Oscars 2019: an examination | Entertainment News, The Indian Express

While #MeToo's cloud of movement and badual misconduct charges hovered over the 2018 Oscars, the 2019 Oscars were also preceded by a number of controversies, most of which had been announced by the Academy. various decisions and return immediately to the least outcry.

First, it was the category of the best popular film, which many thought had been created so that the Academy would not be obliged to give the best image to Black Panther. After the kickback, the response from the Academy was fast and the category was removed. Then, the alleged host Kevin Hart was criticized when his previous homophobic comments came to light. Hart chose to retire before the Academy could make a decision about it. The Oscars had not had a presenter this year, probably because no one wanted to be controlled for their past actions or their posts on social networks.

Be that as it may, the 2019 Oscars ceremony began with Regina King, which is not surprising, winning the award for best actress in a supporting role. for his performance in Si Beale Street could talk about Barry Jenkins. Inspired by James Baldwin's eponymous novel, the film is a love story taking place in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.

2019 Oscars LIVE UPDATES: Green Book Wins Best Film Award

Best Oscar Winner 2019, Best Film, Won the Biography of the Time of the Great Depression , Green Book. And it was also the biggest surprise of the night. None of the controversies – whether related to Nick Vallelonga's alleged anti-Muslim tweet in 2015 or Viggo Mortensen's N wording, for which he apologized later – has affected the pre-Oscar film award season. 19659009] Mahershala Ali wins the second prize of his career in Green Book, also in the Best Supporting Actress category. Ali won the same trophy in 2017 for his performance in Moonlight by Barry Jenkins.

The best actor award goes to Rami Malek for his performance as singer of Queen Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. The film was in the throes of controversy after "unexpected unavailability" of director Bryan Singer on the film set. Something tells us that it could (also) have something to do with the allegations of badual abuse against him, the allegations that followed the film long after his relationship with the film broke down. Despite mixed reviews, the film has become a commercial success and is the most profitable biographical film in the history of cinema. And today, he has also won four Oscars. Bohemian Rhapsody also won the trophies for best sound editing, best sound mixing and best cinematic editing.

Olivia Colman won the Best Actress Award for her work in The Favorite. She played the role of British Queen Anne of the 18th century in the film. Colman gave the character a sulky and childish character who finds solace in his pet rabbits and in his confidante, Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) with whom she has had bad – unbeknownst to everyone. It is interesting to note that Colman will play another monarch in Netflix's The Crown Season 3 – Queen Elizabeth II in office.

List of Oscars Winners 2019

Five nominations and an "Academy of Honorary" later, Spike Lee finally won an Oscar for BlackKklansman, albeit in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. BlackKklansman was a true story of an African-American police officer who managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan unit in Colorado Springs with the help of a white colleague. Lee gave the film a modern relevance by linking the events of the 1970s between the Klan and Donald Trump's contemporary American events

Lady Gaga won the first Oscar of his career – in the Best Original Song category for "Shallow" from the movie A Star is Born. A tearful Gaga told the audience: "It's a tough job. I have worked hard for a long time. It's not about winning, it's about giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it. Pbadion is a discipline, and there is no question of how many times we are rejected, we fall or get beaten up. That's about how many times you're up, brave and go on.

Free Solo won the Best Documentary Feature Award. This famous 96-minute film tells the story of mountaineer Alex Honnold conducting a free solo climb of the El Capitan rock formation of Yosemite National Park.

Adam McKay's political vice-satire won the Best Makeup and Hairstyle Award. No surprises here. Christian Bale, known for his radical physical transformations, played the role of Dick Cheney, the Machiavellian vice president of the United States, who allegedly ruled the country under the Bush regime and made decisions regarding the invasion of the United States. Iraq and the war on terror. Bale received a thick makeup to give his head the bald and round look of Cheney. Others like Amy Adams (Cheney's wife, Lynne Vincent Cheney), Steve Carell (Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld) and Sam Rockwell (George W Bush) have also undergone similar changes.

In Black Panther, a Marvel film that takes place in A fictional African nation called Wakanda, the characters were as comfortable with modernity and new technologies as with centuries-old traditions and rituals . The costumes in this film represent that and the film wins the Best Costume Award. Black Panther is the first Marvel Cinematic Universe award-winning film. Black Panther also won the Best Production and Best Original Music categories.

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Alfonso Cuaron won Best Director and Best Photography for Roma. The movie Netflix, which dominated the awards season, had won the coveted Golden Lion at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, making it a hope for an Oscar. The film, shot in the 1970s, spoke of the domestic help of a middle-clbad family from Mexico City. It was the first time that Cuaron was shooting an entire movie himself. Roma also won the Best Foreign Language Film Award. This victory put an end to his chances of winning the trophy for best film.

Spider-Man: Towards the Spider-Verse won the award for best animated film. Has anyone really had any doubts about this? A psychedelic anthem to Spider-Man and everything about comics, this film had a love and hard work behind it, and the caliber of the team showed every image of the final product. The only problem we can have with Spider-Verse, as one friend has said, is knowing how to pay attention to stunning visuals, phenomenal history, flamboyant storyline. or the amazing soundtrack. Best animation film of 2018? It was the best superhero movie of the year, period.

End of Sentence., A movie about the taboo surrounding menstruation in India, won the Best Short Documentary Award. The film was produced by Guneet Monga, also originally from films like The Lunchbox and Masaan.

The trophy for the best visual effect was won by First Man. The film, starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, is based on NASA's first manned lunar mission and was praised for its faithful rendering of the moon's surface. It's a huge win for First Man, considering movies like Avengers: Infinity War and Ready Player One

BlackKklansman and Green Book respectively won the Best Original and Best Adapted Screenplay trophies.