After a chaotic lead up to the 91st Academy Awards that was fraught with controversy—the host-less Oscars turned out to be a success and Hollywood breathed a sigh of relief.

The Academy voted for films that celebrated diversity, characters outside of the mainstream struggling to fit in, courage in the face of injustice, friendship, greater understanding between perceived enemies, and films that showcased compassion and love for our cultural differences.

In Alfonso Cuarón’s words: “Our job as artists is to look where others don’t.”

For those who have ambitions to win an Academy Award, based on this year’s winner’s list, the message is loud and clear—dare to include the stories of those we have not seen or rarely ever see in film, deliver a message that promotes greater compassion, focus on universal stories which transcend language and culture, and make a film that is a heart-string-pulling tear-jerker, which is genuinely personal to you, beyond any vacuous need for a golden statuette.

The reason why Green Book won Best Picture and BlacKkKlansman didn’t has less to do with the current argument on Twitter and more to do with the simple fact that: in the end, only the heart will matter. Not the angst, not the arguments, not the intellectual gymnastics that the internet likes to have about art.

What we as human beings are geared towards are feelings and we are moved by them more than logic or ethics. Though, to be clear, this is not to say Lee’s film wasn’t more masterful—intellectually and cinematically. However, the movie that won was the one that was more heart-centred. In the end, that’s the only thing that connects us and that’s what won out.

Here is the 91st Academy Awards Full Winners list and the best quotes from every speech:

Best Supporting Actress

Regina King — If Beale Street Could Talk — WINNER

Amy Adams — Vice

Marina de Tavira — Roma

Emma Stone — The Favourite

Rachel Weisz — The Favourite

Best Documentary Feature

Free Solo — Jimmy Chin — WINNER

Hale County This Morning — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyis

Minding the Gap — Bing Liu

Of Fathers and Sons — Talal Derki

RBG, Betsy West — Julie Cohen

Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

Vice — Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney — WINNER

Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer — Border

Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks — Mary Queen of Scots

Achievement in Costume Design

Ruth E. Carter — Black Panther — WINNER (The first African-American woman to win)

Mary Zophres — The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Sandy Powell — The Favourite

Sandy Powell — Mary Poppins Returns

Alexandra Byrne — Mary Queen of Scots

Best Production Design

Hannah Beachler — Black Panther — WINNER (The first African-American woman to win)

Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas — First Man

Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton — The Favourite

John Myhre and Gordon Sim — Mary Poppins Returns

Eugenio Caballero, Barbara Enrquez — Roma

Cinematography

Alfonso Cuarón — Roma — WINNER

Lukasz Zal — Cold War

Robbie Ryan — The Favourite

Caleb Deschanel — Never Look Away

Matthew Libatique — A Star Is Born

Achievement in Sound Editing

John Warhurst — Bohemian Rhapsody — WINNER

Benjamin A Burtt, Steve Boeddeker — Black Panther

Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan — First Man

Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl — A Quiet Place

Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay — Roma

Achievement in Sound Mixing

Bohemian Rhapsody — WINNER

Black Panther

First Man

Roma

A Star Is Born

Best Foreign Language Film

Roma — Mexico — WINNER

Capernaum — Lebanon

Cold War — Poland

Never Look Away — Germany

Shoplifters — Japan

Best Film Editing

John Ottman — Bohemian Rhapsody — WINNER

Barry Alexander Brown — BlacKkKlansman

Patrick J. Don Vito — Green Book

Yorgos Mavropsaridis — The Favourite

Hank Corwin — Vice

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali — Green Book — WINNER

Adam Driver — BlacKkKlansman

Sam Elliott — A Star Is Born

Richard E Grant — Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Sam Rockwell — Vice

Best Animated Feature

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman — WINNER

Incredibles 2 — Brad Bird

Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson

Mamoru Hosoda — Mirai

Ralph Breaks the Internet — Rich Moore and Phil Johnston

Best Animated Short

Bao — Domee Shi — WINNER

Animal Behaviour — Alison Snowden and David Fine

Late Afternoon — Louise Bagnall

One Small Step — Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas

Weekends — Trevor Jimenez

Best Documentary Short Subject

Period. End of Sentence — Rayka Zehtabchi — WINNER

Black Sheep — Ed Perkins

End Game — Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein

Lifeboat — Skye Fitzgerald

A Night at the Garden — Marshall Curry

Achievement in Visual Effects

First Man — WINNER

Avengers: Infinity War

Christopher Robin

Ready Player One

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Best Live Action Short Film

Skin — Guy Nattiv — WINNER

Detainment — Vincent Lambe

Fauve — Jeremy Comte

Marguerite — Marianne Farley

Mother — Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Best Original Screenplay

Green Book — Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly — WINNER

The Favourite — Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara

First Reformed — Paul Schrader

Roma — Alfonso Cuaron

Vice — Adam McKay

Best Adapted Screenplay

BlacKkKlansman — Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee — WINNER

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty

If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins

A Star Is Born — Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters

Best Original Score

Ludwig Goransson — Black Panther — WINNER

Terence Blanchard — BlacKkKlansman

Nicholas Britell — If Beale Street Could Talk

Alexandre Desplat — Isle of Dogs

Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman — Mary Poppins Returns

Best Original Song

‘Shallow’ from A Star Is Born by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice — WINNER

‘All The Stars’ from Black Panther by Kendrick Lamar and SZA

‘I'll Fight’ from RBG by Diane Warren and Jennifer Hudson

‘The Place Where Lost Things Go’ from Mary Poppins Returns by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman

‘When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings’ from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch

Best Lead Actor

Rami Malek — Bohemian Rhapsody — WINNER

Christian Bale — Vice

Bradley Cooper — A Star Is Born

Willem Dafoe — At Eternity's Gate

Viggo Mortensen — Green Book

Best Lead Actress

Olivia Colman — The Favourite — WINNER

Yalitza Aparicio — Roma

Glenn Close — The Wife — WINNER

Lady Gaga — A Star Is Born

Melissa McCarthy — Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Director

Alfonso Cuaron — Roma — WINNER

Spike Lee — BlacKkKlansman

Pawel Pawlikowski — Cold War

Yorgos Lanthimos — The Favourite

Adam McKay — Vice

Best Picture

Green Book — WINNER

Black Panther

BlacKkKlansman

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Favourite

Roma

A Star Is Born

Vice

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