Much to the everyone’s surprise, Parasite won the best picture award, actress Renée Zellweger made a huge comeback and won the best actress award and everyone’s favourite this year, Joaquin Phoenix, took away the award for best actor.
With or without a host, the 92nd Academy Awards was an event that didn’t fail to entertain and impress movie lovers around the world. Though simply steered by the presenters who came out to give away the Oscars, the show still had it’s nail biting moments as some movies performed as expected while some beyond expectations.
1917, everyone’s favourite for the best picture award, didn’t fail to impress by winning 3 awards – Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography and Best Sound Mixing. However, it did not win the Best Picture award as a far better and impressive film emerged as winner.
Parasite by Bong Joon-ho, stole the show and won 4 awards – Best original screenplay, International feature film, Best director and surprisingly the Best Picture award. The overjoyed cast and crew of the movie remarked that they had thought that the awards function was wrapped up for them after the Best International Feature Film award. Also, Parasite now became the first ever international film to win an Oscar for Best Film. The South Korean film was the first foreign-language movie to win the top award. It also won best director, best international film and best original screenplay.
The award that turned out as everybody had predicted and hoped for and were waiting eagerly (including us) was that of the Best Actor, given out to Joaquin Phoenix! What a pleasant moment that turned out to be. He deserved it for all that he had given to the character of ‘Joker’ and we had written earlier why he had to win the award. You can read the article here in case you missed it: Will Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker laugh at the Oscars
(We had hoped the same for Scarlett Johansson for her double nominations but the decision makers made the right choice by giving away the Best Actress award to Renée Zellweger.)
Renée Zellweger won the Best Actress award for her impressive portrayal of Judy Garland in the film ‘Judy’ and she totally deserved it. She has proved that her acting skills have only improved with her ageing but are touching new heights. Now this is one accomplishment she will surely note down in ‘Bridget Jones’ Diary’.
Brad Pitt won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his role of stuntman Cliff Booth in Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’ and during his acceptance speech, made a funny remark on Trump’s impeachment trials and how the Senate voted against the allowing of witnesses.
He remarked, “They told me I only had 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week. I’m thinking maybe Quentin (Tarantino) does a movie about it and in the end the adults do the right thing.”
Laura Dern won her first ever Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Nora Fanshaw, a tough and blunt divorce attorney, after being nominated twice in the past, for Best Actress Best Supporting Actress. A visibly overjoyed and emotional Dern couldn’t help praising her parents and also role models, “Some say, never meet your heroes. I say if you’re really blessed, you get them as your parents,” she said emotionally. She further added, “I share this with my acting legends, my heroes, Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern. You’ve got game. I love you.”
There were some well-deserved wins in the other nominations as well this year and below is a complete list of Oscar 2020 Winners.
Oscar for Best Picture
1917
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Parasite (Won the Award)
Ford v Ferrari
Oscar for Best Actor
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker (Won the Award)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Oscar for Best Actress
Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Renée Zellweger, Judy (Won the Award)
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Oscar for Best Director
Bong Joon-ho, Parasite (Won the Award)
Sam Mendes, 1917
Todd Phillips, Joker
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Won the Award)
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Oscar for Best Supporting Actress
Laura Dern, Marriage Story (Won the Award)
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Margot Robbie, Bombshell
Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Oscar for Best Music (Original Song)
“I’m Standing With You” from Breakthrough
“Into The Unknown” from Frozen II
“Stand Up” from Harriet
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from Rocketman (Won the Award)
“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” from Toy Story 4
“Glasgow” from Wild Rose
Oscar for Best Music (Original Score)
Hildur Guðnadóttir for Joker (Won the Award)
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Oscar for Best International feature film
Les Misérables, France
Honeyland, North Macedonia
Corpus Christi, Poland
Parasite, South Korea (Won the Award)
Pain and Glory, Spain
Oscar for Best Makeup and hairstyling
Bombshell (Won the Award)
Joker
Judy
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
1917
Oscar for Best Visual effects
Avengers: Endgame
The Irishman
The Lion King
1917 (Won the Award)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Oscar for Best film editing
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Ford v Ferrari – Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland (Won the Award)
Parasite
Oscar for Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins, 1917 (Won the Award)
Rodrigo Prieto, The Irishman
Lawrence Sher, Joker
Jarin Blaschke, The Lighthouse
Robert Richardson, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Oscar for Best Sound Mixing
Ad Astra
Joker
1917 (Won the Award)
Ford v Ferrari
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Oscar for Best Sound Editing
1917
Ford v Ferrari (Won the Award)
Joker
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
American Factory (Won the Award)
The Cave
The Edge of Democracy
For Sama
Honeyland
Oscar for Documentary Short feature
In the Absence
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) (Won the Award)
Life Overtakes Me
St. Louis Superman
Walk Run Cha-Cha
Oscar for Best costume design
Sandy Powell & Christopher Peterson, The Irishman
Mark Bridges, Joker
Arianne Phillips, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Jacqueline Durran, Little Women (Won the Award)
Mayes C. Rubeo, Jojo Rabbit
Oscar for Best production design
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Won the Award)
The Irishman
1917
Jojo Rabbit
Parasite
Oscar for Live-action short film
Brotherhood
Nefta Football Club
The Neighbors’ Window (Won the Award)
Saria
A Sister
Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
Steven Zaillian, The Irishman
Greta Gerwig, Little Women
Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit (Won the Award)
Anthony McCarten, The Two Popes
Todd Phillips & Scott Silver, Joker
Oscar for Best Original Screenplay
Rian Johnson, Knives Out
Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns, 1917
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Bong Joon-ho, Parasite (Won the Award)
Oscar for Best Animated Short Film
Dcera (Daughter)
Hair Love (Won the Award)
Kitbull
Memorable
Sister
Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
Missing Link
Toy Story 4 (Won the Award)
So, the Academy bestowed the best of the best with well deserved Oscars and though it was a tough competition, the judges went with popular choices in many of the nominations, the biggest one being Parasite, a movie that may have set a precedent for international movies.
Last Updated on March 14, 2020 by lp@admin
