The 91st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2018 and took place on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and was produced by Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, with Weiss also serving as director. This was the first telecast to have no host since the 61st ceremony held in 1989.

In related events, the Academy held its 10th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 18, 2018. The Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host David Oyelowo on February 9, 2019, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Green Book won three awards including Best Picture. Other winners included Bohemian Rhapsody with four awards, Black Panther and Roma with three awards, and Bao, BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, First Man, Free Solo, If Beale Street Could Talk, Period. End of Sentence., Skin, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Star Is Born, and Vice with one. The telecast garnered 29.56 million viewers in the United States.

The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were announced on January 22, 2019, at 5:20 a.m. PST, at the Academy headquarters in Beverly Hills, by actors Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross. The Favourite and Roma tied for the most nominations with ten each.

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2019. For the second time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, every Best Picture nominee won at least one award. Roma became the fifth film nominated simultaneously for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film in the same year. Moreover, its ten nominations tied the film with 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the most nominated foreign language film. Alfonso Cuarón was the first person to win Best Director and Best Cinematography for the same film. Black Panther was the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture.

Best Supporting Actor winner Mahershala Ali became the second black performer to win multiple acting awards after Denzel Washington who won Best Supporting Actor for 1989's Glory and Best Actor for 2001's Training Day. With her nominations in Best Actress and Best Original Song for A Star Is Born, Lady Gaga was the second person to receive acting and songwriting nominations for the same film after Mary J. Blige for 2017's Mudbound. Best Costume Design winner Ruth E. Carter and Best Production Design co-winner Hannah Beachler were the first black winners in their respective categories and the first black women to win in a non-acting category since Irene Cara who won the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling" from 1983's Flashdance.

Best Picture
Green Book, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Roma, A Star Is Born, Vice

Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón, Spike Lee, Paweł Pawlikowski, Yorgos Lanthimos, Adam McKay

Best Actor
Rami Malek, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Willem Dafoe, Viggo Mortensen

Best Actress
Olivia Colman, Yalitza Aparicio, Glenn Close, Lady Gaga, Melissa McCarthy

Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali, Adam Driver, Sam Elliott, Richard E. Grant, Sam Rockwell

Best Supporting Actress
Regina King, Amy Adams, Marina de Tavira, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz

Best Original Screenplay
Green Book, The Favourite, First Reformed, Roma, Vice

Best Adapted Screenplay
BlacKkKlansman, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, If Beale Street Could Talk, A Star Is Born

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