Black Panther claimed three Oscars at tonight’s 91st Academy Awards ceremony, for Production Design, Original Score, and Costume Design. First Man took the Visual Effects category. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was named the Best Animated Feature.
The complete list of winners follows:
Best Picture
- Green Book
Lead Actor
- Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Lead Actress
- Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Supporting Actor
- Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Supporting Actress
- Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Director
- Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Animated Feature
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
Animated Short
- Bao, Domee Shi
Adapted Screenplay
- BlacKkKlansman, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee
Original Screenplay
- Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
Cinematography
- Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Best Documentary Feature
- Free Solo, Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Best Documentary Short Subject
- Period. End of Sentence., Rayka Zehtabchi
Best Live Action Short Film
- Skin, Guy Nattiv
Best Foreign Language Film
- Roma (Mexico)
Film Editing
- Bohemian Rhapsody, John Ottman
Sound Editing
- Bohemian Rhapsody, John Warhurst
Sound Mixing
- Bohemian Rhapsody
Production Design
- Black Panther, Hannah Beachler
Original Score
- Black Panther, Ludwig Goransson
Original Song
- “Shallow” from A Star Is Born by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice
Makeup and Hair
- Vice
Costume Design
- Black Panther, Ruth E. Carter
Visual Effects
- First Man
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I’ll just note that for the Best Picture voting a preferential ballot is used.
I find it funny that in 2019 a movie wins besf vfx Oscar for showing the moon landing, when only recently I was arguing with a friend who claimed the real moon landings were actually faked with CGI all that time ago.
What CGI in 1969 would have looked like:
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“THAT’S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN….”
Actually … NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landing. But being a perfectionist he filmed it on location.
Plus apparently the catering was cheaper that way:
@Cliff: have the hoax partisans caught up with reality enough to claim CGI? When they first crawled out of their holes I don’t recall them even knowing the term “blue screen”; they just said “special effects”. OTOH (cf @James Moar) the picture was so grainy that cheap effects of the time could have sufficed for what the public saw; rocks were harder to handwave away, since IIRC it was not until some time later that bits of extraterrestrial rock were found (in Antarctica?).
The animated short, Bao, is also genre. (Though I’m not sure the creator would claim it as such.)
Re: Moon Landing: “Ideas Die Hard” (Asimov)
@ Chip – some of the youtube videos are surprisingly sophisticated. (I don’t recommend watching them, because it took me a while afterwards to convince the recommendation algorithms that I wasn’t a conspiracy nut.)
There was one ‘take-down’ of an ISS broadcast where the poster claimed that the entire thing was virtual reality, which explained why the objects kept leaving the astronauts’ hands temporarily without falling away. An astronaut in the background using some sort of guide wire was ‘proof’ that they were using wires to simulate zero G. So the manage to simultaneously hold the view that the CGI is sophisticated enough to convince most people, but not to erase fake wires.
@ James – at the time of the argument, I did some googling to see the state of the CGI art at the time. Apparently around one year before the moon landing, a Russian team created an animation of cat by printing successive frames of ASCII art to sheets of paper and then photographing them. So yeah, basically what you said.