2020 Oscars: Joker leads with 11 nominations – Full list revealed

We’ve had the slightly cooler kids from the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs giving out their prizes, but now it’s time for the grandaddy of the movie awards shows to do its thing. The 92nd Academy Awards AKA the 2020 Oscars will be taking place in just under a month and now we know which films and actors will be duking it out for those small golden sword-wielding men as the nominations have just been revealed.

And it appears that a clown sowing pure chaos was the order of the day as Todd Phillip’s Joker grabbed an impressive 11 nominations haul, including Best Picture and Best Director! As expected Joaquin Phoenix landed a Best Actor nod for Joker and is undoubtedly the one to beat, but Joker also found itself featuring in a number of technical categories that it never really featured in with other awards shows.

Following closely on Joker’s heels we have a movie about Tinsel Town’s golden years, another featuring several actors old enough to have been in those golden years, and the last one digging deep into the trenches of World War I as Scorsese’s The Irishman, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, and Sam Mendes’ 1917 were tied with 10 nominations apiece including all the major categories. This trilogy of films has dominated the awards discussion up until now so this comes as no surprise. The other film that has been drawing all the headlines has been Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite and the Korean masterpiece wasn’t left out in the cold as it has earned six nominations.

In a surprise move, based on the lack of other awards love they received, Ford v Ferrari and Jojo Rabbit also earned Best Picture nods. Also among that list? Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, though the young filmmaker didn’t make the cut for Best Director, which is sure to get heated responses due to the Academy’s historic lack of diversity in this regard.

There were more plot twists as Rocketman’s Taron Egerton got snubbed hard in the Best Actor category despite walking away with gold a week ago at the Golden Globes. In a suprise that’s a lot that’s a lot more pleasant, the Best Actress category saw Scarlett Johansson getting nominated for Marriage Story… while she’s also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Jojo Rabbit. She’s only the twelfth actor in history to land a double nomination in the same year. Cynthia Eviro and her Harriet Tubman biopic, Harriet, also got some love even though it barely earned a mention in other shows.

Oh and by the way, you now need to refer to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as “four-time Oscar nominee Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Yes, you read that right. Full list below:

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• BEST PICTURE
  Ford v Ferrari
  The Irishman
  Jojo Rabbit
  Joker
  Little Women
  Marriage Story
  1917
  Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
  Parasite

• BEST DIRECTOR
  Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
  Sam Mendes – 1917
  Bong Joon-Ho – Parasite
  Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
  Todd Phillips – Joker

• 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
  Renee Zellweger – Judy

• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
  Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neihborhood
  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

• BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
  Knives Out – Rian Johnson
  Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
  1917 – Sam Mendes, Kristy Wilson-Cairns
  Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
  Parasite – Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin Won

• BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
  The Irishman – Steven Zaillan
  Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi
  Joker – Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
  Little Women – Greta Gerwig
  The Two Popes – Anthony McCarten

• BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
  How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – Dean DeBlois, Bradford Lewis, Bonnie Arnold
  I Lost My Body – Jeremy Clapin, Marc Du Pontavice
  Klaus – Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh, Marisa Roman
  Missing Link – Chris Butler, Arianne Sutner, Travis Knight
  Toy Story 4 – Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen, Jonas Rivera

• BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
  Corpus Christi – Poland
  Honeyland – North Macedonia
  Les Miserables – France
  Pain and Glory – Spain
  Parasite – South Korea

• BEST DOCUMENTARY – FEATURE
  American Factory – Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert
  The Cave – Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod, Sigrid Dyekjær
  The Edge of Democracy – Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris, Tiago Pavan
  For Sama – Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
  Honeyland – Ljubu Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska, Atanas Georgiev

• BEST DOCUMENTARY – SHORT SUBJECT
  In the Absence – Yi Seung-June, Gary Byung-Seok Kam
  Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) – Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
  Life Overtakes Me – John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson
  St. Louis Superman – Smriti Mundhra, Sami Khan
  Walk Run Cha-Cha – Laura Mix, Colette Sandstedt

• BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
  Brotherhood – Maryam Joobeur, Maria Gracia Turgeon
  Nefta Football Club – Yves Piat, Damien Megherbi
  The Neighbor’s Window – Marshall Curry
  Saria – Bryan Buckley, Matt Lefebvre
  A Sister – Delphine Girard

• BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
  Dcera (Daughter) – Daria Kashkeeva
  Hair Love – Matthew A. Cherry, Karen Rupert Toliver
  Kitbull – Rosana Sullivan, Kathryn Hendrickson
  Memorable – Bruno Collet, Jean-Francoise Le Corre
  Sister – Siqi Song

• BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
  Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir
  Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
  Marriage Story – Randy Newman
  1917 – Thomas Newman
  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams

• BEST ORIGINAL SONG
  “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” – Toy Story 4 (Randy Newman)
  “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” – Rocketman (Elton John, Bernie Taupin)
  “I’m Standing With You” – Breakthrough (Diane Warren)
  “Into the Unknown” – Frozen II (Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez)
  “Stand Up” – Harriet (Joshua Brian Campbell, Cynthia Erivo

• BEST SOUND EDITING
  Ford v Ferrari – Donald Sylvester
  Joker – Alan Robert Murray
  1917 – Oliver Tarney, Rachel Tate
  Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood – Wylie Statemen
  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Matthew Wood, David Accord

• BEST SOUND MIXING
  Ad Astra – Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Mark Ulano
  Ford v Ferrari – Paul Massey, David Giammarco, Steven Morrow
  Joker – Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Tod Maitland
  1917 – Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson
  Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood – Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler, Mark Ulano

• BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
  The Irishman
  Jojo Rabbit
  1917
  Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
  Parasite

• BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
  The Irishman – Rodrigo Prieto
  Joker – Lawrence Sher
  The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke
  1917 – Roger Deakins
  Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood – Robert Richardson

• BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
  Bombshell
  Joker
  Judy
  Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
  1917

• BEST COSTUME DESIGN
  The Irishman – Sandy Powell, Christopher Peterson
  Jojo Rabbit – Mayes C. Rubeo
  Joker – Mark Bridges
  Little Women – Jacqueline Durran
  Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood – Arianne Phillips

• BEST FILM EDITING
  Ford v Ferrari – Michael McCusker
  The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker
  Jojo Rabbit – Tom Eagles
  Joker – Jeff Groth
  Parasite – Yang Jinmo

• BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
  Avengers: Endgame
  The Irishman
  The Lion King
  1917
  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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The 92nd Oscars will take place on 9 February at 5PM PST (so around 3am on Monday 10 February in SA time) at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Much like last year’s event after the snafu with Kevin Hart, this year’s show will not have a host.

Last Updated: January 13, 2020