Joker should be sitting pretty with 11 nominations (the most for any 2019 film) - but squeamish voters are mistaking its take on bullying culture as an incitement rather than an indictment. Scratch Jojo Rabbit and Ford v Ferrari from the list, since their directors aren’t nominated it’s not always a dealbreaker, but it’s not a good sign, either. The Irishman, with its cast of raging bulls, is the best of the year by any standard, but there’s no way the Academy is going to vote its top award to a Netflix movie that takes business away from theaters. Sorry Little Women - this is the year of white male rage, so you can sit out this category. Questions are abound: Can a streaming service finally grab the top trophy, or will Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, with 10 nominations, face a total shutout from Netflix haters and industry types who are still pissed at the director for slagging Marvel movies? How does Quentin Tarantino ( Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood) compete with South Korea’s Bong Joon Ho ( Parasite)? Despite the chaos inherent in predicting how more than 7,000 idiosyncratic Academy members will vote, here’s a cheat sheet to the major Oscar categories. And also, there are no women in the running for Best Director. Once again, it’s #OscarsSoWhite, with only one black actor in the mix. For 2020, there are nine nominees up for Best Picture with Little Women trying not to wipe out in an avalanche of movies about white dudes in crisis (see: Joker, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Ford v Ferrari, 1917…basically, every other nominee except Parasite). Hollywood’s annual orgy of self congratulation.
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