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Before The Academy Awards • Oscar-Winning Western Movies
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2018 Oscar Awards
Nominations were announced 22 January 2019; polls close 19 February;
the 91st Academy Awards show will be televised 24 February 2019 on ABC-TV
planned host comedian Kevin Hart was cancelled and was replaced by a line-up of presenters announced February 4th that includes
Awkwafina, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Evans, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Brie Larson, and Constance Wu
complete listings of the 2019 Academy Awards honoring films of 2018
A.M.P.A.S. site •
Internet Movie Database •
Wikipedia
In December 2018, The American Film Institute released its picks for the 10 best films of 2018: "BlacKkKlansman", "Black Panther", "Eighth Grade", "If Beale Street Could Talk", "The Favourite", "First Reformed", "Green Book", "Mary Poppins Returns", "A Quiet Place", and "A Star Is Born". The AFI's best films list often forecasts the Best Picture nominees at the Academy Awards. The organization also recognized "The Americans", "Atlanta", "This Is Us", and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", among others, as top TV programs of the year.
2/2020 "Parasite" won best original screenplay at the Writer's Guild of America awards ceremony, while "JoJo Rabbit" won for best adapted screenplay; both movies are nominated in those categories, as well as for Best Picture, in next week's 92nd annual Academy Awards.
“The Favourite” and “Roma” received 10 nominations each, “A Star Is Born” and “Vice” received 8 nominations each, “Black Panther” received 7 nominations, “BlacKkKlansman”
received 6 nominations, “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Green Book” received 5 nominations each, and “First Man” and “Mary Poppins Returns” received 4 nominations each.
Best Motion Picture of the Year {eight noms this year}
"A Star Is Born", "Black Panther", "BlacKkKlansman", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "The Favourite", "Green Book", "Roma", and "Vice"
Best Achievement in Directing
Alfonso Cuaron for "Roma", Spike Lee for "BlacKkKlansman", Pawel Pawlikowski for "Cold War",
Yorgos Lanthimos for "The Favourite", Adam McKay for "Vice"
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale for "Vice", Bradley Cooper for "A Star Is Born", Rami Malek for "Bohemian Rhapsody",
Viggo Mortensen for "Green Book", Willem Dafoe for "At Eternity's Gate"
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Yalitza Aparicio for "Roma", Glenn Close for "The Wife", Olivia Colman for "The Favourite",
Lady Gaga for "A Star Is Born", Melissa McCarthy for "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali for "Green Book", Adam Driver for "BlacKkKlansman", Sam Elliott for "A Star Is Born",
Richard E. Grant for "Can You Ever Forgive Me?", Sam Rockwell for "Vice"
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams for "Vice", Marina de Tavira for "Roma", Regina King for "If Beale Street Could Talk",
Emma Stone for "The Favourite", Rachel Weisz for "The Favourite"
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
"Capernaum" [Lebanon], "Cold War" [Poland], "Never Look Away" [Germany], "Roma" [Mexico], "Shoplifters" [Japan]
Best Original Screenplay
"The Favourite" by Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara; "First Reformed" by Paul Schrader; "Green Book" by Nick Vallelonga,
Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly; "Roma" by Alfonso Cuarón; and "Vice" by Adam McKay
Best Adapted Screenplay
"A Star Is Born" by Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters; "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" by Joel & Ethan Coen; "BlacKkKlansman" by Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel,
David Rabinowitz & Kevin Willmott; "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" by Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty; and "If Beale Street Could Talk" by Barry Jenkins
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
"Incredibles 2", "Isle of Dogs", "Mirai", "Ralph Breaks The Internet", and "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse"
 | Best Animated Short: "Animal Behaviour", "Bao", "Late Afternoon", "One Small Step", and "Weekends" Best Documentary Short: "A Night At The Garden", "Black Sheep", "End Game", "Lifeboat", and "Period. End of Sentence" Best Live-Action Short: "Detainment", "Fauve", "Marguerite", "Mother", and "Skin" |
And the winner is...
"Green Book" came out on top at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday, winning the Best Picture award. The night's other winners included: Alfonso Cuaron ("Roma") for Best Director and Best Cinematography; Olivia Colman ("The Favourite") for Best Actress; Rami Malek ("Bohemian Rhapsody") for Best Actor; Regina King ("If Beale Street Could Talk") for Best Supporting Actress; Mahershala Ali ("Green Book") for Best Supporting Actor; "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse" for Best Animated Feature; and Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt, and Benjamin Rice won for Best Original Song for "Shallow" ("A Star Is Born"); and Spike Lee won the first Oscar of his career, taking home the Best Original Screenplay award for "BlacKkKlansman". "Bohemian Rhapsody" won 4 awards, "Green Book" and "Black Panther" and "Roma" won 3 awards each.
| "Green Book" [Nov 2018] 
full credits from IMDb |
 | An Italian-American hustler gets laid off at his Manhattan nightclub bouncer job and accepts a job driving an Afro-American classical pianist on a tour across America's 1960s Deep South • Principal photography in Louisiana; filmed in Univisium 2.00 format; co-produced, co-written & directed by Peter Farrelly; co-produced & co-written by Nick Vallelonga; co-produced & co-written by Brian Hayes Currie; music by Kris Bowers; cinematography by Sean Porter; starring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, Mike Hatton, P.J. Byrne, Joe Cortese, Maggie Nixon, Jon Sortland, Don Stark, Anthony Mangano, Paul Sloan, Quinn Duffy, Seth Hurwitz, Hudson Galloway, Gavin Lyle Foley, Rodolfo Vallelonga, Louis Venere, Frank Vallelonga, Don DiPetta, Jenna Laurenzo, Suehyla El-Attar, Kenneth Israel, Derrick Spears, Johnny Williams, Randal Gonzalez, Iqbal Theba, Sharon Landry, Nick Vallelonga, David An, Mike Cerrone, Peter Gabb, Gertrud Sigle, Geraldine Singer, Ron Flagge, Martin Bats Bradford, Ted Huckabee, Gralen Bryant Banks, Sam Malone, Floyd Miles, David Kallaway, James W. Evermore, Harrison Stone, Ricky Muse, Tom Virtue, Christina Simpkins, Kermit Burns III, Lindsay Brice, Shane Partlow, Daniel Greene, Brian Distance, Craig DiFrancia, Dennis W. Hall, Leslie Castay, David Simpson, Jim Klock, Billy Breed, Dane Rhodes, Brian Stepanek, Jon Michael Davis, Montrel Miller, Ninja N. Devoe, Brian Hayes Currie, Phil Meyer, Rusty Bourg • won 3 Oscars: for Best Motion Picture, Best Supporting Actor {MA} & Best Original Screenplay, Oscar noms for Best Actor {VM} & Best Film Editing; won BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor {MA}, BAFTA noms for Best Film, Best Leading Actor {VM}, Best Original Screenplay; won Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor {MA}, SAG nom for Best Leading Actor {VM}; won A.A.R.P. Best Movie for Grownups & Best Actor Award {VM}; won AFI Awards Movie of the Year; nominated for Directors Guild of America Award; won 2 Hollywood Film Awards: Screenwriter of the Year & Ensemble of the Year; won 2 National Board of Review Awards: Best Film & Best Actor Award {VM}; won P.G.A. Award; won Grosch People's Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival; and nominated for Writers Guild of America Best Original Screenplay
Universal Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray/digital combo [3/2019] 2 disks for $22.99 Universal Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [3/2019] for $18.81 Universal Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color 4k HD format [3/2019] 2 disks for $24.99 official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 8/2018 official trailer [2:30] at YouTube |
 | In 1936, a black postal worker named Victor Hugo Green published the first edition of "The Negro Motorist Green Book"; see 2019 article at The Atlantic Magazine "The Negro Motorist Green Book Compendium" [2019] by Victor H. Green, Preface by Nat Gertler About Comics 9½x6¾ pb [1/2019] for $17.99 "The Negro Motorist Green Book" [1940 facsimile edition] About Comics 6¾x5 pb [11/2016] for $8.09 "The Negro Motorist Green Book" [1959 facsimile edition] About Comics 6¾x5 pb [11/2018] for $8.09 |
 | "The Green Book: Guide To Freedom" TV docufilm [Smithsonian Channel Feb 2019] The essential travel guide to a segregated America" Written & directed by Yoruba Richen DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie website |
"Crazy Rich Asians" [Warner Bros. Pictures Aug 2018]
 | PREDICTION 9/2018: Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Script, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, Best Music, maybe the new Most Popular category; RESULT: many nominations but none for Oscars • Filmed in Malaysia and Singapore; an outrageously funny film about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season • Directed by Jon M. Chu; screenplay by Peter Chiarelli & Adele Lim, based on the novel by {exec producer} Kevin Kwan; music by Brian Tyler; starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Harry Shum Jr., Ken Jeong, Kheng Hua Tan, Sonoya Mizuno, Chris Pang, Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng, Remy Hii, Nico Santos, Jing Lusi, Carmen Soo, Pierre Png, Fiona Xie, Victoria Loke, Janice Koh, Amy Cheng, Chieng Mun Koh, Calvin Wong, Constance Lau, Selena Tan, Kris Aquino
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • official movie website • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 4/2018 official trailer [2:24] online at YouTube |
more information on the Kevin Kwan Page / 'Crazy Rich Asians' Movie Section
"--" [201?]
full credits from IMDb
"--" [201?]
full credits from IMDb
A big shout out to the producers of "Period. End of Sentence", Oscar winner for Best Documentary
especially Melissa Berton, sister of Laura Berton-Botfeld and Jennifer Berton Handler.
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