Who won at the 2020 Oscars?
It was an astonishing night, with big successes for Parasite and trophies for Brad Pitt, Laura Dern, Joaquin Phoenix and more. Read on for the full list of winners
Who will win at the 2020 Oscars?
It happened, and we couldn't be happier. After months of speculation and campaigning, the Oscars crowned the best films of the year last night, and for once, they really got it right. Bong Joon-ho's Parasite completely swept, making history as the first film from South Korea ever to be considered by the Academy – and then it made further history as the first film not in the English language to win Best Picture. Read our five-star review here.
Beyond Parasite, there were few surprises but it was a handsome crop of winners all the same. Read on for the full list of winners, and even further for our previous predictions, some which became a reality, others that remain a dream. How many have you seen?
Best Picture
Parasite – Winner
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
The Irishman
1917
Marriage Story
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Ford V Ferrari
Best Actress In A Leading Role
Renée Zellweger, Judy – Winner
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Best Actor In A Leading Role
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker – Winner
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Antonio Banderas, Pain And Glory
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Best Director
Bong Joon-ho, Parasite – Winner
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Sam Mendes, 1917
Todd Phillips, Joker
Best Actor In A Supporting Role
Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood – Winner
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Best Actress In A Supporting Role
Laura Dern, Marriage Story – Winner
Margot Robbie, Bombshell
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Best International Feature Film
South Korea, Parasite – Winner
Spain, Pain and Glory
France, Les Misérables
North Macedonia, Honeyland
Poland, Corpus Christi
Best Adapted Screenplay
Jojo Rabbit – Winner
The Irishman
Little Women
The Two Popes
Joker
Best Original Screenplay
Parasite – Winner
Marriage Story
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Knives Out
1917
Best Original Song
(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again, from Rocketman – Winner
I’m Standing With You, from Breakthrough
Into The Unknown, from Frozen II
Stand Up, from Harriet
I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away, from Toy Story 4
Should win: The Irishman
Will win: 1917
Martin Scorsese's 210-minute epic sees the reunion of some of the greatest actors of our generation – Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci – and the culmination of a singular career, one of the most influential in the business. But his meditative mob movie seems to have slipped through the cracks: it went home empty-handed at the Golden Globes, and doesn't seem to be reaching so much of a consensus anymore.
World War I is depicted with blistering immersion in Sam Mendes' 1917, an illusory one-take mission into the trenches led by two young privates on a mission. For its technical brilliance and historical heft, it seems to have all the necessary ingredients to take home the big prize next month.
Should win: Lupita Nyong'o (Us) or Awkwafina (The Farewell)
Will win: Renée Zellweger (Judy)
In Jordan Peele's unsettling horror Us, Lupita Nyong'o puts in not one, but two of the most outstanding performances of the year. She's unhinged and fearless at once, an example of full-body commitment crying to be recognised. Awkwafina similarly harnesses untapped emotion in Lulu Wang's The Farewell, proving her dramatic chops are just as sturdy as her funny bone.
But it seems that Renée Zellweger has this one in the bag, as her role as Judy Garland vibrates with authenticity and shows little uncertainties. It wouldn't be an undeserved win, just less of an exciting one.
Should win: Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
Will win: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Since last year's early film festivals in Venice and Toronto, Joaquin Phoenix and Adam Driver have both been earning praise for their tremendous turns in two buzzy films this season. But Adam Driver's emotional intelligence as a soon-to-be divorced dad will most probably be eclipsed by Joaquin Phoenix's extravagant, disturbing metamorphosis into one of the greatest comic book villains of all time.
Should win: Florence Pugh (Little Women) or Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers)
Will win: Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
By now, Jennifer Lopez has certainly earned her place in Hollywood, and proved why she's not giving it up anytime soon with her incandescent performance in Hustlers. Elsewhere, Florence Pugh finally showed the world how to love Amy March in Greta Gerwig's take on Little Women – no mean feat for the sister always seen to be nothing more than a pest.
Laura Dern has been winning across the board for her role as scathing lawyer Nora in Marriage Story though, an impressive performance that harnesses the spiky attitude the actress first dug into with her role in Big Little Lies. However controversial it may be – we think she's more deserving for her sensitive take on Marmee in Little Women.
Should win: Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)
Will win: Brad Pitt (Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood)
It's never too much of an upsetting occasion to give Brad Pitt an award, and his effortless confidence as Hollywood stuntman Cliff Booth in Tarantino's Hollywood valentine Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood certainly makes sense as an award winner.
But Tom Hanks finds astounding delicacy in his meticulous performance as children's entertainer Fred Rogers, a national treasure in the US, in Marielle Heller's wonderful A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. If anything, Hanks may miss out because his casting almost seems to make too much sense – making voters nod instead of actually write his name down.
Should win: Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) or Greta Gerwig (Little Women)
Will win: Sam Mendes (1917)
In an ideal world, Bong Joon-ho's outstanding Parasite would go home with many, many awards - including Best Picture to start. The delirious South Korean thriller has been unanimously adored for its imagination, its precision, its audacity ever since it premiered in Cannes last year. It would be a major coup to see a film not in the English language finally break through into these categories too.
Greta Gerwig also deserves praise, as her reimaginging of Little Women gives a reason for there to be yet another screen adaptation – this is the 12th. She brings all the courage and heart and sensitivity established on Lady Bird and finds the very best in her actors, and creates a world you can't help but fall in love with.
And yet, it does seem that Mendes has this one – because of the technical prowess but also the personal weight attached (the filmmaker dedicates the film to his grandfather who fought in the war, and gave him the seeds for this story), there's plenty to root for and celebrate from a tentpole name in Hollywood.
Should win: Steven Zaillian (The Irishman) or Greta Gerwig (Little Women)
Will win: Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood)
Adapting Charles Brandt's non-ficition book I Heard You Paint Houses required severe discipline but also ingenuity to give Scorsese's The Irishman such vivid entertainment value. Zaillian has created a rich, layered, deeply engrossing script here – making three and a half hours truly fly by.
Greta Gerwig completely dismantles Louisa May Alcott's seminal novel and puts it back together in an entirely original way, creating two timelines the film flits between and resculpting lines to enhance heartbreak and make them feel fully contemporary.
But the Academy does love to vote for films that love the Academy – glorious love letters to Hollywood and all those who inhabit it. There's undoubted strength in the landscape Tarantino pens, here, and a wildly audacious way to rewrite a part of history too – it's an easy win.
Should win: Into the Unknown (Frozen II)
Will win: (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again (Rocketman)
While Frozen II might not fully trump the originality of the original, the sequel certainly, somehow, found a way to write even better songs than before. There's a handful of worthy nominees, from 80s power ballads to proper musical theatre belters, but Idina Menzel's commanding vocals in 'Into the Unknown' deserve to blow everything else out of the water.
But Elton John is still entertainment royalty – Rocketman is an impressive and emotional biopic, and the artist's duet with his onscreen proxy, Taron Egerton, underlines the feelgood messages the film promotes, and the lessons it took the man so many years to learn.
Here's the full list of nominees:
BEST PICTURE
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Parasite
BEST DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese
Todd Phillips
Sam Mendes
Quentin Tarantino
Bong Joon-ho
LEADING ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)
Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)
Charlize Theron (Bombshell)
Renée Zellweger (Judy)
LEADING 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)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell)
Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
Scarlett Johansson (Jojo Rabbit)
Florence Pugh (Little Women)
Margot Robbie (Bombshell)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood)
Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes)
Al Pacino (The Irishman)
Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
Brad Pitt (Once Upon A Time in Hollywood)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Corpus Christi
Honeyland
Les Misérables
Pain and Glory
Parasite
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
The Two Popes
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Knives Out
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Parasite
COSTUME DESIGN
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
Missing Link
Toy Story 4
ORIGINAL SONG
I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away (Toy Story 4)
I'm Gonna Love Me Again (Rocketman)
I'm Standing With You (Breakthrough)
Into the Unknown (Frozen II)
Stand Up (Harriet)
ORIGINAL SCORE
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Beyond Parasite, there were few surprises but it was a handsome crop of winners all the same. Read on for the full list of winners, and even further for our previous predictions, some which became a reality, others that remain a dream. How many have you seen?
Best Picture
Parasite – Winner
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
The Irishman
1917
Marriage Story
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Ford V Ferrari
Best Actress In A Leading Role
Renée Zellweger, Judy – Winner
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Best Actor In A Leading Role
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker – Winner
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Antonio Banderas, Pain And Glory
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Best Director
Bong Joon-ho, Parasite – Winner
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Sam Mendes, 1917
Todd Phillips, Joker
Best Actor In A Supporting Role
Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood – Winner
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Best Actress In A Supporting Role
Laura Dern, Marriage Story – Winner
Margot Robbie, Bombshell
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Best International Feature Film
South Korea, Parasite – Winner
Spain, Pain and Glory
France, Les Misérables
North Macedonia, Honeyland
Poland, Corpus Christi
Best Adapted Screenplay
Jojo Rabbit – Winner
The Irishman
Little Women
The Two Popes
Joker
Best Original Screenplay
Parasite – Winner
Marriage Story
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Knives Out
1917
Best Original Song
(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again, from Rocketman – Winner
I’m Standing With You, from Breakthrough
Into The Unknown, from Frozen II
Stand Up, from Harriet
I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away, from Toy Story 4
Best Picture
Should win: The Irishman
Will win: 1917
Martin Scorsese's 210-minute epic sees the reunion of some of the greatest actors of our generation – Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci – and the culmination of a singular career, one of the most influential in the business. But his meditative mob movie seems to have slipped through the cracks: it went home empty-handed at the Golden Globes, and doesn't seem to be reaching so much of a consensus anymore.
World War I is depicted with blistering immersion in Sam Mendes' 1917, an illusory one-take mission into the trenches led by two young privates on a mission. For its technical brilliance and historical heft, it seems to have all the necessary ingredients to take home the big prize next month.
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Should win: Lupita Nyong'o (Us) or Awkwafina (The Farewell)
Will win: Renée Zellweger (Judy)
In Jordan Peele's unsettling horror Us, Lupita Nyong'o puts in not one, but two of the most outstanding performances of the year. She's unhinged and fearless at once, an example of full-body commitment crying to be recognised. Awkwafina similarly harnesses untapped emotion in Lulu Wang's The Farewell, proving her dramatic chops are just as sturdy as her funny bone.
But it seems that Renée Zellweger has this one in the bag, as her role as Judy Garland vibrates with authenticity and shows little uncertainties. It wouldn't be an undeserved win, just less of an exciting one.
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Should win: Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
Will win: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Since last year's early film festivals in Venice and Toronto, Joaquin Phoenix and Adam Driver have both been earning praise for their tremendous turns in two buzzy films this season. But Adam Driver's emotional intelligence as a soon-to-be divorced dad will most probably be eclipsed by Joaquin Phoenix's extravagant, disturbing metamorphosis into one of the greatest comic book villains of all time.
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Should win: Florence Pugh (Little Women) or Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers)
Will win: Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
By now, Jennifer Lopez has certainly earned her place in Hollywood, and proved why she's not giving it up anytime soon with her incandescent performance in Hustlers. Elsewhere, Florence Pugh finally showed the world how to love Amy March in Greta Gerwig's take on Little Women – no mean feat for the sister always seen to be nothing more than a pest.
Laura Dern has been winning across the board for her role as scathing lawyer Nora in Marriage Story though, an impressive performance that harnesses the spiky attitude the actress first dug into with her role in Big Little Lies. However controversial it may be – we think she's more deserving for her sensitive take on Marmee in Little Women.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Should win: Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)
Will win: Brad Pitt (Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood)
It's never too much of an upsetting occasion to give Brad Pitt an award, and his effortless confidence as Hollywood stuntman Cliff Booth in Tarantino's Hollywood valentine Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood certainly makes sense as an award winner.
But Tom Hanks finds astounding delicacy in his meticulous performance as children's entertainer Fred Rogers, a national treasure in the US, in Marielle Heller's wonderful A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. If anything, Hanks may miss out because his casting almost seems to make too much sense – making voters nod instead of actually write his name down.
Best Director
Should win: Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) or Greta Gerwig (Little Women)
Will win: Sam Mendes (1917)
In an ideal world, Bong Joon-ho's outstanding Parasite would go home with many, many awards - including Best Picture to start. The delirious South Korean thriller has been unanimously adored for its imagination, its precision, its audacity ever since it premiered in Cannes last year. It would be a major coup to see a film not in the English language finally break through into these categories too.
Greta Gerwig also deserves praise, as her reimaginging of Little Women gives a reason for there to be yet another screen adaptation – this is the 12th. She brings all the courage and heart and sensitivity established on Lady Bird and finds the very best in her actors, and creates a world you can't help but fall in love with.
And yet, it does seem that Mendes has this one – because of the technical prowess but also the personal weight attached (the filmmaker dedicates the film to his grandfather who fought in the war, and gave him the seeds for this story), there's plenty to root for and celebrate from a tentpole name in Hollywood.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Should win: Steven Zaillian (The Irishman) or Greta Gerwig (Little Women)
Will win: Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood)
Adapting Charles Brandt's non-ficition book I Heard You Paint Houses required severe discipline but also ingenuity to give Scorsese's The Irishman such vivid entertainment value. Zaillian has created a rich, layered, deeply engrossing script here – making three and a half hours truly fly by.
Greta Gerwig completely dismantles Louisa May Alcott's seminal novel and puts it back together in an entirely original way, creating two timelines the film flits between and resculpting lines to enhance heartbreak and make them feel fully contemporary.
But the Academy does love to vote for films that love the Academy – glorious love letters to Hollywood and all those who inhabit it. There's undoubted strength in the landscape Tarantino pens, here, and a wildly audacious way to rewrite a part of history too – it's an easy win.
Best Original Song
Should win: Into the Unknown (Frozen II)
Will win: (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again (Rocketman)
While Frozen II might not fully trump the originality of the original, the sequel certainly, somehow, found a way to write even better songs than before. There's a handful of worthy nominees, from 80s power ballads to proper musical theatre belters, but Idina Menzel's commanding vocals in 'Into the Unknown' deserve to blow everything else out of the water.
But Elton John is still entertainment royalty – Rocketman is an impressive and emotional biopic, and the artist's duet with his onscreen proxy, Taron Egerton, underlines the feelgood messages the film promotes, and the lessons it took the man so many years to learn.
Here's the full list of nominees:
BEST PICTURE
Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Parasite
BEST DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese
Todd Phillips
Sam Mendes
Quentin Tarantino
Bong Joon-ho
LEADING ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)
Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)
Charlize Theron (Bombshell)
Renée Zellweger (Judy)
LEADING 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)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell)
Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
Scarlett Johansson (Jojo Rabbit)
Florence Pugh (Little Women)
Margot Robbie (Bombshell)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood)
Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes)
Al Pacino (The Irishman)
Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
Brad Pitt (Once Upon A Time in Hollywood)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Corpus Christi
Honeyland
Les Misérables
Pain and Glory
Parasite
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
The Two Popes
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Knives Out
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Parasite
COSTUME DESIGN
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
Missing Link
Toy Story 4
ORIGINAL SONG
I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away (Toy Story 4)
I'm Gonna Love Me Again (Rocketman)
I'm Standing With You (Breakthrough)
Into the Unknown (Frozen II)
Stand Up (Harriet)
ORIGINAL SCORE
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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