2018 (91st Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 2018. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Picture
BlacKkKlansman, A QC Entertainment/Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production; Focus Feature. Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers.Bohemian Rhapsody, A 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) Graham King, Producer.The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA) Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers.Green Book, A Charles B. Wessler/Innisfree Pictures/Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures Production; Universal. Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers.Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA) Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers.A Star Is Born, A Warner Bros. Pictures Production; Warner Bros. Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers.Vice, An Annapurna Pictures/Gary Sanchez Productions/Plan B Entertainment Production; Annapurna Pictures. Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers.Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale in Vice, An Annapurna Pictures/Gary Sanchez Productions/Plan B Entertainment Production; Annapurna Pictures.Willem Dafoe in At Eternity’s Gate, A Walk Home Production; CBS Films. (Ireland, Switzerland, UK, France, USA)Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody, A 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA)Viggo Mortensen in Green Book, A Charles B. Wessler/Innisfree Pictures/Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures Production; Universal.Actress in a Leading Role
Yalitza Aparicio in Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA)Glenn Close in The Wife, A Meta Film/Anonymous Content/Tempo Productions/Silver Reel Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, Sweden, USA)Olivia Colman in The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA)Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali in Green Book, A Charles B. Wessler/Innisfree Pictures/Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures Production; Universal.Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman, A QC Entertainment/Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production; Focus Feature.Sam Rockwell in Vice, An Annapurna Pictures/Gary Sanchez Productions/Plan B Entertainment Production; Annapurna Pictures.Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams in Vice, An Annapurna Pictures/Gary Sanchez Productions/Plan B Entertainment Production; Annapurna Pictures.Marina de Tavira in Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA)Regina King in If Beale Street Could Talk, An Annapurna Pictures/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Production; Annapurna Pictures.Emma Stone in The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA)Rachel Weisz in The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA)Directing
BlacKkKlansman, A QC Entertainment/Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production; Focus Feature. Spike Lee.Cold War, An Opus Film/Apocalypso Pictures/MK Production; Amazon Studios. (Poland, UK, France) Paweł Pawlikowski.The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA) Yorgos Lanthimos.Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA) Alfonso Cuarón.Vice, An Annapurna Pictures/Gary Sanchez Productions/Plan B Entertainment Production; Annapurna Pictures. Adam McKay.Animated Feature Film
Incredibles 2, A Pixar Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney. Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle.Isle of Dogs, A Fox Searchlight Pictures/Indian Paintbrush/American Empirical Pictures Production; Fox Searchlight. (Germany, USA) Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson.Ralph Breaks the Internet, A Walt Disney Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney. Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer.Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.Cinematography
Cold War, An Opus Film/Apocalypso Pictures/MK Production; Amazon Studios. (Poland, UK, France) Łukasz Żal.The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA) Robbie Ryan.Never Look Away, A Pergamon Film/Wiedemann & Berg Film in coproduction with Beta Cinema, ARD Degeto and Bayerischer Rundfunk Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Germany, Italy) Caleb Deschanel.Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA) Alfonso Cuarón.Costume Design
The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA) Sandy Powell.Documentary
(Feature)
Free Solo, A National Geographic Documentary Films/Little Monster Films/Itinerant Media/Parkes+MacDonald/Image Nation Production; National Geographic. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill.Hale County This Morning, This Evening, A Louverture Films Production; Cinema Guild. RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim.Minding the Gap, A Hulu in assoc. with Kartemquin/American Documentary | POV/ITVS Production; Magnolia Pictures. Bing Liu and Diane Quon.Of Fathers and Sons, A BASIS BERLIN Production; Kino Lorber. (Germany, USA, Syria, Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar) Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert.RBG, A Storyville Films/CNN Films Production; Magnolia Pictures/Participant Media/CNN Films. Betsy West and Julie Cohen.(Short Subject)
A Night at The Garden, A Field of Vision and Marshall Curry Production; Field of Vision. Marshall Curry.Film Editing
BlacKkKlansman, A QC Entertainment/Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production; Focus Feature. Barry Alexander Brown.Bohemian Rhapsody, A 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) John Ottman.The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA) Yorgos Mavropsaridis.Green Book, A Charles B. Wessler/Innisfree Pictures/Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures Production; Universal. Patrick J. Don Vito.Vice, An Annapurna Pictures/Gary Sanchez Productions/Plan B Entertainment Production; Annapurna Pictures. Hank Corwin.Foreign Language Film
Capernaum, A Mooz Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Lebanon, France, USA)Cold War, An Opus Film/Apocalypso Pictures/MK Production; Amazon Studios. (Poland, UK, France)Never Look Away, A Pergamon Film/Wiedemann & Berg Film in coproduction with Beta Cinema, ARD Degeto and Bayerischer Rundfunk Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Germany, Italy)Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA)Shoplifters, A Gaga Corporation Production; Magnolia Pictures. (Japan)Makeup and Hairstyling
Border, A Meta Film Stockholm/Black Spark Film & TV/Kärnfilm Production; Neon/Movie Pass Films. (Sweden, Denmark) Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer.Mary Queen of Scots, A Working Title Films Production; Focus Features. (UK, USA) Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks.Vice, An Annapurna Pictures/Gary Sanchez Productions/Plan B Entertainment Production; Annapurna Pictures. Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney.Music
(Original Score)
BlacKkKlansman, A QC Entertainment/Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production; Focus Feature. Terence Blanchard.If Beale Street Could Talk, An Annapurna Pictures/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Production; Annapurna Pictures. Nicholas Britell.Isle of Dogs, A Fox Searchlight Pictures/Indian Paintbrush/American Empirical Pictures Production; Fox Searchlight. (Germany, USA) Alexandre Desplat.(Original Song)
All the Stars from Black Panther, A Marvel Studios Production; Walt Disney. Music by Mark Spears, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Anthony Tiffith; lyric by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Anthony Tiffith and Solana Rowe.I’ll Fight from RBG, A Storyville Films/CNN Films Production; Magnolia Pictures/Participant Media/CNN Films. Music and lyric by Diane Warren.The Place Where Lost Things Go from Mary Poppins Returns, A Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. (USA, UK) Music by Marc Shaiman; lyric by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.Shallow from A Star Is Born, A Warner Bros. Pictures Production; Warner Bros. Music and lyric by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt.When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, A Netflix/Mike Zoss Production; Netflix. Music and lyric by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch.Production Design
Black Panther, A Marvel Studios Production; Walt Disney. Production design by Hannah Beachler; set decoration by Jay Hart.The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA) Production design by Fiona Crombie; set decoration by Alice Felton.First Man, A DreamWorks Pictures/Temple Hill Entertainment Production; Universal. (USA, Japan) Production design by Nathan Crowley; set decoration by Kathy Lucas.Mary Poppins Returns, A Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. (USA, UK) Production design by John Myhre; set decoration by Gordon Sim.Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA) Production design by Eugenio Caballero; set decoration by Bárbara Enríquez.Short Films
(Animated)
Animal Behaviour, A National Film Board of Canada Production. (Canada) Alison Snowden and David Fine.Bao, A Pixar Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney. (USA, Canada) Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb.One Small Step, A Taiko Animation Studios Production. (USA, China) Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas.(Live Action)
Fauve, An Achromatic Media and Midi La Nuit Production; H264 Distribution. (Canada) Jeremy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon.Marguerite, A DIY Films Production; H264 Distribution. (Canada) Marianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset.Mother, A Malvalanda and Caballo Films Production. (Spain) Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado.Sound Editing
Bohemian Rhapsody, A 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone.First Man, A DreamWorks Pictures/Temple Hill Entertainment Production; Universal. (USA, Japan) Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan.Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA) Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay.Sound Mixing
Black Panther, A Marvel Studios Production; Walt Disney. Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin.Bohemian Rhapsody, A 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali.First Man, A DreamWorks Pictures/Temple Hill Entertainment Production; Universal. (USA, Japan) Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis.Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA) Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García.A Star Is Born, A Warner Bros. Pictures Production; Warner Bros. Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow.Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity War, A Marvel Studios Production; Walt Disney. Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick.Christopher Robin, A Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. (UK, USA) Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould.First Man, A DreamWorks Pictures/Temple Hill Entertainment Production; Universal. (USA, Japan) Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm.Ready Player One, A De Line Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (USA, India) Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk.Solo: A Star Wars Story, A Lucasfilm Production; Walt Disney. Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy.Writing
(Adapted Screenplay)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, A Netflix/Mike Zoss Production; Netflix. Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen.BlacKkKlansman, A QC Entertainment/Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production; Focus Feature. Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee.Can You Ever Forgive Me?, An Archer Gray Production; Fox Searchligh. Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty.If Beale Street Could Talk, An Annapurna Pictures/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Production; Annapurna Pictures. Written for the screen by Barry Jenkins.A Star Is Born, A Warner Bros. Pictures Production; Warner Bros. Screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters.(Original Screenplay)
The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA) Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara.First Reformed, A Killer Films/Omeira Studio Partners/Fibonacci Films/Arclight Films International Production; A24. (USA, UK, Australia) Written by Paul Schrader.Green Book, A Charles B. Wessler/Innisfree Pictures/Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures Production; Universal. Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly.Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA) Written by Alfonso Cuarón.Vice, An Annapurna Pictures/Gary Sanchez Productions/Plan B Entertainment Production; Annapurna Pictures. Written by Adam McKay.Honorary Award
To Marvin Levy for an exemplary career in publicity that has brought films to the minds, hearts and souls of audiences all over the world. [ [Statuette]]To Lalo Schifrin in recognition of his unique musical style, compositional integrity and influential contributions to the art of film scoring. [ [Statuette]]To Cicely Tyson whose unforgettable performances and personal integrity have inspired generations of filmmakers, actors and audiences. [ [Statuette]]NOTE: The Honorary Awards were presented at the 10th Governors Awards ceremony on November 18, 2018, in the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center.
To Curtis Clark in recognition of extraordinary service to the motion picture industry. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]NOTE: The John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation was presented at the Scientific and Technical awards ceremony on February 9, 2019, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
NOTE: The Irving J. Thalberg Memorial Award was presented at the 10th Governors Awards ceremony on November 18, 2018, in the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center.
Scientific and Technical Award
(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To David Simons, Daniel Wilk, James Acquavella, Michael Natkin and David Cotter for the design and development of the Adobe After Effects software for motion graphics. After Effects’ pioneering use of consumer hardware to host an application that is extensible, efficient and artist-focused has made it the preeminent motion graphics tool in film production, allowing motion designers to create complex animated elements for title design, screen graphics and fictional user interfaces.To Thomas Knoll and John Knoll for the original architecture, design and development, and to Mark Hamburg for his continued development and engineering of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop’s efficient, extensible architecture, innovative virtual-memory design and powerful layering system introduced a new level of user interactivity, which led to its adoption as the preferred artistic tool for digital painting and image manipulation across the motion picture industry.To Ed Catmull for the original concept, and to Tony DeRose and Jos Stam for their pioneering advancement of the underlying science of subdivision surfaces as 3D geometric modeling primitives. Their creation of essential geometric operations and sustained research on the fundamental mathematics of subdivision surfaces helped transform the way digital artists represent 3D geometry throughout the motion picture industry.(Technical Achievement Award)
To Eric Dachs, Erik Bielefeldt, Craig Wood and Paul McReynolds for the design and development of the PIX System’s novel security mechanism for distributing media. PIX System’s robust approach to secure media access has enabled wide adoption of their remotely collaborative dailies-review system by the motion picture industry.To Per-Anders Edwards for the initial design and development of the MoGraph toolset in Cinema 4D for motion graphics. MoGraph provides a fast, non-destructive and intuitive workflow for motion designers to create animated 3D graphics, as used for title design and fictional user interfaces in motion pictures.To Paul Miller for the software design, principal engineering and continued innovation, and to Marco Paolini for the efficient, artist-friendly workflow design of the Silhouette rotoscope and paint system. Silhouette provides a comprehensive solution for painting, rotoscoping and image manipulation of high-resolution image sequences. Its fast, scalable and extensible architecture has resulted in wide adoption in motion picture post-production.To Paul Debevec, Tim Hawkins and Wan-Chun Ma for the invention of the Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination facial appearance capture method, and to Xueming Yu for the design and engineering of the Light Stage X capture system. Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination was a breakthrough in facial capture technology allowing shape and reflectance capture of an actor’s face with sub-millimeter detail, enabling the faithful recreation of hero character faces. The Light Stage X structure was the foundation for all subsequent innovation and has been the keystone of the method’s evolution into a production system.To Thabo Beeler, Derek Bradley, Bernd Bickel and Markus Gross for the conception, design and engineering of the Medusa Performance Capture System. Medusa captures exceptionally dense animated meshes without markers or makeup, pushing the boundaries of visual fidelity and productivity for character facial performances in motion pictures.To Charles Loop for his influential research on the fundamental scientific properties of subdivision surfaces as 3D geometric modeling primitives. Loop’s 1987 master’s thesis, “Smooth Subdivision Surfaces Based on Triangles,” together with his subsequent research and publications, extended the theory of subdivision surfaces and inspired further development of methods that transformed the way digital artists represent 3D geometry throughout the motion picture industry.NOTE: The Scientific and Technical awards were presented at their own ceremony on February 9, 2019, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.