Academy Awards 2019 live updates and winner’s list!

By Alexandra Heilbron on February 24, 2019 | 7 Comments

The 91st Academy Awards are finally here! We’ll be updating over the course of the evening as the winners are announced and a full list will be available as soon as the ceremony comes to an end.

Make sure to download our Oscars 2019 score sheet to keep track of all of the winners!

The show opened with Queen and Adam Lambert performing “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions,” which had the celebrities in the audience singing along and bobbing their heads.

The audience was then treated to an array of video clips from all the movies nominated in all categories. The first presenters were Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph, who clarified that there would be no host… and Mexico was not paying for the wall.

They gave a brief demo as to what things would be like if they had been hosts. Maya asked, “Hey Chadwick Boseman, Wakanda plans do you have this evening?” and did a quick imitation of Lady Gaga singing a song from A Star is Born. They then presented the award for Best Supporting Actress, which went to Regina King for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk.

The Oscar for Best Supporting Actor went to Mahershala Ali for Green Book, his second Academy Award. His first was for Moonlight in 2017. Green Book also won in the Best Original Screenplay category.

Spike Lee leapt into presenter Samuel L. Jackson’s arms when he went onstage to accept the award for Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansmen.

Black Panther, which received seven nominations in total, won its first award of the evening for Best Costume Design. The film had its second win just moments later for Best Production Design, presented by Chris Evans and Jennifer Lopez, who wore the most sparkly gown of the evening. It won its third award of the evening for Best Original Score.

Alfonso Cuarón accepted the award for Cinematography for Roma from presenter Tyler Perry, who was looking dapper in all black. Not surprisingly, Roma, which was also nominated for Best Picture, won its second Oscar of the evening for Best Foreign Language Film. Cuarón went on to win Best Director, the fourth Oscar of his career and his second for directing.

Bohemian Rhapsody, nominated in five categories, won its first three awards of the night, for Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Film Editing. It went on to win its fourth out of five when Rami Malek was announced as the Best Actor for his role as Freddie Mercury in the film. During his speech, he said, “I may not have been the obvious choice, but I guess it worked out.” He also told his co-star, Lucy Boynton, who sat beside him at the ceremony and to whom he gave a big smooch before going up on stage to accept the award, “You have captured my heart.”

Following a clip from the 1992 movie Wayne’s World in which Wayne and Garth rock out in a car to Queen, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey came onstage as their characters from the film to present scenes from the Best Picture nominee Bohemian Rhapsody.

The Oscar for Animated Short Film went to Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb for Bao. Click here to watch our video interview with director Domee Shi.

Jennifer Hudson showed off her amazing vocals and stage presence as she performed “I’ll Fight” from the Best Documentary Feature nominee RBG, while Bette Midler, a.k.a. “The Divine Miss M,” sang “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings performed their song “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from the The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

The musical highlight of the evening was when, out of the blue, we heard the opening notes of the nominated song “Shallow” from A Star is Born and Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga walked hand in hand out of the audience and up onto the stage. Bradley serenaded Gaga, who sat down at a grand piano for her part in the song. For the final verse, Bradley joined Gaga on the piano bench and they sang with their heads together into one microphone in what was a truly touching moment. Scroll to the very bottom to watch the video.

“Shallow” went on to win Best Song and Lady Gaga gave an emotional, tearful speech in which she encouraged people not to feel defeated when they get knocked down, but just to get back up and keep going.

The Favourite, which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, finally won its first Oscar when Olivia Colman was named the winner of the Best Actress Award. She looked genuinely surprised when her name was announced, possibly because Glenn Close had been the frontrunner for her role in The Wife. Olivia’s speech was hands down the most hilarious of the evening and received a standing ovation.

The award for Best Animated Feature Film went to the popular box office hit, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

First Man, which was nominated for four awards, won its only award of the evening for Visual Effects.

Laura Dern had exciting news as she announced that an Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was being built in Los Angeles.

Julia Roberts is just about to announce the winner of the Best Picture award — and the winner is Green Book! This is the third award of the evening for the film. Director Peter Farrelly gave a special shout out to star Viggo Mortensen, saying he was crucial in the movie getting made. Mortensen had been nominated in the Actor in a Leading Role category, his third nomination in that category in his career.

Check out the full list of winners/nominees below.

BEST PICTURE
WINNER: Green Book
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Roma
A Star Is Born
Vice

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
WINNER: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
WINNER: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
WINNER: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Amy Adams, Vice
Marina de Tavira, Roma
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
WINNER: Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me
Sam Rockwell, Vice

DIRECTOR
WINNER: Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Adam McKay, Vice

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WINNER: Roma
Capernaum
Cold War
Never Look Away
Shoplifters

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT)
WINNER: Period. End of Sentence.
Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
WINNER: Free Solo
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG

ORIGINAL SONG
WINNER: “Shallow” – A Star Is Born
“All The Stars” – Black Panther
“I’ll Fight” – RBG
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” – Mary Poppins Returns
“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
WINNER: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER: BlacKkKlansman
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Green Book
First Reformed
Roma
The Favourite
Vice

PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: Black Panther
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma

CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: Roma
Cold War
The Favourite
Never Look Away
A Star Is Born

COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: Black Panther
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots

SOUND EDITING
WINNER: Bohemian Rhapsody
A Quiet Place
Black Panther
First Man
Roma

SOUND MIXING
WINNER: Bohemian Rhapsody
Black Panther
First Man
Roma
A Star Is Born

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
WINNER: Bao
Animal Behaviour
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
WINNER: Skin
Detainment
Fauve
Marguerite
Mother

ORIGINAL SCORE
WINNER: Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns

VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: First Man
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story

FILM EDITING
WINNER: Bohemian Rhapsody
BlacKkKlansman
Green Book
The Favourite
Vice

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
WINNER: Vice
Border
Mary Queen of Scots

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1. Brian Stewart • February 24, 2019 @ 9:50 PM

   Surprise the Favorite hasn’t picked up anything yet – great to see Bohemian Rhapsody winning looking forward to Cooper and Gaga performing !

2. monique • February 24, 2019 @ 10:12 PM

   Loved the fashion and jewels. Charlise snake necklace, Brie Larson, Amy Adams.
   Didn’t love Glenn Close odd star wars cape outfit

3. movie ralph • February 24, 2019 @ 10:27 PM

   Finally some super hero winners. Academy doesn’t usually vote for those.

4. mandy • February 24, 2019 @ 10:29 PM

   Yaaa! Gaga won!!!
   High five!!!
   It really was best song. Why isn’t Brad Cooper also on it? Didn’t he sing too?

5. Serena • February 24, 2019 @ 11:14 PM

   Loved Shallow by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper! Best moment of the night!

6. Patricia • February 24, 2019 @ 11:35 PM

   Happy for Rami, but sad for Viggo, he should have won an Oscar by now. Everyone in the best actor category deserved to win, tough year!

7. Snepts • February 26, 2019 @ 11:10 AM

   Ugh, Gaga…

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