Music Movies Lead Oscars Tonight
By JOHN DALY
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“A Star Is Born” is nominated for eight Academy Awards and “Bohemian Rhapsody” has a chance for five statuettes to represent music-themed movies at this year’s Academy Awards. The Lady Gaga-Bradley Cooper picture and the Rami Malek movie are also in contention for Best Picture.
“The Favourite” and “Roma” lead all nominations with 10 each, including bids for Best Picture along with “BlacKkKlansman,” “Black Panther,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Green Book,” “A Star Is Born” and “Vice.”
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“A Star is Born” was nominated for Best Picture, and secured Best Actress and Best Actor nods for Gaga and Cooper; a Best Supporting Actor bid for Sam Elliott; Best Adapted Screenplay for Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters and Eric Roth; Best Original Song for “Shallow;” Best Cinematography (Matty Libatique) and Best Sound Mixing. Producers on “A Star Is Born” are Billy Gerber, Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor.
Gaga set a new mark: She’s the first person to be nominated for Best Actress and Best Original Song (for “Shallow”) in the same year. Also, since Cooper performs the song with Gaga in the film, he is the first person to receive both a Best Actor and Best Original Song nomination in the same year.
“Bohemian Rhapsody” earned nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor for Rami Malek, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing.
“The greatest honor from playing someone like Freddie Mercury is getting the acceptance of legendary bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor,” Malek told Jimmy Kimmel last September. “Oscar’s big, there’s no doubt about it.”
“A Star Is Born” also received a Best Original Song nomination for Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt, as performed by Gaga and Cooper.
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Best Original Song Nominees
Also nominated in the Best Original Song category were “All the Stars” for “Black Panther,” written by Kendrick Lamar, Al Shux, Sounwave, SZA and Anthony Tiffith as performed by Kendrick Lamar and SZA; “I’ll Fight” for “R.B.G.,” written by Diane Warren as performed by Jennifer Hudson; “The Place Where Lost Things Go” for “Mary Poppins Returns,” written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman as performed by Emily Blunt; and “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” for “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” written by Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch as performed by Tim Blake Nelson and Willie Watson.
For Best Original Score nominees are “Black Panther” (Ludwig Goransson), “BlacKkKlansman” (Terence Blanchard), “If Beale Street Could Talk” (Nicholas Britell), “Isle of Dogs” (Alexandre Desplat) and “Mary Poppins Returns” (Marc Shaiman).
The Complete List of 2019 Academy Award Nominees:
Best Picture
“Black Panther”
“A Star Is Born”
“Roma”
“The Favourite”
“Vice”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“Green Book”
“BlacKkKlansman”
Best Actress
Glenn Close, “The Wife”
Lady Gaga, “A Star Is Born”
Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma”
Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”
Melissa McCarthy, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Best Actor
Christian Bale, “Vice”
Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born”
Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book”
Willem Dafoe, “At Eternity’s Gate”
Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
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 Director
Spike Lee, “BlacKkKlansman”
Pawel Pawlikowski, “Cold War”
Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Favourite”
Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma”
Adam McKay, “Vice”
Best Original Screenplay
“First Reformed”
“Green Book”
“Roma”
“The Favourite”
“Vice”
Best Adapted Screenplay
“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
“If Beale Street Could Talk”
“A Star Is Born”
Best Cinematography
“Cold War”
“The Favourite”
“Never Look Away”
“Roma”
“A Star Is Born”
Best Animated Film
“Incredibles 2”
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
“Mirai”
“Ralph Breaks the Internet”
“Isle Of Dogs”
Best Animated Short Film
“Animal Behaviour”
“Bao”
“Late Afternoon”
“One Small Step”
“Weekends”
Best Live Action Short Film
“Detainment”
“Fauve”
“Marguerite”
“Mother”
“Skin”
Best Foreign Language Film
“Capernaum”
“Cold War”
“Never Look Away”
“Roma”
“Shoplifters”
Best Documentary Feature
“Free Solo”
“Minding The Gap”
“Of Fathers and Sons”
“RBG”
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
Best Documentary Short Subject
“Black Sheep”
“End Game”
“Lifeboat”
“A Night at the Garden”
“Period. End of Sentence.”
Best Production Design
“Black Panther”
“First Man”
“The Favourite”
“Mary Poppins Returns”
“Roma”
Best Film Editing
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“Green Book”
“The Favourite”
“Vice”
Best Sound Editing
“A Quiet Place”
“Black Panther”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“First Man”
“Roma”
Best Sound Mixing
“Black Panther”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“First Man”
“Roma”
“A Star Is Born”
Best Original Score
“Black Panther”
“BlacKkKlansman”
“If Beale Street Could Talk”
“Isle of Dogs”
“Mary Poppins Returns”
Best Original Song
“All The Stars” ― “Black Panther”
“I’ll Fight” ― “RBG”
“Shallow” ― “A Star Is Born”
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” ― “Mary Poppins Returns”
“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” ― “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
Best Costume Design
“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
“Black Panther”
“The Favourite”
“Mary Poppins Returns”
“Mary Queen of Scots”
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“Border”
“Mary Queen of Scots”
“Vice”
Best Visual Effects
“Avengers: Infinity War”
“Christopher Robin”
“First Man”
“Ready Player One”
“Solo: A Star Wars Story”