Last night’s Oscars was a fantastic night for LGBTQ stories

25th February 2019

It was a fantastic night for queer stories at last night’s Academy Awards.

Britain’s national treasure Olivia Colman received the coveted Best Actress award for her role in The Favourite – which explores the monarch’s same-sex relations with her companions – beating out frontrunner Glenn Close, Lady Gaga, Melissa McCarthy and Yalitza Aparicio.

Rami Malek continued to sweep the awards circuit for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, triumphing over Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Willem Dafoe and Viggo Mortensen for Best Actor.

Mahershala Ali won his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Green Book, while Regina King took home the gong for Best Supporting Actress.

To the elation of gays everywhere, Lady Gaga won her first ever Oscar for Shallow in the Best Original Song category, alongside co-writers Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt.

Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director for his work on Roma – which is a semi-autobiographical take on his upbringing in Mexico City – while Green Book took home the night’s biggest award for Best Film.

See the full list of winners below.

Best Picture
Green Book – WINNER
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Roma
A Star Is Born
Vice

Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma – WINNER
Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War
Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
Adam McKay – Vice

Best Actor
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury – WINNER
Christian Bale – Vice as Dick Cheney
Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson “Jack” Maine
Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate as Vincent van Gogh
Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga

Best Actress
Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Anne, Queen of Great Britain – WINNER
Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleodegaria “Cleo” Gutiérrez
Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel

Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley – WINNER
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Philip “Flip” Zimmerman
Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock
Sam Rockwell – Vice as George W. Bush

Best Supporting Actress
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk – WINNER
Amy Adams – Vice”
Marina de Tavira – Roma
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite

Best Original Screenplay
Green Book – Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly – WINNER
The Favourite – Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
First Reformed – Written by Paul Schrader
Roma – Written by Alfonso Cuarón
Vice – Written by Adam McKay

Best Adapted Screenplay
BlacKkKlansman – WINNER
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born

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

Best Foreign Language Film
Roma – WINNER
Capernaum
Cold War
Never Look Away
Shoplifters

Best Documentary – Feature
Free Solo – WINNER
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG

Best Documentary – Short Subject
Period. End of Sentence. – WINNER
Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden

Best Live Action Short Film
Skin – WINNER
Detainment
Fauve
Marguerite
Mother

Best Animated Short Film
Bao – WINNER
Animal Behaviour
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends

Best Original Score
Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson – WINNER
BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard
If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell
Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat
Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman

Best Original Song
“Shallow” from A Star Is Born – WINNER
“All the Stars” from Black Panther
“I’ll Fight” from RBG
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Best Sound Editing
Bohemian Rhapsody – WINNER
Black Panther
First Man
A Quiet Place
Roma

Best Sound Mixing
Bohemian Rhapsody – WINNER
Black Panther
First Man
Roma
A Star Is Born

Best Production Design
Black Panther – WINNER
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma

Best Cinematography
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón – WINNER
Cold War – Łukasz Żal
The Favourite – Robbie Ryan
Never Look Away – Caleb Deschanel
A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique

Best Makeup and Styling
Vice – WINNER
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