‘Green Book’ voted best film
LOS ANGELES:Road trip movie
Green Book won best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, while Mexico’s Alfonso Cuaron was chosen as best director for his sentimental film Roma.
In an upset, Britain’s Olivia Colman got the best actress Oscar for The Favourite, beating presumed frontrunner Glenn Close, who starred in The Wife.’’
‘‘Glenn Close — you have been my idol for so long, and this is not how I wanted it to be,’’ a delighted but shocked Colman told her fellow actress, sitting in the audience.
Rami Malek won for his role as late rock frontman Freddie Mercury in 21st Century Fox musical
Bohemian Rhapsody. The film won three other Academy Awards.
‘‘I may not have been the obvious choice, but I guess it worked out,’’ said Malek, who had been favoured to win the award.
Roma, the blackandwhite Netflix film in Spanish and the indigenous Mixtec language, won two other Oscars, including foreign language film — a first for Mexico.
But it was denied what could have been the first best picture Oscar for a streaming service.
Green Book, from Universal Pictures took two other Oscars — for best original screenplay and supporting actor Mahershala Ali, who played a black pianist touring the segregated US South in the 1960s.
The Academy Awards cere mony was held without a host for the first time since 1989 and instead was filled with powerhouse music performances.
They included an emotional duet by Lady Gaga and her A Star is Born director Bradley Cooper, of their original song nominee Shallow which brought Gaga her first Oscar.
British band Queen got the Academy Awards ceremony off to a rousing start with a performance of their hit songs We Are the Champions and We Will Rock You that brought the Alist crowd to its feet.
Regina King won her first Oscar for her supporting role as a mother fighting for justice in If Beale Street Could Talk.
The final list of winners. —
Best picture: Green Book; best actress:
Olivia Colman, The Favourite; best actor:
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody; best director: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma; best supporting actress: Regina King, If Beale
Street Could Talk; best supporting actor: Mahershala Ali, Green Book; foreign language film: Mexico’s Roma; original screenplay: Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly; adapted screenplay: BlacKkKlansman, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee; original song: Shal
low from A Star Is Born, music and lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt; cinematography: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma; best animated film: SpiderMan: Into the
SpiderVerse; original score: Black Pan
ther, Ludwig Goransson; costume design: Ruth Carter, Black Panther; production design: Black Panther; sound editing:
Bohemian Rhapsody; Bohemian Rhapsody; film editing: John Ottman, Bohemian Rhapsody; animated short film: Bao;
documentary short subject: Period. End of Sentence; visual effects: First Man; live action short film: Skin; documentary feature: Free Solo; makeup and hairstyling: Vice. — Reuters