Oscars 2020: Parasite makes history with major wins – See full winners list here

The 92nd annual Academy Awards (or The Oscars as the cool kids call it now) just wrapped up a brief time ago at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. After weeks of build-up, the biggest awards show in the movie industry finally handed out their little golden men.

Coming into the ceremony, Todd Phillips’ Joker led the way with 11 nominations followed by 10 apiece for Sam Mendes’ 1917, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, and Martin Scorses’s The Irishman. However, none of these took the big one.

It was the other frontrunner for the night, Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, which picked up big wins for Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Film and Best Original Screenplay. Parasite made history by becoming the first non-English-language film to ever win Best Picture (take that, people who don’t like subtitles!) as well as the first Korean film to pick up Best Original Screenplay. This is a momentous win and without a doubt the feel-good Little Guy Triumphs Over Big Guy story of the year.

It didn’t look like Parasite was going to take it though, as 1917 seemed to pick up lots of momentum early as it grabbed the awards for Best Visual Effects (which I would actually dispute as it was the only slight on an otherwise perfect film), Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Cinematography. The latter being about as deserving an award as there’s ever been given Roger Deakins’ jaw-dropping work behind the camera in the WWI drama shot to look like a single continuous take.

Joker ended up taking the easiest pick of the night with Joaquin Phoenix’s season-long favourite performance landing him the Best Actor Oscar (he’s the second actor to win for playing the role of the DC Comics villain after the late Heath Ledger won posthumously for The Dark Knight in 2008). Hildur Guðnadóttir’s haunting score for the film got the gold as well. And honestly, if there were any two categories where Joker 100% deserved to win, it would be those.

Of course, there were surprises and snubs as well, with both happening at the same time in the Best Adapted Screenplay category as Jojo Rabbit’s Taika Waititi won over Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. The biggest surprise though belonged to Renee Zellweger who grabbed the Oscar for Best Leading Actress even though she wasn’t much of a feature in the run-up to last night (and the fact that Judy overall is not that great of a film). It could also be argued that Toy Story 4 playing spoiler to The Missing Link and Klaus was a surprise, but its Toy Story though. Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood also got relatively shut out though with just Brad Pitt winning for Best Supporting Actor. Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman lost even bigger as it left completely empty-handed.

Full list of winners in bold 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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Last Updated: February 10, 2020