The 91st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2018 and took place on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and was produced by Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, with Weiss also serving as director. This was the first telecast to have no host since the 61st ceremony held in 1989.
In related events, the Academy held its 10th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center on November 18, 2018. The Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host David Oyelowo on February 9, 2019, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Green Book won three awards, including Best Picture. Bohemian Rhapsody won the most awards of the night, with four awards. Black Panther and Roma won three awards, and Bao, BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, First Man, Free Solo, If Beale Street Could Talk, Period. End of Sentence., Skin, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Star Is Born, and Vice each won one. The telecast garnered 29.56 million viewers in the United States.
Green Book - Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga (Universal Pictures)
Black Panther - Kevin Feige (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
BlacKkKlansman - Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee (Focus Features)
Bohemian Rhapsody - Graham King (20th Century Fox)
The Favourite - Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Roma - Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón (Netflix)
A Star Is Born - Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Vice - Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick (Annapurna Pictures)
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma
Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman
Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite
Adam McKay - Vice
Best Actor
Best Actress
Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury
Christian Bale - Vice as Dick Cheney
Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born as Jackson "Jack" Maine
Willem Dafoe - At Eternity's Gate as Vincent van Gogh
Viggo Mortensen - Green Book as Tony Vallelonga
Olivia Colman - The Favourite as Queen Anne
Yalitza Aparicio - Roma as Cleodegaria "Cleo" Gutierrez
Glenn Close - The Wife as Joan Castleman
Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born as Ally Maine
Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Mahershala Ali - Green Book as Don Shirley
Adam Driver - BlacKkKlansman as Philip "Flip" Zimmerman
Sam Elliott - A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine
Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock
Sam Rockwell - Vice as George W. Bush
Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers
Amy Adams - Vice as Lynne Cheney
Marina de Tavira - Roma as Sofía
Emma Stone - The Favourite as Abigail Masham
Rachel Weisz - The Favourite as Sarah Churchill
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly - Green Book
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara - The Favourite
Paul Schrader - First Reformed
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma
Adam McKay - Vice
Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman (based on the book Black Klansman by Rom Stallworth)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ("All Gold Canyon" based on a story by Jack London; "The Gal Who Got Rattled" inspired by a story by Stewart Edward White)
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (based on the memoir by Lee Israel)
Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk (based on the book by James Baldwin)
Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters - A Star Is Born (based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and the 1976 screenplay by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne and Frank Pierson; based on a story by Robert Carson and William A. Wellman)
Best Animated Feature
Best Foreign Language Film
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Incredibles 2 - Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle
Isle of Dogs - Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson
Mirai - Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito
Ralph Breaks the Internet - Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer
Roma - Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico)
Capernaum - Nadine Labaki (Lebanon)
Cold War - Paweł Pawlikowski (Poland)
Never Look Awat - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Germany)
Shoplifters - Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)
Best Documentary Feature Film
Best Documentary Short Subject
Free Solo - Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill
Hale County This Morning, This Evening - RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim
Minding the Gap - Bing Liu and Diane Quon
Of Fathers and Sons - Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert
RBG - Betsy West and Julie Cohen
Period. End of Sentence. - Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton
Black Sheep - Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn
End Game - Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Lifeboat - Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser
A Night at the Garden - Marshall Curry
Best Live Action Short Film
Best Animated Short Film
Skin - Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman
Detainment - Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon
Fauve - Jérémy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon
Marguerite - Marianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset
Mother - Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado
Bao - Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb
Animal Behaviour - Alison Snowden and David Fine
Late Afternoon - Louise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco
One Small Step - Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas
Weekends - Trevor Jimenez
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Ludwig Göransson - Black Panther
Terence Blanchard - BlacKkKlansman
Nicholas Britell - If Beale Street Could Talk
Alexandre Desplat - Isle of Dogs
Marc Shaiman - Mary Poppins Returns
"Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born
"All the Stars" by Kendrick Lamar and SZA - Black Panther
"I'll Fight" by Jennifer Hudson - RBG
"The Place Where Lost Things Go" by Emily Blunt, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh and Joel Dawson - Mary Poppins Returns
"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" by Tim Blake Nelson and Willie Watson - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone - Bohemian Rhapsody
Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker - Black Panther
Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan - First Man
Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl - A Quiet Place
Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay - Roma
Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali - Bohemian Rhapsody
Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter J. Devlin - Black Panther
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis - First Man
Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García - Roma
Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow - A Star Is Born
Best Production Design
Best Cinematography
Hannah Beachler (production designer) and Jay Hart (set decorator) - Black Panther
Fiona Crombie (production designer) and Alice Felton (set decorator) - The Favourite
Nathan Crowley (production designer) and Kathy Lucas (set decorator) - First Man
John Myhre (production designer) and Gordon Sim (set decorator) - Mary Poppins Returns
Eugenio Caballero (production designer) and Bárbara Enríquez (set decorator) - Roma
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma
Łukasz Żal - Cold War
Robbie Ryan - The Favourite
Caleb Deschanel - Never Look Away
Matthew Libatique - A Star Is Born
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Costume Design
Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney - Vice
Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer - Border
Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks - Mary Queen of Scots
Ruth E. Carter - Black Panther
Mary Zophres - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Sandy Powell - The Favourite
Sandy Powell - Mary Poppins Returns
Alexandra Byrne - Mary Queen of Scots
Best Film Editing
Best Visual Effects
John Ottman - Bohemian Rhapsody
Barry Alexander Brown - BlacKkKlansman
Yorgos Mavropsaridis - The Favourite
Patrick J. Don Vito - Green Book
Hank Corwin - Vice
Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm - First Man
Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick - Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould - Christopher Robin
Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk - Ready Player One
Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy - Solo: A Star Wars Story
Presenters[]
Randy Thomas - announcer
Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph - Best Supporting Actress presenters
Helen Mirren and Jason Momoa - Best Documentary Feature presenters
Tom Morello - presented Best Picture nominee Vice
Elsie Fisher and Stephan James- Best Makeup and Hairstyling presenters
Brian Tyree Henry and Melissa McCarthy- Best Costume Design presenters
Chris Evans and Jennifer Lopez - Best Production Design presenters
TylerPerry- Best Cinematography presenter
Emilia Clarke- introduced the performance of "I'll Fight"
Serena Williams- presented Best Picture nominee A Star Is Born
Danai Gurira and James McAvoy- Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing presenters
Queen Latifah- presented Best Picture nominee The Favourite
Javier Bardem and Angela Bassett- Best Foreign Language Film presenters
Keegan-Michael Key- introduced the performance of "The Place Where Lost Things Go"
Trevor Noah - presented Best Picture nominee Black Panther
MichaelKeaton- Best Film Editing presenter
Daniel Craig and Charlize Theron - Best Supporting Actor presenters
Laura Dern- presented a segment highlighting progress on construction of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Pharrell Williams and Michelle Yeoh - Best Animated Feature Film presenters
Kacey Musgraves - introduced the performance of "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings"
Dana Carvey and Mike Myers - introduced Best Picture nominee Bohemian Rhapsody
Awkwafina and John Mulaney - Best Animated Short Film and Best Documentary Short Subject presenters
José Andrés and Diego Luna- presented Best Picture nominee Roma
Sarah Paulson and Paul Rudd - Best Visual Effects presenters
KiKi Layne and Krysten Ritter - Best Live Action Short Film presenters
Samuel L. Jackson and Brie Larson- Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay presenters
Michael B. Jordan and Tessa Thompson - Best Original Score presenters
Chadwick Boseman and Constance Wu - Best Original Song presenters
John Bailey (President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) - presented the "In Memoriam" tribute
Barbra Streisand - presented Best Picture nominee BlacKkKlansman
Allison Janney and Gary Oldman- Best Actor presenters
John Lewis and Amandla Stenberg - presented Best Picture nominee Green Book
Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell - Best Actress presenters