal Cinematography? Or Annihilation production design?
I believe that a lot of stuff was influenced by politics this year, but nobody won undeservedly.
@Chris, Susan Lucci eventually won a daytime emmy - on her nineteenth nomination!
Here's hoping that Glenn can get her due in the next few years! I was so sad when she didn't win. I literally had both fingers on both hands crossed and was chanting, 'Glenn! Glenn! Glenn!' as the Best Actress Oscar was announced. Massively BUMMED over Glenn's loss.
I am so sad for Glenn!
This was her last chance to finally win the Oscar.
Sunset Boulevard ? Another project ?
I don't think so.
The Academy really hates her .
Now she joins the club of all time losers , in very good company : Déborah Ker, Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton, Thelma Ritter.
Well, that's life!
I almost screamed when they read that Olivia won over Glenn. Thank God the latter is a great actress and pretended it did not bother her that much. Gaga's 'Oh my God' was the best reaction.
Yalitza and Melissa were my favorites in the category, but Close would have been a deserving winner too. Well, at least Amy is not the bigger loser among living actresses, if that can be a silver lining.
All the hacking in this thread! Erick Loggia's comment just clearly got hacked to include the falsity: "This was her last chance to finally win the Oscar." The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!!!
I dont know why people can't face it- Colman's was actually the better performance! She did NOT win a Volpi for nothing! Glenn should have won long back over Cher but Olivia's was clearly the performance to beat this year! Handle it! Period!
Poor Glenn. She was dressed as an Oscar, just like Meryl, but, unlike Meryl, she didn't win.
Man you guys are dramatic.
I got 20/24 with my predictions! Much better than I was expecting since this awards season was so weird. I’m heartbroken that Roma didn’t win Best Picture. The Favourite was my favorite and I would have loved to have seen Blackkklansman or Black Panther win but I really thought Roma had it. We went from wonderfully out of the mainstream films with Moonlight and The Shape of Water and then boom we’re back into the 90s with Green Book.
The 90's were lovely, so ah well.
The Academy hates Glenn Close so much ... they nominated her seven times.
I think my biggest issue with the show was how out of touch it was with its own history. As Nathaniel has pointed out many times in the past, the Oscars are meant to connect its massive audience to the past and future. It should not just get you excited about filmS to come, but it should pique your curiosity to go and seek out films you've missed from decades past. A great montage can do that, and last year, we all LOVED Eva Marie Saint's introduction to costume design. On Twitter, I saw many people hoping for some old Hollywood legends, but in the end, Oscar could barely remember anything before the 80s. Of all the presenters, only 7 had made a name for themselves before the 90s: Helen Mirren, Barbra Streisand, Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Micheal Keaton, Laura Dern, and Julia Roberts. Take out Streisand, and our earliest Oscar WINNER is 1997 for McDormand. I miss the reunions they did for the 70th and 75th.
Now that I've had time to process Glenn's loss, I am here to report the news:
REGINA KING, the greatest character actress of her generation, IS A FREAKIN' OSCAR WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite moment was "First Man" winning for special fx this movie should have been nominated for more awards. And l love how nobody mentioned Bryan Singer - because you know the movie directed itself. It was specially awkward for the best editor winner