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Monday 13 January 2020

Awards Season 2020: Academy Award Nominations


As announced earlier today, here is a selection of the nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards:

BEST PICTURE
1917
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Le Mans '66 [a.k.a. Ford V Ferrari]
Little Women
Marriage Story
Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Parasite

BEST DIRECTOR
Bong Joon Ho (Parasite)
Sam Mendes (1917)
Todd Phillips (Joker)
Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood)

BEST ACTOR
Antonio Banderas (Pain And Glory)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood)
Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes)

BEST ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)
Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)
Charlize Theron (Bombshell)
Renée Zellweger (Judy)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood)
Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes)
Al Pacino (The Irishman)
Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
Brad Pitt (Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell)
Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
Scarlett Johansson (Jojo Rabbit)
Florence Pugh (Little Women)
Margot Robbie (Bombshell)

A full list of nominees can be found here.

So, I make that 30/34 (88%). Pretty happy with that. Hell, I didn't mind being wrong to see Jonathan Pryce get nominated for The Two Popes. I'm not surprised to see Todd Phillips get a Best Director nod, but it certainly wouldn't have been my choice. 

Fun fact: Scarlett Johansson is the first actor since 2007 to be nominated in both Lead and Supporting acting categories (the last one to do so was Cate Blanchett). 

By my reckoning, Joker leads the nominations with 11, whilst 1917, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, and The Irishman all get 10 apiece. 

Congratulations to all nominees!


The 92nd Academy Awards will be held on Sunday 9th February 2020. As was reported this week, there'll be no main host again for this year's ceremony. I personally felt that it worked well with no host, so I'll be interested to see if it works again. 

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