The nominations for the 91st Academy Awards were handed out yesterday. Hollywood is swept up with the preparations.
So let’s find out some facts about the 91st ceremony!
- The 91st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will honor the best films of 2018
- It will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
- The ceremony will be held on February 24, 2019
- During the ceremony, AMPAS will present Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories
- The ceremony will be televised in the United States by American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
- It will be produced by Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss
- Weiss is also serving as director
- The Academy held its 10th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center
- It was held on November 18, 2018
- On Febraury 4, 2019, is the nominees luncheon
- Final voting for the Oscars 2019 begins on February 12
- And it ends on February 19
- The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were announced on January 22, 2019
- At 5:20 a.m. PST (13:20 UTC)
- At the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California
- Oscars 2019 nominations was announced by actors Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross
- The Academy held its 10th annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 18, 2018
- The recipients were:
- Cicely Tyson – American actress
- Lalo Schifrin – Argentine-born American composer
- Marvin Levy – American publicis
- For the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award were:
- Kathleen Kennedy – American producer
- Frank Marshall – American produce
- Due to the mixed receptions and declining ratings for the last two ceremonies, producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd declined to helm the Oscar production
- They were replaced by Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss as producers
- On August 8, 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the creation of a brand new category, Best Popular Film, to reward the best popular films of the year
- The category was met with exceedingly negative reception
- The following month, the Academy announced that the category will be delayed to “examine and seek additional input regarding the new category”
- On December 4, 2018, it was announced that Kevin Hart would host the ceremony
- Hart expressed that it was truly an honor and a thrill to be asked to host the Academy Awards
- A controversy emerged when past jokes and comments made by Hart were found to contain anti-gay slurs and language
- Hart withdrew from hosting duties on December 6, saying he did not want to be a “distraction” to the ceremony
- Previous Oscar hosts such as Seth MacFarlane, Ellen DeGeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, Chris Rock, and Jimmy Kimmel expressed no interest in hosting the show
- On January 9, 2019, it was reported that the Academy was planning to hold the ceremony without a host, instead having selected presenters introduce segments and awards
- It is set to be the first ceremony without a designated host since the 61st Academy Awards in 1989
- It is rumored that the actors from the Avengers will be some kind of hosts
- At the time of the nominations announcement on January 22, 2019, the combined gross of the seven Best Picture nominees at the North American box offices was $1,260.8 billion
- Best Picture nominees are 8
- Due to Roma being a Netflix release there are no known grosses
- Thirty-two nominations went to 12 films on the list of the top 50 grossing movies of the year
- Of those 6 films, only Black Panther (1st), Incredibles 2 (3rd), A Star Is Born (12th), Bohemian Rhapsody (13th), Ralph Breaks the Internet (14th), and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (18th) were nominated for Best Picture, Best Animated Feature or any of the directing, acting or screenwriting awards
- The other top 50 box-office hits that earned nominations were Avengers: Infinity War (2nd), Solo: A Star Wars Story (10th), A Quiet Place (15th), Mary Poppins Returns (19th), Ready Player One (24th), and Christopher Robin (34th)
- The most nominations where given to The Favourite and Roma both with 10
- Vice and A Star is Born have 8
- 7 nominations for Black Panther
- 6 for BlacKkKlansman
- 5 for Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book
- 4 for First Man and Mary Poppins Returns
- 3 for Cold War, Can You Ever Forgive Me? and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- And 2 for Isle of Dogs, Never Look Away, RBG and Mary Queen of Scots
- The studio with the most nominations is Walt Disney Studios with 16
- Followed with 15 by Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Netflix has 15
- The best showing for the streaming service
- 11 for Annapurna Pictures
- 9 for Warner Bros and Universal Pictures
- 8 for Focus Features
- 5 for 20th Century Fox
- 4 for Magnolia Pictures and Sony Pictures Classics
- 3 for Amazon Studios
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