Six Oscar Nominee Facts that Socially Sparked

Six Oscar® Nominee facts that Socially Sparked® and a few that had the adverse effect. The Academy Awards® reveals this year’s nominees with a few firsts and historical statistics. Yet, when it comes to the main categories, there is an obvious regression in all their 2018 progress towards leveling the playing field in Diversity and Equality. We highlight the nominees in the key categories below and spotlight a few Oscar nominee selection process facts that came up short.

THE NOMINEES: There are a record number of women nominees — 68 female nominees; nearly  one third of  the 2020′ nominations

BEST PICTURE NOMINEES: Emma Tillinger Koskoff (Joker, The Irishman) & David Heyman (Marriage Story, Once upon a Time…in Hollywood) are the sixth and seventh producers to have two films nominated for Best Picture in the same year.(since 1951 when individual producers first became eligible as nominees in the category

BEST PICTURE/BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM: Parasite is the eleventh non-English language film nominated for Best Picture and the sixth to be nominated for both International Feature Film (formerly Foreign Language Film) and Best Picture in the same year. (The Academy’s Board of Governors voted to rename the Foreign language category to International Feature Film in April of 2019)

BEST DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese makes history! He becomes the most-nominated living director with his ninth Directing nomination. The late Director William Wyler has more nominations in the category, with a total of 12

MUSIC SCORING: Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir is the ninth woman nominated in the music scoring categories

SOUND EDITING: Alan Robert Murray has set a record for the Sound Editing category with his 10 nominations

Actor-producer John Cho and producer-actress-writer Issa Rae announced the 92nd Oscars® nominations live from the David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures which opens later this year. Highlights of this year’s nominees:

BEST PICTURE

Ford v Ferrari

The Irishman

Jojo Rabbit

Joker

Little Women

Marriage Story

1917

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Parasite

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)

Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)

Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)

Charlize Theron (Bombshell)

Renée Zellweger (Judy)

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

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)

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Kathy Bates

Laura Dern

Scarlett Johannson

Florence Pugh

Margot Robbie

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Tom Hanks

Anthony Hopkins

Al Pacino

Joe Pesce

Brad Pitt

BEST DIRECTOR

Bong Joon Ho (Parasite)

Sam Mendes (1917)

Todd Phillips (Joker)

Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)

Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)

For a complete list of Oscar Nominees visit www.oscar.com

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The Academy seems to have regressed in terms of leveling the nominee playing field. The progress made with Oscars 90th addressing Diversity and Equality is absent this year. This statement by no means should be translated to take away any of the well-deserved accolades of the current slate of Oscar nominees. It’s just an observation.

Here’s an excerpt from SOCIALLY SPARKED NEWS feature on the Oscars 90th nominations —

“BEST ACTOR & BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR NOMINEES – The #METOO and #TIMESUP Movements clearly had an impact in these categories as Golden Globe winner James Franco (The Disaster Artist) was snubbed, making room for Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.) to receive the Best Actor nominee nod. And, Christopher Plummber (All the Money in the World) receives the nominee accolade in the Best Supporting Actor category, after last minute replacement for tarnished actor Kevin Spacey.”

Academy members from each of the 17 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and International Feature Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.

Congratulations to all of this year’s Oscar Nominees. We hope that in years to come we can once again sign off with our signaure paragraph from The 90th anniversary of the Academy Awards feature — “It’s wonderful to see positive changes in the nominating process.”  The 92nd Academy Awards Presentation will be televised live on February 9th, 8PM ET on ABC. We can’t wait!! — Abbe is Socially Sparked Tweet @sosparkednews & @asparks01