Let’s Talk About the Oscars 2020

A lot of people had already predicted that this would happen and it did. No women were nominated in the directors’ section. It’s heartbreaking to see that women are still being left out and not being given equal opportunities, not even at the Oscars.

The directors’ category nominations seem to be too biased towards one gender. Greta Gerwig’s Little Women had won the best picture award at the Academy Awards but has not been nominated in the directing category at the Golden Globes, Bafta or Oscars. Little Women is the third movie to be written, directed and produced by women.

While interviewing Amy Pascal, the host of podcast ‘Girls on Films’, Anna Smith said:

It’s weird this year we have films called ‘The Irishman’ and ‘Little Women’ – and guess which one is going to do better? I do wonder if many thousands of voters, deciding what to watch on their screeners or deciding which ones they go to, might have an unconscious reaction to gender in the title.

In the 92 year history of the Oscars, only 5 women have been nominated for and only one of them, Kathryn Bigelow, actually won the Oscars for her movie The Hurt Locker back in 2010. Greta was nominated in 2018 for Lady Bird and that was probably the one nomination any woman has gotten this past decade. However, the actresses of Little Women and Greta have been nominated in other categories.

Anyway, Oscars are going hostless again this year. ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have decided to go hostless for a second straight year, Burke said. Last year’s Emmy Awards were also hostless so I guess it’s the new trend.

Here are all the nominations for the Oscars:

Best Picture

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

Lead 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

Lead Actress

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

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

Supporting Actress

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

Director

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

Animated Feature

• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Dean DeBlois
• I Lost My Body, Jeremy Clapin
• Klaus, Sergio Pablos
• Missing Link, Chris Butler
• Toy Story 4, Josh Cooley

Animated Short

• Dcera, Daria Kashcheeva
• Hair Love, Matthew A. Cherry
• Kitbull, Rosana Sullivan
• Memorable, Bruno Collet
• Sister, Siqi Song

Adapted Screenplay

• The Irishman, Steven Zaillian
• Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi
• Joker, Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
• Little Women, Greta Gerwig
• The Two Popes, Anthony McCarten

Original Screenplay

• Knives Out, Rian Johnson
• Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach
• 1917, Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino
• Parasite, Bong Joon-ho, Jin Won Han

Cinematography

• The Irishman, Rodrigo Prieto
• Joker, Lawrence Sher
• The Lighthouse, Jarin Blaschke
• 1917, Roger Deakins
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Robert Richardson

Best Documentary Feature

• American Factory, Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar
• The Cave, Feras Fayyad
• The Edge of Democracy, Petra Costa
• For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
• Honeyland, Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov

Best Documentary Short Subject

• In the Absence, Yi Seung-Jun and Gary Byung-Seok Kam
• Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone, Carol Dysinger
• Life Overtakes Me, Kristine Samuelson and John Haptas
• St. Louis Superman, Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan
• Walk Run Cha-Cha, Laura Nix

Best Live Action Short Film

• Brotherhood, Meryam Joobeur
• Nefta Football Club, Yves Piat
• The Neighbors’ Window, Marshall Curry
• Saria, Bryan Buckley
• A Sister, Delphine Girard

Best International Feature Film

• Corpus Christi, Jan Komasa
• Honeyland, Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov
• Les Miserables, Ladj Ly
• Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodovar
• Parasite, Bong Joon Ho

Film Editing

• Ford v Ferrari, Michael McCusker, Andrew Buckland
• The Irishman, Thelma Schoonmaker
• Jojo Rabbit, Tom Eagles
• Joker, Jeff Groth
• Parasite, Jinmo Yang

Sound Editing

• Ford v Ferrari, Don Sylvester
• Joker, Alan Robert Murray
• 1917, Oliver Tarney, Rachel Tate
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Wylie Stateman
• Star Wars: The Rise of SkyWalker, Matthew Wood, David Acord

Sound Mixing

• Ad Astra
• Ford v Ferrari
• Joker
• 1917
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Production Design

• The Irishman, Bob Shaw and Regina Graves
• Jojo Rabbit, Ra Vincent and Nora Sopkova
• 1917, Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Barbara Ling and Nancy Haigh
• Parasite, Lee Ha-Jun and Cho Won Woo, Han Ga Ram, and Cho Hee

Original Score

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

Original Song

• ‘I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away’, Toy Story 4
• ‘I’m Gonna Love Me Again’, Rocketman
• ‘I’m Standing With You’, Breakthrough
• ‘Into the Unknown’, Frozen 2
• ‘Stand Up’, Harriet

Makeup and Hair

• Bombshell
• Joker
• Judy
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
• 1917

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

Visual Effects

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

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