The Oscars 2020 was witnessed by South Korea at glance. The 92nd Oscar Awards were organized in Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California. It was indeed a star-studded night to watch out for. The awards were presented in 24 different categories on 9th February.
The show was started with a thrilling performance by Janelle Monáe and Billy Porter. Brad Pitt receiving the Oscar award for his supporting role in the movie -“once upon a time in …..Hollywood” and other entertaining performances as part of the show.
The show revealed the surprise performance by Rapper Eminem to welcome the audience at the 92nd Oscar Awards night. The audience applauded him for his performance. Many celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Grammy winner, Gal Gadot, Anthony Ramos and Billie Ellish applauded him with a standing ovation.
Let us have a look at the full list of award winners at 92nd Oscar Awards
Winners and Nominees of Oscars 2020 in different categories
Supporting Actor
Winner – “Brad Pitt”
Nominees
Anthony Hopkins
Joe Pesci
Tom Hanks
Al Pacino
Best Animated – Feature Film
Winner – “Toy Story 4”
Nominees
I Lost My Body
How to Train Your Dragon- The hidden world
Missing link
KLaus
Short film – Animated
Winner – “Hair Love”
Nominees
Kitbull
Sister
Dcera (Daughter)
Memorable
Original Screenplay
Winner – “Parasite”
Nominees
Knives Out
Once upon a time…… in Hollywood
1917
Marriage Story
Adapted Screenplay
Winner – “Jojo Rabbit”
Nominees
The Irishman
The two popes
Little Women
Joker
Live-Action Short Film
Winners – “The Neighbors’ Window”
Nominees
Nefta Football Club
Saria
Brotherhood
A Sister
Production design
Winner – “Once upon a time in….Hollywood”
Nominees
Once upon a time..
Barbara Ling for production design
Nancy Haigh for set decoration
Irishman
Bob Shaw for production design
Regina Graves for set decoration
Jojo Rabbit
Ra Vincent for production design
Nora Sopkova for set decoration
1917
Dennis Gassner for production design
Lee Sandales for set decoration
Parasite
Lee Ha Jun for production design
Cho Won Woo for set decoration
Costume Design
Winner – “Jacqueline Durran”
Nominees
Mayes C. Rubeo
Sandy Powell, Christopher Peterson
Arianne Phillips
Mark Bridges
Documentary – Feature
Winner – “American Factory”
Nominees
The edge of democracy
The Cave
Honeyland
For Sama
Documentary on short subject
Winner – “Learning to skateboard in a war zone – If you are a girl”
Nominees
St. Louis superman
“Life overtakes me”
In the Absence
Walk run cha cha
Supporting Actress
Winners – “Laura Dern” for the movie Marriage Story
Nominees
Scarlett Johansson
Kathy Bates
Margot Robbie
Florence Pugh
Sound Editing
Winner – “Donald Sylvester”
Nominees
Oliver Tarney and Rachael Tate
Alan Robert Murray
Matthew Wood & David Acord
Wylie Stateman
Best Sound Mixing
Winner – “Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson”
Nominees
David Giammarco & Steven A. Morrow, Gary Rydstrom, Ad Astra, Tom Johnson & Mark Ulano, Paul Massey,
Dean Zupancic & Tod Maitland and Tom Ozanich
Christian P. Minkler & Mark Ulano and Michael Minkler
Best Cinematography
Winner – “Roger Deakins – 1917”
Nominees
Lawrence Sher
Jarin Blaschke
Rodrigo Prieto
Robert Richardson
Film Editing
Winner – “Michael McCusker & Andrew Buckland”
Nominees
Jeff Groth
Thelma Schoonmaker
Yang Jinmo- Parasite
Tom Eagles
Visual Effects
Winner – “1917”
Nominees
The Irishman
Star Wars – The rise of skywalker
Avengers- Endgame
The Lion King
Makeup & Hairstyling
Winner – “Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker (Bombshell)”
Nominees
Jeremy Woodhead
Nicki Ledermann & Kay Georgiou
Tristan Versluis and Rebecca Cole
Paul Gooch, Maleficent, Arjen Tuiten & David White
International Feature Film
Winner – “Parasite (South Korea)”
Nominees
Honeyland (North Macedonia)
Pain and Glory (Spain)
Corpus Christi (Poland)
Les Misérables (France)
Original Score
Winner – “Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker”
Nominees
Randy Newman- Marriage Story
Thomas Newman- 1917
Alexandre Desplat- Little Women
John Williams, “Star Wars-The rise of skywalker”
Original Song
Winner – “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again”
Nominees
“I’m Standing with You”
“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself”
“Into the Unknown”
“Stand Up”
Best Director
Winner – “Bong Joon-ho- Parasite”
Nominees
Todd Phillips
Martin Scorsese
Sam Mendes
Quentin Tarantino
Best Actor
Winner – “Joaquin Phoenix- Joker”
Nominees
Adam Driver
Antonio Banderas
Jonathan Pryce
Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress
Winner – “Renée Zellweger- Judy”
Nominees
Scarlett Johansson
Charlize Theron
Saoirse Ronan
Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Best Picture
Winner – “Parasite”
Nominees
The Irishman
Ford V Ferrari
Joker
Jojo Rabbit
Marriage Story
Little Women
Once upon a time…
1917
Interesting facts about Oscars 2020
According to the US broadcaster, approximately 23.6 million viewers turned up for the awards ceremony. The ratings declined as compared to last year’s ratings where 29.5 million watched the show. Interestingly, this year also the show had no host and celebrity duos, Steve Martin & Chris Rock; Timothee Chalamet & Natalie Portman presented the awards.
There was joy among the South Korean audience when Parasite director – Bong Joon-ho presented half his acceptance speech in the South Korean.
Oscars, the huge red carpet event has many interesting facts related to it. It is not just about the nominations and the awards but also about the efforts taken to install the red carpet. It takes more than 900 hours to install. It alone costs more than 24,000 dollars.
Total costs to organize Oscars award ceremony is $44M and the cost of each Oscar statuette (twenty four karat gold plated) is worth $400. The cost towards streaming one movie for the voters is around $12,500. Also, there was no dress code requested for attendees for Oscars 2020.
The introduction of goodie bags in Oscars 2020 comprised of series of freebies for nominees from the leading categories. Also, Oscars 2020 continued for little longer than 2019 Oscars. It took 215 minutes as compared to 203 minutes. Audience certainly, felt the absence of a host most of the times when one person was introduced to the other. Then there was no one who would introduce yet another person to come on the stage.
Audience certainly missed on the jokes that the host would crack about a particular movie and add humour to the show. Certainly, the show needs a host and also other structured elements in the show that would make the show even more entertaining. It is a much awaited red carpet show that helps audience choose their favorite movies and stars.
