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Oscars 2019: All the winners, speeches and shocking moments

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper stole the show at the Oscars — but what happened after the cameras stopped rolling was even more remarkable.

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February 25, 2019 - 5:50PM
Oscars 2019: Gaga wins gold

The 91st Academy Awards opened and closed with a bang, with Queen and Adam Lambert opening the show with a medley of the band’s biggest hits — and a divisive winner taking out the night’s biggest award three-and-a-half hours later.

In between, there were hilarious presenters, sweary speeches and one show-stopping musical moment.

GAGA’S SHOWSTOPPER

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s much-anticipated performance of A Star Is Born hit Shallow didn’t disappoint — the pair rising from their seats in the auditorium’s front row and walking up to the stage arm in arm.

Sure, Cooper doesn’t have Gaga’s vocal chops, but he delivered a servicable set-up of the song’s opening verse, his co-star gazing at him adoringly before she stepped behind the piano to take over.

Yaaas Gaga, yaaaas Cooper.
Yaaas Gaga, yaaaas Cooper.

After she delivered many of the song’s biggest notes, Cooper took a seat close to her behind the piano, joining her for the finale.

Can they adopt me?
Can they adopt me?

The camera closed in tight on their faces for the song’s final moments, the on-screen couple looking like they’d kiss any second:

“We did it.”
“We did it.”

Drama! Talent! Sex appeal! Coming as it did more than two hours into what had been a bit of a sedate ceremony, these two stars delivered what this Oscars sorely needed: a BIG MOMENT.

And the magic continued after the cameras stopped rolling, as the pair exited the stage to return to their seats in the audience. Hollywood Reporter writer Chris Gardner captured the moment — an impromtu, ad break standing ovation for the pair:

“I’ve never seen that happen for any performers,” he writes.

Viewers were in love with the duo’s magnetic performance:

Their performance came just minutes before the Best Original Song award was handed out, and of course Lady Gaga won it. Can you imagine if she hadn’t? After that performance?

Gaga wept harder than she had all awards season as she accepted what would be A Star Is Born’s only Oscar.

“Bradley: There is not a single person on the planet that could have sang this song with me but you. Thank you for believing in us,” she told her co-star, who sat beaming in the audience.

We hope Lady Gaga’s kept well-hydrated during this very tearful awards season. Picture: Channel 9
We hope Lady Gaga’s kept well-hydrated during this very tearful awards season. Picture: Channel 9

BIG WINNERS

A biographical drama about racism in the 1960s Deep South, Green Book took home the biggest award of the night, Best Picture.

“This whole story is about love. It’s about loving each other, despite our differences and finding out the truth about who we are,” said director Peter Farrelly as he accepted the award.

But the film’s release has not been without controversy, many criticising its “white saviour” narrative and news.com.au’s own Wenlei Ma writing that it offers a “simplistic, even naive, view that if we just stopped fighting each other and shake hands comes from the privileged perspective of people who aren’t still fighting for equal rights and treatment.”

There’s also the matter of the scandals that have recently rocked director Farrelly and co-screenwriter Nick Vallelonga, both facing allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

Green Book’s win is proving controversial among Oscars viewers:

Indeed, fellow nominee and Blackkklansman director Spike Lee couldn’t hide his displeasure at the win, according to this AP reporter who was in the room:

Before that: A big shock! Olivia Colman won the Best Actress award for playing Queen Anne in The Favourite, beating Melissa McCarthy, Olivia Colman, Yalitza Aparicio, Lady Gaga and the definite favourite in the category, Glenn Close.

Olivia Colman, clearly stunned.
Olivia Colman, clearly stunned.

The British actress, who’s getting quite the reputation for hilarious, scene-stealing speeches, was clearly stunned.

“This is hilarious... got an Oscar!” she said as she clutched the award. Fighting back tears, her speech was funny and moving — just perfect. R ead it in full over at our winner’s list story.

I’m not crying, you’re crying.
I’m not crying, you’re crying.

Rami Malek won Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. He beats out a talented field: Willem Dafoe, Bradley Cooper, Viggo Mortensen and Christian Bale.

“I may not have been the obvious choice, but I guess it worked out,” he said of his casting in the film.

He left the Freddie teeth at home.
He left the Freddie teeth at home.

“We made a film about a gay man and immigrant, who lived his life unapologetically himself. And the fact that I’m celebrating him and this story with you tonight is proof that we are longing for stories like this. I am the son of immigrants from Egypt. I’m a first generation American and part of my story is being written right now.”

No mention from Malek of Bryan Singer, the embattled Bohemian Rhapsody director who was fired from the project during filming (and rumoured clashes with Malek) and who now faces multiple sexual assault allegations.

Malek’s family, including his twin brother and mum, looked very proud during his speech:

Malek’s family.
Malek’s family.

Alfonso Cuaron won the Best Director award for his Mexican drama Roma.

“I want to thank the Academy for recognising a film centred around an Indigenous woman. One of the 70 million domestic workers in the world without work rights; a character that historically had been relegated in the background in cinema. As artists, our job is to look where others don’t,” he said.

Outstanding Supporting Actress was the night’s first award, and Regina King took it out for If Beale Street Could Talk. So that means The Favourite favourites Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone presumbaly cancelled out each other’s votes, then.

Regina King. AFP
Regina King. AFP
Mahershala Ali. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty
Mahershala Ali. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty

Mahershala Ali won the Outstanding Supporting Actor award for Green Book — his second win from two nominations in this category (he first won for Moonlight).

Green Book also took home the award for Best Original Screenplay, while BlacKkKlansman won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Filmmaker Spike Lee delivered a serious warning to any producer who dared time his speech and give him the wind-up: “Do not turn that motherf***in’ clock on,” he screamed into the microphone at the start of his speech.

WHY DIDN’T THEY HOST?

Comedians Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph teamed up to present the night’s first award during this, the first host-less Oscars in 30 years.

“Just a quick update for everybody in case you are confused. There is no host tonight, there won’t be a popular movie category, and Mexico is not paying for the wall,” quipped Rudolph.

“Roma is on Netflix? What next, my microwave makes a movie?” asked Fey.

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“Don’t worry Bradley, after four kids I too have peed myself at the Grammys,” said Rudolph, a Star Is Born reference which earned a big laugh from Cooper.

“Hey everyone, look under your seats, you’re all getting one of those cheese sandwiches from the Fyre Festival!” joked Fey.

Seriously, why couldn’t they stick around for the whole show?

Why didn’t they just host?
Why didn’t they just host?

Daily Show host Trevor Noah also earned big laughs when he presented clips from Best Picture nominee Black Panther.

“Backstage Mel Gibson came to me and said ‘Wakanda forever’. He said another word after that, but the Wakanda part was nice,” he joked.

FURRY SCENE STEALERS

Melissa McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry presented the Costume Design award — McCarthy dressed up like a rabbit-covered Queen Anne from The Favourite.

She really went for it. Picture: Getty
She really went for it. Picture: Getty

Black Panther won, but McCarthy and her many, many rabbits (some of them moving) are the total scene stealers fof the segment

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

FAB OR FLAT?

Singer Jennifer Hudson performed one of tonight’s Best Song nominees, I’ll Fight from RBG, with a booming performance ending with a note that seemed to go on forever (and ever). Take a listen:

It was certainly loud — but did she actually sound good? Viewers were divided:

Bette Midler fared better with a controlled, assured performance of another of this year’s Best Original Song nominees, The Place Where Lost Things Go from Mary Poppins Returns.

Bette Midler nailed that slightly dull song. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Bette Midler nailed that slightly dull song. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

OTHER WINNERS

Dick Cheney biopic Vice wins for Make-up and Hairstyling, with a trio from the film taking the stage for a shambolic acceptance speech (didn’t they rehearse? It seemed like they were reading those thank you’s for the first time!) that eventually sees them played off. Cringe.

Best Documentary goes to nail-biting rock climbing epic Free Solo.

wins best Production Design.

Best Cinematography presenter Tyler Perry couldn’t help but reference the controversy when this and several other categories were shunted from a telecast a few weeks back, before being re-added to the ceremony line-up.

“It is a true honour for me to present this next award live on camera, not during the commercial break, thank you Academy,” said Perry, before he presents the award to Alfonso Cuaron for Roma. Cuaron and Roma also won the Best Foreign Language Film award.

Bohemian Rhapsody won for Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Film Editing. As with Malek’s accpetance speech, none of the people on stage mention the film’s embattled director Bryan Singer.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won Best Animated Feature, while Bao, the Pixar short that screened in cinemas before The Incredibles 2, picked up the award for Best Animated Short.

A Netflix doco about menstruation taboos in India, Period. End of Sentence, won the Best Documentary Short award, and filmmakers Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton scored huge applause with their inspiring words.

“I’m not crying because I’m on my period or anything. I can’t believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar!”

Moon landing historical drama First Man wion the Oscar for Visual Effects, while Black Panther won Best Original Score.

R ED CARPET

Earlier, A-list stars walked the red carpet in their finest, with some real fashion risks on show this year — including one male actor’s bold ‘tuxedo dress’ showstopper, and an unfortunate pink frilly ‘atrocity’ from Green Book star Linda Cardellini.

There was also this bizarre moment from Glenn Close, caught on camera giving fellow Best Actress nominee Melissa McCarthy a wonderfully strange look across the red carpet:

We’re going to assume this was a private joke and she wasn’t actually trying to psyche her out / put a hex on her.

News.com.au entertainment reporter Andrew Bucklow was on the ground live at the Oscars, and in the lead-up to today’s event, he talked his way into an exclusive Oscars gifting suite and got his mitts on some of the high-priced swag celebs walk away with just for turning up today.

Oscars 2019 fashion: Ruffles and Riches on the Academy Awards Red Carpet

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