The day after the day after ... the 2019 Oscars

2/26/2019

The day after the day after ... the 2019 Oscars

The 91st Academy Awards are over, and what a night. Adam Lambert and Queen opened with a rock performance followed by comedic trio Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey and Amy Pohler, who cracked a few jokes about not being hosts.
The hostless part of the event, - the first time it has happened since some time in the 1980s, - turned out fine, as presenters, orchestra and announcers made the evening flow seamlessly, (and who doesn't remember the many duds in the hosting department of just the last decade? (Neil Patrick Harris, James Franco/Anne Hathaway, Seth McFarlane ...))
The night's biggest moment was undoubtedly Olivia Colman's surprise win for Best Actress, - winning over long due favorite Glenn Close, - and particularly Colman's hilarious, absolutely flabbergasted acceptance speech, (check it out on Youtube if you didn't see the awards.) Other great moments include Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's duet performance of Shallow from A Star Is Born, the song's win and Lady Gaga's emotional speech, Regina King's emotional acceptance speech, and Spike Lee finally receiving an Oscar, for co-writing BlacKkKlansman. - Although he was still able to sour to the academy and show a remarkable lack of tact and grace at protesting Green Book's Best Picture win over his own film. - Not every moment is about you, Lee!
Bohemian Rhapsody made most gold with 4 Oscars; Green Book, Black Panther and Roma followed with 3 each.

My predictions proved unimpressive this year, as I had only 11/21 correct (52 %), (I don't predict in the 3 short film categories), which is down from 14 last year. Here is my record in this field: 2014 (7 correct/33 % - worst prediction), 2015 (13 correct/62 %), 2016 (16 correct/76 % - best prediction), 2017 (11 correct/52 %) and 2018 (14 correct/66 %).
Here is how the awards fell out:

Red marks the film or performer/s that I predicted would win the Oscar, while Film Excess favorite marks my personal favorite in each category. Winner marks the actual winner/s of the Oscar.

Best Visual Effects:
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man Film Excess favorite Winner
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story

Best Film Editing:
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody Winner
The Favourite
Green Book Film Excess favorite
Vice

Bost Costume Design
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther Winner
The Favourite Film Excess favorite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Vice Film Excess favorite Winner

Best Cinematography
Cold War - Lukasz Zal Film Excess favorite
The Favourite - Robbie Ryan
Never Look Away - Caleb Deschanel
Roma - Alfonso Cuarón Winner
A Star Is Born - Matthew Libatique

Best Production Design
Black Panther Winner
The Favourite
First Man Film Excess favorite
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma

Best Sound Mixing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody Winner
First Man
Roma
A Star Is Born Film Excess favorite

Best Sound Editing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody Winner
First Man
A Quiet Place Film Excess favorite
Roma

Best Original Song
All the Stars - Black Panther
I'll Fight - RBG
The Place Where Lost Things Go - Marry Poppins Returns
Shallow - A Star Is Born Film Excess favorite Winner
When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Best Original Score
Black Panther - Ludwig Göransson Winner
BlacKkKlansman - Terence Blanchard
If Beale Street Could Talk - Nicholas Britell Film Excess favorite
Isle of Dogs - Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns - Marc Shaiman

Best Documentary - Feature
Free Solo Film Excess favorite Winner
Hale Country
This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG

Best Foreign Language Film
Capernaum (Lebanon) - Ladine Labaki Film Excess favorite
Cold War (Poland) - Pawel Pawlikowski
Never Look Away (Germany) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Roma (Mexico) - Alfonso Cuarón Winner
Shoplifters (Japan) - Hirokazu Kore-eda

Best Animated Feature Film
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Film Excess favorite Winner

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

Best Original Screenplay
The Favourite - Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
First Reformed - Paul Shrader Film Excess favorite
Green Book - Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly Winner
Roma - Alfonso Cuarón
Vice - Adam McKay

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams - Vice Film Excess favorite
Marina de Tavira - Roma
Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk Winner
Emma Stone - The Favourite
Rachel Weisz - The Favourite

Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali - Green Book Film Excess favorite Winner
Adam Driver - BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott - A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell - Vice

Best Actress
Yalitza Aparicio - Roma
Glenn Close - The Wife
Olivia Colman - The Favourite Film Excess favorite Winner
Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarty - Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Actor
Christian Bale - Vice
Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born Film Excess favorite
Willem Dafoe - At Eternity's Gate
Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody Winner
Viggo Mortensen - Green Book

Best Director
Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman Film Excess favorite
Pawel Pawlikowski - Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma Winner
Adam McKay - Vice

Best Picture
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book Winner
Roma
A Star Is Born Film Excess favorite
Vice

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William Friedkin has died

Born in Chicago, Friedkin accrued TV credits prior to his advance to the big screen as the director of Good TImes (1967), The Birthday Party (1968), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and The Boys in the Band (1970) before his major breakthrough, The French Connection (1971), for which he won his only Oscar. He followed it up with the even bigger smash, The Exorcist (1973), arguably the best horror film of all time, for which he was Oscar-nominated. Later credits include Sorcerer (1977), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Rampage (1987), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011) and The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, documentary). Friedkin passed away at age 87. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Jean-Luc Godard has passed away

Born in Paris, France, Godard lived much of his life in Switzerland. He wrote for French film criticism magazine Cahiers du Cinema and became foundational for the New French Wave that inspired new waves in scores of other countries across the world with his Breathless (1960). Later credits include A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Every Man for Himself (1980), King Lear (1987), Century of Cinema (1995, documentary), Goodbye to Language (2014) and many more. Godard died of assisted suicide at age 91. R.I.P.

Wolfgang Petersen has died

James Caan has died

Caan was born the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany in New York. He got his start on TV in the early 1960s. His credits include El Dorado (1966), The Rain People (1969), Brian's Song (1971, TV movie), The Godfather (1972), - for which he earned his only Oscar nomination, - Slither (1973), The Gambler (1974), Funny Lady (1975), Rollerball (1975), Silent Movie (1976), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), - the only film he also directed, - Thief (1981), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Bottle Rocket (1996), Eraser (1996), Dogville (2003), Elf (2003), Las Vegas (2003-07), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and many more. Caan passed away at age 82. R.I.P.

Jean-Louis Trintignant has died

Born in Vaucluse, France, Trintignant's theatrical debut as an actor was in If All the Guys in the World... (1955). Later credits include ...And God Created Woman (1956), The Seven Deadly Sins (1961), Inferno (1964), A Man and A Woman (1966), My Love, My Love (1967), A Man to Kill (1967), The Great Silence (1968), Z (1969), The Assassination (1972), Three Colors: Red (1994), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017) and many more. He also wrote and directed two films in the 1970s. Trintignant passed away at age 91. R.I.P.

Ray Liotta has died

Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

Born in Ohio, Hall didn't start acting until he was 30. His long list of credits include Zabriskie Point (1970), Miami Vice (1987, TV-series), Midnight Run (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Cheers (1993, TV-series), Hard Eight (1996), The Rock (1996), Air Force One (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Seinfeld (1991-98), Rush Hour (1998), The Insider (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), The Zodiac (2005), Zodiac (2007), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004-09), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Modern Family (2011-12) and many more. Hall passed away at age 90. R.I.P.

William Hurt has passed away

Born in Washington D.C., Hurt's first film role was the lead in Altered States (1980). Later credits include Body Heat (1981), The Big Chill (1983), Gorky Park (1983), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), for which he earned his only Oscar as Best Actor; Chilrdren of a Lesser God (1986), for which he was also Oscar-nominated; Broadcast News (1987), for which he was again Oscar-nominated; Smoke (1995), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), A History of Violence (2005), for which he was again Oscar-nominated; The Good Shepherd (2006), Into the Wild (2007), Robin Hood (2010) and many more. Hurt passed away at age 71. R.I.P.

Ivan Reitman has passed away

Born in Chechoslovakia, now Slovakia, Reitman's family fled the Soviet regime to Austria, then Toronto, when he was 4 years old. Reitman broke into movies as a director with Foxy Lady (1971). Later credits include Cannibal Girls (1973), Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Junior (1994), Father's Day (1997), Evolution (1998), No Strings Attached (2011), Draft Day (2014) and more. Reitman's son Jason Reitman is also a great filmmaker. Reitman passed away at age 75. R.I.P.

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