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When the dust settled on the morning of Oscar nominations, the biggest surprise might have been that there were no real surprises in the best picture race. All nine films were also PGA-nominated — the only one left off the Oscar list was Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out.”

Joaquin Phoenix dashed to an animal rights protest minutes after winning a Screen Actors Guild award on Sunday night (19Jan20).

Variety hosted its sixth annual Artisans Awards on Jan. 20 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, where eleven artists were honored for their contributions to the best in film this year — including “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” production designer Barbara Ling, “The Irishman” costume designers Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson and “Frozen 2” songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez — each sharing insight into their collaborations and filmmaking processes.

Another awards season win, another chance for an acceptance speech only Joaquin Phoenix could deliver.

U.S. TV presenter Wendy Williams has issued an apology after sparking widespread backlash by mocking actor Joaquin Phoenix’s “cleft lip”.

A US TV host has apologised to Joker star Joaquin Phoenix after appearing to mock a scar on his upper lip.

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.

But no news on a UK re-run yet

The additional nominees for the 57th annual ICG Publicist Awards have been announced. The publicists behind Oscar-nominated movies “The Irishman,” “Avengers: Endgame,” “Joker” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” are up for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity Campaign.

When it came to recognizing this year’s achievements in filmmaking, the Academy Awards nominated movies the public has actually seen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Academy doesn't nominate the superhero movie you need, but the superhero movie you deserve. Or whatever that quote is.

Now that the Golden Globes ceremony has come and gone, film fans can look forward to the Oscars as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the nominations for the 92nd annual awards show on Monday. This year’s selections will be revealed via global livestream from the Oscars’ official websites Oscars.com and Oscars.org, as well as the Academy’s social media channels. The announcement will begin at 5:18 a.m. PT/8:18 a.m. ET.

“Bombshell” lead the winners’ list at the seventh annual Make-Up and Hair Stylist Guild Awards on Saturday night.

Joaquin Phoenix is a man of few words and lets his actions do all the talking instead. As delightfully open as his iconic onscreen characters are, the 45-year-old actor is fiercely private in real life.

The film that won Hollywood star Joaquin Phoenix the Best Actor award has got riddled in another controversy. The film even before its worldwide released had been facing a lot of heart from a certain section of the audience and also it had also faced a lot of flak from the parents of the Aurora shooting victims.

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.

The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) Publicists have announced the nominees for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity Campaign.

Joaquin Phoenix was in kindred spirits as he attended the Golden Globes 2020, which was brimming with star power. The 45-year-old actor was nominated for his heartbreaking portrayal as Arthur Fleck in Joker and took home the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama.

Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir continued her winning streak, claiming top honors for both her “Joker” and “Chernobyl” scores at Tuesday night’s inaugural awards of the Society of Composers & Lyricists at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center.

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian” dominated the Visual Effects Society’s nominations, scoring six nods each.

BAFTA unveiled its 2020 film nominations Tuesday morning. “Joker” came out on top with 11 noms ahead of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “The Irishman.” Here are some of the takeaways before the film world convenes upon London for the awards ceremony in early February.