2019 Academy Awards: Parasite wins Best Picture
There have been faster posts to make it to print about the Oscars this year, but forgive me! I had the 1917 image set to go, and furthermore I had several spontaneous tweets of pure ecstasy freshly set to send. So Parasite - of course Parasite! - makes history as the first non-English language movie to win the Best Picture Oscar, and could it have happened to a worthier candidate? I know that, right now, my answer is no, and I know that, years from now, my answer will still be no.
For all the dullery of the night's other winners, the sheer joy of the Best Picture and Director results tonight, in facing down the potential awfulness of a seemingly inevitable 1917 double whammy, redeems the show entirely. A Greta Gerwig win would have been nice. Avoiding a second 0-for-10 anti-sweep for a Martin Scorsese movie would have been equally nice. A surprise acting award winner would have been nice. But Parasite is naughty, nasty and nice in the same exquisite package, and I'm in love with its wonderful concoction. Here's to another 12 months of acting like the Academy could ever make me feel like this again!
Check out the 2019 Academy Award nominees by clicking on this link.
Best Picture
PARASITE (Bong Joon Ho and Kwak Sin Ae)
Best Directing
BONG JOON HO (PARASITE)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
RENEE ZELLWEGER (JUDY)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
JOAQUIN PHOENIX (JOKER)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
LAURA DERN (MARRIAGE STORY)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
BRAD PITT (ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD)
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
BONG JOON HO AND HAN JIN WON (PARASITE)
Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
TAIKA WAITITI (JOJO RABBIT)
Best Cinematography
ROGER DEAKINS (1917)
Best Film Editing
ANDREW BUCKLAND AND MICHAEL MCCUSKER (FORD V FERRARI)
Best Production Design
NANCY HAIGH AND BARBARA LING (ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD)
Best Costume Design
JACQUELINE DURRAN (LITTLE WOMEN)
Best Sound Mixing
MARK TAYLOR AND STUART WILSON (1917)
Best Sound Editing
DONALD SYLVESTER (FORD V FERRARI)
Best Visual Effects
GREG BUTLER, GUILLAUME ROCHERON AND DOMINIC TUOHY (1917)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
VIVIAN BAKER, ANNE MORGAN AND TSUJI KAZUHIRO (BOMBSHELL)
Best Music (Original Score)
HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR (JOKER)
Best Music (Original Song)
ELTON JOHN AND BERNIE TAUPIN - '(I'M GONNA) LOVE ME AGAIN' (ROCKETMAN)
Best Animated Feature Film
TOY STORY 4 (JOSH COOLEY, MARK NIELSEN AND JONAS RIVERA)
Best Documentary (Feature)
AMERICAN FACTORY (STEVEN BOGNAR, JEFF REICHERT AND JULIA REICHERT)
Best International Feature Film
PARASITE - SOUTH KOREA
Best Live Action Short Film
THE NEIGHBOURS' WINDOW (MARSHALL CURRY)
Best Animated Short Film
HAIR LOVE (MATTHEW A. CHERRY AND KAREN RUPERT TOLIVER)
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU'RE A GIRL) (ELENA ANDREICHEVA AND CAROL DYSINGER)