The Oscars Thread

[MenInG]

The nominations for this year's Academy Awards have been announced, with Joker leading the pack with 11 nods.

The comic book villain origin story is up for best picture, best director and best actor for Joaquin Phoenix, plus eight other awards.

The Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood follow with 10 nominations each.

Britain's Cynthia Erivo, Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce and Florence Pugh are all up for acting prizes.

Joker's 11 nominations equals its tally at the British Academy Film Awards, whose nominations were announced last week.

At the Oscars, though, at least one acting contender - Harriet star Erivo - will be non-white.

Yet the awards are sure to receive some censure for announcing another all-male line-up in its best director category.

Like Joker, The Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood are all up for the best picture prize.

The other nominees are Ford vs Ferrari (aka Le Mans 66), Jojo Rabbit, Little Women, Marriage Story and South Korean film Parasite.

Phoenix is joined in the best actor category by Marriage Story's Adam Driver, Once Upon a Time's Leonardo DiCaprio, Pain and Glory's Antonio Banderas and The Two Popes' Pryce.

Erivo's best actress rivals include Little Women's Saoirse Ronan, Bombshell star Charlize Theron and Renee Zellweger for Judy.

Scarlett Johansson is nominated for Marriage Story and gets another nod in the supporting actress category for Jojo Rabbit.

Johansson's Marriage Story co-star Laura Dern is also in the running for that award, as is Bombshell's Margot Robbie.

Kathy Bates and Pugh - nominated for Richard Jewell and Little Women respectively - complete the line-up in this category.

Brad Pitt is up for best supporting actor for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, as is The Irishman's Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.

Hopkins and Tom Hanks - up for The Two Popes and A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood respectively - are the other supporting actor nominees.

Britain's Sam Mendes joins The Irishman's Martin Scorsese, Joker's Todd Phillips, Parasite's Bong Joon-ho and Tarantino in the best director category.

Parasite and Pedro Almodovar's Pain & Glory are also up for the international feature film award - previously known as best foreign film.

The 92nd Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on 9 February.

This year's ceremony, like last year's, will not have an overall host, with a variety of celebrity guests instead introducing each category.

Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody won the most awards last year, picking up four prizes including best actor.

Green Book was named best picture, while Britain's Olivia Colman won best actress for The Favourite.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51090151

 

[MenInG]

The nominations for this year's Academy Awards have been announced in Los Angeles. Here's the list in full.
Best picture

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Irishman
Parasite
1917
Marriage Story
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Ford v Ferrari

Best actor

Joaquin Phoenix - Joker
Adam Driver - Marriage Story
Leonardo DiCaprio - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Antonio Banderas - Pain and Glory
Jonathan Pryce - The Two Popes
Joker leads the Oscars pack with 11 nominations

Best actress

Renee Zellweger - Judy
Charlize Theron - Bombshell
Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan - Little Women
Cynthia Erivo - Harriet

Best director

Martin Scorsese - The Irishman
Bong Joon Ho - Parasite
Quentin Tarantino - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Sam Mendes - 1917
Todd Phillips - Joker

Best supporting actress

Laura Dern - Marriage Story
Margot Robbie - Bombshell
Florence Pugh - Little Women
Scarlett Johansson - Jojo Rabbit
Kathy Bates - Richard Jewell

Best supporting actor

Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Al Pacino - The Irishman
Joe Pesci - The Irishman
Tom Hanks - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins - The Two Popes

Best costume design

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Best film editing
The Irishman
Ford v Ferrari
Parasite
Jojo Rabbit
Joker

Best animated short

Hair Love
Kitbull
Dcera (Daughter)
Sister
Memorable

Best live action short

Brotherhood
The Neighbors' Window
A Sister
Saria
Nefta Football Club

Best sound editing

1917
Ford v Ferrari
Joker
Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best sound mixing

1917
Ford v Ferrari
Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood
Ad Astra
Joker

Best adapted screenplay

The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Little Women
The Two Popes
Joker

Best original screenplay

Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Parasite
Knives Out
1917

Best foreign language film

Parasite - South Korea
Pain and Glory - Spain
Les Miserables - France
Honeyland" - North Macedonia
Corpus Christi - Poland

Best original song

I'm Gonna Love Me Again - Rocketman
I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away - Toy Story 4
Into the Unknown - Frozen II
Stand Up - Harriet
I'm Standing With You - Breakthrough

Best original score

1917
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best animated feature

Toy Story 4
Klaus
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Missing Link
I Lost My Body

Best documentary feature

The Edge of Democracy
American Factory
For Sama
Honeyland
The Cave

Best documentary short

In the Absence
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
Life Overtakes Me
St Louis Superman
Walk Run Cha-Cha

Best cinematography

1917
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Irishman
Joker
The Lighthouse

Best costume design

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Irishman
Joker
Little Women
Jojo Rabbit

Best make-up and hairstyling

Bombshell
Joker
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
1917
Judy

Best production design

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Irishman
1917
Jojo Rabbit
Parasite

Best visual effects

Avengers: Endgame
The Lion King
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The Irishman
1917

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51093954

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Good movie but it's quite overrated.

 

[JaDed]

Good movie but it's quite overrated.

It is , This is a pretty biased academy in a while imho .. two movies lighthouse and uncut gems completely ignored both by same production house A24..

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Not even worth talking about as usual

 

[Technics 1210]

Some catergories are too close to call.

I'd be happy if The Irishman walked away with a couple awards.

 

[in_cutter]

It’s about time a foreign movie won the award. But I am okay with Joker winning it too.

 

[in_cutter]

It is , This is a pretty biased academy in a while imho .. two movies lighthouse and uncut gems completely ignored both by same production house A24..

It’s because they are not mainstream enough...for the Oscar bigwigs..which is a shame. I have not seen the Lighthouse yet. Im expecting a masterpiece.

 

[DeadBall]

Dont really care much for the Oscars but they are getting more ******** every passing year.
Surely they're picking nominations according to the twitter trends or most Insta/FB upvotes or something now.

It has been a really crap year for movies with all the Oscar baits released just before the deadline but anyone with even half a brain would have chosen Sandler and Uncut Gems over Di Caprio for Best Actor and Joker/OUATIH for Best picture. Haven't seen The Lighthouse yet.

 

[JaDed]

It’s because they are not mainstream enough...for the Oscar bigwigs..which is a shame. I have not seen the Lighthouse yet. Im expecting a masterpiece.

Adam Sandler is as mainstream as it gets, plus I think its more of a snub to a Indie production house like A24 more than anything because the actors in those movies would never be ignored otherwise esp that of Lighthouse.

 

[DeadBall]

Adam Sandler is as mainstream as it gets, plus I think its more of a snub to a Indie production house like A24 more than anything because the actors in those movies would never be ignored otherwise esp that of Lighthouse.

Should've also got a nomination for Punch Drunk Love. Guess the 99 cr@p movies he makes out of a 100 doesnt sit well with these uppity Academy members who should know better and judge each film, performance etc accordingly.

 

[DeadBall]

A good reply by Sandler on the snub.

“Bad news: Sandman gets no love from the Academy,” he wrote, invoking his own nickname. “Good news: Sandman can stop wearing suits.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.la...ar-nominations-2020-snub-uncut-gems?_amp=true

 

[Darkrai]

Good to see Joker getting recognized.

All those people who bashed Joker by calling it an incel and a dangerous movie, and also those who called Joker fans toxic and questioned whether the movie should exist, they are now having a mental breakdown on Twitter. They deserve this humiliation.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

It is , This is a pretty biased academy in a while imho .. two movies lighthouse and uncut gems completely ignored both by same production house A24..

Haven't watched lighthouse. Will do so over the weekend. Yeah the Oscars have lost the plot in recent years. But then again it's for the mainstream and indie production houses rarely get that kind of recognition. No incentive to recognise them I suppose.

 

[AFM]

This is the first time I’ve heard about Parasite. Anyone watched it here?

 

[JaDed]

This is the first time I’ve heard about Parasite. Anyone watched it here?

Yes.. it defn is the best movie of the year.. there are reviews of it on the last movie watched thread.

 

[JaDed]

Haven't watched lighthouse. Will do so over the weekend. Yeah the Oscars have lost the plot in recent years. But then again it's for the mainstream and indie production houses rarely get that kind of recognition. No incentive to recognise them I suppose.

Yeah , I think thats true even the first Indie hit of Tarantino Reservoir Dogs didnt get any nominations as well.

 

[CricketCartoons]

Adam Sandler is as mainstream as it gets, plus I think its more of a snub to a Indie production house like A24 more than anything because the actors in those movies would never be ignored otherwise esp that of Lighthouse.

Things must be real bad that people like sandler are expecting oscar nomination. If imbecile had a face, that would be him.

 

[Space Cat]

Parasite should win but i doubt it will.

 

[JaDed]

Parasite should win but i doubt it will.

Will win the best foreign language film atleast

 

[shaz619]

It is , This is a pretty biased academy in a while imho .. two movies lighthouse and uncut gems completely ignored both by same production house A24..

A24 still won with Moonlight though a while back, I don't think the nominees are bad bunch imo but my view is horror unfortunately tends to get the short end of the stick but that might also be due to the lack of comprehension towards the recent boom in this genre when historically it is stereotyped, that view is supported by the performance of horror at the academy's in general with just 6 movies which were nominated. Maybe in the next few years we could see a nomination which also leads to a win but I feel like a nomination is as big as a win, from that POV I guess Lighthouse may well have missed out; it will be releasing here in a few weeks can't wait to see it

 

[JaDed]

A24 still won with Moonlight though a while back, I don't think the nominees are bad bunch imo but my view is horror unfortunately tends to get the short end of the stick but that might also be due to the lack of comprehension towards the recent boom in this genre when historically it is stereotyped, that view is supported by the performance of horror at the academy's in general with just 6 movies which were nominated. Maybe in the next few years we could see a nomination which also leads to a win but I feel like a nomination is as big as a win, from that POV I guess Lighthouse may well have missed out; it will be releasing here in a few weeks can't wait to see it

Yeah forgot about that, and you are right I'm just surprised at the two movies being ignored but its alright , all the movies I actually liked that were nominated and yes Horror or even comedy movies will never get their due although Once Upon a Time was defn my fav comedy of last year if you can call it that.

 

[The_Odd_One]

Just one nomination for Endgame?

 

[Swashbuckler]

Stopped caring about these awards a long time back, 1999 Oscars should have sealed the deal for this fraud show when Harvey Weinstein bought half the members of the academy.

Parasite is the best movie of the year and I am pretty sure it will be snubbed.

 

[andy0204]

Just one nomination for Endgame?

Tbh Infinity War was much better than Endgame.

 

[in_cutter]

Just one nomination for Endgame?

Average compared to Infinity War

 

[Dios]

Joker deserves only the Joaquin Phoenix nomination for Best Actor. As a film it was an average fare and it is a joke that it has been nominated for Best Film and Best Director when neither Batman Begins nor The Dark Knight received nominations for Best Film and nor did Christopher Nolan receive a Best Director nomination.

 

[Rinnegan Sasuke]

Dont really care much for the Oscars but they are getting more ******** every passing year.
Surely they're picking nominations according to the twitter trends or most Insta/FB upvotes or something now.

It has been a really crap year for movies with all the Oscar baits released just before the deadline but anyone with even half a brain would have chosen Sandler and Uncut Gems over Di Caprio for Best Actor and Joker/OUATIH for Best picture. Haven't seen The Lighthouse yet.

Watch. The Lighthouse. Immediately.

A masterclass by Robert Eggers, with chilling performances by both Dafoe and Pattinson, truly insane. It's a shame it wasn't nominated for BP, neither was Dafoe for best actor.

 

[moghul]

Watched Little Women last night, V V good movie but not very "entertaining:, might win some awards in acting. Not of my taste though but I liked it too, went to see as my wife wanted to watch it, women like it a lot.

will watch Joker tonight.

 

[JaDed]

Watched Little Women last night, V V good movie but not very "entertaining:, might win some awards in acting. Not of my taste though but I liked it too, went to see as my wife wanted to watch it, women like it a lot.

will watch Joker tonight.

I actually thought it was an oscar bait and on feminism but I actually found it very entertaining.

 

[moghul]

I actually thought it was an oscar bait and on feminism but I actually found it very entertaining.

You're right, I enjoyed it and was snoring during the show, but not a male oriented entertainment movie.

 

[moghul]

Saw Joker last night, the most senseless, movie I have seen for sometime. Doesn;t make any sense to make movie on the life of a psychopathy serial murderer. wasted my time and money.

 

[in_cutter]

Saw Joker last night, the most senseless, movie I have seen for sometime. Doesn;t make any sense to make movie on the life of a psychopathy serial murderer. wasted my time and money.

There have been many other movies about the lives of psychopaths...?

 

[Bigboii]

I really do feel Hollywood is kinda racist cause year after year they keep giving awards to white people and it doesn't really reflect the racial diversity of United States. It is extremely frustrating and that's why I feel Oscars are losing thier appeal.

 

[JaDed]

I really do feel Hollywood is kinda racist cause year after year they keep giving awards to white people and it doesn't really reflect the racial diversity of United States. It is extremely frustrating and that's why I feel Oscars are losing thier appeal.

What were the movies that didn’t get selected and had ppl other than white?

 

[moghul]

I really do feel Hollywood is kinda racist cause year after year they keep giving awards to white people and it doesn't really reflect the racial diversity of United States. It is extremely frustrating and that's why I feel Oscars are losing thier appeal.

oh please, stop it, its like South Africa kept giving test caps to white player, because they were better than blacks. There is no quota system in Hollywood. We bring this racist question a bit too much.

 

[Bigboii]

I believe I was wrong in calling Oscars racist cause at the end of the day they select from the movies that are being made so it's not thier fault that production houses do not select minorities (by minorities I do not mean black only cause there are tons of talented Asian and Latino actors out there) but I stick by the fact that Hollywood is racist because out of millions of people who are minorities they can't find any good actors c'mon give me a break.

Some movie directors argue that white actors help tham make more money I believe it's totally wrong I can name tons of movies in recent memory where movies with minority lead actors made lots of money but where are those promising actors no where because directors had to give a role to one of his pals kids and it's the same circle of people who keep showing up over and over ago. So Oscars reflect the wider culture of racism in Hollywood and entertainment business in US (this is same country where they refuse to put Michael Jackson on TV because white people would be scared to look at a black man so it's not as innocent as it all looks) and I think people should be concerned over this lack of diversity in Oscar nominations because our concerns will force directors to cast people from deserving minority actors instead of some white dude from Beverly hills.

 

[andy0204]

Iam shocked that Mission Impossible fallout is not nominated,it was one of the best action movie I have seen

 

[humzy]

do they really have to bring race and gender into everything.

 

[humzy]

Saw Joker last night, the most senseless, movie I have seen for sometime. Doesn;t make any sense to make movie on the life of a psychopathy serial murderer. wasted my time and money.

Senseless in what way?

it depicts the life of a mentally disturbed man who was abused as a child which causes this and eventually led him to become a psychopath.

People suffer from mental diseases for a millennia but the light is only being shined on them now.

Its easy to just call someone evil but it is for the betterment if we understand how that evil came about.


if that is not purposeful then i don't know what is.

 

[moghul]

Senseless in what way?

it depicts the life of a mentally disturbed man who was abused as a child which causes this and eventually led him to become a psychopath.

People suffer from mental diseases for a millennia but the light is only being shined on them now.

Its easy to just call someone evil but it is for the betterment if we understand how that evil came about.


if that is not purposeful then i don't know what is.

What message it carries, will be producing more copycats.

 

[barah_admi]

Terrific movie and far far better than The Irishman which is one of the most cynical cash grabs I have come across.

I stil have to watch Parasite and hope 1917 will be in cinemas by the time I get to watch it.

 

[in_cutter]

will be producing more copycats.

That’s not the fault if the movie though is it..?

 

[humzy]

What message it carries, will be producing more copycats.

So we should ban Godfather and Goodfellas because they might produce copycat gangsters?

Art should not be censored.

 

[moghul]

So we should ban Godfather and Goodfellas because they might produce copycat gangsters?

Art should not be censored.

I know most movies show bad stuff , they show whatever sells but this movie Joker has nothing other than senseless murder after murder. I did not find it entertaining from any angle. Some people like it, I didn't.

 

[in_cutter]

I know most movies show bad stuff , they show whatever sells but this movie Joker has nothing other than senseless murder after murder. I did not find it entertaining from any angle. Some people like it, I didn't.

‘Murder after murder’

I don’t think you have watched many movies then....

 

[MenInG]

Some of the movie world's biggest stars will be walking the red carpet at this year's Oscars in Los Angeles later.

Joker leads the pack with 11 nominations, followed by The Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with 10 each.

Brad Pitt, Renee Zellweger, Joaquin Phoenix and Laura Dern are among those tipped to win acting awards.

Sir Sam Mendes' World War One epic 1917 and South Korea's Parasite are the frontrunners to be named best picture.

Here are 12 things to look out for at Sunday's ceremony.

1. Brad Pitt winning his first acting Oscar (and making a funny speech)

Brad Pitt accepting his award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in January
If you believe the experts, Pitt is going to win best supporting actor for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

If he does, the ever-popular star is likely to get one of the biggest ovations of the night.

He won an Oscar in 2014 for producing 12 Years a Slave, but his previous acting nominations - for Twelve Monkeys, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Moneyball - have all been unsuccessful.

He has swept this season's pre-Oscars awards - and, if it was possible, has won even more fans for the unfailingly witty and charming acceptance speeches at each one.

2. Joaquin Phoenix winning his first Oscar (and making a political speech)

Joaquin Phoenix has used his platform at awards ceremonies to campaign - but not for himself.
Phoenix is going to win best actor for his remarkable performance in Joker.

What's less predictable is what he will say at the podium, having used other recent acceptance speeches to send messages about climate change and "systemic racism" in the film industry.

"I think he will want to use that platform to say something useful," says Clarisse Loughrey, chief film critic for The Independent.

It will be the 45-year-old American's first Oscar win at his fourth attempt, after nominations for The Master, Gladiator and Walk the Line.

It's also hard to predict where he will go after the ceremony. After winning at the Screen Actors' Guild Awards in January, he swerved the after-parties and went to an animal rights protest outside an abattoir - still wearing his tux.

3. The Renéessance

Renée Zellweger is going to win best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy.

It will complete the comeback for an actress who was nominated for three years in a row from 2002-04, winning for Cold Mountain at her third attempt.

After that, she starred in a string of flops before stepping back from Hollywood - she has no IMDB credits between 2010 and 2016.

4. Any kind of shock

Laura Dern is going to win best supporting actress for her role in Netflix divorce drama Marriage Story.

OK, there is normally some sort of surprise in the four acting categories, and that could well be the case this time, but most tipsters seem to believe Brad, Joaquin, Renee and Laura have them in the bag.

The closer races are in the other categories.

5. Sir Sam Mendes flying the flag

The main British hope lies with Sir Sam's World War One epic 1917, which is among the frontrunners to win the top prize - best picture - while Sir Sam himself is a strong contender for best director.

However, the best picture and best director prizes have gone to the same films only twice in the past seven years. One of those was Birdman which, like 1917, was made to appear as if it was filmed in a single shot.

Sir Sam won best director in 2000 for American Beauty, and if he triumphs again it will be the biggest gap between two directing wins in Academy Awards history.

Roger Deakins, the British man who filmed 1917's "single" shot, is thought to be a dead cert to win best cinematography. After receiving 13 unsuccessful nominations, this would be his second Oscar in three years, after his 2018 triumph for Blade Runner 2049.

6. South Korea's Parasite making Oscars history

If 1917 doesn't win best picture, the nearest competitor is thought to be South Korean drama Parasite, which has a lot of support to become the first non-English language movie to win the main award.

It tells the story of a poor South Korean family living in a tiny, dark semi-basement, and a wealthy family living in a glamorous home in Seoul.

7. The host

Actually, don't watch out for the host, because for the second year in a row there isn't one.

Last year, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph delivered an opening monologue, but otherwise it was left to different celebrities to introduce each category.

8. Billie Eilish's Bond theme

Not content with stealing the show at one award ceremony (sweeping the board at the Grammys), 18-year-old pop prodigy Billie Eilish will also perform at the Oscars.

There has been speculation that she will use the occasion to debut her theme tune for the new James Bond movie, No Time To Die.

But there has also been a suggestion that she could depart from her usual musical style and sing The Beatles' Yesterday to accompany the ceremony's In Memoriam segment.

9. A global choir of Elsas

As usual, the best song nominees will be performed. They include Into The Unknown from Frozen II - which will be sung by no fewer than 10 Elsas.

Idina Menzel, who voices the animated character in the original version, will be joined on stage by actresses who provide the princess's voice for countries including Denmark, Japan, Poland, Russia, Spain and Thailand.

The other best song nominees include Sir Elton John for (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again from Rocketman; Erivo, who will perform Stand Up from Harriet; Randy Newman's I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away from Toy Story 4; and Diane Warren for I'm Standing With You from Breakthrough.

Warren is another who is waiting for her first Oscar win, after 10 previous nods.

10. Kobe Bryant tribute

As well as being an LA Lakers hero, Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash two weeks ago, won an Oscar in 2018 for a short animated film called Dear Basketball.

Oscar organisers have confirmed he will be in the In Memoriam section, but it's not known whether there will be a separate standalone tribute.

Kirk Douglas is also likely to be honoured after his death on Wednesday at the age of 103.


11. Any diversity

It's likely (see above) that all four acting winners will be white. The only nominee who could change that is British star Cynthia Erivo, who's an outsider to win best actress for Harriet.

It's certain that the best director winner will be a man, after that category's nominees were all male for the ninth year out of the past 10. He could be South Korean (see above), however, if Bong Joon-Ho wins.

What has been remarked upon less is that there hasn't been a female winner of either of the screenplay awards for 12 years, since Diablo Cody's name was called for Juno in 2008.

This year, Greta Gerwig could break that run for her adaptation of Little Women, which might help make up for the fact she wasn't nominated for best director.

12. Keeping it in the family

Little Women is also nominated for best picture - where its rivals include Marriage Story, made by her partner Noah Baumbach.

The couple, who have a child together, are also both nominated for their screenplays - although Gerwig is up for adapted screenplay while Baumbach is in the running for original screenplay.

Elsewhere, cousins Randy and Thomas Newman are going head-to-head in the best original score category for their work on Marriage Story and 1917 respectively.

Thomas has had 14 previous nominations without a win, while Randy has had 20 past nominations and two wins.

Also keeping it in the family are father and son Michael and Christian Minkler, who are nominated together for best sound mixing for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51412546

 

[MenInG]

South Korean film Parasite has been named best picture at this year's Oscars, becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize.

Renee Zellweger won best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy. Joaquin Phoenix won best actor for Joker.

Brad Pitt and Laura Dern won the supporting acting awards for their roles in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and Marriage Story respectively.

Parasite won four awards in total, while Sir Sam Mendes's 1917 took three.

The World War One epic had been the favourite to win best picture, but its awards all came in the technical categories.

Parasite's Bong Joon-ho beat Sir Sam to the prize for best director, and also took the best original screenplay award.

The film is a vicious social satire about two families from very different classes - one who live in poverty in a semi-basement, and another rich family residing in a large home.

It has now managed what no other subtitled film has done in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards and won best picture.

Producer Kwak Sin-ae, who collected the trophy, said: "I'm speechless. We never imagined this to happen. I feel like a very opportune moment in history is happening right now."

The star won the first acting Oscar of his career - picking up the best supporting actor trophy for his role in Quentin Tarantino's film.

He was the first winner of the night, and immediately used his speech to attack the way the impeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump were handled.

He referred to the fact that Republican senators voted against allowing witnesses including former National Security Adviser John Bolton to give evidence.

"They told me I only have 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week," he said. "I'm thinking maybe Quentin does a movie about it and in the end the adults do the right thing."

The 56-year-old moved from the political to the personal, paying tribute to co-star Leonardo DiCaprio and remarking that the nomination had made him reflect on his journey to Hollywood superstardom.

"I'm a bit gobsmacked," he said, getting emotional. "I'm not one to look back, but this has made me do so."

Phoenix, who won best actor for his remarkable performance in the origin story about Batman's nemesis, also used the podium to send a heartfelt message about the state of the world, saying actors have the power to give a "voice for the voiceless".

He managed to cover topics from animal rights and the environment to racism and gender inequality.

"I've been thinking a lot about some of the distressing issues that we are facing collectively, and at times we are made to feel that we are championing different causes," he said.

"But I see commonality. For me, whether we're talking about gender inequality, or racism, or queer rights, or indigenous rights, or animal rights, we're talking about the fight against injustice."

He also quoted a lyric written by his late brother River: "Run to the rescue and love and peace will follow."

A day before her 53rd birthday, Laura Dern won best supporting actress for playing a divorce lawyer in Marriage Story.

She comes from an illustrious acting family, but in winning managed something her parents have not. Mother Diane Ladd has been nominated for three Academy Awards, and dad Bruce Dern has two unsuccessful nominations.

"Some say never meet your heroes," their daughter told the audience. "But I say if you're really blessed, you get them as your parents."

Meanwhile, Zellweger used her speech to pay tribute to Garland, who was nominated for two Oscars in the 1950s and 60s.

"Judy Garland did not receive this honour in her time," the actress said. "I am certain that this moment is an extension of the celebration of her legacy."

The British winners

Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin won best original song
Sir Elton John and songwriting partner Bernie Taupin won best original song for (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again from Rocketman. It's Sir Elton's second Oscar, 25 years after winning for The Lion King.
After receiving 13 unsuccessful nominations, Roger Deakins has now won his second Oscar in three years, picking up the trophy for best cinematography for 1917.
Dominic Tuohy was up against himself in the visual effects category - nominated for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and 1917. He won for 1917 (alongside Guillaume Rocheron and Greg Butler).
British pair Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson picked up the sound mixing award for the same film.
Costume designer Jacqueline Durran won the second Oscar of her career for her work on Little Women.
British-made Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You're A Girl) scooped best short documentary.
Other notable winners
Joker composer Hildur Gudnadottir became the first female winner of best original score since 1997.
American Factory, the first film from Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, was named best documentary feature. (The former first couple weren't there, however.)
Toy Story 4 won best animated feature, nine years after Toy Story 3 won the same award.
No host (but two hosts)

For the second year, the ceremony had no host, and was again better for it.

It all started with an incendiary performance by singer and Moonlight actress Janelle Monae. "We are celebrating all the women who directed phenomenal films," she said. "I'm proud to be here as a black queer woman."

Then Steve Martin and Chris Rock appeared to deliver the traditional opening monologue as a double act. "We both have hosted the Oscars before. And this is such an incredible demotion," Martin quipped.

He remarked: "Think how much the Oscars have changed in the past 92 years. Back in 1929 there were no black acting nominees." Rock added: "And now in 2020 we've got one."

They then gave way to a string of other celebrities to introduce each award.

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Oscars 2020: The winners in full

This year's Academy Awards have taken place in Los Angeles. Here's the full list of winners and nominees.
Best picture

Winner: Parasite
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood

Best actress

Winner: Renee Zellweger - Judy
Cynthia Erivo - Harriet
Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan - Little Women
Charlize Theron - Bombshell

Best actor

Winner: Joaquin Phoenix - Joker
Antonio Banderas - Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio - Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Adam Driver - Marriage Story
Jonathan Pryce - The Two Popes

Best supporting actress

Winner: Laura Dern - Marriage Story
Kathy Bates - Richard Jewell
Scarlett Johansson - Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh - Little Women
Margot Robbie - Bombshell

Best supporting actor

Winner: Brad Pitt - Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Tom Hanks - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Sir Anthony Hopkins - The Two Popes
Al Pacino - The Irishman
Joe Pesci - The Irishman

Best director

Winner: Parasite - Bong Joon-ho
The Irishman - Martin Scorsese
Joker - Todd Phillips
1917 - Sam Mendes
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino

Best original screenplay

Winner: Parasite - Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin Won
Knives Out - Rian Johnson
Marriage Story - Noah Baumbach
1917 - Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino

Best adapted screenplay

Winner: Jojo Rabbit - Taika Waititi
The Irishman - Steven Zaillian
Joker - Todd Phillips & Scott Silver
Little Women - Greta Gerwig
The Two Popes - Anthony McCarten

Best animated feature

Winner: Toy Story 4
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
Missing Link

Best documentary feature

Winner: American Factory
The Cave
The Edge of Democracy
For Sama
Honeyland

Best international feature

Winner: Parasite - South Korea
Corpus Christi - Poland
Honeyland - North Macedonia
Les Miserables - France
Pain and Glory - Spain

Best original song

Winner: (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again - Rocketman (Elton John & Bernie Taupin)
I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away - Toy Story 4 (Randy Newman)
I'm Standing With You - Breakthrough (Diane Warren)
Into the Unknown - Frozen 2 (Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez)
Stand Up - Harriet (Joshuah Brian Campbell & Cynthia Erivo)

Best original score

Winner: Joker - Hildur Guðnadóttir
Little Women - Alexandre Desplat
Marriage Story - Randy Newman
1917 - Thomas Newman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - John Williams
Best cinematography

Winner: 1917 - Roger Deakins
The Irishman - Rodrigo Prieto
Joker - Lawrence Sher
The Lighthouse - Jarin Blaschke
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood - Robert Richardson

Best visual effects

Winner: 1917 - Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler & Dominic Tuohy
Avengers: Endgame - Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Matt Aitken & Dan Sudick
The Irishman - Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser & Stephane Grabli
The Lion King - Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R Jones & Elliot Newman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach & Dominic Tuohy

Best film editing

Winner: Ford v Ferrari - Michael McCusker & Andrew Buckland
The Irishman - Thelma Schoonmaker
Jojo Rabbit - Tom Eagles
Joker - Jeff Groth
Parasite - Yang Jinmo

Best costume design

Winner: Little Women - Jacqueline Durran
The Irishman - Sandy Powell & Christopher Peterson
Jojo Rabbit - Mayes C Rubeo
Joker - Mark Bridges
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood - Arianne Phillips

Best sound editing

Winner: Ford v Ferrari - Donald Sylvester
Joker - Alan Robert Murray
1917 - Oliver Tarney & Rachael Tate
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood - Wylie Stateman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Matthew Wood & David Acord

Best sound mixing

Winner: 1917 - Mark Taylor & Stuart Wilson
Ad Astra - Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson & Mark Ulano
Ford v Ferrari - Paul Massey, David Giammarco & Steven A Morrow
Joker - Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic & Tod Maitland
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood - Michael Minkler, Christian P Minkler & Mark Ulano

Best production design

Winner: Once Upon A Time in Hollywood - Barbara Ling & Nancy Haigh
The Irishman - Bob Shaw & Regina Graves
Jojo Rabbit - Ra Vincent & Nora Sopková
1917 - Dennis Gassner & Lee Sandales
Parasite - Lee Ha Jun & Cho Won Woo

Best make-up and hairstyling

Winner: Bombshell - Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan & Vivian Baker
Joker - Nicki Ledermann & Kay Georgiou
Judy - Jeremy Woodhead
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil - Paul Gooch, Arjen Tuiten & David White
1917 - Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis & Rebecca Cole

Best live action short

Winner: The Neighbors' Window
Brotherhood
Nefta Football Club
Saria
A Sister

Best animated short

Hair Love
Dcera (Daughter)
Kitbull
Memorable
Sister

Best documentary short

Winner: Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
In the Absence
Life Overtakes Me
St Louis Superman
Walk Run Cha-Cha

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Oscars 2021 ceremony postponed for two months.

 

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Oscars nominations 2021: Baron-Cohen, Mulligan and Kaluuya in the running

Sacha Baron-Cohen, Carey Mulligan, Olivia Colman, Daniel Kaluuya and Sir Anthony Hopkins are among the British stars nominated for this year's Oscars.

Vanessa Kirby, Gary Oldman and Riz Ahmed are among the other UK nominees.

They are joined by the likes of Frances McDormand, Glenn Close, Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman.

Two women were nominated for best director - the first time more than one woman has been shortlisted for that prize in the awards' 93-year history.

Chloe Zhao is nominated for directing Nomadland, and Britain's Emerald Fennell - who plays Camilla Parker-Bowles in The Crown - is recognised for Promising Young Woman.

Mank, the black-and-white drama starring Oldman as Citizen Kane writer Herman Mankiewicz, leads the overall field with 10 nominations.

This year's winners will be announced at the delayed ceremony on 25 April.

The leading nominees:

10 nominations - Mank
6 - The Father
6 - Judas and the Black Messiah
6 - Minari
6 - Nomadland
6 - Sound of Metal
6 - The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best picture

The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best actress

Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Andra Day, The United States vs Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best actor

Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Sir Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Gary Oldman, Mank
Steven Yeun, Minari

Best supporting actress

Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

Best supporting actor

Sacha Baron Cohen - The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Leslie Odom Jr, One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Lakeith Stanfield - Judas and the Black Messiah

The Brits are coming

The eight British acting nominees range from Ahmed, who receives his first Oscar nomination for playing a drummer who loses his hearing in Sound of Metal, to Sir Anthony, who earns his sixth nomination for playing a man who loses his grip on reality in The Father.

His daughter is played by Colman, who will hope to repeat her 2019 success for The Favourite. Oldman is back three years after winning for playing Winston Churchill in The Darkest Hour.

Carey Mulligan is nominated for Promising Young Woman despite being shut out by this year's Baftas, while the revenge thriller earns Fennell nominations for best picture and best original screenplay as well as best director.

Kirby, who also made her name on The Crown, is nominated for playing a traumatised mother in Pieces of a Woman, while Kaluuya and Baron-Cohen are up for best supporting actor for Judas and the Black Messiah and The Trial of the Chicago 7 respectively.

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Wow, well done to Riz Ahmed! Never thought I'd see his name next in such upper echelons of Hollywood, I'm happy he's getting the recognition. One of my personal favourites.

 

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Nomadland wins best film, best director and best actress

Chloe Zhao is the first woman of colour to win best director and only the second woman ever to win

Frances McDormand is named best actress, also for Nomadland

Sir Anthony Hopkins wins best actor for The Father, the late Chadwick Boseman had been tipped to win

Daniel Kaluuya honoured with best supporting actor award for Judas and the Black Messiah

Other British winners include Emerald Fennell for best screenplay

Yuh-Jung Youn wins best supporting actress, the first Korean performer to win an acting Oscar

Soul lands best animated film and best original score

This year's event was the most diverse Oscars ever, with nine of the 20 acting nominees from ethnic minority backgrounds

 

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Film drama Nomadland has scooped three Oscars including best picture, while British stars Sir Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Kaluuya have won acting awards.

Nomadland's Chloé Zhao made history as the first woman of colour and second woman to win best director.

Sir Anthony, 83, is the oldest winner of best actor, while Kaluuya is the first black British actor to win an Oscar - in the supporting category.

"I did not expect to get this," said Sir Anthony, who missed the ceremony.

British actress-turned-writer/director Emerald Fennell won a screenplay award.

The star, who plays Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown, won best original screenplay for Promising Young Woman, which she also directed.

Frances McDormand won best actress for her role in Nomadland, while veteran South Korean actress Yuh-Jung Youn won best supporting actress for Minari.

The trophies were handed out in one of the grand halls at Los Angeles's stylish Union Station to allow for a Covid-safe ceremony, while many UK-based nominees were at a venue in London - although Sir Anthony was at neither.

Sir Anthony won best actor for his masterful performance as a man suffering with dementia in The Father, 29 years after he won his first Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs.

His victory was the biggest surprise of the night. The award had been tipped to go to the late Chadwick Boseman, who died aged 43 last August, for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

Sir Anthony was neither in LA nor at the British Film Institute in London, the ceremony's UK venue, so instead posted a message on Instagram on Monday morning.

"At 83 years of age I did not expect to get this award, I really didn't," he said in a video filmed in his "homeland" of Wales. "I'm very grateful to the Academy, and thank you."

Sir Anthony went on to pay tribute to Boseman, whom he said had been "taken from us far too early", and said he felt "very privileged and honoured".

The Father, which will be released in the UK on 11 June, also won best adapted screenplay for Sir Christopher Hampton and director Florian Zeller, who called Sir Anthony "the greatest living actor".

The slow-burning drama about a woman living in her van in the American West after the financial crash won the top prize for best film, plus best director and best actress.

McDormand, who now has three best actress Oscars, is one of the only professional performers in the film. Most of the rest of the cast is made up of real people playing fictionalised versions of themselves.

In her acceptance speech, Zhao thanked the real-life nomads "for teaching us the power of resilience and hope".

Before Zhao, the only woman to have won the directing prize in the Oscars' 92-year history was Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010.

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This year's Oscars could have been a moment of pride for China. Then politics got in the way

Hong Kong (CNN)The Academy Awards this year could have been a major moment of pride for China.

Chloe Zhao, a Beijing-born filmmaker, made history Sunday by winning the best director Oscar for her movie "Nomadland" -- becoming the first Asian woman and only the second woman to ever win the award. Zhao's movie also won best picture.

But China is not celebrating -- at least not officially.

On the contrary, this year's Oscars was not aired anywhere in China -- including on two major streaming platforms where the annual ceremony had been shown live in previous years. In Hong Kong, a leading broadcaster opted not to air the Oscars for the first time in more than half a century.

Even as Zhao's victory makes headlines around the world, Chinese state media has remained conspicuously quiet. Hours after the announcement, no reports of her win could be found on the websites of state news agency Xinhua or state broadcaster CCTV. Social media posts sharing the news of her victory have also been censored.

The official silence is in contrast to March, when Zhao won best director at the Golden Globes. Back then, Chinese state media was quick to congratulate Zhao, with nationalist tabloid the Global Times calling her "the pride of China."

But praise for Zhao didn't last long. Chinese internet users dug up a 2013 interview she gave to US movie magazine Filmmaker, during which she appeared to criticize the China of her childhood as a place "where there are lies everywhere." In another more recent interview with Australian media, Zhao was quoted as saying the United States "is now my country, ultimately." The site later clarified Zhao had been misquoted -- what she actually said was the US "is not my country."

But the damage was done. China's online nationalists rushed to attack Zhao, accusing her of "smearing China." Some even called for a boycott of the movie.
Before long, promotional materials for Zhao's "Nomadland" disappeared from social media site Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform. The film, which was originally scheduled to be released in China on April 23, was also removed from the country's major movie websites. As of Monday, there is no indication
"Nomadland" is coming to Chinese theaters anytime soon.

The swift disavowal of Zhao is the latest sign of just how widespread China's nationalistic sentiment has become under President Xi Jinping. Zhao has not spoken critically of China since she rose to fame, but it seems a single comment made eight years ago is enough to destroy her image -- and halt her film's release.

Moreover, in the eyes of China's ruling Communist Party, Zhao's comparatively privileged upbringing and Western education might not make her the ideal candidate to embrace as a Chinese success story. Zhao attended schools in Britain and the US, before eventually enrolling in film school at New York University -- an experience out of reach for most Chinese people.

In addition to the nationalistic backlash against Zhao, this year's Oscars is also a political thorn for the Chinese government for another reason -- "Do Not Split," a 35-minute film chronicling Hong Kong's 2019 pro-democracy protests, was nominated for best short documentary (it didn't win in the end).
Whether the film's nomination contributed to a downplaying of the Oscars remains open to question. But as the Academy Awards got underway in Los Angeles, on Weibo -- one of China's most popular social media sites -- the event had not even made the top 50 trending topics of the day. This was despite the nomination of Chinese movie "Better Days" for best international feature. The young adult crime romance has been a smash hit in China, and is the first Chinese film to be nominated in that category in nearly two decades.

But in China, Zhao still has her share of supporters. As news of her win was shared by unofficial accounts on Weibo, many users left comments congratulating Zhao and criticized the nationalistic attack against her. But censorship soon kicked in, and the posts vanished within hours.

One of the popular posts scrubbed from Weibo was a video of Zhao's acceptance speech at the ceremony, in which she spoke proudly of her Chinese roots. Zhao said she used to recite classic Chinese poems and texts with her father, and one particular line from the Three Character Classic -- "People at birth are inherently good" -- had helped her keep going when things got hard.
"Those six letters had such a great impact on me when I was a kid, and I still truly believe them today.
Even though sometimes it might seem like the opposite is true, I have always found goodness in the people I met, everywhere I went in the world," she said.


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Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog, an intense Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch, leads this year's Oscar nominations with 12.

It is closely followed by Dune, which has 10, and Belfast and West Side Story, which have seven each.

Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Garfield are among the UK nominees in the lead acting categories.

Dame Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds are nominated for supporting roles.

Both appeared in Belfast, Sir Kenneth Branagh's autobiographical black-and-white film about a family in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.

Sir Kenneth, who is also nominated for best director, said in a statement: "It's a long way from the streets of Belfast to the Academy Awards.

"Today, I think of my mother and father, and my grandparents - how proud they were to be Irish, how much this city meant to them. They would have been overwhelmed by this incredible honour - as am I.

"Given a story as personal as this one, it's a hell of a day for my family, and the family of our film. I thank Academy voters for their incredible and generous recognition."

Sir Kenneth becomes the first person to be nominated in seven different Oscar categories throughout his career. He already has director, actor, supporting actor, adapted screenplay and live action short nominations, but can now add best original screenplay and best picture. He is yet to win, however.

With her nomination, Jane Campion becomes the first woman to have been nominated for best director twice, having been recognised for The Piano in 1993.

Her film, The Power of the Dog, is a slow and suspenseful western which also scored nominations for three of its supporting actors - Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Kirsten Dunst.

Dune, which stars Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet, is one of 10 nominees for best picture

The Power of the Dog - 12
Dune - 10
Belfast - 7
West Side Story - 7
King Richard - 6
Don't Look Up - 4
Nightmare Alley - 4
Drive My Car - 4


'Deeply honoured'

Many nominees shared their joy on social media after the Academy unveiled its shortlists on Tuesday.

Jessica Chastain, nominated for her leading performance in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, tweeted: "This morning felt like a dream. As Tammy Faye would say, WE'RE BLEST!!!"

"To be acknowledged by amongst all of the other incredible actresses that were nominated this year feels surreal."

Writing on Twitter, Kodi Smit-McPhee said he was "deeply honoured" to have been recognised by the Academy as a best supporting actor nominee

Belfast star Hinds, another nominee in that category, said in a statement: "Having worked in this industry for nearly 50 years, I thought there wasn't much that could surprise me still. Today, I can honestly say, I am astounded, thrilled and deeply grateful."

Jessie Buckley told RTÉ she was in "complete shock" after being nominated for best supporting actress, adding: "The Lost Daughter is so special to me... To be recognised for anything connected to it is just a wild dream come true."

British actor Andrew Garfield said he was "deeply humbled" to be recognised for his portrayal of the late composer Jonathan Larson in Tick Tick... Boom!

"All I long for is to tell stories that remind us of how to live," Garfield said in a statement. "Jonathan's story offers us a treasure map. Thank you for keeping his song reverberating through our universe.

And Ariana DeBose, who is a strong contender in the same category for her role as Anita in West Side Story, shared her excitement over her nomination.

Two couples are nominated within the 20 acting places that were available.

Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) and Javier Bardem (Being The Ricardos) have been married since 2010, while Plemons and Dunst are engaged.

In a statement, Dunst said: "To be honored by the Academy is a truly humbling experience. For both Jesse and I to get our first nominations together is beyond our wildest dreams."

Denzel Washington's nomination for The Tragedy of Macbeth is his 10th, extending the record he already holds as the most nominated black actor ever.

There is no overlap between the best actress and best picture categories - all five women nominated for a leading role appeared in films which did not make it into the top category.

This is common at the Oscars. While Frances McDormand and Nomadland synced their wins last year, that was the first time for 15 years that the winner of best actress appeared in the film that also won best picture.

Efforts to nominate more popular films and make the Oscars more relevant to young people were only partly successful, as fans of James Bond and Spider-Man were left disappointed.

Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi saga Dune was the most successful film to get a best picture nod, after taking $400m (£294m) at the box office worldwide.

The red carpet will have to do without without Lady Gaga and her Oscars outfit this year. She had been tipped for a best actress nomination for House of Gucci, but has missed out.

It's not a good year to be both a musician and an actor. Gaga's co-star Jared Leto, who is also the singer with Thirty Seconds To Mars, and Alana Haim, who has gone from the band Haim to starring in Licorice Pizza, were both in contention but have been overlooked.

Kristen Stewart did make it on to the best actress list, though, for playing Princess Diana in Spencer. The former Twilight star was frontrunner to win a few months ago, but that film has rapidly fallen out of favour and it wasn't certain that she would be nominated.

On the best supporting actress list, Dame Judi had been an outsider to be nominated for Belfast - but she is loved by the Oscars, and has now received her eighth career nomination. Her on-screen daughter-in-law Caitriona Balfe, who was thought to have been Belfast's more likely representative in that category, was not recognised.

Irish star Buckley was also something of a surprise in the best supporting actress category. She plays the younger version of Olivia Colman's character in The Lost Daughter - with Colman herself up for best actress, days after being snubbed in the Bafta nominations.

Overall, Oscar voters liked The Power of the Dog a bit more than expected, and liked Dune a bit less than expected - typified by the fact that, although Dune has 10 nominations, Denis Villeneuve didn't make the cut for best director.

Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan announced the nominations in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

There is pressure to make the Oscars more popular with and relevant to young audiences, after 2021's pared-down ceremony tanked in the ratings, partly due to the absence of big film releases during lockdown.

The Academy has confirmed the ceremony will have a host this year, but has not yet revealed who it will be.

The ceremony hasn't had a host since Jimmy Kimmel was at the helm in 2018. Instead, a variety of celebrity guests have introduced individual categories and announced winners.

This year's ceremony will take place on Sunday 27 March.

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British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed is over the moon with two Oscar nods! The Venom star managed to nag four nominations at Hollywood's biggest film award. This year's Academy Awards contenders were announced on Tuesday in a streamed broadcast hosted by actors Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan. Although the nominees are out, there's plenty of time to speculate about who the big winners will be — the 94th annual Academy Awards take place on March 27 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Ahmed's The Long Goodbye was nominated for Best Live Action Short while his production, Flee, with Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's searing hybrid film became the first movie to be nominated for Best Documentary, International Feature, and Animated Feature in the same year.

Taking to Instagram, Ahmed penned a message full of gratitude. "On behalf of myself and Left Handed Films, thank you to the Academy for recognising The Long Goodbye for Best Live Action short film, and honouring Flee with a historic three nominations for Best Animation, Best Doc, and Best Intl Feature!"

The actor went on to add, "It’s an amazing feeling to be here just one year into creating Left Handed Films. These are two deeply personal and urgent stories that are totally unique in their creative execution, and so close to our hearts. That’s the kind of work we want to make."

Ahmed further shared, "The Long Goodbye was one of the most intense and important stories I have been a part of telling. Its power is down to the bold vision of our brilliant director, Aneil Karia and our tirelessly dedicated cast and crew. It is both a technically and emotionally towering feat of filmmaking, and defies categorisation. Thank you Amin, for your bravery in sharing your unforgettable story."

He concluded with, "It’s a privilege to be part of these projects that, along with many others this year, stretch culture in powerful ways."

Top awards

Up for best picture is Stephen Spielberg's remake of the 1961 movie West Side Story with a score by the late Stephen Sondheim. Spielberg is also nominated for best director for his film about two rival gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, set in a gentrifying Manhattan in the 1950s.

Belfast, which tells the story of a working-class family in the 1960s in the midst of political turmoil in the Northern Irish capital, is another contender for best picture. Filmmaker Kenneth Branagh was also nominated for the best director award. The coming-of-age film is based on his childhood experiences of growing up in Belfast.

A western leads the race

Another strong Oscar contender is a unique western — the psychological drama The Power of the Dog by Jane Campion. It leads the race with 12 Academy Award nominations, including best director and best picture, along with Benedict Cumberbatch playing rancher Phil Burbank up for Best Actor. If the Netflix film takes home best picture, it would be the first western to do so since No Country for Old Men in 2007.

Sci-fi adventure film Dune, by Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve, garnered 10 nominations, including best picture. The movie is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert. It's also up for best visual effects, as well as best cinematography.

Guillermo del Toro's film noir Nightmare Alley was nominated for four awards, best picture included. The Mexican director best known for Pan's Labyrinth also took home Oscars in 2018 for best picture and best director for his Cold War romantic fantasy The Shape of Water.

Although it didn't make the cut for best picture, Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth, a remake of Shakespeare's drama in black and white with surrealistic elements reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock movies, is still up for several awards, including best cinematography and best production design.

Denzel Washington, who plays the title character as he slips into madness, was nominated as best actor. Meanwhile, Frances McDormand who plays Lady Macbeth was left out of the running, meaning she won't have a chance to sweep the Oscars as she did last year as a producer and leading actress of the film Nomadland.

Comedies in the running

Netflix's dark comedy Don't Look Up, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep could very well be the best movie of the year. Another comedy, the coming-of-age story Licorice Pizza by director Paul Thomas Anderson, is up for both best picture and best director.

Comedy-drama Coda, about a teenager with deaf parents by director Sian Heder, is also in the running for best picture, as well as best adapted screenplay. Another nominee for the top film is King Richard, a story based on the father of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams. The movie was produced by Will Smith, who also stars as the lead character and was nominated in the best actor category. Aunjanue Ellis, who plays the girls' mother, is a contender for the Best Supporting Actress award.

Nostalgia and foreign films

Fans of Lucille Ball and the US sitcom I Love Lucy will appreciate the nominations garnered for Being the Ricardos, based on the lives of on and off-screen couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Actors Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman are up for best actor and actress, respectively.

The nominees for the Best International Film are especially diverse this year. They include the Japanese film Drive My Car by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who is also nominated for best director. The Japanese film is the only foreign work to be in the running for best picture, as well.

Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's latest film, Hand of God, which is based on his childhood in Naples and is also out on Netflix, is another best foreign film nominee, Bhutan's Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom and Norway's The Worst Person in the World. Germany's shortlisted entry, Maria Schrader's I'm Your Man, was not among the final nominees.

This year, the ceremony in Hollywood will be in-person, as opposed to the slimmed-down, pandemic-safe 2021 event. The Academy also announced that the show would have a host for the first time since 2018, without however revealing who that might be.

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Coda has been named this year’s best picture at an Oscars ceremony that featured an unusual confrontation between Will Smith and Chris Rock.

The Apple TV+ drama, bought from 2021’s Sundance film festival for a record-breaking $25m, became the first film from a streamer to win the award. It’s a remake of French film La Famille Bélier, focusing on the only hearing member of a deaf family.

“Thank you to the Academy for letting us make history,” said producer Philippe Rousselet. Producer Patrick Wachsberger thanked the Academy for “recognising a movie of love and family in this difficult time”.

Troy Kotsur also won best supporting actor for his role in the film, making him the second deaf actor to bring home an Oscar, joining his co-star Marlee Matlin who won for Children of a Lesser God in 1987. “I really want to thank all of the wonderful deaf theatre stages where I was allowed and given the opportunity to develop my craft as an actor,” he said in an emotive speech. “This is dedicated to the deaf community, the Coda community and the disabled community. This is our moment.”

Sian Heder, Coda’s writer-director, also won best adapted screenplay becoming the first woman to bring home the award by herself since Emma Thompson in 1995. Coda has become the first best picture winner with less than four nominations since 1932’s Grand Hotel.

Will Smith had the night’s most viral moment with Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, saying he was looking forward to GI Jane 2. Pinkett Smith, who revealed last year that she has alopecia, was unamused and an angered Smith then came on to the stage and appeared to slap Rock before the sound muted and footage later showed that Rock said “Will Smith just smacked the **** out of me” before Smith shouted: “Get my wife’s name out of your ****ing mouth.”

Rock tried to defuse the situation by saying it “was a GI Jane joke” before Smith repeated his warning. Scott Feinberg of the Hollywood Reporter tweeted that Smith was then calmed by Denzel Washington and Tyler Perry during the commercial break as he appeared to wipe tears from his eyes.

Smith later secured his first Oscar, winning best actor for playing the father of Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard. “Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family,” he said tearfully. “I know to do what we do, you gotta be able to take abuse, you gotta be able to take people talk crazy about you, in this business, you gotta have people disrespecting you and you gotta smile and pretend that it’s okay.”

He then recalled advice just given to him by fellow nominee Washington: “At your highest moment, be careful that’s when the devil comes for you.”

He continued: “I wanna apologise to the Academy, I wanna apologise to all my fellow nominees … art imitates life. I look like the crazy father, just like they said about Richard Williams, but love will make you do crazy things.”

“Will Smith said it all, let’s have peace and love and quiet,” Anthony Hopkins said later onstage.

The award for best director went to Jane Campion for queer psychodrama The Power of the Dog, the only win for a film that had led the pack with the most nominations. Campion is only the third female director to ever win the Oscar for best director, following in the footsteps of Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker and Chloé Zhao last year for Nomadland. She thanked the film’s “actors I’m moved to call my friends” and called the win “a lifetime honour”.

Jessica Chastain was named best actress for televangelist biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye, her third nomination and first win. The actor spoke of recent times of “trauma and isolation” and how suicide has affected many, including herself. She paid tribute to LGBTQ+ youth who “feel out of place with their peers” and face “discriminatory and bigoted legislation that is sweeping our country”.

“At times like this I’m reminded of Tammy,” she said and her “radical acts of love”. She said to all those feeling alone: “I just want you to know that you are unconditionally loved for the uniqueness that is you.”

The film also won the only other award it was nominated for, best hair and makeup.

Ariana DeBose was named best supporting actress for her performance in Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story. She became the first openly queer woman of colour and only the second Latina to ever win an Oscar. She joins her West Side Story co-star Rita Moreno, who also won for playing the character of Anita in 1962. “For anyone who has ever questioned your identity … there is indeed a place for us,” DeBose said while paying tribute to Moreno as a “divine inspiration who paved the way for tons of Anitas”.

Kenneth Branagh picked up best original screenplay for his semi-autobiographical drama Belfast. “It’s a great tribute to an amazing city,” he said of the award, his first win from eight nominations.

There was outcry last month when it was announced that eight craft awards would be announced before the ceremony and then edited into the broadcast later. These were dominated by Dune, which won for Hans Zimmer’s original score as well as for editing, sound and production design. The film later won cinematography and visual effects too, making it the night’s most awarded with six wins.

Drive My Car, which was the first Japanese film nominated for best picture, was named best international feature film. Encanto beat out competition from Flee and The Mitchells vs the Machines to win best animated film. Questlove’s Summer of Soul was named best documentary.

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This year also saw the introduction of two Twitter-voted special awards for fans. The fan favourite film was won by Zack Snyder’s Netflix zombie thriller Army of the Dead while the all-time most cheer-worthy moment was won by Zack Snyder’s Justice League for the scene where Ezra Miller’s The Flash enters speed force.

Last year’s best actor nominee Riz Ahmed also became the first Muslim and first person of Asian descent to win live action short for The Long Goodbye. “This is for everyone who feels like they don’t belong,” he said in his speech. “Anyone who feels like they’re stuck in no man’s land. You’re not alone.” British two-time Oscar-winner Jenny Beavan also won for her costume work on Cruella.

The ceremony was hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes. “We’re gonna have a great night tonight and for you people in Florida, we’re gonna have a gay night tonight,” said Sykes to applause, in reference to the state’s controversial “don’t say gay” bill which seeks to ban teaching of sexual identity and gender orientation in early-grade education as well as in “a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students”. Sykes also made a jab at voter suppression by presenting a shredded Texas voter registration form.

The night was kicked off with an extravagant performance by Beyoncé, singing her Oscar-nominated song from King Richard in the tennis courts of Compton. But the award for best original song went to Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas, for their Bond song No Time to Die.

The ceremony was also by the war in Ukraine with stars including Jason Mamoa, Jamie Lee Curtis, Benedict Cumberbatch and Samuel L Jackson all wearing ribbons or badges. “To see children buried under the rubble of theaters, to see pregnant women being injured in maternity wards, I just, you know, it beggars belief that it is happening,” Cumberbatch said on the red carpet.

“One cannot help but be in awe of those who find strength to keep fighting in unimaginable darkness,” the Ukrainian-born Mila Kunis said in her introduction to a performance by Reba McEntire. It was then followed by messaging that asked for a moment of silence and a plea for help. “We ask you to support Ukraine in any way that you are able,” the screen read.

Schumer had previously expressed a desire for the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to appear while Sean Penn said he would smelt his Oscars if this didn’t happen. Sykes was asked about this idea on the red carpet. “You know, in Hollywood, we can get a little full of ourselves and we think that what we’re doing is all so important,” she said to Variety. “I understand that, yeah, what we do reaches a lot people and we can persuade a lot of people, but it’s also [respectful] to just know your lane. You know what I’m saying? Know your lane.”

Schumer did use a moment near the end of the night to improvise a reminder that there is “a genocide going on in Ukraine and women are losing all their rights ... and trans people”.

Last year’s Academy awards were led by wins for Nomadland and its director, Zhao, and star, Frances McDormand. It was watched by the smallest television audience for an Oscars ceremony ever.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/28/oscars-coda-best-picture-will-smith-chris-rock-slap

 

[MenInG]

Oscars 2023 nominations list

Nominees for the 95th Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning, ahead of a ceremony on March 12 in Los Angeles. Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan’s oddball sci-fi movie, “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” led in sheer number of nominations, with 11 total; Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” and Edward Berger’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” tied for second, with nine each.


Best Picture

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Elvis”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“The Fabelmans”

“Tár”

“Top Gun: Maverick”

“Triangle of Sadness”

“Women Talking”


Best Director

Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”

Todd Field, “Tár”

Ruben Ostlund, “Triangle of Sadness”


Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, “Tár”

Ana de Armas, “Blonde”

Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”

Michelle Williams, “The Fabelmans”

Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”


Best Actor

Austin Butler, “Elvis”

Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”

Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”

Bill Nighy, “Living”


Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

Hong Chau, “The Whale”

Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”


Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”

Judd Hirsch, “The Fabelmans”

Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”


Cinematography

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”

“Elvis”

“Empire of Light”

“Tár”

Editing

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Elvis”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“Tár”

“Top Gun: Maverick”


Original Screenplay

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“The Fabelmans”

“Tár”

“Triangle of Sadness”


Adapted Screenplay

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”

“Living”

“Top Gun: Maverick”

“Women Talking”


Production Design

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“Babylon”

“Elvis”

“The Fabelmans”


International Feature

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Germany

“Argentina, 1985,” Argentina

“Close,” Belgium

“EO,” Poland

“The Quiet Girl,” Ireland


Animated Feature

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”

“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”

“The Sea Beast”

“Turning Red”


Animated Short

“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”

“The Flying Sailor”

“Ice Merchants”

“My Year of Dicks”

“An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”

“All That Breathes”

“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”

“Fire of Love”

“A House Made of Splinters”

“Navalny”


Documentary Short

“The Elephant Whisperers”

“Haulout”

“How Do You Measure a Year?”

“The Martha Mitchell Effect”

“Stranger at the Gate”


Live-Action Short

“An Irish Goodbye”

“Ivalu”

“Le Pupille”

“Night Ride”

“The Red Suitcase”


Visual Effects

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“The Batman”

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

“Top Gun: Maverick”


Original Song

“Applause” (“Tell It Like a Woman”)

“Hold My Hand” (“Top Gun: Maverick”)

“Lift Me Up” (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”)

“Naatu Naatu” (“RRR”)

“This Is a Life” (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)


Original Score

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Babylon”

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“The Fabelmans”


Sound

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“The Batman”

“Elvis”

“Top Gun: Maverick”


Makeup and Hairstyling

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“The Batman”

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

“Elvis”

“The Whale”


Costume Design

“Babylon”

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

“Elvis”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”

NYTimes

 

[Technics 1210]

Great to see Top Gun Maverik nominated for 6 Oscars, including Best Picture.

Meanwhile, as expected:

Oscars 2023: Till director Chinonye Chukwu calls out misogyny and racism after snub

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64396730

 

[shaz619]

Oscars 2023 nominations list

Nominees for the 95th Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning, ahead of a ceremony on March 12 in Los Angeles. Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan’s oddball sci-fi movie, “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” led in sheer number of nominations, with 11 total; Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” and Edward Berger’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” tied for second, with nine each.


Best Picture

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Elvis”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“The Fabelmans”

“Tár”

“Top Gun: Maverick”

“Triangle of Sadness”

“Women Talking”


Best Director

Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”

Todd Field, “Tár”

Ruben Ostlund, “Triangle of Sadness”


Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, “Tár”

Ana de Armas, “Blonde”

Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”

Michelle Williams, “The Fabelmans”

Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”


Best Actor

Austin Butler, “Elvis”

Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”

Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”

Bill Nighy, “Living”


Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

Hong Chau, “The Whale”

Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”


Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”

Judd Hirsch, “The Fabelmans”

Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”


Cinematography

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”

“Elvis”

“Empire of Light”

“Tár”

Editing

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Elvis”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“Tár”

“Top Gun: Maverick”


Original Screenplay

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“The Fabelmans”

“Tár”

“Triangle of Sadness”


Adapted Screenplay

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”

“Living”

“Top Gun: Maverick”

“Women Talking”


Production Design

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“Babylon”

“Elvis”

“The Fabelmans”


International Feature

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Germany

“Argentina, 1985,” Argentina

“Close,” Belgium

“EO,” Poland

“The Quiet Girl,” Ireland


Animated Feature

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”

“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”

“The Sea Beast”

“Turning Red”


Animated Short

“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”

“The Flying Sailor”

“Ice Merchants”

“My Year of Dicks”

“An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”

“All That Breathes”

“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”

“Fire of Love”

“A House Made of Splinters”

“Navalny”


Documentary Short

“The Elephant Whisperers”

“Haulout”

“How Do You Measure a Year?”

“The Martha Mitchell Effect”

“Stranger at the Gate”


Live-Action Short

“An Irish Goodbye”

“Ivalu”

“Le Pupille”

“Night Ride”

“The Red Suitcase”


Visual Effects

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“The Batman”

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

“Top Gun: Maverick”


Original Song

“Applause” (“Tell It Like a Woman”)

“Hold My Hand” (“Top Gun: Maverick”)

“Lift Me Up” (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”)

“Naatu Naatu” (“RRR”)

“This Is a Life” (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)


Original Score

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Babylon”

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“The Fabelmans”


Sound

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“The Batman”

“Elvis”

“Top Gun: Maverick”


Makeup and Hairstyling

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“The Batman”

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

“Elvis”

“The Whale”


Costume Design

“Babylon”

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

“Elvis”

“Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”

NYTimes

I hope Top Gun wins it but good action rarely gets the nod, it’s probably going to be the war film or a drama.

It’s good to see Collin Farell get recognised, top top actor. It’s a shame there is no recognition for Nope, good horror needs to be appreciated more and Jordan Peele is a genius.

 

[JaDed]

I hope Top Gun wins it but good action rarely gets the nod, it’s probably going to be the war film or a drama.

It’s good to see Collin Farell get recognised, top top actor. It’s a shame there is no recognition for Nope, good horror needs to be appreciated more and Jordan Peele is a genius.

That was my fav of last year along Everything everywhere all at once, which too i would say was great action and is nominated across.

 

[JaDed]

I just saw Pinnochio yesterday absolutely loved it but im probably biased towards Del torro.

 

[MenInG]

All eyes will be on Hollywood later to see whether Everything Everywhere All At Once can cap its extraordinary awards season by sweeping the Oscars.

The eccentric multiverse adventure is the favourite to win best picture after success at a host of precursor events.

But it faces competition from All Quiet on the Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin, among others.

Austin Butler, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh are the frontrunners in the acting categories.

The 2023 awards season has been one of the most unpredictable of recent years, with three of the four acting categories too close to call.

Winners have varied at the other major ceremonies, such as the SAG Awards, Baftas and Golden Globes, and there is a lack of consensus over who will triumph at the Oscars as a result.

BBC

 

[shaz619]

I just saw Pinnochio yesterday absolutely loved it but im probably biased towards Del torro.

I still need to see this and another stop motion called The House.

There’s another animation called Wendell and Wall which is meant to be good.

Tend to put anything dark on my hit list

 

[Oxfordchamp]

RRR is favorite for Original Song...it is even being performed on stage

 

[hassan918]

Oscars 2024: Barbie's Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie miss key nominations​

Box office smash Barbie has received eight Oscar nominations - but its star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig were snubbed in some major categories.

Gerwig missed out on being recognised in best director, but a nomination for Anatomy of a Fall's Justine Triet meant the line-up was not entirely male.

This is also the first year women have directed three best picture nominees.

Oppenheimer scored the most nominations overall, followed by Poor Things and Killers of the Flower Moon.

There were nods for Barbie's star and director elsewhere - Robbie was recognised as a producer in the best picture line-up, while Gerwig was nominated for best adapted screenplay.

Barbie's best picture nod also means Gerwig is the first woman to direct three films which have been nominated for the top prize, following Lady Bird and Little Women.

However, as Barbie was the highest-grossing film of 2023, taking $1.44bn (£1.14bn) worldwide, many expected Gerwig and Robbie to show up in the best director and best actress categories.

While Robbie missed out on a best actress nod, her co-star America Ferrera scored a surprise supporting actress nomination.

Fellow Barbie star Ryan Gosling was nominated for best supporting actor, while a track he performs in the film, I'm Just Ken, was nominated for best original song.

It will face competition from another song from the same film - What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish. Barbie's other nominations are for production design and costume design.

But it was Oppenheimer that led the field with 13 nominations. Christopher Nolan's three-hour epic about theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer was both acclaimed by critics and a huge success at the box office.

Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr were nominated for acting prizes, and Nolan for best director.

Poor Things, about an infant whose brain has been transplanted into the body of a grown woman, was the second most nominated film, with 11 nods.

The film's star, Emma Stone, said the nominations felt like a "surreal dream", adding she was "beyond grateful" to the Academy.

Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, about the murder of members of the Osage Indian tribe by white settlers who are after their oil, scored 10 nominations.

Maestro, a biopic about the composer Leonard Bernstein starring Bradley Cooper, received seven nominations.

Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars ceremony from Los Angeles on 10 March.

The top nominees:

• 13 nominations - Oppenheimer
• 11 - Poor Things
• 10 - Killers of the Flower Moon
• 8 - Barbie
• 7 - Maestro
• 5 - American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, The Zone of Interest

Oscars 2024: Barbie's Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie miss key nominations

The director and star of Barbie were snubbed in major categories at the Oscar nominations on Tuesday.

www.bbc.com

 

[hassan918]

Oscar nominations 2024: Full list of films and stars in the running this year​

After a huge year for cinema, the nominees for this year's Academy Awards have been announced.

Oppenheimer, Barbie, Poor Things and Killers Of The Flower Moon are among the films in the running, while stars including Emma Stone and Cillian Murphy are shortlisted for acting prizes.

You can read our full story on the stars and movies leading the Oscars pack here - and scroll down for the list of all the stars and films up for each prize.

Best picture

• American Fiction
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• Poor Things
• The Zone Of Interest

Best actress

• Annette Bening - Nyad
• Lily Gladstone - Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Sandra Hüller - Anatomy Of A Fall
• Carey Mulligan - Maestro
• Emma Stone - Poor Things

Best actor

• Bradley Cooper - Maestro
• Colman Domingo - Rustin
• Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
• Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction
• Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer

Supporting actor

• Sterling K Brown - American Fiction
• Robert De Niro - Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer
• Ryan Gosling - Barbie
• Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things

Supporting actress

• Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
• Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
• America Ferrera - Barbie
• Jodie Foster - Nyad
• Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers

Director

• Justine Triet - Anatomy Of A Fall
• Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
• Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
• Martin Scorsese - Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Jonathan Glazer - The Zone Of Interest

Animated film

• The Boy And The Heron
• Elemental
• Nimona
• Robot Dreams
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Documentary feature

• Four Daughters
• 20 Days In Mariupol
• Bobi Wine: The People's President
• The Eternal Memory
• To Kill A Tiger

International feature film

• Society Of The Snow - Spain
• The Zone Of Interest - UK
• The Teachers' Lounge - Germany
• Io Capitano - Italy
• Perfect Days - Japan

Costume design

• Barbie
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Make-up and hairstyling

• Golda
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Society Of The Snow

Original Score

• American Fiction
• Indiana Jones And The Dial of Destiny
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Original Song

• The Fire Inside - Flamin' Hot
• I'm Just Ken - Barbie
• What Was I Made For? - Barbie
• Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People) - Killers Of The Flower Moon
• It Never Went Away - American Symphony

Production design

• Barbie
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Film editing

• Anatomy Of A Fall
• The Holdovers
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Adapted screenplay

• Barbie
• Poor Things
• American Fiction
• Oppenheimer
• The Zone Of Interest

Original screenplay

• Anatomy Of A Fall
• The Holdovers
• Past Lives
• May December
• Maestro

Animated short film

• Letter To A Pig
• Ninety-Five Senses
• War is Over! Inspired By The Music Of John & Yoko
• Pachyderme
• Our Uniform

Live action short film

• The After
• Invincible
• Knight Of Fortune
• Red, White And Blue
• The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar

Cinematography

• El Conde
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Documentary short film

• The ABCs Of Book Banning
• The Barber Of Little Rock
• Island In Between
• The Last Repair Shop
• Nai Nai & Wai Po

Sound

• The Creator
• Maestro
• Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
• Oppenheimer
• The Zone Of Interest

Visual effects

• The Creator
• Godzilla Minus One
• Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3
• Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
• Napoleon

Source: SKY

 

[Cricket Warrior]

Robert Downey Jr. has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss in the epic biographical film Oppenheimer.

SKY News

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Oscar nominations 2024: Full list of films and stars in the running this year​

After a huge year for cinema, the nominees for this year's Academy Awards have been announced.

Oppenheimer, Barbie, Poor Things and Killers Of The Flower Moon are among the films in the running, while stars including Emma Stone and Cillian Murphy are shortlisted for acting prizes.

You can read our full story on the stars and movies leading the Oscars pack here - and scroll down for the list of all the stars and films up for each prize.

Best picture

• American Fiction
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• Poor Things
• The Zone Of Interest

Best actress

• Annette Bening - Nyad
• Lily Gladstone - Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Sandra Hüller - Anatomy Of A Fall
• Carey Mulligan - Maestro
• Emma Stone - Poor Things

Best actor

• Bradley Cooper - Maestro
• Colman Domingo - Rustin
• Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
• Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction
• Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer

Supporting actor

• Sterling K Brown - American Fiction
• Robert De Niro - Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer
• Ryan Gosling - Barbie
• Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things

Supporting actress

• Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
• Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
• America Ferrera - Barbie
• Jodie Foster - Nyad
• Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers

Director

• Justine Triet - Anatomy Of A Fall
• Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
• Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
• Martin Scorsese - Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Jonathan Glazer - The Zone Of Interest

Animated film

• The Boy And The Heron
• Elemental
• Nimona
• Robot Dreams
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Documentary feature

• Four Daughters
• 20 Days In Mariupol
• Bobi Wine: The People's President
• The Eternal Memory
• To Kill A Tiger

International feature film

• Society Of The Snow - Spain
• The Zone Of Interest - UK
• The Teachers' Lounge - Germany
• Io Capitano - Italy
• Perfect Days - Japan

Costume design

• Barbie
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Make-up and hairstyling

• Golda
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Society Of The Snow

Original Score

• American Fiction
• Indiana Jones And The Dial of Destiny
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Original Song

• The Fire Inside - Flamin' Hot
• I'm Just Ken - Barbie
• What Was I Made For? - Barbie
• Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People) - Killers Of The Flower Moon
• It Never Went Away - American Symphony

Production design

• Barbie
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Film editing

• Anatomy Of A Fall
• The Holdovers
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Adapted screenplay

• Barbie
• Poor Things
• American Fiction
• Oppenheimer
• The Zone Of Interest

Original screenplay

• Anatomy Of A Fall
• The Holdovers
• Past Lives
• May December
• Maestro

Animated short film

• Letter To A Pig
• Ninety-Five Senses
• War is Over! Inspired By The Music Of John & Yoko
• Pachyderme
• Our Uniform

Live action short film

• The After
• Invincible
• Knight Of Fortune
• Red, White And Blue
• The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar

Cinematography

• El Conde
• Killers Of The Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Documentary short film

• The ABCs Of Book Banning
• The Barber Of Little Rock
• Island In Between
• The Last Repair Shop
• Nai Nai & Wai Po

Sound

• The Creator
• Maestro
• Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
• Oppenheimer
• The Zone Of Interest

Visual effects

• The Creator
• Godzilla Minus One
• Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3
• Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
• Napoleon

Source: SKY

And the winners are following
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Best director
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best supporting actor
Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer


Best supporting actress
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best adapted screenplay
American Fiction

Best original screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall

Best animated featured film
The Boy and the Heron
Best international feature
The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom

Best documentary feature
20 Days in Mariupol

Best documentary short
The Last Repair Shop

Best original score
Oppenheimer

Best original song
What Was I Made For?, Barbie

Best sound
The Zone of Interest

Best production design
Poor Things

Best live action short
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Best cinematography
Oppenheimer

Best makeup and hairstyling
Poor Things

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Best costume design
Poor Things

Best visual effects
Godzilla Minus One

Best film editing
Oppenheimer

Source: Al Jazeera​