OUTSTANDING PICTURE

Burning (Produced by Lee Joon-dong & Lee Chang-dong)

Cold War (Produced by Tanya Seghatchian & Ewa Puszczynska)

The Favourite (Produced by Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday & Yorgos Lanthimos)

If Beale Street Could Talk (Produced by Megan Ellison, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy & Barry Jenkins)

Widows (Produced by Steve McQueen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman & Arnon Milchan)

AND THE WINNER IS:

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (PRODUCED BY MEGAN ELISON, DEDE GARDNER, JEREMY KLEINER, ADELE ROMANSKI, SARA MURPHY & BARRY JENKINS) These are the first wins for Sara Murphy & Megan Ellison, second win for Adele Romanski, third wins for Dede Gardner & Jeremy Kleiner and fifth win for Barry Jenkins. Megan Ellison was previously nominated for Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Her (2013) & American Hustle (2013). Dede and Jeremy won producing 12 Years a Slave (2013) & Moonlight (2016). The two were also nominated together and separetly for producing The Tree of Life (2011) and Selma (2014).
With this win, If Beale Street Could Talk tops out at five wins and eleven nominations. The film won for picture, director, adapted screenplay, cinematography & original score. The film was also nominated for leading actor (James) supporting actor (Henry), supporting actress (King), costume design, ensemble & film editing.
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is a film that while not fully appreciated in 2018 will be in the future I believe will be greatly appreciated. It's a film about love, passion, injustice, fear and so many other descriptive words that it would take too long to go into.