December 30, 2018 – January 5, 2019: Thank U, Next – Ariana Grande January 6 – January 12, 2019: Without Me – Halsey January 13 – January 19, 2019: Sunflower – Post Malone and Swae Lee January 20 – February 2, 2019: 7 Rings – Ariana Grande February 3 – March 16, 2019: Shallow – Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper March 17 – April 6, 2019: Sucker – Jonas Brothers April 7 – August 17, 2019: Old Town Road – Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus August 18 – August 24, 2019: Bad Guy – Billie Eilish August 25 – September 7, 2019: Señorita – Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello September 8 – October 19, 2019: Truth Hurts – Lizzo October 20 – November 2, 2019: Highest in the Room – Travis Scott November 3 – November 9, 2019: Someone You Loved – Lewis Capaldi November 10 – November 30, 2019: Lose You to Love Me – Selena Gomez December 1 – December 14, 2019: Circles – Post Malone December 15 – December 21, 2019: Heartless – The Weeknd December 22, 2019 – January 4, 2020: All I Want for Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey
The ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
No host for this year’s ceremony
Pre-show hosts were Ashley Graham, Maria Menounos, Billy Porter, Ryan Seacrest, Elaine Welteroth
Films from 2018 were eligible for awards
Noteworthy Moments: Green Book won Best Picture amid controversy; Olivia Colman won Best Actress for The Favourite, beating Glenn Close; Rami Malek won Best Actor for Bohemian Rhapsody
Trivia:
The Oscars had no host for the first time in 30 years
Black Panther was the first superhero movie nominated for Best Picture
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s performance of Shallow became a viral sensation
Spike Lee’s first competitive Oscar win for BlacKkKlansman Best Adapted Screenplay
A record seven Black men and women won in various categories
2019 Oscar Nominees and Winners
Best Picture:
Green Book – Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga (WINNER)
Black Panther – Kevin Feige
BlacKkKlansman – Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee
Bohemian Rhapsody – Graham King
The Favourite – Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos
Roma – Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
A Star Is Born – Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor
Vice – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick
Best Director:
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma (WINNER)
Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
Pawel 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 Tony Vallelonga
Best Actress:
Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Queen Anne (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 as Sharon Rivers (WINNER)
Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney
Marina de Tavira – Roma as Sofía
Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Masham
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill
Best Original Screenplay:
Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly (WINNER)
The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
First Reformed – Paul Schrader
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
Vice – Adam McKay
Best Adapted Screenplay:
BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee based on the book by Ron Stallworth (WINNER)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ;All Gold Canyon is based on a story by Jack London; The Gal Who Got Rattled is inspired by a story by Stewart Edward White.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the memoir by Lee Israel
If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins based on the book by James Baldwin
A Star Is Born – Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and 1976 screenplay by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne and Frank Pierson; based on a story by Robert Carson and William A. Wellman
Best Animated Feature Film:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (WINNER)
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
Best Foreign Language Film:
Roma (Mexico) in Spanish and Mixtec – Directed by Alfonso Cuarón (WINNER)
Capernaum (Lebanon) in Arabic – Directed by Nadine Labaki
Cold War (Poland) in Polish and French – Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Never Look Away (Germany) in German – Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Shoplifters (Japan) in Japanese – Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Best Documentary – Feature:
Free Solo – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill (WINNER)
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 Documentary – Short Subject:
Period. End of Sentence. – Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton (WINNER)
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
Best Live Action Short Film:
Skin – Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman (WINNER)
Detainment – Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon
Fauve – Jérémy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon
Marguerite – Marianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset
Mother – Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado
Best Animated Short Film:
Bao – Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb (WINNER)
Animal Behaviour – Alison Snowden and David Fine
Late Afternoon – Louise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco
One Small Step – Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas
Weekends – Trevor Jimenez
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 – Music and Lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt (WINNER)
“All the Stars” from Black Panther – Music by Mark “Sounwave” Spears, Kendrick Lamar and Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith; Lyrics by Kendrick Lamar, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith and SZA
“I’ll Fight” from RBG – Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns – Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Music and Lyrics by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
Best Sound Editing:
Bohemian Rhapsody – John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone (WINNER)
Black Panther – Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker
First Man – Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
A Quiet Place – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
Roma – Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay
Best Sound Mixing:
Bohemian Rhapsody – Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali (WINNER)
Black Panther – Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter J. Devlin
First Man – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis
Roma – Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García
A Star Is Born – Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow
Best Production Design:
Black Panther – Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart (WINNER)
The Favourite – Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
First Man – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas
Mary Poppins Returns – Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
Roma – Production Design: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Bárbara Enríquez
Best Cinematography:
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón (WINNER)
Cold War – Lukasz Zal
The Favourite – Robbie Ryan
Never Look Away – Caleb Deschanel
A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique
Best Makeup: and Hairstyling:
Vice – Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney (WINNER)
Border – Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer
Mary Queen of Scots – Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks
Best Costume Design:
Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter (WINNER)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Mary Zophres
The Favourite – Sandy Powell
Mary Poppins Returns – Sandy Powell
Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne
Best Film Editing:
Bohemian Rhapsody – John Ottman (WINNER)
BlacKkKlansman – Barry Alexander Brown
The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Green Book – Patrick J. Don Vito
Vice – Hank Corwin
Best Visual Effects:
First Man – Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm (WINNER)
Avengers: Infinity War – Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick
Christopher Robin – Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould
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
Academy Honorary Awards:
Cicely Tyson – American actress
Lalo Schifrin – Argentine-American composer
Marvin Levy – American publicist
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award:
Kathleen Kennedy
Frank Marshall
Winners Announced: February 10, 2019 Held at: Staples Center, Los Angeles Host: Alicia Keys Eligibility Year: October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018
2019 Grammy Trivia
This year marked the first time in Grammy history that women won all major categories, breaking the notorious Grammy glass ceiling.
Childish Gambino’s This Is America made history by becoming the first rap song to win Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Alicia Keys, a 15-time Grammy winner herself, hosted the show and notably performed a medley playing two pianos at once.
Dua Lipa took home the award for Best New Artist and used her acceptance speech to take a jab at Recording Academy President Neil Portnow’s controversial 2018 “step up” comment aimed at female artists.
Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves was a dark horse in the awards race, winning Album of the Year and showing that country music still has a significant presence at the Grammys.
Cardi B became the first solo female artist to win Best Rap Album, a category usually dominated by male artists.
Lady Gaga won multiple awards for her A Star Is Born soundtrack work, including Best Song Written for Visual Media with Shallow.
Drake’s win for Best Rap Song with God’s Plan came with a somewhat controversial speech where the rapper critiqued the importance of award shows.
2019 Grammy Winners
Album of the year:
Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves
Record of the Year:
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Song of the Year:
This Is America – Childish Gambino and Ludwig Goransson
Best rap/sung performance:
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Best music video:
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Best rap album:
Invasion of Privacy – Cardi B
Best rap song:
God’s Plan – Drake
Best new artist:
Dua Lipa
Best country album:
Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves
Best pop duo/group performance:
Shallow – Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
Best pop vocal album:
Sweetener – Ariana Grande
Best pop solo performance:
Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?) – Lady Gaga
Best R&B album:
H.E.R. – H.E.R.
Best R&B song:
Boo’d Up – Ella Mai, DJ Mustard, Larrance Dopson and Joelle James
Best R&B performance:
Best Part – H.E.R. featuring Daniel Caesar
Producer of the year, non-classical:
Pharrell Williams
Best rap performance: (tie)
King’s Dead – Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future and James Blake
Bubblin by Anderson.Paak
Best urban contemporary album:
Everything Is Love – The Carters
Best traditional pop vocal album:
Willie Nelson’s My Way
Best rock song:
Masseduction – St. Vincent
Best rock album:
From the Fires – Greta Van Fleet
Best rock performance:
When Bad Does Good – Chris Cornell
Best dance recording:
Electricity – Silk City and Dua Lipa featuring Diplo and Mark Ronson
Best country song:
Space Cowboy – Kacey Musgraves (Luke Laird, Shane McAnally and Kacey Musgraves)
Best reggae album:
44/876 – Sting & Shaggy
Best country solo performance:
Butterflies – Kacey Musgraves
Best duo/group country performance:
Tequila – Dan + Shay
Best jazz vocal album:
The Window – Cecile McLorin Salvant
Best alternative music album:
Colors – Beck
Best comedy album:
Equanimity & the Bird Revelation – Dave Chappelle
Best Latin pop album:
Sincera – Claudia Brant
Best spoken word album:
Faith – A Journey for All – Jimmy Carter
Best folk album:
All Ashore – Punch Brothers
Best contemporary Christian music album:
Look Up Child – Lauren Daigle
Best musical theater album:
Visit – The Band
Best American roots song:
The Joke – Brandi Carlile
Best American Roots performance:
The Joke- Brandi Carlile
Best Americana album:
By the Way, I Forgive You – Brandi Carlile
Best gospel album:
Hiding Place – Tori Kelly
Best contemporary Christian music performance/song:
You Say -0 Lauren Daigle
Best world music album:
Freedom- Soweto Gospel Choir
Best compilation soundtrack for visual media:
The Greatest Showman
Best score soundtrack for visual media:
Black Panther
Best song written for visual media:
Shallow from A Star Is Born
Best traditional blues album:
The Blues Is Alive and Well – Buddy Guy
Best music film: Quincy – Quincy Jones
Best boxed or special limited edition package:
Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
