Oscars 2020 - Joker Leads The Pack With 11 Nominations

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards bright and early Monday with the Oscars telecast less than a month away.  As always, some lucky nominees saw their dreams fulfilled while even more will have to wait for another day.

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Todd Phillips and “Joker” led the pack with 11 nominations, beating the record for the most nominations ever for a comic-book movie, adding to its previous record of being the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, now a follow up is all but guaranteed. Though a nomination for Joaquin Phoenix was expected, two nods to Todd Phillips took some people by surprise, especially since Greta Gerwig was shut out of the Best Director race.

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Right behind “Joker” are “The Irishman,” “1917” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” with 10 nominations each, including best director, screenplay, cinematography, and supporting actor. Curiously enough, while Quentin Tarantino’s film got nods for both best actor and best supporting actor, Robert De Niro got snubbed from the best actor race, while Jonathan Pryce managed to take one of the five slots, in one of the three nominations for “The Two Popes.”

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While Amazon started the streaming wars with nominations and wins for its films a couple of years back, Netflix has now fully entered the race. Where the Golden Globes failed to give the streaming giant the recognition it hoped for, this morning’s Oscar nominations ended with more than 20 nods to Netflix, with “The Irishman,” “Marriage Story,” “The Two Popes” and even the animated films “Klaus” and “I Lost My Body” as well as the documentary “American Factory” getting nominations. An impressive jump considering the streaming service got its first Oscar just two years ago in 2018 for the documentary “Icarus.”

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Another curious development is that all but two of the 11 screenplay nominations (adapted and original) were written or co-written by their directors. Maybe it’s a sign that the Academy is getting more interested in auteur directors or directors who like to be involved in the entire process, or maybe it’s just a coincidence. Either way, one of these writers is bound to also win best director, so they better get another speech ready.

The 92nd Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 9 and broadcast live on ABC beginning at 5 PM PT, 8 PM ET.

The full list of this year’s Oscar nominations are as follows:

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Laura Dern, “Marriage Story”
Kathy Bates, “Richard Jewell”
Scarlett Johansson, “Jojo Rabbit”
Florence Pugh, “Little Women”
Margot Robbie, “Bombshell”

COSTUMES
Mayes C. Rubeo, “Jojo Rabbit”
Mark Bridges, “Joker”
Jacqueline Durran, “Little Women”
Arianne Phillips, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”
Christopher Peterson, Sandy Powell, “The Irishman”

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“Bombshell”
“Joker”
“Judy”
“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”
“1917”

SOUND EDITING
“1917”
“Ford v Ferrari”
“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”
“Joker”
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

SOUND MIXING
“Ad Astra”
“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”
“Ford v Ferrari”
“Joker”
“1917”

ORIGINAL SCORE
Michael Giacchino, “Jojo Rabbit”
Alexandre Desplat, “Little Women”
Randy Newman, “Marriage Story”
Thomas Newman, “1917”
John Williams, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Anthony Hopkins, “The Two Popes”
Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood”
Al Pacino, “The Irishman”
Joe Pesci, “The Irishman”
Brad Pitt, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“American Factory”
“The Cave”
“For Sama”
“Honeyland”
“The Edge of Democracy”

INTERNATIONAL FILM
“Honeyland” (North Macedonia)
“Les Miserables” (France)
“Pain and Glory” (Spain)
“Parasite” (South Korea)
“Corpus Christi” (Poland)

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dennis Glasser for “1917”
Barbara Ling for “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”
Lee Ha Jun for “Parasite”
Bob Shaw for “The Irishman”
Ra Vincent for “Jojo Rabbit”

EDITING
Thelma Schoonmaker, “The Irishman”
Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland, “Ford v Ferrari”
Yang Jin-Mo, “Parasite”
Tom Eagles, “Jojo Rabbit”
Jeff Groth, “Joker”

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins, “1917”
Jarin Blaschke, “The Lighthouse”
Rodrigo Prieto, “The Irishman”
Robert Richardson, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”
Lawrence Sher, “Joker”

VISUAL EFFECTS
“1917”
“Avengers: Endgame”
“The Irishman”
“The Lion King”
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“Bombshell”
“Joker”
“Judy”
“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”
“1917”

ANIMATED FEATURE
“Klaus”
“How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World”
“I Lost My Body”
“Missing Link”
“Toy Story 4”

ORIGINAL SONG
“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” from “Toy Story 4”
“I’m Gonna Love Me Again” from “Rocketman”
“Into the Unknown” from “Frozen II”
“I’m Standing With You” from “Breakthrough”
“Stand Up” from “Harriet”

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Greta Gerwig, “Little Women”
Anthony McCarten, “The Two Popes”
Todd Phillips and Scott Silver, “Joker”
Taika Watiti, “Jojo Rabbit”
Steven Zaillian, “The Irishman”

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Noah Baumbach, “Marriage Story”
Rian Johnson, “Knives Out”
Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite”
Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns, “1917”
Quentin Tarantino, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”

BEST ACTOR
Antonio Banderas, “Pain and Glory”
Adam Driver, “Marriage Story”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”
Jonathan Pryce, “The Two Popes”
Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”

BEST ACTRESS
Scarlett Johansson, “Marriage Story”
Cynthia Erivo, “Harriet”
Saoirse Ronan, “Little Women”
Charlize Theron, “Bombshell”
Rene Zellweger, “Judy”

BEST DIRECTOR
Todd Phillips, “Joker”
Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite”
Sam Mendes, “1917”
Martin Scorsese, “The Irishman”
Quentin Tarantino, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”

BEST PICTURE
“Ford v Ferrari”
“The Irishman”
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Joker”
“Little Women”
“Marriage Story”
“1917”
“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”
“Parasite”