2018 (91st Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2018 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.
Best Picture
Green Book, A Charles B. Wessler/Innisfree Pictures/Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures Production; Universal. Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers.
Actor in a Leading Role
Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody, A 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA)
Actress in a Leading Role
Olivia Colman in The Favourite, A Film4/Waypoint Entertainment/Element Pictures/Scarlet Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (Ireland, UK, USA)
Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali in Green Book, A Charles B. Wessler/Innisfree Pictures/Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures Production; Universal.
Actress in a Supporting Role
Regina King in If Beale Street Could Talk, An Annapurna Pictures/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Production; Annapurna Pictures.
Directing
Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA) Alfonso Cuarón.
Animated Feature Film
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, A Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
Cinematography
Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA) Alfonso Cuarón.
Costume Design
Black Panther, A Marvel Studios Production; Walt Disney. Ruth Carter.
Documentary
(Feature)
Free Solo, A National Geographic Documentary Films/Little Monster Films/Itinerant Media/Parkes+MacDonald/Image Nation Production; National Geographic. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill.
(Short Subject)
Film Editing
Bohemian Rhapsody, A 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) John Ottman.
Foreign Language Film
Roma, A Netflix/Participant Media/Esperanto-Filmoj Production; Netflix. (Mexico, USA)
Makeup and Hairstyling
Vice, An Annapurna Pictures/Gary Sanchez Productions/Plan B Entertainment Production; Annapurna Pictures. Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney.
Music
(Original Score)
Black Panther, A Marvel Studios Production; Walt Disney. Ludwig Goransson.
(Original Song)
Shallow from A Star Is Born, A Warner Bros. Pictures Production; Warner Bros. Music and lyric by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt.
Production Design
Black Panther, A Marvel Studios Production; Walt Disney. Production design by Hannah Beachler; set decoration by Jay Hart.
Short Films
(Animated)
Bao, A Pixar Animation Studios Production; Walt Disney. (USA, Canada) Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb.
(Live Action)
Sound Editing
Bohemian Rhapsody, A 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone.
Sound Mixing
Bohemian Rhapsody, A 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali.
Visual Effects
First Man, A DreamWorks Pictures/Temple Hill Entertainment Production; Universal. (USA, Japan) Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm.
Writing
(Adapted Screenplay)
BlacKkKlansman, A QC Entertainment/Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Production; Focus Feature. Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee.
(Original Screenplay)
Green Book, A Charles B. Wessler/Innisfree Pictures/Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures Production; Universal. Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly.
Honorary Award
To Marvin Levy for an exemplary career in publicity that has brought films to the minds, hearts and souls of audiences all over the world. [ [Statuette]]
To Lalo Schifrin in recognition of his unique musical style, compositional integrity and influential contributions to the art of film scoring. [ [Statuette]]
To Cicely Tyson whose unforgettable performances and personal integrity have inspired generations of filmmakers, actors and audiences. [ [Statuette]]
To Curtis Clark in recognition of extraordinary service to the motion picture industry. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific and Technical Award
(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To David Simons, Daniel Wilk, James Acquavella, Michael Natkin and David Cotter for the design and development of the Adobe After Effects software for motion graphics. After Effects’ pioneering use of consumer hardware to host an application that is extensible, efficient and artist-focused has made it the preeminent motion graphics tool in film production, allowing motion designers to create complex animated elements for title design, screen graphics and fictional user interfaces.
To Thomas Knoll and John Knoll for the original architecture, design and development, and to Mark Hamburg for his continued development and engineering of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop’s efficient, extensible architecture, innovative virtual-memory design and powerful layering system introduced a new level of user interactivity, which led to its adoption as the preferred artistic tool for digital painting and image manipulation across the motion picture industry.
To Ed Catmull for the original concept, and to Tony DeRose and Jos Stam for their pioneering advancement of the underlying science of subdivision surfaces as 3D geometric modeling primitives. Their creation of essential geometric operations and sustained research on the fundamental mathematics of subdivision surfaces helped transform the way digital artists represent 3D geometry throughout the motion picture industry.
(Technical Achievement Award)
To Eric Dachs, Erik Bielefeldt, Craig Wood and Paul McReynolds for the design and development of the PIX System’s novel security mechanism for distributing media. PIX System’s robust approach to secure media access has enabled wide adoption of their remotely collaborative dailies-review system by the motion picture industry.
To Per-Anders Edwards for the initial design and development of the MoGraph toolset in Cinema 4D for motion graphics. MoGraph provides a fast, non-destructive and intuitive workflow for motion designers to create animated 3D graphics, as used for title design and fictional user interfaces in motion pictures.
To Paul Miller for the software design, principal engineering and continued innovation, and to Marco Paolini for the efficient, artist-friendly workflow design of the Silhouette rotoscope and paint system. Silhouette provides a comprehensive solution for painting, rotoscoping and image manipulation of high-resolution image sequences. Its fast, scalable and extensible architecture has resulted in wide adoption in motion picture post-production.
To Paul Debevec, Tim Hawkins and Wan-Chun Ma for the invention of the Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination facial appearance capture method, and to Xueming Yu for the design and engineering of the Light Stage X capture system. Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination was a breakthrough in facial capture technology allowing shape and reflectance capture of an actor’s face with sub-millimeter detail, enabling the faithful recreation of hero character faces. The Light Stage X structure was the foundation for all subsequent innovation and has been the keystone of the method’s evolution into a production system.
To Thabo Beeler, Derek Bradley, Bernd Bickel and Markus Gross for the conception, design and engineering of the Medusa Performance Capture System. Medusa captures exceptionally dense animated meshes without markers or makeup, pushing the boundaries of visual fidelity and productivity for character facial performances in motion pictures.
To Charles Loop for his influential research on the fundamental scientific properties of subdivision surfaces as 3D geometric modeling primitives. Loop’s 1987 master’s thesis, “Smooth Subdivision Surfaces Based on Triangles,” together with his subsequent research and publications, extended the theory of subdivision surfaces and inspired further development of methods that transformed the way digital artists represent 3D geometry throughout the motion picture industry.