The Oscar Results 2020

Hello, everyone!

One of the biggest days for movies in the year was yesterday, the Oscars! Also known as the Academy Awards, this has been going for 92 years honoring and awarding movies for their accomplishments through the last year. As a tradition on this blog (I don't know why I started it) each year I have posted the results (along with pictures of my favorite outfits) in case anyone was wondering about the results.

Disclaimer: Even though I am putting these here, it does not mean that I support or want to watch these movies. I am just here to tell you who won.

Actress: Penelope Cruz (Source)

Best Supporting Actress:
The nominees:
Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Margo Robbie, Bombshell
Winner: Laura Dern, Marriage Story


Best Costume Design:
The nominees:
The Irishman (Sandy Powell and Christopher Pererson)
Jojo Rabbit (Mayes C. Rubeo)
Joker (Mark Bridges)
Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood (Arianne Phillips)
Winner: Little Women (Jacqueline Durran)


Best Sound Mixing:
The nominees:
Ad Astra (Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson and Mark Ulano)
Ford vs. Ferrari (Pual Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow)
Joker (Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, and Tom Maitland)
Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood (Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler, and Mark Ulano)
Winner: 1917 (Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson)

Actor: Oscar Isaac and Actress: Salma Hayek (Source)

Best Sound Editing:
The nominees:
Joker (Alan Robert Murray)
1917 (Oliver Tarney and Rachael Tate)
Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood (Wylie Stateman)
STAR WARS: The Rise of Skywalker (Matthew Wood and David Acord)
Winner: Ford vs. Ferrari (Donald Sylvester)


Best Original Score:
The nominees:
Little Women (Alexandre Desplat)
Marriage Story (Randy Newman)
1917 (Thomas Newman)
STAR WARS: The Rise of Skywalker (John Williams)
Winner: Joker (Hildur Gudnadóttir)

Comments: This was super neat that for the demonstration it was a female conductor and the winner was a lady, too!


Best Animated Short:
The nominees:
Dcera [Daughter] (Daria Kashcheeva)
Kitbull (Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson)
Memorable (Bruno Collet and Jean-François Le Corre)
Sister (Siqi Song)
Winner: Hair Love (Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver)

Journalist: Tamron Hall (Source)

Best Live Action Short:
The nominees:
Brotherhood (Meryam oobeur and Maria Gracia Turgeon)
Nefta Football Club (Yves Piat and Damian Megherbi)
Saria (Bryan Buckley and Matt Lefebvre)
A Sister (Delphince Girard)
Winner: The Neighbor's Window (Marshall Curry)


Best Supporting Actor:
The nominees:
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Winner: Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood

Comment: Why was Tom Hanks nominated for Supporting Actor? I haven't seen the movie, but I thought that he was the main person in that movie.
Oh, and one of my favorite moments was when he had been talking about the Academy Museum they are working on he ended with, "I am Spartacus!" honoring Kirk Douglas.


Best Documentary Feature:
The nominees:
The Cave (Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod, and Sigrid Dykj(ae)r)
The Edge of Democracy (Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris, and Tiago Pavan)
For Sama (Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts)
Honeyland (Liubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska, and Atanas Georgiev)
Winner: American Factory (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, and Jeff Reichert)

Actress: Mindy Kaling (Source)

Best Documentary Short:
The nominees:
In the Absense (Yi Seung-Jun and Gary Byung-Seok Kam)
Life Overtakes Me (John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson)
St. Louis Superman (Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan)
Walk Run Cha-Cha (Laura Nix and Colette Sandstedt)
Winner: Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're A Girl) (Carol Dysinger, and Elena Andreicheva)


Best International Feature Film:
The nominees:
Corpus Christi (Poland)
Honeyland (North Macedonia)
Les Misérables (France)
Pain and Glory (Spain)
Winner: Parasite (South Korea)


Best Production Design: (Production Design [PD] and Set Decoration [SD])
The nominees:
The Irishman (PD: Bob Shaw, SD: Regina Graves)
Jojo Rabbit (PD: Ra Vincent, SD: Nora Sopková)
1917 (PD: Dennis Gassner, SD: Lee Sandles)
Parasite (PD: Lee Ha Jun, SD: Cho Won Woo)
Winner: Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood (PD: Barbara Ling, SD: Nancy Haigh)

Actress: Margaret Qualley (Source)

Best Film Editing:
The nominees:
The Irishman (Thelma Schoonmaker)
Jojo Rabbit (Tom Eagles)
Joker (Jeff Groth)
Parasite (Yang Jinmo)
Winner: Ford vs. Ferrari (Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland)


Best Cinematography:
The nominees:
The Irishman (Rodrigo Prieto)
Joker (Lawrence Sher)
The Lighthouse (Jarin Blaschke)
Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood (Robert Richardson)
Winner: 1917 (Roger Deakins)


Best Visual Effects:
The nominees:
Avengers: Endgame (Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Matt Aitken, and Dan Sudick)
The Irishman (Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, and Stephanie Grabli)
The Lion King (Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Elliot Newman)
STAR WARS: The Rise of Skywalker (Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach, and Dominic Tuohy)
Winner: 1917 (Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler, and Dominic Tuohy)

Actress: Kaitlyn Denver (Source)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
The nominees:
Joker (Nicki Ledermann, and Kay Georgiou)
Judy (Jeremy Woodhead)
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Paul Gooch, Arjen Tuiten and David White)
1917 (Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis, and Rebecca Cole)
Winner: Bombshell (Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan, and Vivian Baker)


Best Animated Feature Film:
The nominees:
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Dean DeBlois, Bradford Lewis, and Bonnie Arnold)
I Lost My Body (Jérémy Clapin and Marc du Pontavice)
Klaus (Sergio Pablos, Kinko Gotoh and Marisa Román)
Missing Link (Chris Butler, Arianne Sutner, and Travis Knight)
Winner: Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera)


Best Original Song:
The nominees:
"I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" (by Randy Newma from Toy Story 4)
"I'm Standing With You" (by Diane Warren from Breakthrough)
"Into the Unknown" (by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez from Frozen II)
"Stand Up" (by Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo from Harriet)
Winner: "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" (by Elton John from Rocket Man)

Actress: Natalie Portman (Source)
On her jacket are embroidered the names of the female directors who weren't nominated. That's some detail!

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The nominees:
The Irishman, written by Steven Zailian, based on I Heard You Paint Houses - by Charles Brandt.
Joker, written by Todd Phillips and Scott Silver, based on the characters created by Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson, and Bob Kane.
Little Women, written by Greta Gerwig, based on the book by Lousia May Alcott.
The Two Popes, written by Anthony McCarten, based on his play The Pope.
Winner: Jojo Rabbit, written by Taika Waititi, based on Caging Skies - by Christine Leunens


Best Original Screenplay:
The nominees:
Knives Out, written by Rian Johnson
Marriage Story, written by Noah Baumbach
1917, written by Sam Mendes and Kristy Wilson -Cairns
Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood, written by Quentin Tarantino
Winner: Parasite, written by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won


Best Leading Actor:
The nominees:
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Winner: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker

Actress: Kelly Marie Tran (Source)

Best Leading Actress:
The nominees:
Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Winner: Renée Zellweger, Judy


Best Directing:
The nominees:
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Todd Phillips, Joker
Sam Mendes, 1917
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood
Winner: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite


Best Picture:
The nominees:
Ford vs. Ferrari (Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and James Mangold)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, Robert de Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff)
Jojo Rabbit (Carthew Neal and Taika Waititi)
Joker (Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff)
Little Women (Amy Pascal)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach and David Heyman)
1917 (Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Teggren, Callum McDougall)
Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood (David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, and Quentin Tarantino)
Winner: Parasite (Kwak Sin Ae and Bong Joon Ho)

Comment: This was a big occasion because a movie that isn't in English has never won Best Picture. How neat! Now I want to see this.


Oscar win tally:
Parasite: 4
1917: 3
Ford vs. Ferrari: 2
Joker: 2
Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood: 2
American Factory: 1
Bombshell: 1
Hair Love: 1
Jojo Rabbit: 1
Judy: 1
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're A Girl): 1
Little Women: 1
Marriage Story: 1
The Neighbor's Window: 1
Rocketman: 1
Toy Story 4: 1

My thoughts: Of all of these I've only seen Little Women, but the costumes were really great!


You might have noticed something different about my blog. I have a new header! I really like my old one and you'll be seeing it again, but for February I have this one. My sister made it for me! I love how it shows people hugging. It only has one romantic one (from Emma) and I really like how the rest are hugs between best friends and parental figures.

Now it's your turn! What do you think of the results and of the outfits I posted? Thanks for reading!

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