The 91st Academy Awards, popularly known as Oscar Awards, were conferred on February 24, 2019 (February 25 as per Indian time).
The 2019 Oscars ceremony had no host, no ‘Most Popular Film’ award, and no awards were given out during commercials. The Oscars opened with a performance by Queen and Adam Lambert with a powerful version of the group’s 1977 single “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions”.
'Bohemian Rhapsody', nominated for five Oscars, won the most Oscars at the award show. It bagged Oscars for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing and Best Actor. It is a biographical film about British rock band Queen's lead singer ‘Freddie Mercury’.
Here is the list of major winners:
| Award | Winner |
| Best Picture | Green Book |
| Best Actor | Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody |
| Best Actress | Olivia Colman, The Favourite |
| Best Director | Alfonso Cuaron, Roma |
| Best Supporting Actor | Mahershala Ali, Green Book |
| Best Supporting Actress | Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk |
| Best Animated Feature Film | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Roma (Mexico; Alfonso Cuaron) |
| Best Documentary – Feature | Free Solo |
| Best Animated Short Film | Bao |
| Best Documentary – Short Subject | Period. End Of Sentence |
| Best Live Action Short Film | Skin |
| Best Film Editing | Bohemian Rhapsody |
| Best Sound Editing | Bohemian Rhapsody |
| Best Sound Mixing | Bohemian Rhapsody |
| Best Production Design | Black Panther |
| Best Costume Design | Black Panther, Ruth Carter |
| Best Visual Effects | First Man |
| Best Cinematography | Roma, Alfonso Cuaron |
| Best Original Score | Black Panther, Ludwig Goransson |
| Best Original Song | Shallow, A Star is born (Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt) |
| Best Original Screenplay | Green Book |
India-based ‘Period. End Of Sentence’ won Best Short Documentary Oscar
The ‘Period. End Of Sentence’, a film on menstruation set in rural India, won the Oscar in the Documentary - Short Subject category at the 91st Academy Awards.
The film has been directed by Rayka Zehtabchi and produced by Indian producer Guneet Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment. The film came into being as a part of ‘The Pad Project’, started by students at the Oakwood School in Los Angeles and their teacher Melissa Berton.
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