In honor of tonight's ceremony, here is the best Oscar acceptance speech ever:



RIP Stanley Donen

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BEST PICTURE

Black Panther (Kevin Feige, Producer)
BlacKkKlansman (Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Graham King, Producer)
The Favourite (Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers)
Roma (Gabriela Rodriguez and Alfonso Cuaron, Producers)
Green Book (Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers)
A Star Is Born (Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers)
Vice (Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers)


BEST DIRECTOR

Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
Adam McKay (Vice)
Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Favourite (Robbie Ryan)
Never Look Away (Caleb Deschanel)
Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
A Star Is Born (Matty Libatique)
Cold War (Lukasz Zal)


BEST ACTRESS

Yalitza Aparicio (Roma)
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)
Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)


BEST ACTOR

Christian Bale (Vice)
Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate)
Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams (Vice)
Marina de Tavira (Roma)
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Emma Stone (The Favourite)
Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mahershala Ali (Green Book)
Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)
Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born)
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Sam Rockwell (Vice)


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Favourite (Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
Green Book (Nick Vallelonga & Brian Hayes Currie & Peter Farrelly)
Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
Vice (Adam McKay)


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

A Star Is Born (Eric Roth, Will Fetters & Bradley Cooper)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
BlacKkKlansman (Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty)


BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Border (Goran Lundstrom and Pamela Goldammer)
Mary Queen of Scots (Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks)
Vice (Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney)


BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Mary Zophres)
Black Panther (Ruth E. Carter)
The Favourite (Sandy Powell)
Mary Poppins Returns (Sandy Powell)
Mary Queen of Scots (Alexandra Byrne)


BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"All the Stars" (Black Panther)
Music by Mark Spears, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Anthony Tiffith
Lyric by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Anthony Tiffith and Solana Rowe

"I'll Fight" (RBG)
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

"The Place Where Lost Things Go" (Mary Poppins Returns)
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyric by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman

"Shallow" (A Star Is Born)
Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt

"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)
Music and Lyric by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Black Panther (Ludwig Goransson)
BlacKkKlansman (Terence Blanchard)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Nicholas Britell)
Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat)
Mary Poppins Returns (Marc Shaiman)


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

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)


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

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)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller)


BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Capernaum (Lebanon)
Cold War (Poland)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)


BEST SOUND MIXING

Black Panther (Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali)
First Man (Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis)
Roma (Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and Jose Antonio Garcia)
A Star Is Born (Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow)


BEST SOUND EDITING

Black Panther (Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker)
Bohemian Rhapsody (John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone)
First Man (Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan)
A Quiet Place (Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl)
Roma (Sergio Diaz and Skip Lievsay)


BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Black Panther (Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart)
The Favourite (Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton)
First Man (Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas)
Mary Poppins Returns (John Myhre and Gordon Sim)
Roma (Eugenio Caballero and Barbara Enriquez)


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avengers: Infinity War (Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick)
Christopher Robin (Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould)
First Man (Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm)
Ready Player One (Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy)


BEST FILM EDITING

BlacKkKlansman (Barry Alexander Brown)
Bohemian Rhapsody (John Ottman)
The Favourite (Yorgos Mavropsaridis)
Green Book (Patrick J. Don Vito)
Vice (Hank Corwin)


BEST ANIMATED SHORT
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Who really give a ****?

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This is one sorry nominations list.

But on to the show!! I will be live-posting here, so follow along with me.

Wow, this is the first year I haven't seen a single BP nomination

I have seen 7 of the BP nominations. I haven't seen Vice yet.

Overall the field seems pretty weak. We have 6 movies based on real persons, 3 movies about musicians, one movie which is the third(!) remake and a comic book movie.

I think Roma (a Netflix production) is the overall favorite for best picture, director and cinematography.

Are you already hooked? Wait, there is more. It's in black and white. With subtitles. A movie for people who think the break-neck pace of Downton Abbey is too exhilarating. Oh, and film students who for years to come will write papers analyzing the significance of planes, cars and dogs in the movie.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie and if you have seen Gravity you know that director Alfonso Cuarón has a way with pictures. You just have to be aware what you are getting yourself into.

The cynic in me thinks Black Panther was only nominated because the Academy was criticized for not having enough popular movies and not enough black actors and filmmakers being nominated. Hey, two birds with one stone.
It's a good comic book movie. If you liked the other Marvel movies you will like this one but it isn't as good as say the Avengers movie. Best motion picture of the year is a bit of a stretch.

A Star is born is the above mentioned third remake. It should be disqualified on these grounds alone. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga deliver fine performances and deserve their best acting nominations imo.

BlacKKKlansman's nomination surprises me. It's an okay movie but Spike Lee appears to not know which direction he wanted to go. Is it a drama? Is it a comedy? Is it a crime movie? In the end you have a bunch of ingredients that don't compliment each other.

I really liked Bohemian Rhapsody. It certainly helps if you like Queen, at least their big hits.It might be my second favorite out of the bunch even though it's a bit shallow and unneccessarily takes liberties with historical accuracy. Rami Malek is my favorite for best actor.

The Favourite is a well acted period piece. I'd describe it as Amadeus meets The Duchess. If that sounds like something you are interested in then you will definitely enjoy The Favourite. Olivia Colman for best actress and Rachel Weisz for best supporting actress.

It's tough to pick a favourite but mine is probably Green Book. A compelling story, good acting, nice visuals. It retells the story of sophisticated African-American pianist Dr. Don Shirley touring the Deep South during the civil rights era with his streetwise Italian-American driver from the Bronx.
Just like Bohemian Rhapsody it takes serious liberties with historical accuracy, for example downplaying how dangerous the South really was for African-Americans during that time. It's also been justifiedly criticized for telling Dr.Shirley's story through the eyes of a white person. This is reflected in Viggo Mortensen being nominated as best actor, while Mahershala Ali is nominated in the supporting actors category.


Additionally, Richard E.Grant for best supporting actor (Can you ever forgive me?)

yaaaaaaawn

Black Panther lololololol, reeks of affirmative oscars.

Lol Lady Gaga

That too.

Worst year of film since probably 2012.

i haven't seen any of the films nominated but sam rockwell has been fantastic in every movie i've seen him in so i'm rooting for him to win best supporting actor

also, tim heidecker and gregg turkington are hosting their live On Cinema At The Cinema Oscar Special starting at 8pm on http://www.adultswim.com/streams/

it's guaranteed to be way better than the other live oscar special tonight

C'mon Dom, you can't just leave it as a plain list. Give us your thoughts on what you think is going to happen and what you think should happen.

Oscars? I agree.

I enjoyed the Favorite. I'm not really into period films, but there was enough dark humor that I got hooked.

All you Black Panther cynics and lollers, please note that it won the entire SAG awards, so take that!

I normally would, but there's only one film nominated for BP that I put on my best of the year list - The Favorite. And the best performance of the year wasn't even nominated - Ethan Hawke in First Reformed.

But I will say that Roma will most likely win BP and Cinematography. Close will win, and Malek will win.

some dude named Billie Porter is wearing one heck of a black dress

Would rather watch the Film Actors Guild awards

Been watching Oscar pre-show for about 20 mins now and they’ve had three separate interviews with people from Crazy Rich Asians which seems like a lot for a movie with zero nominations.

Racist ban

I see there is no host due some PC backlash on Kevin Hart - that could be a plus

if anyone wants to make any bets on best picture, i'd like to bet roma at -160 to win best picture, alternatively, green book not to win at -250. any amount is fine.

Free Solo - first upset

Free Solo was the favorite, but yeah, was a great win. Loved the **** out of that movie.

Free Solo was definitely NOT the favorite.

But it should have been.

swept away those hair & color winners. man that acceptance "speech" was a disgrace.

boom Black Panther ... Academy got a tough category right.