Bohemian Rhapsody is a 2018 biographical film about Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the British rock band Queen. It follows the singer's life from when he joins the band in 1970 to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the former Wembley Stadium in London. A British-American venture, it was produced by 20th Century Fox, New Regency, GK Films, and Queen Films, with Fox serving as distributor. Directed by Bryan Singer, it was written by Anthony McCarten, and produced by Graham King and Queen manager Jim Beach. It stars Rami Malek as Mercury, with Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joe Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander, Allen Leech, and Mike Myers in supporting roles. Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor served as consultants. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2018 and in the United States on 2 November 2018, and became a major box office success, grossing over worldwide on a production budget of about , becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2018 worldwide and setting the all-time box office records for the biopic and drama genres.
Bohemian Rhapsody received numerous accolades, including a leading four awards at the 91st Academy Awards for Best Actor (Malek), Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing; it was also nominated for Best Picture, making it Fox's final standalone release to be nominated in that category before its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company on March 20, 2019. The film won Best Motion Picture – Drama at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, and was nominated for the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture and BAFTA Award for Best British Film, while Malek won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA awards for Best Actor.
In the wake of the renewed sexual abuse allegations against director Bryan Singer, GLAAD withdrew Bohemian Rhapsody's nomination for the year's GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Film – Wide Release category. On 6 February 2019, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts removed Singer's name from Bohemian Rhapsody's nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film.
Accolades Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result AACTA Awards 4 January 2019 Best Film Bohemian Rhapsody Best Actor Best Screenplay AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards 4 February 2019 Best Ensemble Bohemian Rhapsody Best Time Capsule Academy Awards 24 February 2019 Best Picture Best Actor Best Film Editing Best Sound Editing and Nina Hartstone Best Sound Mixing , Tim Cavagin and John Casali Alliance of Women Film Journalists 10 January 2019 Best Actor American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards 1 February 2019 Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic Art Directors Guild Awards 2 February 2019 Excellence in Production Design for a Period Film Austin Film Critics Association 7 January 2019 Best Actor Bandung Film Festival22 November 2019Honorable Imported FilmsBohemian Rhapsody British Academy Film Awards 10 February 2019 Best British Film Best Actor in a Leading Role Best Cinematography Best Sound , Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst Best Costume Design Best Makeup and Hair , Jan Sewell Best Editing Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 7 December 2018 Best Actor Cinema Audio Society Awards 16 February 2019 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film Bohemian Rhapsody Costume Designers Guild Awards 19 February 2019 Excellence in Period Film Critics' Choice Movie Awards 13 January 2019 Best Actor Best Costume Design Best Hair and Makeup Bohemian Rhapsody Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association17 December 2018 Best Actor David di Donatello Awards 27 March 2019 Best Foreign Film Bohemian Rhapsody Detroit Film Critics Society 3 December 2018 Best Actor Best Use of Music Bohemian Rhapsody Georgia Film Critics Association 11 January 2019 Best Actor Golden Globe Awards 6 January 2019 Best Motion Picture – Drama Bohemian Rhapsody Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro 14 August 2019 Best Foreign Feature Film Bohemian Rhapsody Guild of Music Supervisors Awards 13 February 2019 Best Music Supervision for Films Budgeted Over $25 Million Houston Film Critics Society 3 January 2019 Best Actor ICG Publicists Awards 22 February 2019 Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship of the Year – Motion Picture Bohemian Rhapsody Japan Academy Film Prize 1 March 2019 Outstanding Foreign Language Film Bohemian Rhapsody Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards 9 January 2019 Best Actor Best Comedy/Musical Bohemian Rhapsody Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards16 February 2019 Feature-Length Motion Picture – Best Period and/or Character Make-Up , Mark Coulier Feature-Length Motion Picture – Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling , Julio Parodi Motion Picture Sound Editors' Golden Reel Awards17 February 2019 Feature Film – Musical Bohemian Rhapsody Feature Film – Dialogue / ADR MTV Movie & TV Awards 17 June 2019 Best Performance in a Movie Best Musical Moment "Live Aid" Concert Palm Springs International Film Festival3 January 2019 Breakthrough Performance Award Producers Guild of America 19 January 2019 Best Theatrical Motion Picture San Diego Film Critics Society 10 December 2018 Best Breakout Artist Best Use of Music in a Film Bohemian Rhapsody San Francisco Film Critics Circle 9 December 2018 Best Actor Santa Barbara International Film Festival 1 February 2019 Outstanding Performance of the Year Award Satellite Awards17 February 2019 Best Actor – Comedy/Musical Screen Actors Guild Award 27 January 2019 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture , Aidan Gillen, Ben Hardy, Tom Hollander, Gwilym Lee, Allen Leech, Rami Malek, Joe Mazzello, and Mike Myers Seattle Film Critics Society 17 December 2018 Best Actor St. Louis Film Critics Association 16 December 2018 Best Soundtrack Bohemian Rhapsody: The Original Soundtrack Best Actor Special Merit (for best scene, cinematic technique or other memorable aspect or moment) Live Aid Visual Effects Society Awards 5 February 2019 Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture , Tim Field, May Leung, and Andrew Simmonds Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 3 December 2018 Best Actor
See also 2018 in film
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