Oscar nominations 2020: The complete list of Academy Award nominees

Todd Phillips’ controversial film Joker led the nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards with 11 nominations, including Best Actor and Best Director nods for Joaquin Phoenix and Phillips, respectively, and a Best Picture nod. The nominations, announced Monday morning by actors John Cho and Issa Rae, included many of the buzziest films of the year and a few big surprises, including Taika Waititi’s Nazi Germany spoof, Jojo Rabbit, which earned six nominations, including Best Picture. Otherwise, the Academy mostly stuck to chalk, with pre-announcement favorites appearing all over the nominations. Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman earned 10 nominations, including Best Director for Scorsese and Best Supporting Actor nominations for Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. Sam Mendes also received a Best Director nod for his World War I movie, 1917, which was nominated nine other times. Likewise, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood earned 10 nominations, including Best Director for Quentin Tarantino, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, and Best Supporting Actor for Brad Pitt. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women each received six nominations. Scarlett Johansson became just the 12th person to ever be nominated for two acting Oscars in the same year, receiving Best Actor recognition for Marriage Story and Best Supporting Actor recognition for Jojo Rabbit. Notably absent from the Best Actor category was Adam Sandler, who had generated buzz and accolades for his dramatic turn in the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems. The Oscars will air live on Sunday, February 9 at 3:30 p.m. PT/6:30 p.m. ET on ABC. Like the 2019 show, the Academy has chosen to go without a host, opting for a more free-form presentation than previous years. According to ABC President Karey Burke, there will still be “huge entertainment values, big musical numbers, comedy, and star power.” In the run-up to the awards, some films with the most awards show buzz have been Parasite, a Korean-language film about the interconnected lives of families from different classes; WWI epic 1917; and Tarantino’s Manson family thriller, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Interestingly, three films made for streaming on Netflix — Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, and Fernando Meirelles’s The Two Popes — have also garnered significant awards buzz and helped elevate the streaming giant to film’s most prestigious stage. Here’s the full list of 2019 Oscar nominations: Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Parasite 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 Cynthia Erivo, Harriet Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story Saoirse Ronan, Little Women Charlize Theron, Bombshell Renee Zellweger, Judy 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 Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell Laura Dern, Marriage Story Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit Florence Pugh, Little Women Margot Robbie, Bombshell Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Todd Phillips, Joker Sam Mendes, 1917 Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Bong Joon Ho, Parasite How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World I Lost My Body Klaus Missing Link Toy Story 4 Dcera (Daughter) Hair Love Kitbull Memorable Sister The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women The Two Popes Knives Out by Rian Johnson Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach 1917 by Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino Parasite by Bong Joon Ho & Han Jin Won The Irishman Joker The Lighthouse 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood American Factory The Cave The Edge of Democracy For Sama Honeyland In the Absence Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) Life Overtakes Me St. Louis Superman Walk Run Cha-Cha Brotherhood Nefta Football Club The Neighbors’ Window Saria A Sister Corpus Christi Honeyland Les Miserables Pain and Glory Parasite Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Parasite Ford v Ferrari Joker 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Ad Astra Ford v Ferrari Joker 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood The Irishman Jojo Rabbit 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Parasite Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away,” Toy Story 4 “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” Rocketman “I’m Standing With You,” Breakthrough “Into the Unknown,” Frozen II “Stand Up,” Harriet Bombshell Joker Judy Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 1917 The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Avengers: Endgame The Irishman The Lion King 1917 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Cynthia Erivo and Arianda Grande in Wicked Universal Pictures / Universal Pictures
Film critics make for notoriously spotty Oscar soothsayers. We sometimes prognosticate with our hearts instead of our heads. We’re often too close to a year in movies to guess what a bunch of industry professionals might decide are its highlights. That said, almost nobody is all that good at predicting the Oscars, even people whose job it is to predict the Oscars. There are huge surprises every year, and whatever system or Nate Silver-like science you apply to the matter, we’re talking about the voting habits of 10,000 strangers with their own unique logic for filling out a ballot. It’s all just grasping at straws.
Last year made it easier on everybody. This year, there’s no Oppenheimer pulling in statuettes like a giant magnet. The field is wider. The frontrunners are fewer. And some of the major races, like Best Actor, Best Actress, and even Best Picture, are basically coin tosses. It’s one of the most competitive award seasons in years – in part because many of the films that looked like frontrunners have endured cycles of backlash and controversy. That’s bad news for the bloggers, but good news for anyone hoping for a little excitement on Oscar night.
Ahead of this Sunday’s Academy Awards, we’re making an earnest attempt to call the winners in 20 categories — all but the shorts, where your guesses truly are as good as ours. Take the predictions below with a grain of salt, because they’re really just educated guesses — conclusions drawn from a combination of history, precursor awards, and gut feeling. As for the preferences, for what we merely hope wins, we’re on firmer ground there. If there’s one thing film critics are good at, it’s endlessly spouting opinions, unsolicited and with undue confidence. BEST PICTURE You never know what might happen when the movie’s biggest stars convene for the Oscars. The Academy Awards are a ceremony to celebrate and honor the year’s best films. The ceremonies where the favorites dominate and the host remains PG are uninspiring. The ceremonies with major upsets, celebrity gossip, and memorable performances are the ones that live forever.
Remember: It’s a TV show. The more drama, the better the ceremony. Let’s revisit seven of the most iconic Oscar moments of the last 10 years. 2017: Moonlight beats La La Land for Best Picture
“Moonlight” wins Best Picture | 89th Oscars (2017) Another Oscars means another movie year wrapped and another chance to quibble with the Academy’s choices. The Oscars are far from perfect, but they’re useful precisely because they allow us to argue about the year in film.
Sometimes, though, they get things right, and when they do, they help us remember the year’s best work in everything from sound editing to acting. Not every acting winner is immortalized, but we’ve pulled together this list of the 10 best acting winners of the past 10 years in Best Actor and Best Actress and compiled them into two lists, one for actors and one for actresses. In general, the actress category was stronger with a few repeat winners. Check out the full lists below:
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5. Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant (2015)
The Revenant | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX
DiCaprio has undoubtedly given better performances than the one he delivered in The Revenant, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t good in the movie. DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a trapper who is betrayed and left for dead. He then braves the Canadian wilderness and seeks his revenge.
The movie is at least as much about how much DiCaprio endured physically as it is about the emotionality of his character. The movie’s final moments, when Glass has achieved his mission and is left to reckon with what comes next, are haunting and entirely worth remembering. 4. Will Smith – King Richard (2021)
KING RICHARD – Official Trailer
Will Smith’s slap heard round the world understandably overshadowed his performance in King Richard, which is quite good. Although the movie elides some of the more difficult aspects of Richard Williams’s life, Smith is excellent as an acerbic, difficult man who understood how much potential his daughters had to be genuinely great.
When Richard gets the chance to see his daughters succeed, it’s just as moving as it should be. Smith is a generational movie star, and with King Richard, he proved that he could really act too. Upgrade your lifestyleDigital Trends helps readers keep tabs on the fast-paced world of tech with all the latest news, fun product reviews, insightful editorials, and one-of-a-kind sneak peeks.