The 92nd annual Academy Awards happened on Sunday, Feb. 9, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Take a look at what happened during the show, from the opening musical number with Janelle Monáe and Billy Porter night’s big winners to the on-stage productions to behind-the-scenes moments.
The 92nd Academy Awards came to an end in Los Angeles, honouring the best films of 2019. Parasite, director Bong Joon Ho's twisted satire on class divide, leap-frogged through 92 years of Oscars history to become the first non-English and South Korean film ever to win the best picture award. The film collected four awards and was the talk of the night.
In fact, it is one of the largest totals in Oscar history. (Thanks, “The Irishman”)
Now, you could say this is because the number of best picture nominees has increased over the years — and that is true. But this year’s nine nominees were also very long, with three running more than two and a half hours.
For comparison, the last three years (2019, 2018, and 2017), the run time for the best picture nominees totaled 17 hours 35 minutes, 17 hours 25 minutes and 17 hours 25 minutes, respectively. (For those wondering, “Cleopatra,” from director Walter Wanger is the longest best picture nominee ever, running 248 minutes.)
There were a couple of years in the 1930s where there were 12 best picture nominees. And it’s in one of those years — 1935 — that we find a batch of movies that run longer than this year’s nominees.
