Road trip movie โGreen Bookโ won best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, while Mexicoโs Alfonso Cuaron was chosen as best director for his sentimental film โRoma.โ
In an upset, Britainโs Olivia Colman got the best actress Oscar for โThe Favourite,โ beating presumed front-runner Glenn Close, who starred in โThe Wife.โ
โGlenn Close โ you have been my idol for so long, and this is not how I wanted it to be,โ a delighted but shocked Colman told her fellow actress, sitting in the audience.
Rami Malek won for his role as late frontman Freddie Mercury in 21st Century Fox musical โBohemian Rhapsody.โ The film won three other Academy Awards.
โI may not have been the obvious choice, but I guess it worked out,โ said Malek, who had been favored to win the award.
โRoma,โ the black-and-white Netflix film in Spanish and the indigenous Mixtec language, won two other Oscars, including foreign language film โ a first for Mexico.
But it was denied what could have been the first best picture Oscar for a streaming service.
โGreen Book,โ from Universal Pictures took two other Oscars โ for best original screenplay and supporting actor Mahershala Ali, who played a black pianist touring the segregated U.S. South in the 1960s.
The Academy Awards ceremony was held without a host for the first time since 1989 and instead was filled with powerhouse music performances.
They included an emotional duet by Lady Gaga and her โA Star is Bornโ director Bradley Cooper of their original song nominee โShallow,โ which brought Gaga her first Oscar.
British band Queen got the Academy Awards ceremony off to a rousing start with a performance of their hit songs โWe Are the Championsโ and โWe Will Rock Youโ that brought the A-list crowd to its feet.
Regina King won her first Oscar for her supporting role as a mother fighting for justice in โIf Beale Street Could Talk.โ
WINNERS IN KEY CATEGORIES
Best Picture: โGreen Bookโ
Best Actor: Rami Malek โ โBohemian Rhapsodyโ
Best Actress: Olivia Colman โ โThe Favouriteโ
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron โ โRomaโ
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali โ โGreen Bookโ
Best Supporting Actress: Regina King โ โIf Beale Street Could Talkโ
Best Original Screenplay: โGreen Bookโ
Best Adapted Screenplay: โBlacKkKlansmanโ
Best Animated Film: โSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verseโ
Best Documentary Film: โFree Soloโ
Best Foreign Language Film: โRomaโ โ Mexico
Best Original Song: โShallowโ โ โA Star is Bornโ