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Joker, The Irishman, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, 1917, and Parasite rack up multiple Oscar nominations

Once again, female directors were shut out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

by Charlie Smith on January 13th, 2020 at 7:41 AM
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      Perhaps this year, the hashtag will be #Oscarstoomale.

      That's because no women have been nominated for an Academy Award in the directing category.

      But films made by several male directors racked up a fistful of nominations this morning as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the finalists for this years Oscars.

      Up for best director are Martin Scorcese (The Irishman), Todd Phillips (Joker), Sam Mendes (1917), Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood), and Bong Joon Ho (Parasite).

      Their films were all nominated for best picture, along with Ford v Ferrari, Jojo Rabbit, Little Women, and Marriage Story.

      The nominees for actor in a leading role are Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory), Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood), Adam Driver (Marriage Story), Joaquin Phoenix (Joker), and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes).

      Renée Zellweger has been nominated for Judy, in which she played Judy Garland.

      Up for actress in a leading role are Cynthia Erivo (Harriet), Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story), Saoirse Ronan (Little Women), Charlize Theron (Bombshell), and Renée Zellweger (Judy).

      Joker led the pack with 11 nominations. It's also up for adapted screenplay (Todd Phillips and Scott Silver), cinematography (Lawrence Sher), costume design (Mark Bridges), film editing (Jeff Groth), makeup and hairstyling (Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou), original score (Hildur Guðnadóttir), sound editing (Alan Robert Murray), sound mixing (Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod Maitland).

      The Irishman, Once Upon a Time...in America, and 1917 all collected 10 nominations.

      The Irishman was honoured with best supporting actor nominations for Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. However, Robert De Niro, who played Jimmy Hoffa, was not nominated for best actor.

      The Irishman's other nominations were for adapted screenplay (Steven Zaillian), cinematography (Rodrigo Prieto), costume design (Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson), film editing (Thelma Schoonmaker), production design (Bob Shaw; Set Decoration: Regina Graves), and visual effects (Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser and Stephane Grabli).

      The Irishman is up for 10 Academy Awards, including best picture and best director.

      Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood's nominations included best supporting actor for Brad Pitt. The director, Tarantino, is also a finalist for original screenplay, and other nominations went to the film for cinematography (Robert Richardson), costume design (Arianne Phillips), production design (Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh), sound editing (Wylie Stateman), and sound mixing (Michael Minkler, Christin P. Minkler, and Mark Ulano).

      The First World War drama 1917 was nominated for original screenplay (Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns), cinematography (Roger Deakins), makeup and hairstyling (Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis, and Rebecca Cole), original score (Thomas Newman), production design (Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales), sound editing (Oliver Tarney and Rachel Tate), sound mixing (Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson), and visual effects (Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy).

      The Korean-language Parasite is nominated for best picture and best international feature film.

      Parasite scored four other nominations for international feature film, screenplay (Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won), film editing (Yang Jinmo), and production design (Lee Ha Jun and Cho Won Woo).

      The full list of nominations is available on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences website.

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