The 2019 Oscars

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The Oscars have wrapped up for the night, but the party isn’t over.

Celebrities will head to a host of parties across Hollywood and Los Angeles tonight to celebrate their wins.

Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck tailored a special menu for the Governors Ball, a party that immediately follows the show.

Here’s what was on the menu:

Best Live Action Short Film winners for "Skin" director Guy Nattiv (L) and Jaime Ray Newman attend the 91st Annual Academy Awards Governors Ball at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood on Feb. 24, 2019.

The show is over, but we’re finally getting a glimpse of what the stars were doing backstage after their big wins.

Here’s what happened backstage at the Oscars:

Lady Gaga broke down after winning an Oscar for best original song.

Olivia Colman and Frances McDormand shared a hug and kiss after “The Favourite” star won best actress.

Jennifer Lopez prepared backstage before presenting the best production design award.

Regina King posed backstage with her Oscar after winning best supporting actress.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” won four Oscars tonight, but there was no mention of the film’s director Bryan Singer.

Here’s why: Singer was fired from the project just weeks before the completion of filming. Notably, none of the “Rhapsody” winners thanked Singer, who was accused of sexual abuse in January, allegations that the filmmaker has denied.

Academy Award winner Julia Roberts abruptly wrapped up the Oscars after the producers of “Green Book” accepted their best picture award.

“Well, apparently, that wraps?up the 91st Academy Awards,” she said.?

“I would like to say congratulations to all the?nominees and winners.?And good night to Bradley Cooper’s mother and my children.?And thank you for watching,” Roberts added.

And with that, the credits rolled and the show was over.

“Green Book” capped a great awards season by taking home the Oscar for best picture.

The film, which won several awards this season – including a Golden Globe for best motion picture and best screenplay – came out on top at the Academy Awards.

“We made this film with love, we made it with respect, and we made it with tenderness,” producer Jim Burke said.

Director Peter Farrelly heaped praise on star Viggo Mortensen, without whom he said the film would not have been made.

The film was also a boon for star Mahershala Ali, who won an Oscar, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA awards for best supporting actor.

“Green Book” also won an Oscar for best original screenplay.

Director Alfonso Cuarón just took home an Oscar for best director for his film “Roma.”

According to the Academy Awards, it is the fourth Oscar for Cuarón and his second win tonight.

“I want to thank the?academy for recognizing the film?centered around an indigenous?woman,” he said

Cuarón offers a semi-autobiographical tribute to the women who raised him. He focuses on the family maid amid a period of unrest, both within the family and society at large, in his native Mexico in the 1970s.

The film, which was shot in black and white, is Netflix’s first best picture win.

“The Favourite” was a favorite of Academy voters.

Olivia Colman took home the trophy for best actress for her role as Queen Anne in the historical dramedy.

She cried and laughed and cried again.

And she had the audience laughing too.

She thanked her costars, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, who play two women vying for the attention of the lesbian queen, calling them “the two loveliest women in the world to fall in love with and to do to work with every day.”

Colman also recognized that Glenn Close had been favored to win the award.

“Glenn Close, you’ve been my idol for so long,” the British actress said. “This is not how I wanted to it.”

Rami Malek, who played Freddie Mercury, won best actor for “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

Malek is just the second actor of Arab descent nominated for an Oscar, after “Lawrence of Arabia” star Omar Sharif. Malek is the first to win.

He took a moment to thank Queen and acknowledged the extraordinary story of Mercury’s life.

“The fact that I’m celebrating?him and this story with you?tonight is proof that we’re?longing for stories like this,” Malek said.

What an emotional night for Lady Gaga!

The singer won an Oscar for “Shallow,” the song from “A Star Is Born,” which was Gaga’s first big acting debut.

She was left in tears as she, along with her song writing team and uber producer Mark Ronson, took to the stage to accept the award for best original song.

Gaga thanked her sister, her parents and co-star Bradley Cooper, who performed the duet with her for the film.

“There’s not a single person on the planet that could have sang this song with me but you,” Gaga said of Cooper, who also directed the film. “Thank you for believing in us.”

Director Spike Lee won his first Oscar ever for best adapted screenplay for his film “BlacKkKlansman.”

Lee, who has been nominated five times, took the moment to remember the past and honor Black History Month. He also paid homage to his grandmother, who he said saved up 50 years of Social Security checks to help put him through school.

Lee also brought up the 2020 presidential election, nodding to his critically acclaimed film, “Do the Right Thing.”

The movie was controversial, but “Green Book” still nabbed an Oscar.

The film was awarded for best original screenplay.

Screenwriter Nick Vallelonga, who wrote the story about his father accompanying musician Don Shirley for a tour in the South in the 1960s, thanked the voters and “the other amazing nominees.”

“This is an amazing room of filmmakers,” Vallelonga said. “Embrace ourselves and love each other. Thank you all. My mother and father, I love you, we did it.”

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga do not play fair.

All of the chills, tears and whatever else for the riveting performance of their hit “Shallow” from their film “A Star Is Born.”

How to even handle the hotness.

The pair, who play lovers on the screen, have such a special connection, and it was on display while crooning the nominee for original song.

So.Damn.Good.

“Period. End of sentence.,” a movie that aims to end the stigma of menstruation in other parts of the world, won an Oscar for best documentary short?subject.?

Director Rayka Zehtabchi gave us the quote of the night in her acceptance speech.

“To the women, know that you are?empowering women all over the?world to fight for menstrual?equality,” she added.

Producer Melissa Berton said the film was created after a group of high school students wanted to “make a human rights?difference.”

“A period should end a sentence, not a girl’s education,” Berton said.

Diversity is on display at the Oscars.

From the presenters to the winners, this year’s ceremony just feels more inclusive.

Some of the presenters spoke in Spanish.

History was made, with Ruth Carter becoming the first African American woman to win an Oscar for costume design and Peter Ramsey being the first black director to win for an animated film with “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”

The latter featured the first Afro-Latina Spider-Man and one of the writers of the screenplay mentioned the importance of inclusion in his acceptance speech.

Phil Lord said that when they hear a kid acknowledging that Spider-Man looks like them or speaks Spanish, “we feel like we already won.”

“We see you. You’re powerful. This world needs you,” Ramsey said. “Ok? So please, we’re all counting on you.”

But Twitter was quick to point out that as great as the awards ceremony has been, there is still work to be done.

A very grown up version of Wayne and Garth just showed up to Oscars.

Mike Myers and Dana Carvey reprised their roles as the lovable rockers to present “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which is nominated for best picture.

Remember: The pair and their buddies rocked out to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” in their film “Wayne’s World.”

While Myers and Carvey were not dressed as their characters (they wore black tuxedos), they brought out their classic one liners.

Here’s how that went down:

Myers: “We’re not worthy!”

Carvey: “I think I’m gonna hurl.”

Myers: “Don’t hurl.?‘Cause if you hurl, I’ll spew.”

Carvey: “If you spew, I’ll blow?chunks.?So I shall not hurl.”

Mahershala Ali?just won best supporting actor for his role in “Green Book.”

Ali is the second African-American actor to win multiple Oscars. (Denzel Washington is the other actor.) Ali is also a Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice winner.

In his acceptance speech, Ali thanked co-star Viggo Mortensen and dedicated the award to his grandmother.

Ali and Mortensen starred in the fact-based story about the relationship between pianist Don Shirley (Ali) and the man hired to drive the African-American?musician during a tour of the South in the early 1960s. The title refers to the guide that lists what restaurants, hotels and gas stations served black people at the time.

Ali also won a best supporting actor Oscar three years ago for his role in the film “Moonlight.”

So many of the Oscar winners are remembering where they came from.

Literally.

The winners for best actor, best supporting actress, costume design, sound mixing and film editing all thanked their moms because honestly, where would we be without them?

Best supporting actress winner Regina King brought her mother to the awards ceremony, as did nominee Bradley Cooper and “Black Panther” star Michael B. Jordan.

Mamas are everything, and they deserve of all the accolades.

Bette Midler performed the absolute perfect song for her.

Midler sang “The Place Where Lost Things Go,”?from the film “Mary Poppins Returns,” which is nominated for original song.

Honestly, Midler kind of reminds us of Mary Poppins, so it fits.

Plus, she’s a diva deserving of all the respect, which is what she got with a standing ovation.

Netflix’s “Roma” won best foreign language film.

It’s the ninth movie from?Mexico to be nominated, and the?first to win the Oscar for?foreign language film, according to the Academy Awards.

In accepting the award, director Alfonso Cuarón said he was inspired by films like “Jaws,” “Citizen Kane,” “The Godfather and “Breathless.”

Cuarón offers a semi-autobiographical tribute to the women who raised him, focusing on the family maid (Yalitza Aparicio) amid a period of unrest, both within the family and society at large, in his native Mexico in the 1970s. Shot in black and white, the film is Netflix’s first best picture nominee.

Remember when Jennifer Hudson got eliminated way too early on “American Idol?”

We don’t either because it still hurts!

Anyway, the singer showed up and showed out in a striking pantsuit with a train (a train, people!) to perform the song “I’ll Fight,”?from the CNN Films documentary “RBG.”

It wasn’t her strongest performance, but even a less than 100% Hudson is better than so many other singers.

The award for best costume design went to Ruth Carter and in her own words, it was “a long time coming.”

Carter won for “Black Panther” and became the first African American to take home the statue.

She thanked Spike Lee for giving her her start and said she hoped she made him proud.

She also paid homage to the film that made her a trailblazer.

“Marvel may have created the first black superhero, but through costume design, we turned him into an African king,” Carter said.

She also showed love to her mother.

“This is for my 97-year-old mother watching in Massachusetts,” Carter said. “Mom, thank you for teaching me about people and telling their stories. You are the original super hero. “

Melissa McCarthy mocked “The Favourite” in probably one of the wackiest costumes to grace the Oscars stage.

McCarthy walked on stage with Brian Tyree Henry, who also wore an early 18th century gown, to present the best costume award.

Her dress was dotted with stuffed bunny rabbits — an homage to the main character in “The Favourite.”

As McCarthy presented the award, she performed ventriloquism with the rabbits.

“These artists create a?pastiche of textiles with?authenticity, yet never distract?from the story.?Costume designers construct the?looks that ground a character to?a particular time and place in?the subtlest of ways,” McCarthy said.

It was a strange bit, but it brought plenty of laughs.

The internet went crazy for Chris Evans helping Regina King up on stage when she won for best supporting actress.

We get it. He’s adorable. It was adorable. Regina has always been adorable.

Heart it all.

National Geographic’s “Free Solo” just won for best documentary.

Directed by award-winning filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, “Free Solo” follows Alex Honnold for more than two years as he prepares for the climb of his life.

In June 2017, the 33-year-old became the?first person?to climb Californian granite monolith El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without any ropes – a skill known as free soloing.

These three women are hilarious.

Former “Saturday Night Live” stars and real-life BFFs Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph presented the first award of the night, best supporting actress.

They riffed on everything from the show’s lack of host to how all actresses are into supporting because women are supportive.

“For example, I support both of you financially,” Poehler joked.

They also gave us an example of what it would have been liked if they had been chosen as hosts.

“Hey Chadwick Boseman, ‘Wakanda’ plans you got later on tonight,” Rudolph said, giving us a taste of how they would have acted.

Regina King won the award, BTW.

Regina King just won best supporting actress for “If Beale Street Could Talk.”

She is the third black actress to win both an Oscar and a Primetime Emmy, joining Halle Berry and Viola Davis.

King thanked her mother and Baldwin, the author of the book that was adapted into the film.

King has three Emmys, which she won in 2015, 2016 and 2018.?

Adam Lambert performs onstage onstage during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California.

If nothing else, the Oscars opening let us know which celebs can and cannot dance.

Queen, fronted by Adam Lambert, kicked off the 91st Academy Awards with a medley of the group’s hits including “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions.”

“Bohemian Rhapsody,” the story of the late Freddie Mercury, Queen’s lead singer, is nominated for best picture as is its star, Rami Malek, for best actor.

Lady Gaga paid homage to old Hollywood with a black strapless gown with an exaggerated hip and long sleeves.

With her platinum blonde hair, Gaga, who is nominated for best actress for her performance in “A Star Is Born,” was reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe.

About that necklace: She donned a 128.54-carat Tiffany diamond necklace, which Audrey Hepburn wore in 1961, according to W Magazine.

The?91st Academy Awards?are shaping up to be one the most?unpredictable broadcasts?in Oscar history. With?no official host?running the show and a series of wild card?nominations, there’s no telling what’s going to happen.

While we may not know who’s going to win, we do know there’s a good chance that God, the Academy, and Bradley Cooper will be thanked in acceptance speeches.

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Tonight’s red carpet was dominated by the color pink.

From hot pink tulle to soft pink to bubblegum pink, celebrities donned long, layered gowns and at least one suit in the color.

Check out some of the looks:

Gemma Chan

Kacey Musgraves

Helen Mirren

Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet

The majority of this year’s first-time nominees are hardly new to the game.

Director Spike Lee, who is up for best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, first burst onto the scene in 1986 with his directorial debut, “She’s Gotta Have It.”

Richard E. Grant has also been around since the ‘80s, when he debuted in the film “Withnail and I” before going on to memorable roles in “Game of Thrones” and the movie “Logan.”

He’s nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for his role in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

Lady Gaga is nominated for best actress for her performance in “A Star Is Born” and she is, of course, Lady Gaga.

One of her co-stars in that film, Sam Elliott, is nominated for best supporting actor and began his film career in the 1960s in projects such as “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”

Regina King and Rami Malek can both thank the small screen for fans being familiar with their work.

King is nominated in the best supporting actress category for “If Beale Street Could Talk” and first found fame as a child star on the TV comedy “227” before she grew into more adult roles on the TV dramas “Southland” and “American Crime,” as well as films like “Jerry Maguire” and “Ray.”

Malek is up for best actor for his turn as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The actor previously starred as a computer hacker in the TV series “Mr. Robot.”

Olivia Colman’s skill portraying England’s Queen Anne in “The Favourite” earned her a best actress nod this time.

She’s known on both sides of the pond for critically acclaimed roles in “Broadchurch,” “The Thirteenth Tale” and “The Night Manager.”

Billy Porter knows how to “Pose.”

The star of the FX series “Pose” shut down the red carpet with his Christian Siriano tuxedo gown.

Porter told Vogue his “goal is to be a walking piece of political art every time I show up.”

“To challenge expectations. What is masculinity?” he asked. “What does that mean? Women show up every day in pants, but the minute a man wears a dress, the seas part.”

The actor said he’s always wanted to wear a dress.

“We wanted to play between the masculine and the feminine,” Porter said. “This look was interesting because it’s not drag. I’m not a drag queen, I’m a man in a dress.”

Oscar winners Mahershala Ali, Christian Bale, Sam Rockwell, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz are nominated this year again for acting.

They are among 20 acting nominees, and it’s the first acting nomination for nine members of that group.

Ali, a Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice winner, is going for his second Oscar in three years. He previously won best supporting actor for his role in “Moonlight.”

He nomination this year is for “Green Book,” which won best picture at the Producers Guild Awards. The PGA winner has gone on to win the best picture 20 of the last 29 years, including seven of the last nine years since the Academy Awards expanded the category in 2010.

Hollywood’s top actresses are owning the red carpet tonight.

They are donning long trains, ruffles, capes and pantsuits.

Here are some of the red carpet looks:

Melissa McCarthy

Linda Cardellini

Jennifer Hudson, Tina Fey, and Maya Rudolph

Amy Poehler?

What can you do to win glory at the Academy Awards? There’s no magic formula, but based on history, there are choices you can make that will boost your movie’s chances of winning best picture.

Take our quiz here, and see if you’ve got what it takes.

There can be a 100 celebrity pairings in the room and 99 don’t move you, but all it takes is one.

And that one, for us, is Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

Those in the know are aware that the 100 vs. one thing is an homage to a meme-worthy speech Gaga gave (over and over again) about how Cooper believed in her enough to make “A Star Is Born” magical.

Cooper, who also directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay, stars as troubled singer Jackson Maine, who falls for Gaga’s character, Ally, a struggling artist.

Cooper and Gaga play the hell out of the roles and have formed a pretty strong bond off camera.

That sounds kind of romantic, doesn’t it?

Of course, Cooper has been in a nearly four-year relationship with model Irina Shayk, and the couple has a young daughter.

So while Gaga has reportedly split with her fiancé Christian Carino, the dream of Gooper or Caga (possible couple monikers) will probably remain just that – a dream.

We may be overthinking it, but we see you sis!

Glenn Close arrived on the red carpet, living her life like it’s golden.

Given that Close is favored to win the best actress Oscar for her role in “The Wife,” why not color coordinate with the statue?

For the record, Close told ABC the dress has 4 million beads and weighs 42 lbs.

“Roma’s” Yalitza Aparicio?is the first indigenous woman and fourth Latina actress to be nominated for best actress.

But the road to the Oscars hasn’t been easy for the Oaxacan actress.

She recently responded to racist insults from Mexican soap opera actor Sergio Goyri, who was caught on video slamming her indigenous roots. He later apologized.

In “Roma,” director Alfonso Cuarón offers a semi-autobiographical tribute to the women who raised him, focusing on the family maid, played by Aparicio. The story is set amid a period of unrest, both within the family and society at large, in his native Mexico in the 1970s. Shot in black and white, the film marks Netflix’s first best picture nomination.

“Roma” is the 11th foreign-language film nominated for best picture. The last was “Amour” in 2012. No foreign-language film has ever won the award.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, down the street from its current home at the Dolby Theater. This year’s awards show will be its 91st ceremony.?

Spike Lee donned a key piece of jewelry that paid homage to Radio Raheem, a beloved character in the director’s film “Do the Right Thing,” and wore in all-purple look in honor of the late musician Prince as he walked the red carpet ahead of the Oscars.

Actor Bill Nunn, who died?in 2016, played Radio Raheem in the 1989 critically acclaimed film. Many critics believed the film should have been nominated for an award.

Lee wore knuckle rings on each hand, emblazoned with the words “Love” and “Hate.” (Nunn wore similar knuckle rings in the film.) The director also donned a necklace with the unpronounceable?symbol?that Prince adopted as his name in 1993.

Lee and Prince were good friends.

The filmmaker included Prince’s version of “Mary Don’t You Weep” at the end of his Oscar-nominated film “BlacKkKlansman.”?

We already knew that Marie Kondo cleaned up well, but it’s a whole new level when you do it on the Oscars red carpet.

The Netflix star – who has us all dragging stuffed trash bags to consignment shops – was a welcome surprise Sunday night.

Followers of her Instagram account knew ahead of time, as she announced it on Saturday.

“I’m going to the Oscars! I’ve shared a few photos of my dress fitting in Highlights, above,” the caption read. “Can’t wait to show you more on Sunday.”

Any doubts as to whether Alex Honnold is the greatest rock climber of all time were erased when the American did something that no one thought was humanly possible.

In June 2017, the 33-year-old became the?first person?to climb Californian granite monolith El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without any ropes – a skill known as free soloing.

His achievement has since been immortalized in a breathtaking?BAFTA-winning?National Geographic documentary “Free Solo,” which has been nominated for best documentary at this year’s Oscars.

Directed by award-winning film-makers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, “Free Solo” follows Honnold for more than two years as he prepares for the climb of his life.

However, keeping the cameras at a distance was imperative in order to keep Honnold safe and allow him to have the experience he was craving.

More than 8,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decide the fate of the Oscar nominees.

Folks have noticed that the stage design for the 91st Academy Awards seems to resemble the coif of a certain leader of the free world.

But as President Trump might say, you aren’t seeing what you think you’re seeing.

The stage’s production designer, David Korins, told the Los Angeles Times that the stage design of “a shimmering, swirling symphony of sparkling blues and gold dotted with 1,250 Swarovski crystal strands painstakingly hung above the Dolby stage, weighing 1,600 pounds” was not meant to look like Trump’s hair.

“I don’t see that, but I think that people see in artistic endeavors all sorts of things,” Korins told the publication. “You look at paintings and sculpture and architecture and people see what they want to see. And I choose to see one of inclusion and humanity, femininity and beauty.”

Some celebrities are sharing their secrets to looking red carpet-ready ahead of tonight’s big show.

From red light facials and quiet time to sitting down with a makeup artist, the stars are pulling out all the stops.

Here’s a look at their preparations:

Spike Lee

Allison Janney

Caitlyn Jenner

Octavia Spencer

Constance Wu

Gabrielle Union

Ashley Graham

This year’s Oscar nominations are some of the most diverse ever.

Just check out the best picture nominees alone: “Black Panther,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “Roma” and “Green book.”

Two front-runners for best supporting actor and actress are black — Mahershala Ali and Regina King — and the best director category includes first-timer Spike Lee and Latino director Alfonso Cuarón.

Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio is nominated in the best actress category.

What does it all mean for the state of #OscarsSoWhite? (It’s the campaign that became shorthand a few years ago for the lack of opportunities and recognition for people of color in Hollywood.)

The hashtag was created in 2015 by April Reign, who this year will be attending the Oscars ceremony for the first time.

Lee has publicly credited the campaign with his nominations this year for best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — the organization behind the Oscars — moved to try to improve the diversity by extending membership to more than 900 new members last year, with more women and people of color being included.

But Reign has talked to CNN in the past about the need to not believe the work is done, just because black actors and directors are receiving more recognition.

“Black Panther” made history?as the first superhero film to ever be nominated for best picture.

It’s also the third-highest-grossing movie in domestic history.

The nomination is one of seven for the film overall: The Marvel mega-hit was joined in that category by “BlacKkKlansman,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Favourite,” “Green Book,” “Roma,” “A Star Is Born” and “Vice.”

The nomination is not only a nod to the $700 million that the movie earned in North America alone, but an acknowledgement of its cultural impact, and what it says about Hollywood representation involving people of color. It also follows a history of prior superhero sensations (“The Dark Knight,” “Wonder Woman” among them) being denied the respect that comes with being invited to the entertainment industry’s biggest stage.

The drama about who might host the Academy Awards may well turn out to be more exciting than the show itself.

After Kevin Hart stepped down following controversy over some homophobic comments and tweets from years ago, there was a lot of back and forth over who – if anyone – would step in.

Daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres even had Hart on her show to try to convince him to return to the gig.

She wasn’t successful and the lack of a replacement resulted in ceremony with no host.

But what happens if that formula ends up being successful?

Let’s be honest: The Oscars sometimes suffer by being the last hurrah of awards season. We have already partied through the boozy Golden Globe Awards, embraced the speeches of the Screen Actors Guild Awards and rocked out to the performances at the Grammys.

So maybe not having a host and his or her accompanying opening monologue and jokes to critique might force the Oscars to come up with other ways to entertain the audience.

Though, to be fair, CNN’s Brian Lowry reminded us that the last hostless Academy Awards in 1989 featured the much-mocked opening musical number involving?Rob Lowe and an actress playing Snow White.?It can only get better, right?