BEST PICTURE
WINNER: Parasite
NOMINEES: Ford vs Ferarri, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Little Women, Marriage Story, 1917, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
This was a refreshing win. While it’s significant that this is the first BP that’s a foreign film, that’s not as significant as that it’s the third BP since the 70’s that actually deserved it. Some of the other nominees were less worthy. By the way if you're upset that it a foreign language film won this, you're not doing conservativism right. Besides, multiple foreign English-language movies have won this award. Ford vs Ferarri looked good, but not great, and don’t tell Scorsese fans Irishman was a mess. Also most people may be rasing eyebrows at Marriage Story’s many nominations based on this hammy clip.
SNUBS: Us, A Hidden Life, Honey Boy, Velvet Buzzsaw, TheLighthouse, Midsommar
DIRECTOR
WINNER: Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite)
NOMINEES: Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Todd Phillips (Joker), Sam Mendes (1917), Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
Another deserving win from a great director. Tarantino may have been traditionally snubbed for this Oscar, but not so much for this one, and I don’t believe in consolation awards (that’s what Lifetime Achievent’s are for). Scorsese didn’t deserve the nomination.
SNUBS: Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse), Jordan Peele (Us) Ari Aster (Midsommar)
ACTOR
WINNER: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
NOMINEES: Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory), Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Adam Driver (Marriage Story), Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes)
A very well deserved one. Phoenix was brilliant.
BEST ACTRESS
WINNER: Renee Zellwegger (Judy)
NOMINEES: Cynthia Erivo (Harriet), Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story), Saoirse Ronan (Little Women), Charlize Theron (Bombshell)
Didn’t watch any of these, but Bombshell looks interesting.
SNUBS: Lupita Nyong’o (Us)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
NOMINEES: Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), Al Pacino (The Irishman), Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes), Poe Pesci (The Irishman)
Am I the only person who thinks that Tom Hanks' casting as Mr. Rogers was a shrug? Also, maybe Al Pacino's would have been more believable in Irishman if he wasn't constantly dissing on Italians in it.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
WINNER: Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
NOMINEES: Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell), Scarlett Johansson (Jojo Rabbit), Florence Pugh (Little Women), Margot Robbie (Bombshell)
Once again, I should check out Bombshell.
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (Parasite)
NOMINEES: Rian Johnson (Knives Out), Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story), Sam Mendes and Kristy Wilson-Cairns (1917), Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
Well deserved win. I don’t see how 1917 warranted this. Aside from one surprise, it’s a pretty minimalistic story. I've also heard that Knives Out's writing mostly consisted of puerile straw men.
SNUBS: Shia LaBeouf (Honey Boy), Dan Gilroy (Velvet Buzzsaw), Jordan Peele (Us)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit)
NOMINEES: Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Todd Phillips and Scott Silver (Joker), Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Anthony McCarten (The Two Popes)
I haven’t seen Jojo Rabbit, but it looks worthwhile.
BEST ANIMATED PICTURE
WINNER: Toy Story 4
NOMINEES: How to Train Your Dragon 3, I Lost My Body, Klaus, Missing Link
It seems that the Academy has given another thoughtless win to Pixar, though tbf I haven’t seen that movie yet. How to Train Your Dragon 3 was disappointing. I should really check out I Lost My Body, but Missing Link is the best of the movies I’ve seen here. I personally think that a Best Director of Animation award would make more sense than Best Movie That Happens to be Animated, then Klaus would be the obvious choice for its refreshingly updated 2D animation. It also doesn't help that leaked documents have revealed just how little respect the Academy has for this medium.
BEST SCORE
WINNER: Hildur Guonadottir (Joker)
NOMINEES: Alexandre DeSplat (Little Women), Randy Newman (Marriage Story), Thomas Newman (1917), John Williams (TROS)
Joker’s haunting score is the clear right choice, but can someone explain why the hell they keep nominating the Star Wars sequels for this? They never did this for the prequels, which had great scores. Does anyone actually remember anything from the TROS score that wasn’t already in the older movie?
BEST SONG
WINNER: “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” (Elton John& Bernie Taupin, Rocket Man)
NOMINEES: “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” (Randy Newman, Toy Story 4), “I’m Standing with You” (Diane Warren, Breakthrough), “Into the Unknown” (Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, Frozen II), “Stand Up” (Cynthia Erivo, Harriet)
“Stand Up” is the most deserving out of the nominees, and it’s neat that Erivo was nominated for both acting and music Oscars. “I’m Standing with You” was bland, and Toy Story 4’s song is a repetitive mocker of Motown. The Elton John is fun, but it pretty much channels the Four Tops pretty heavily at the beginning.
SNUBS: “The Next Right Thing” and “All is Found” from the Frozen II sountrack
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
WINNER: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
NOMINEES: Jojo Rabbit, The Irishman, 1917, Parasite
I wish the creative design of Jojo Rabbit won this. Parasite was also more deserving.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: Roger Deakins (1917)
NOMINEES: Rodrigo Prieto (The Irishman), Lawrence Sher (Joker), Jarin Blaschke (The Lighthouse), Robert Richardson (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
I love Roger Deakins, and his award for BR2049 was richly deserved. Still, I think this win was overcompensation for how criminally overdue he was for an Oscar as well as the Academy’s giving the movie’s pseudo-one-shot gimmick more credit than it deserved. The other nominees were more deserving.
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: 1917
NOMINEES: Avengers: Endgame, The Irishman, The Lion King, TROS
I like 1917’s emphasis on practical effects, so it deserved the win more than any of these other nominees. Endgame as typical CGI overindulgence, the Irishman’s de-aging got a lot of snark for its seams, the Lion King characters were soulless, and TROS’s CG looked cartoonish. In fact I think the reason those Star Destroyers were based on Imperial I class is because they simply recycled the models from Rogue One.
SNUBS: Ad Astra, Godzilla: King of Monsters
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