Oscar moments: A minute-by-minute breakdown of the 91st Academy Awards
Given the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' intense anxiety over the Oscars ceremony's running time, we thought we'd keep track of the show, (roughly) minute by minute. Here's how the broadcast went:
8 p.m. Queen opens the show. When the academy announced that this would be happening, I immediately feared a "Bohemian Rhapsody" upset for best picture. Let's hope it doesn't happen.
8:11 p.m. Regina King, a season-long favorite despite not having been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild or BAFTA prize, wins supporting actress for "If Beale Street Could Talk." She salutes the great writer and activist James Baldwin, who wrote the novel that inspired the movie, and does one of my favorite things for a winner to do: singles out every other nominee in her
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