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Oscar nominations Joker Becomes the First R-Rated Movie to Make $1 Billion Worldwide

Joker Pulls in 11 Oscar Nominations, Greta Gerwig & Awkwafina Snubbed

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And nominees are… mostly white men again. The Oscars announced their award nominees this morning, and there wasn’t too much unexpected. Leading the pack with 11 nominations was the controversial Joker, which landed noms in almost every major category that didn’t involve women acting. That was followed by three other movies that pulled in 10 nominations:Ā The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood,Ā andĀ 1917. Probably the most surprising thing this year is how dominant South Korean film Parasite is, with a stunning six nominations. That’s quite the haul for a foreign-language film, which historically have trouble breaking out of their own category, let alone nabbing multiple nominations, including Best Picture.

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Joker‘s nominations come in a spade of categories including Best Picture, but its most likely chance to win is in the Best Actor category, which surprisingly snubbed Robert DeNiro for his role in The Irishman. Joaquin Phoenix has been dominating the category throughout the awards season and is the clear frontrunner to pick it up. Outside of that, however, it’s not clear ifĀ Joker can pull the votes to win anything else despite being nominated for so much. The Best Picture category is especially up in the air withĀ Parasite gaining a ton of momentum in the past few weeks, Netflix pushing hard for both The IrishmanĀ andĀ Marriage Story, andĀ 1917 landing the Golden Globes for Best Picture and Best Director.

There’s going to be more controversy around diversity at these Oscars again as well. There are no female directors nominated for the second year in a row, despite more women directing films in 2019 than ever before. The biggest perceived snub here is Greta Gerwig forĀ Little Women, which received six other nominations, including Best Picture. That did leave a spot open for Bong Joon-ho to get nominated, which could give another foreign-language film the Best Director win after Alfonso CuarĆ³n won last year. The dark horse here is Quentin Tarantino, who has yet to win an Oscar for Best Director and might see this be his year.

This year’s Oscars will once again not have a host as the awards try to avoid any and all things that are interesting controversial and will air on Feb. 9, 2020, on ABC at 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT.

You can find the full list of nominations below:

Performance by an actor in a leading roleĀ nominees:

Antonio BanderasĀ in PAIN AND GLORY

Leonardo DiCaprioĀ in ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD

Adam DriverĀ in MARRIAGE STORY

Joaquin PhoenixĀ in JOKER

Jonathan PryceĀ in THE TWO POPES


Performance by an actor in a supporting role nominees:

Tom HanksĀ in A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Anthony HopkinsĀ in THE TWO POPES

Al PacinoĀ in THE IRISHMAN

Joe PesciĀ in THE IRISHMAN

Brad PittĀ in ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD


Performance by an actress in a leading role nominees:

Cynthia ErivoĀ in HARRIET

Scarlett JohanssonĀ in MARRIAGE STORY

Saoirse RonanĀ in LITTLE WOMEN

Charlize TheronĀ in BOMBSHELL

RenĆ©e ZellwegerĀ in JUDY


Performance by an actress in a supporting role nominees:

Kathy BatesĀ in RICHARD JEWELL

Laura DernĀ in MARRIAGE STORY

Scarlett JohanssonĀ in JOJO RABBIT

Florence PughĀ in LITTLE WOMEN

Margot RobbieĀ in BOMBSHELL


Best animated feature film of the year nominees:

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

Dean DeBlois, Bradford Lewis and Bonnie Arnold

I LOST MY BODY

JƩrƩmy Clapin and Marc du Pontavice

KLAUS

Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh and Marisa RomƔn

MISSING LINK

Chris Butler, Arianne Sutner and Travis Knight

TOY STORY 4

Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera


Achievement in cinematography nominees:

THE IRISHMAN

Rodrigo Prieto

JOKER

Lawrence Sher

THE LIGHTHOUSE

Jarin Blaschke

1917

Roger Deakins

ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD

Robert Richardson


Achievement in costume design nominees:

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


Achievement in directing nominees:

THE IRISHMAN

Martin Scorsese

JOKER

Todd Phillips

1917

Sam Mendes

ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD

Quentin Tarantino

PARASITE

Bong Joon Ho


Best documentary feature nominees:

AMERICAN FACTORY

Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert

THE CAVE

Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid DyekjƦr

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


Best documentary short subject nominees:

IN THE ABSENCE

Yi Seung-Jun and Gary Byung-Seok Kam

LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOUā€™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


Achievement in film editing nominees:

FORD V FERRARI

Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland

THE IRISHMAN

Thelma Schoonmaker

JOJO RABBIT

Tom Eagles

JOKER

Jeff Groth

PARASITE

Yang Jinmo


Best international feature film of the year nominees:

CORPUS CHRISTI

Poland

Directed by Jan Komasa

HONEYLAND

North Macedonia

Directed by Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevksa

LES MISƉRABLES

France

Directed by Ladj Ly

PAIN AND GLORY

Spain

Directed by Pedro AlmodĆ³var

PARASITE

South Korea

Directed by Bong Joon Ho


Achievement in makeup and hairstyling nominees:

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


Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) nominees:

JOKER

Hildur GuĆ°nadĆ³ttir

LITTLE WOMEN

Alexandre Desplat

MARRIAGE STORY

Randy Newman

1917

Thomas Newman

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

John Williams


Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) nominees:

“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


Best motion picture of the year nominees:

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


Achievement in production design nominees:

THE IRISHMAN

Production Design: Bob Shaw

Set Decoration: Regina Graves

JOJO RABBIT

Production Design: Ra Vincent

Set Decoration: Nora SopkovĆ”

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


Best animated short film nominees:

DCERA (DAUGHTER)

Daria Kashcheeva

HAIR LOVE

Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver

KITBULL

Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson

MEMORABLE

Bruno Collet and Jean-FranƧois Le Corre

SISTER

Siqi Song


Best live action short film nominees:

BROTHERHOOD

Meryam Joobeur and Maria Gracia Turgeon

NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB

Yves Piat and Damien Megherbi

THE NEIGHBORSā€™ WINDOW

Marshall Curry

SARIA

Bryan Buckley and Matt Lefebvre

A SISTER

Delphine Girard


Achievement in sound editing nominees:

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


Achievement in sound mixing nominees:

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


Achievement in visual effects nominees:

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


Adapted screenplay nominees:

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


Original screenplay nominees:

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



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Matthew Razak is a News Writer and film aficionado at Escapist. He has been writing for Escapist for nearly five years and has nearly 20 years of experience reviewing and talking about movies, TV shows, and video games for both print and online outlets. He has a degree in Film from Vassar College and a degree in gaming from growing up in the '80s and '90s. He runs the website Flixist.com and has written for The Washington Post, Destructoid, MTV, and more. He will gladly talk your ear off about horror, Marvel, Stallone, James Bond movies, Doctor Who, Zelda, and Star Trek.