Surprise, Surprise! Olivia Colman beat frontrunners like Glenn Close (The Wife) and Lady Gaga (A Star is Born) to take away the Best Actress award. This is the first win for the British actress.
So it happened! Rami Malek gets his first Oscar win as he gets away with the Best Actor award For Bohemian Rhapsody at 91st Academy Awards. He attended the ceremony with his rumoured paramour and Bohemian Rhapsody co-star Lucy Boynton.
To presenter Samuel L Jackson's complete glee, his favourite director, Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman wins Best Adapted Screenplay at 91st Academy Awards. The award was shared by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Lee.
Green Book gets its second win of the night this time for Best Original Screenplay. Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie and Vallelonga's son, Nick Vallelonga took the award.
India Makes its Presence Felt as Period. End of Sentence Gets Best Documentary Short Subject At 91st Academy Awards. The documentary is based on a group of rural women in India fighting taboos against menstruation.
India Makes its Presence Felt as Period. End of Sentence Gets Best Documentary Short Subject At 91st Academy Awards. The documentary is based on a group of rural women in India fighting taboos against menstruation.
Sony's Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse Wins the Best Animated Feature at 91st Academy Awards. This was the first win for the whole directorial team involved.
Mahershala Gets His Second Oscar for His Performance in Green Book at 91st Academy Awards, He had earlier won the same award in 2017 for his incredible performance in Moonlight. He dedicated this award to his grandmother.
Bohemian Rhapsody Wins The Best Editing Award at 91st Academy Awards. John Ottman, who got the trophy, called the film 'a laboured love' and we can't help but agree with him.
Alfonso Cuaron takes another trophy, his second for the night. This time it is for the Best Foreign Language Film for Roma (Mexico). Netflix would be proud of this achievement.
Bohemian Rhapsody Wins The Best Sound Mixin Award at 91st Academy Awards. This is their second win after taking away the Sound Editing award. Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali have wins under their name for this category.
Bohemian Rhapsody Wins The Best Sound Editing Award at 91st Academy Awards. This is their first win of the night with John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone taking away the trophies.
The show also got a lot of flak for ignoring some very worthy choices of movies (read... First Man, Hereditary, First Reformed, Eighth Grade) and too for some very populist choices (Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, Black Panther). The Academy has also been criticised for being predictable when it comes to choosing the winners, mostly going by the media trend and not surprising the fans. So whose night it would be - Bohemian Rhapsody, Black Panther, Roma, Green Book, Vice, A Star is Born, BlacKkKlansman, or The Favourite.
Watch this space for more updates on this!
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