Joker now has the best chance for Oscar Best Picture nomination

[Billy Batson]

Joker, baby

[Comic-Reader Lad]

It's not just that Joker has 11 nominations, which is incredible, but it's that Joker is the MOST nominated movie of the year.

That has NEVER happened for a comic book movie. Congratulations, DC and Warner Bros.

Here's the full list:

Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing

I have to say that is a broad base of nominations. To me, that means that Hollywood is taking the movie seriously. It's not just giving it the typical nominations that a CBM gets. Joker is being treated as a movie-movie, not a comic-book movie. Whether it wins anything or not, it definitely marks the turning of a corner in the way Hollywood views CBMs. Expect studios to jump on this bandwagon -- particularly if it should actually win Best Picture.

As an aside to movie buffs, Joker has also snagged 11 BAFTAs. the BAFTAs will be broadcast on Feb 2, while the Oscars will be shown on Feb 9.

BAFTA nominations:
Best Film
Best Direction
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Original Score
Best Casting
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Makeup and Hair
Best Sound

[AnakinFlair]

The Academy Awards are voted on by numerous people who have no idea how others are voting. They are not making statements or signaling the industry. They are just making private decisions. Making large assumptions from the awards or nominations is foolhardy. "The Oscars are trying to" or "If the Oscars wanted to" are nonsensical.
Larger societal issues can influence the voters, but that is about the extent of it.

Not necessarily.

I was listening to Alec Baldwin on Howard Stern last week, and he gave some insight to how the Academy works. He told the story of how he knew some big shot producer that commanded a large block of votes at one time. Apparently, people who are members of the Academy that weren't involved in Hollywood anymore would call this guy up to get his 'opinion' on what was hot, and he'd basically tell them how to vote. Granted this was several years ago, but it's not hard to think this type of thing still goes on.

[Scott Taylor]

Asking an opinion from someone else does not equate to that other person controlling how the vote goes. An opinion is still just an opinion. I see no harm in an Oscar voter asking someone else's opinion, in fact I find it encouraging because it means they are really thinking about it rather than just watching a movie and voting in a vacuum.

[Jim Kelly]

The thing is Academy voters have hundreds of movies to consider and not a lot of time to watch them. So they're going to look at the press to decide what screeners to watch. That's why the collective memory is short and a lot of recent movies end up nominated--because those are the ones that have been covered the most by the press in the last month. A voter watches those few movies and then selects from that short list what movie to nominate.

[Midvillian1322]

I'd give it Best actor for Phoenix and Best Score if I had a vote. Cinematography I feel like Once upon a time in Hollywood takes that and set/costume design. Best picture I'd vote Jojo rabbit but I think is between 1917/Once up a time/Parasite/Irishman same with director but again I'd persoaly vote Waititi for Jojo rabbit.

But I 100% think Joker should get Best actor and Best score hands down not even close.

Knives out is the big snub of the Oscar's imo. That and JoJos rabbit were by far my favorite movies of the year. US also stands out but it's a tough field.

Also I'm rooting for Joe Pesci for Irishman for supporting role. Deniro and Pacino were good as usual but Pesci gave my favorite performance of that movie by far. Pitts performance is a close second but I have a feeling they might give it to Tom hank. I haven't seen that movie though so I cant say if he deserves it or not. He was compelling as Roger in the trailer.

[Kirby101]

1917 for cinematography. I mean it's a marvel of cinematography.

[Midvillian1322]

1917 for cinematography. I mean it's a marvel of cinematography.

I think the lighthouse might have a chance too.

[Colossus1980]

Finally saw the movie recently and I think Phoenix deserves the Oscar for his performance as a mentally ill male. That is definitely not the Joker everyone knows in the comics or animated movies but his performance was Oscar worthy.

[Theleviathan]

Finally saw the movie recently and I think Phoenix deserves the Oscar for his performance as a mentally ill male. That is definitely not the Joker everyone knows in the comics or animated movies but his performance was Oscar worthy.

Same, Phoenix deserves the award. I'm not sure the movie deserves the nomination however.

[WebLurker]

Knives out is the big snub of the Oscar's imo.

Yeah. Didn't seem much of the other nominees, so hard to say how it compared, but it did seem like it deserved more consideration. (It did get nominated for some non-Oscar awards and was both profitable and popular, so it's not like Rian Johnson is going completely unappreciated or anything.)

[Beaddle]

1917 for cinematography. I mean it's a marvel of cinematography.

Yes, it's absolutely stunning, the cinematography is giving Nolan's Dunkirk a run of its money and that is very hard to do, since Nolan is the master of cinematography.

Irishman is fading fast though.

[Beaddle]

It's not just that Joker has 11 nominations, which is incredible, but it's that Joker is the MOST nominated movie of the year.

That has NEVER happened for a comic book movie. Congratulations, DC and Warner Bros.

Here's the full list:

Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing

I have to say that is a broad base of nominations. To me, that means that Hollywood is taking the movie seriously. It's not just giving it the typical nominations that a CBM gets. Joker is being treated as a movie-movie, not a comic-book movie. Whether it wins anything or not, it definitely marks the turning of a corner in the way Hollywood views CBMs. Expect studios to jump on this bandwagon -- particularly if it should actually win Best Picture.

As an aside to movie buffs, Joker has also snagged 11 BAFTAs. the BAFTAs will be broadcast on Feb 2, while the Oscars will be shown on Feb 9.

BAFTA nominations:
Best Film
Best Direction
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Original Score
Best Casting
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Makeup and Hair
Best Sound

Joker achieved everything on the pure artistic measurement of the film. The oscars all of a sudden become relevant again, when they nominate movies based on the objective quality of the film.

Am glad I called it back in September. I saw through all the media crap from yahoo and entertainment weekly.

credible movie making, so obvious. its not about rotten tomatoes scores.

[Comic-Reader Lad]

I'm surprised it didn't get nominated for Production Design like it did for the BAFTAs.

Joker really looked like 1980s-era Manhattan all the way through -- both interior and exterior scenes.

[Midvillian1322]

I'm surprised it didn't get nominated for Production Design like it did for the BAFTAs.

Joker really looked like 1980s-era Manhattan all the way through -- both interior and exterior scenes.

Which movie would you take out? Parasite is the only one nominated I didnt see. Joker definelty had a great production design but I couldnt make an argument to replace any of the other films with it. Except Parasite because I didnt watch it.

I hated the movie it was so boring and Dull but really surprised Ad Astra didnt get any love for the Visuals. It was really a beautiful movie.