It’s awards season again and following up on its long list of nods for the BAFTAs, Joker has topped the Oscars 2020 nominations tally with a total of 11, which is very impressive for a comic book adaptation. It’s followed closely by 1917, The Irishman and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood with ten nominations each, so it looks like there might be a lot of shared honours this time around.
In addition to getting the highest number of nominations, Joker has also done well in terms of the big four with inclusions in three of the top categories. It’s in for Best Picture, Joaquin Phoenix is in the Bedt Actor category and Todd Phillips is down for Best Director, leaving only Best Actress in the top four without a nod for the film.
The other categories it is in are Writing (Adapted Screen Play) by Todd Phillips and Scott Silver, Best Cinematography for Lawrence Sher, Best Costume Design by Mark Bridges, Best Editing by Jeff Groff, Best Make Up for Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou, Music (Original Score) by Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Sound Editing by Alan Robert Murray, Sound Mixing by Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod Maitland.
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Hot on the heels of Joker are 1917, The Irishman and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood with ten nominations and they’re also in with a shout for a few of the big categories at the 92nd Academy Awards. They’re all nominated for Best Picture and Best Director for Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino respectively. Only Leonardo DiCaprio will be up against Joaquin Phoenix for the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Rick Dalton in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
The best of the rest includes Marriage Story, Little Women, Parasite and Jojo Rabbit, each with six nominations and Ford vs Ferrari getting placed in four categories. They all feature in the Best Picture category alongside Joker, but only Parasite has made into contention for the Directing with Bong Joon Ho’s nod being all the more impressive considering the film is Korean.
The areas that Joker didn’t do so well are in the Best Actress and supporting roles categories, but then the film was pretty much dedicated to the central character, so it definitely makes sense. It’s an impressive haul and it’s definitely going to be interesting to see how well it does during the 2020 Oscars awards ceremony on the 9th February.
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2020 Oscars nominations list in full
Best Picture
- 1917
- Ford v Ferrari
- The Irishman
- Jojo Rabbit
- Joker
- Little Women
- Marriage Story
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Parasite
Actor
- Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory as Salvador Mallo
- Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Rick Dalton
- Adam Driver – Marriage Story as Charlie Barber
- Joaquin Phoenix – Joker as Arthur Fleck / Joker
- Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Actress
- Cynthia Erivo – Harriet as Harriet Tubman
- Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story as Nicole Barber
- Saoirse Ronan – Little Women as Josephine “Jo” March
- Charlize Theron – Bombshell as Megyn Kelly
- Renée Zellweger – Judy as Judy Garland
Supporting Actor
- Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Fred Rogers
- Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes as Pope Benedict XVI
- Al Pacino – The Irishman as Jimmy Hoffa
- Joe Pesci – The Irishman as Russell Bufalino
- Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Cliff Booth
Supporting Actress
- Kathy Bates – Richard Jewell as Barbara Jewell
- Laura Dern – Marriage Story as Nora Fanshaw
- Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit as Rosie Betzler
- Florence Pugh – Little Women as Amy March
- Margot Robbie – Bombshell as Kayla Pospisil
Director
- Bong Joon-ho – Parasite
- Sam Mendes – 1917
- Todd Phillips – Joker
- Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
- Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Writing (Original Screenplay)
- 1917 – Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns
- Knives Out – Rian Johnson
- Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
- Parasite – Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
- The Irishman – Steven Zaillian
- Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi
- Joker – Todd Phillips and Scott Silver
- Little Women – Greta Gerwig
- The Two Popes – Anthony McCarten
Cinematography
- 1917 – Roger Deakins
- The Irishman – Rodrigo Prieto
- Joker – Lawrence Sher
- The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Robert Richardson
Best Film Editing
- Ford v Ferrari – Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker
- The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker
- Jojo Rabbit – Tom Eagles
- Joker – Jeff Groth
- Parasite – Yang Jin-mo
Best Visual Effects
- 1917 – Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler, and Dominic Tuohy
- Avengers: Endgame – Dan DeLeeuw, Matt Aitken, Russell Earl, and Dan Sudick
- The Irishman – Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, and Nelson Sepulveda
- The Lion King – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Elliot Newman
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach, and Dominic Tuohy
Animated Feature Film
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
- I Lost My Body
- Klaus
- Missing Link
- Toy Story 4
International Feature Film
- Corpus Christi
- Honeyland
- Les Misérables
- Pain and Glory
- Parasite
Documentary Feature
- American Factory
- The Cave
- The Edge of Democracy
- For Sama
- Honeyland
Documentary Short Subject
- In the Absence
- Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)
- Life Overtakes Me
- St. Louis Superman
- Walk Run Cha-Cha
Live Action Short Film
- Brotherhood
- Nefta Football Club
- The Neighbors’ Window
- Saria
- A Sister
Animated Short Film
- Dcera (Daughter)
- Hair Love
- Kitbull
- Memorable
- Sister
Original Score
- Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir
- Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
- Marriage Story – Randy Newman
- 1917 – Thomas Newman
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams
Original Song
- I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away, Toy Story 4 – By Randy Newman
- (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again, Rocketman – By Elton John and Bernie Taupin
- I’m Standing with You, Breakthrough – By Diane Warren
- Into the Unknown, Frozen II – By Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
- Stand Up, Harriet – By Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo
Sound Editing
- Ford v Ferrari – Donald Sylvester
- Joker – Alan Robert Murray
- 1917 – Oliver Tarney and Rachael Tate
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Wylie Stateman
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Matthew Wood and David Acord
Sound Mixing
- 1917 – Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson
- Ad Astra – Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson and Mark Ulano
- Ford v Ferrari – Paul Massey, David Giammarco, and Steven A. Morrow
- Joker – Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod Maitland
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler, and Mark Ulano
Production Design
- 1917 – Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales
- The Irishman – Bob Shaw and Regina Graves
- Jojo Rabbit – Ra Vincent and Nora Sopková
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Barbara Ling and Nancy Haigh
- Parasite – Lee Ha-jun and Cho Won-woo
Hair & Makeup
- 1917 – Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis, and Rebecca Cole
- Bombshell – Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan, and Vivian Baker
- Joker – Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou
- Judy – Jeremy Woodhead
- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil – Paul Gooch, Arjen Tuiten, and David White
Costume Design
- The Irishman – Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson
- Jojo Rabbit – Mayes C. Rubeo
- Joker – Mark Bridges
- Little Women – Jacqueline Durran
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Arianne Phillips
