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Movie aficionados rejoice! The 92nd annual Academy Awards are soon to be upon us as it emanates live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, Feb. 9.

Filmdom’s battle between the haves and have-nots moved off-screen when Oscar nominations were announced earlier this month: Four films scored 10 or more nominations, with Todd Phillips’ “Joker,” leading the pack with 11, and Sam Mendes’ World War I nail-biter “1917,” Martin Scorsese’s epic gangster tale “The Irishman” and Quentin Tarantino’s retro “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” trailing a tick behind at 10 each. It’s rare for three films to land 10 or more nominations, let alone four.

It didn’t seem like there was a large portion of the movie-going population who felt that Todd Phillips’ “Joker” was too subtle, in either its commentary on the modern era of those who are involuntarily celibate, or its homage-like appropriation of classic Martin Scorsese movies.

While talking about the film Joker, director Todd Phillips said that the central idea of the film was to showcase the lack of empathy in the world. The director while speaking during a question and answer round that the Joaquin Phoenix starrer wasn't about the violence that the lead actor invokes in the film.

When “Joker” make-up artist Nicki Ledermann came on board, she had some ideas in mind for the film and presented mock-ups to director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix — and both Phillips and Phoenix had already played around with ideas and showed Ledermann photos.

"Representation has never equalled endorsement, so it was baffling"

Netflix will back Bradley Cooper’s upcoming drama about Leonard Bernstein, the legendary conductor and musical maestro behind “West Side Story” and “Candide,” Variety has confirmed.

Joaquin Phoenix on Sunday night added yet another notch on his awards season belt at the 2020 SAG Awards, as theJoker star received the prize for outstanding performance by a male actor in a film, beating out a familiar circle of Hollywood heavyweights and fellow nominees including Leonardo DiCaprio and Adam Driver.During previous awards speeches, Phoenix has pointed to the ceremonies' vegan menus, director Todd Phillips and the film's tackling of topics like mental health and childhood trauma,

The 2020 Oscar nominations have been announced, and if you are looking to catch up on the most this season’s most talked-about films — such as “Joker” and “Parasite” — before the awards show, we’ve gathered up the best ways to watch or stream all the original films, documentaries, and animated shorts competing this season. “Parasite” is one of the latest films to hit digital release, though it’s currently only available for digital purchase, not rental.

On Monday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the nominations for the Oscars 2020. 11 nominations went to the Warner Brothers' film Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix and the film was helmed by Todd Phillips.

The film, an origin story about superhero Batman's biggest enemy Joker, got 11 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Other categories are: cinematography, adapted screenplay, costume design, sound mixing, sound editing, original score, film editing and make-up and hairstyling.

Issa Rae made her feelings clear at the lack of female nominees in the Best Director category as she announced the Oscars nominations on Monday January 13, pointedly offering her congratulations to "those men".

The Oscars 2020 nominations were finally revealed with several obvious choices, many surprises and even more snubs. Leading the pack is Joker, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix, who delivers the performance of a lifetime in this DC origin story.

Joker led the nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards with a total 11 nods.

The mother of all awards.. the Oscars 2020 is set to take place a few weeks from now.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Nine films are up for best picture at the 2020 Oscars, with all of this year's contenders for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' top honor receiving multiple nominations across the awards' 23 other categories.Todd Phillips' Joker scored the most nominations,with 11 nods, immediately followed by The Irishman, 1917 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which each received 10 nominations.

Dark comic-book story “Joker” led nominations on Monday for the Oscars in a best picture line-up dominated by stories by or about men and featuring only one actor of colour despite efforts over the past few years to diversify the field.

With “Joker’s” stunning 11 Oscar nominations — the most of any film this year — director Todd Phillips’ gritty reimagining of the Batman villain has followed in “Black Panther’s” historic footsteps and taken a massive thwack at the ironclad conventional wisdom that comic-book movies cannot be major awards season contenders.

Joker led the nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards with a total 11 nods.

It’s their year! The 92nd annual Academy Award nominations were revealed on Monday, January 13, and Saoirse Ronan, Joaquin Phoenix and more stars are celebrating their huge honors.

The Joker has a big reason to put on a happy face.

The biggest grosser in the R Rated category Joker is dominating the Oscar 2020 nominations list. The film which saw Joaquin Phoenix in the lead as Joker has managed to bag 11 nominations.

Many have vented their frustration with this year's nominations

Issa Rae is calling it like she sees it. The Insecure creator and star, 35, threw shade after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to nominate any women directors for Oscars in 2020.

Women are once again left out in the best director category for the 2020 Oscars.Bong Joon Ho for Parasite, Sam Mendes for 1917, Todd Phillips for Joker, Martin Scorsese for The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino for Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood will compete in the best director category."Congratulations to those men," presenter Issa Rae said after reading the nominees.For the 2020 ceremony, Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the

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Making Oscars history, “Joker” joins “Black Panther” as only the second comic book movie ever to earn a nomination for best picture. It’s also the first film adapted from the canon of DC Comics characters to be nominated for the Oscar’s top prize. And, with a record 11 nominations, “Joker” is also the first comic book movie to earn the most nominations of any film in a given year.

By Geoff Boucher

In any Batman or Joker movie, the Gotham City acts as the heart and soul of the story. Infected with crime, unemployment and insensitivity, the city is a character in itself and has been the backbone of every Batman-adjacent plotline, including the latest DC film Joker.

In Knives Out, Daniel Craig's silver-tongued private eye sings a few bars of "Losing My Mind," a torch song from Stephen Sondheim's 1971 musical Follies. Writer-director Rian Johnson tells The Hollywood Reporter that he was listening to the cast recording "nonstop" while writing the screenplay. But like the film's plot, there's more to this.

On 7th January 2020, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced the 2020 nominations list. Todd Phillips' Joker is leading the way with 11 nominations, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood with 10 nods.

Joker looks set for success at the 2020 Bafta Awards, after receiving an impressive 11 nominations.

By Tom Grater

Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Todd Phillips, Fernando Meirelles and Lulu Wang discussed storytelling in a changing industry, inclusivity in filmmaking, distribution and the Netflix model and more on The Hollywood Reporter's Director Roundtable.Beginning Sunday, Jan.

Hildur Guðnadóttir, who composed the music for Joker, has won the Golden Globe for Best Original Score. She won the trophy over Randy Newman (Marriage Story), Alexandre Desplat (Little Women), Thomas Newman (1917), and Daniel Pemberton (Motherless Brooklyn). See the full list of nominees and winners here.