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2019 Oscar Nominations are Out. Here's where to watch these critically-acclaimed Films in Singapore!
By Flora / 23 Jan 2019 (Wednesday)
It's the Oscars!
The Academy unveiled its 2019 Oscar nominations with The Favourite and Roma leading with 10 nominations each!
Don't miss the 91st Annual Academy Awards on Feb 25th (SGT)!
Marvel's Black Panther sets a new record to be the first superhero flick to get nominated in the Best Picture category, earning as far as seven nods overall including Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, etc. Alfonso Cuaron’s black-and-white film, Roma and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite leads the 2019 Oscar nominations with 10 nods apiece.
Photo Credit: The Hollywood Reporter
Roma, a Spanish-language movie starring first-time actress Yalitza Aparicio (who is also nominated in the Best Actress category) is a milestone for Netflix as it marks the streaming company’s first-ever best picture Oscar nomination. The film is also nominated for Best Director (Cuaron), Best Supporting actress (Marina de Tavira), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound mixing.
Roma is currently streaming on Netflix.
Photo Credit: Irish Independent
The Favourite is up against Roma in many similar categories including Best Picture, Best Director (Lanthimos), Best Actress (Olivia Colman), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Production Design. Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz are both nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category.
Colman was crowned best actress in a musical/comedy at the recent Golden Globes for her role as Queen Anne in The Favourite.
Don’t miss The Favourite when it opens InCinemas 14 February 2019.
Photo Credit: The Mercury News
Based on a true story of a world-renowned pianist Dr. Don Shirely (Mahershala Ali) and the unlikely friendship with Italian-American bouncer (Viggo Mortensen) hired to safely escort him around, Green Book scored a total of five nominations including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Mortensen), Best Supporting Actor (Ali) and Best Film Editing.
Ali has already picked up a Golden Globe for the role and has won in the same category in 2017 for his portrayal of a soft-heard drug dealer in ‘Moonlight’.
Green Book opens InCinemas 24 January 2019.
Pop superstar Lady Gaga is the first person in the history of the Oscars to be nominated for Best Actress and Best Original Song in the same year for her dual roles in the movie A Star Is Born. The actress-singer who tied for best actress with Glenn Close at the Critics’ Choice Awards, will vie with Close, Aparicio, Colman and Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me) for the honour of Best Actress at the 2019 Oscars. Her original song, Shallow, which she wrote and duets with star and director Bradley Cooper, has been nominated in the Best Original Song category. Let’s hope we’ll be able to watch her sing live at the awards ceremony!
A Star Is Born is showing InCinemas.
The Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, starring Rami Malek as the late legendary Freddie Mercury, picked up a whopping five nominations - for Best Picture, Best Actor (Malek), Best Editing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing. The film scooped 2 Golden Globes earlier this month, one of which is the marquee prize of Best Motion Picture - Drama. Many have praised Malek for his performance and it feels quite a shoo-in for the 37-year-old actor to beat his fellow actors in the Best Actor category.
Bohemian Rhapsody is showing InCinemas. A Sing-along version is also screening InCinemas.
Photo Credit: Variety
Lebanon’s Capernaum has received its second Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category in many years. Filmmaker Nadine Labaki’s heart-wrenching film is set in the world of Beirut's growing refugee crisis, which has forced many children onto the streets. Capernaum tells the story of Zain, a 12-year-old who takes his impoverished parents to court in order to stop them from having more children.
Capernaum is opens InCinemas 25 January at GV Paya Lebar and The Projector
Photo Credit: Roger Ebert
Another film shot in black-and-white that is making waves at the award season is Polish film Cold War, Pawel Pawlikowski’s jazz-infused romantic drama about the love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. The film has been honoured with three Oscar nominations, namely Best Director (Pawlikowski), Best Cinematography (Lukasz Zai) and Best Foreign Language Film.
Cold War took the best director at the Cannes Film Festival and received multiple prizes at the European Film Awards, including Best European Film.
Cold War is set to open InCinemas in February!
Other nominated films that are currently showing in theatres:
- Ralph Breaks The Internet (Best Animated Feature)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Best Animated Feature)
- Mary Queen of Scots (Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling)
- Mary Poppins Returns (Best Original Song, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design)
(View showtimes for these films here!)
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)
Green Book (Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers)
Roma (Gabriela Rodriguez and Alfonso Cuaron, 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 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 Cinematography
The Favourite (Robbie Ryan)
Never Look Away (Caleb Deschanel)
Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
A Star Is Born (Matty Libatique)
Cold War (Lukasz Zal)
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 Film
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
Animal Behaviour (Alison Snowden and David Fine)
Bao (Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb)
Late Afternoon (Louise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco)
One Small Step (Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas)
Weekends (Trevor Jimenez)
Best Live Action Short
Detainment (Vincent Lambe and Darren Maho)
Fauve (Jeremy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon)
Marguerite (Marianne Farley and Marie-Helene Panisset)
Mother (Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado)
Skin (Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman)
Best Documentary Short
Black Sheep (Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn)
End Game (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman)
Lifeboat (Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser)
A Night at the Garden (Marshall Curry)
Period. End of Sentence. (Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton)