The nominations for the 2020 Academy Awards were announced this morning and, as with every year, there were surprises and snubs to be had. The first surprise was the film that was most nominated: Joker. I’m not sure even its most ardent supporters could have guessed it would lead the pack of nominees with 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. Three films were right behind Joker, however, with The Irishman, 1917, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood each earning 10 apiece. A few others garnered a very respectable half a dozen nominations each, including Little Women, Jojo Rabbit, Parasite, and Marriage Story.

However, there were plenty of snubs to go around. Like with the BAFTAs, women – even Greta Gerwig – were shut out of the Best Director category again. Other snubs were Jennifer Lopez, who many thought should receive a nod for her work in Hustlers, and Shia LaBeouf, who was an early double contender for acting and writing categories for Honey Boy. Also inexplicably shut out were the Safdie brothers and Uncut Gems, which most expected to get a few awards, not the least of which should have been one for Adam Sandler as Best Actor. And, of course, it’s a shocker that Frozen 2 is shut out of the animated category.

For the second year in a row, the Oscars will be without a host. Last year, it was due to the controversy that surrounded Kevin Hart; this year it’s a deliberate choice. It seemed to work out fine last year, so why not? The 2020 Academy Awards will air on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on the evening of Sunday, February 9th. And if you want to see any of the nominees in theaters, get tickets here.

Read on for the full list of nominees!

The Nominees Are…

Best Picture
Ford v Ferrari (Fox: Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and James Mangold, producers)
The Irishman (Netflix: Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, producers)
Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight: Carthew Neal and Taika Waititi, producers)
Joker (Warner Bros.: Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, producers)
Little Women (Sony: Amy Pascal, producer)
Marriage Story (Netflix: Noah Baumbach and David Heyman, producers)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Sony: David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh and Quentin Tarantino, producers)
1917 (Universal: Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall, producers)
Parasite (Neon: Kwak Sin-ae and Bong Joon Ho, producers)

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

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

Best 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

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

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

Best Original Screenplay
1917, Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Knives Out, Rian Johnson
Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino
Parasite, Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin-won

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

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Bombshell, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker
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

Best Costume Design
The Irishman, Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson
Jojo Rabbit, Mayes C. Rubeo
Joker, Mark Bridges
Little Women, Jacqueline Durran
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Arianne Phillips

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

Best Original Score
Joker, Hildur Gudnadóttir
Little Women, Alexandre Desplat
Marriage Story, Randy Newman
1917, Thomas Newman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, John Williams

Best Original Song
“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away,” Toy Story 4, music and lyrics by Randy Newman
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” Rocketman, music by Elton John; lyrics by Bernie Taupin
“I’m Standing With You,” Breakthrough, music and lyrics by Diane Warren
“Into the Unknown,” Frozen II, music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
“Stand Up,” Harriet, music and lyrics by Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo

Best Documentary Feature
American Factory (Netflix: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert)
The Cave (National Geographic: Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjaer)
The Edge of Democracy (Netflix: Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris and Tiago Pavan)
For Sama (PBS: Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts)
Honeyland (Neon: Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska and Atanas Georgiev)

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

Best Foreign Language Film
Corpus Christi (Poland)
Honeyland (North Macedonia)
Les Misérables (France)
Pain and Glory (Spain)
Parasite (South Korea)

Best Sound Mixing
Ad Astra, Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson and Mark Ulanobr
Ford v Ferrari, Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow
Joker, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod Maitland
1917, Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler and Mark Ulano

Best Sound Editing
Ford v Ferrari, Donald Sylvester
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

Best Production Design
The Irishman, production design: Bob Shaw; set decoration: Regina Graves
Jojo Rabbit, production design: Ra Vincent; set decoration: Nora Sopková
1917, production design: Dennis Gassner; set decoration: Lee Sandales
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, production design: Barbara Ling; set decoration: Nancy Haigh
Parasite, production design: Lee Ha-jun; set decoration: Cho Won-woo

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

Best Film Editing
Ford v Ferrari, Andrew Buckland and Michael McCusker
The Irishman, Thelma Schoonmaker
Jojo Rabbit, Tom Eagles
Joker, Jeff Groth
Parasite, Yang Jin-mo

Best Animated Short
Dcera (Daughter), Daria Kashcheeva
Hair Love, Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver
Kitbull, Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson
Memorabl, Bruno Collet and Jean-François Le Corree
Sister, Siqi Song

Best Live-Action Short
Brotherhood, Meryam Joobeur and Maria Gracia Turgeon
Nefta Football Club, Yves Piat and Damien Megherbi
The Neighbors’ Window, Marshall Curry
Siria, Bryan Buckley and Matt Lefebvre
A Sister, Delphine Girard

Best Documentary Short
In the Absence (Yi Seung-Jun and Gary Byung-Seok Kam
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl), Carol Dysinger and Elena Andreicheva
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

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