On Monday, January 13, the nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards aka the Oscars were announced at the David Geffen Theater at the soon-to-open Academy Museum by hosts Issa Rae and John Cho.
Todd Phillips’ Joker fared the best of all nominees with a total of eleven nominations, including an acting nod for Joaquin Phoenix — presumed to be the favorite and frontrunner after Golden Globes and Critics Choice wins — two nominations for Phillips for writing and directing, Best Picture, plus seven technical awards, including Costumes, Hair/Make-Up, Score and Sound categories. Joker is also only the second “comic book movie” after last year’s Black Panther to receive a Best Picture nomination.
Marvel Studios’ epic Avengers: Endgame didn’t fare quite as well, only receiving a single nomination for its Visual FX, an award it won at the Critics Choice Awards last night. By comparison, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker received two nominations.
Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, which won the Critics Choice top award for Best Film last night, received the same number of nominations as Joker, including three for Tarantino (for writing, directing and producing), as well as acting nominations for stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. The rest were technical awards, including production design, costumes and sound categories.
Martin Scorsese‘s The Irishman also received ten nominations, including acting nominations for Al Pacino and Joe Pesce, Best Picture, nominations for Scorsese’s direction, its adapted screenplay and numerous technical nods.
Another Best Picture nominee, Sam Mendes‘ 1917, also received ten nominations including for its direction, writing and multiple technical awards.
Bong Joon-ho‘s acclaimed Parasite became the first Korean film to ever release an Oscar nomination as the country has been notoriously snubbed by the Academy even in the “Foreign Language” category (now retitled “International Film”). Parasite received six nominations, including Best Picture, plus noms for Bong’s direction and screenplay. It also received technical awards for Film Editing and Production Design, but nothing for its Cinematography.
Taika Waititi‘s dark comedy Jojo Rabbit also received six nominations, including Best Picture, writing and the first of two acting nominations for Scarlett Johansson.
Noah Baumbach‘s divorce drama Marriage Story received five nominations, helped by having the most acting nods, three total for Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson (two in one year!) and Laura Dern, the latter who is proving to be the frontrunner with numerous wins for her portrayal of a crafty divorce lawyer.
Greta Gerwig‘s Little Women, which won “Adapted Screenplay” at the Critics Choice Awards, received five nominations, including Best Picture, one for Gerwig’s screenplay, two acting nominations for Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh, plus a nomination for its costumes.
Some of the biggest snubs of the morning had to be actor/producer Jennifer Lopez not receiving a supporting actress nod for her role in Hustlers after receiving nominations from the Golden Globes, SAG and Critics Choice. Also, Avengers: Endgame didn’t receive a single sound nomination and nor did Rocketman, both which were expected to do well with the Academy’s sound branch. 1917, Ford v Ferrari and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood were nominated in both sound categories.
Rocketman star Taron Egerton was also snubbed for his portrayal of pop star Elton John, although John did get a nomination for the film’s new and Original Song, “I’m Gonna Love Me (Again).”
Frozen II also received an Original Song nomination but was omitted from the Animated Feature category in favor of Netflix’s two animated releases, I Lost My Body and Klaus.
Lulu Wang‘s The Farewell was the biggest snub of the year with ZERO nominations despite star Awkwafina winning the Golden Globe in the comedy/musical section. In fact, A24 had a second year in a row without a Best Picture nomination and only received a single Oscar nomination for the Cinematography in Robert Eggers‘ The Lighthouse.
On the other hand, Netflix did very well this morning with 24 nominations total, mostly for The Irishman and Marriage Story, but three nominations for The Two Popes, as well.
You can view the entire list of Oscar nominations below:
BEST PICTURE
FORD V FERRARI
Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and James Mangold, Producers
THE IRISHMAN
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers
JOJO RABBIT
Carthew Neal and Taika Waititi, Producers
JOKER
Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers
LITTLE WOMEN
Amy Pascal, Producer
MARRIAGE STORY
Noah Baumbach and David Heyman, Producers
1917
Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall, Producers
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh and Quentin Tarantino, Producers
PARASITE
Kwak Sin Ae and Bong Joon Ho, Producers
DIRECTING
THE IRISHMAN
Martin Scorsese
JOKER
Todd Phillips
1917
Sam Mendes
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE
Bong Joon Ho
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
ANTONIO BANDERAS – Pain and Glory
LEONARDO DICAPRIO – Once upon a Time…in Hollywood
ADAM DRIVER – Marriage Story
JOAQUIN PHOENIX – Joker
JONATHAN PRYCE – The Two Popes
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
TOM HANKS – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
ANTHONY HOPKINS – The Two Popes
AL PACINO – The Irishman
JOE PESCI – The Irishman
BRAD PITT – Once upon a Time…in Hollywood
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
CYNTHIA ERIVO – Harriet
SCARLETT JOHANSSON – Marriage Story
SAOIRSE RONAN – Little Women
CHARLIZE THERON – Bombshell
RENÉE ZELLWEGER – Judy
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
KATHY BATES – Richard Jewell
LAURA DERN – Marriage Story
SCARLETT JOHANSSON – Jojo Rabbit
FLORENCE PUGH – Little Women
MARGOT ROBBIE – Bombshell
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
THE IRISHMAN
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian
JOJO RABBIT
Screenplay by Taika Waititi
JOKER
Written by Todd Phillips & Scott Silver
LITTLE WOMEN
Written for the screen by Greta Gerwig
THE TWO POPES
Written by Anthony McCarten
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
KNIVES OUT
Written by Rian Johnson
MARRIAGE STORY
Written by Noah Baumbach
1917
Written by Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
Written by Quentin Tarantino
PARASITE
Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin Won; Story by Bong Joon Ho
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD
Dean DeBlois, Bradford Lewis and Bonnie Arnold
I LOST MY BODY
Jérémy Clapin and Marc du Pontavice
KLAUS
Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh and Marisa Román
MISSING LINK
Chris Butler, Arianne Sutner and Travis Knight
TOY STORY 4
Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera
CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE IRISHMAN
Rodrigo Prieto
JOKER
Lawrence Sher
THE LIGHTHOUSE
Jarin Blaschke
1917
Roger Deakins
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
Robert Richardson
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
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
AMERICAN FACTORY
Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert
THE CAVE
Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær
THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY
Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris and Tiago Pavan
FOR SAMA
Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts
HONEYLAND
Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska and Atanas Georgiev
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
IN THE ABSENCE
Yi Seung-Jun and Gary Byung-Seok Kam
LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL)
Carol Dysinger and Elena Andreicheva
LIFE OVERTAKES ME
John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson
ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN
Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan
WALK RUN CHA-CHA
Laura Nix and Colette Sandstedt
FILM EDITING
FORD V FERRARI
Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland
THE IRISHMAN
Thelma Schoonmaker
JOJO RABBIT
Tom Eagles
JOKER
Jeff Groth
PARASITE
Yang Jinmo
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
CORPUS CHRISTI
Poland
HONEYLAND
North Macedonia
LES MISÉRABLES
France
PAIN AND GLORY
Spain
PARASITE
South Korea
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
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
1917
Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis and Rebecca Cole
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
JOKER
Hildur Guðnadóttir
LITTLE WOMEN
Alexandre Desplat
MARRIAGE STORY
Randy Newman
1917
Thomas Newman
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
John Williams
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
I CAN’T LET YOU THROW YOURSELF AWAY
from Toy Story 4; Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
(I’M GONNA) LOVE ME AGAIN
from Rocketman; Music by Elton John; Lyric by Bernie Taupin
I’M STANDING WITH YOU
from Breakthrough; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
INTO THE UNKNOWN
from Frozen II; Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
STAND UP
from Harriet; Music and Lyric by Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo
PRODUCTION DESIGN
THE IRISHMAN
Production Design: Bob Shaw; Set Decoration: Regina Graves
JOJO RABBIT
Production Design: Ra Vincent; Set Decoration: Nora Sopková
1917
Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
Production Design: Barbara Ling; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
PARASITE
Production Design: Lee Ha Jun; Set Decoration: Cho Won Woo
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
DCERA (DAUGHTER)
Daria Kashcheeva
HAIR LOVE
Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver
KITBULL
Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson
MEMORABLE
Bruno Collet and Jean-François Le Corre
SISTER
Siqi Song
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
BROTHERHOOD
Meryam Joobeur and Maria Gracia Turgeon
NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB
Yves Piat and Damien Megherbi
THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW
Marshall Curry
SARIA
Bryan Buckley and Matt Lefebvre
A SISTER
Delphine Girard
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
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
1917
Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler and Mark Ulano
VISUAL EFFECTS
AVENGERS: ENDGAME
Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Matt Aitken and Dan Sudick
THE IRISHMAN
Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser and Stephane Grabli
THE LION KING
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Elliot Newman
1917
Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach and Dominic Tuohy
The Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, February 9, broadcast on ABC.
Hey, a creator-owned comic got a nom for Best Animated Feature!
No Best Animated Feature nom for The Lion King? I’m SHOCKED.
My prediction: Marvel will once again lose the SFX Oscar.
If JOKER wins a screenplay award, Philips should invite Martin Scorsese to the stage and allow him to share the award. That movie “borrowed” a LOT from Scorsese.
It also borrowed from the late Michael Winner’s DEATH WISH (the subway rampage).
If Phoenix wins, it will mean two actors have won Oscars for playing the same character. Anyone know if this has happened before?
There’s an easy answer to that, and you don’t have to venture too far from Joker to find it.
De Niro won an Oscar for The Godfather Part II playing Vito Corleone, the character Marlon Brando won an Oscar for playing in The Godfather :)
Personally, I thought Joker was more like American Psycho, and it certainly was as divisive as American Psycho.
Thanks, Edward! I should have remembered that.
I liked film critic Sam Adams’ crack that “scribbling in the margins of ‘Taxi Driver’ shouldn’t get you an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay.”
Unless the nom is for adapting the films of Martin Scorsese …
“Personally, I thought Joker was more like American Psycho, and it certainly was as divisive as American Psycho.”
The Joker’s talk show appearance in the movie reminded me (and others) of Crispin Glover’s very strange appearance on Letterman in 1987. It was later revealed to be an acting exercise. You can see it on YouTube.
Oh, I saw the Crispin Glover appearance live… cause I’m THAT old. :)
“Oh, I saw the Crispin Glover appearance live… cause I’m THAT old. :)”
I saw it live too, Edward! That makes two old-timers here!
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