"David Puttnam asked me to write this and gave me $5000 to do so, and I was frightened by it. I delayed and delayed for about a year, and Puttnam got pissed off and went away, and then I wrote it"-Bob Ellis, on the birth of his script, The Nostradamus Kid
The predicted winning sweep for A Star is Born did not eventuate. Instead, a cocktail of Queens (Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite); a power-hungry VP (Vice); a sublimated Wife (The Wife); a racially discriminated against artist (Green Book). But Lady Gaga did not leave empty handed. Wearing a stunning lilac gown with a train and looking every bit the queen, she rightfully claimed the award for her song, Shallow.
BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
“Black Panther” - Review
“BlacKkKlansman” - Review WINNER: “Bohemian Rhapsody” - Review
“If Beale Street Could Talk”
“A Star Is Born” - Review
BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Bradley Cooper (“A Star Is Born”) - Review
Willem Dafoe (“At Eternity’s Gate”)
Lucas Hedges (“Boy Erased”) - Review WINNER: Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) - Review
John David Washington (“BlacKkKlansman”) - Review
BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
WINNER: Glenn Close (“The Wife”) - Review
Lady Gaga (“A Star Is Born”) - Review
Nicole Kidman (“Destroyer”)
Melissa McCarthy (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) - Review
Rosamund Pike (“A Private War”)
BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
“Crazy Rich Asians”- Review
“The Favourite” - Review WINNER: “Green Book” - Review
“Mary Poppins Returns” - Review
“Vice” - Review
BEST MOTION PICTURE - FOREIGN LANGUAGE
“Capernaum”
“Girl”
“Never Look Away” WINNER: “Roma”
“Shoplifters”
BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY WINNER: Christian Bale (“Vice” - Review
Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Mary Poppins Returns”) - Review
Viggo Mortensen (“Green Book”) - Review
Robert Redford (“The Old Man & the Gun”) - Review
John C. Reilly (“Stan & Ollie”)
BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE
Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”)
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (“The Favourite”) - Review
Barry Jenkins (“If Beale Street Could Talk”)
Adam McKay (“Vice”) - Review WINNER: Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie (“Green Book”) - Review
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE WINNER: Mahershala Ali (“Green Book”) - Review
Timothee Chalamet (“Beautiful Boy”)
Adam Driver (“BlacKkKlansman”) - Review
Richard E. Grant (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) - Review
Sam Rockwell (“Vice”) - Review
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE
Amy Adams (“Vice”) - Review
Claire Foy (“First Man”) - Review WINNER: Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”)M\
Emma Stone (“The Favourite”) - Review
Rachel Weisz (“The Favourite”) - Review
BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE
“All the Stars” (“Black Panther”) - Review
“Girl in the Movies” (“Dumplin’”)
“Requiem For a Private War” (“A Private War”)
“Revelation’ (“Boy Erased”) - Review WINNER: “Shallow” (“A Star Is Born”) - Review
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE
Marco Beltrami (“A Quiet Place”) - Review
Alexandre Desplat (“Isle of Dogs”) - Review
Ludwig Göransson (“Black Panther”) - Review WINNER: Justin Hurwitz (“First Man”) - Review
Marc Shaiman (“Mary Poppins Returns”) - Review