UPDATE 01.08.20: Winners highlighted.
Awards without previously announced nominations:
Technical Achievement Awards
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum – Stunt Coordination
Ad Astra – Visual Effects
1917 – Production Design
Knives Out – Acting Ensemble
Parasite – Production Design
Special Achievement Award
Agencia Nacional de Cinema (Brazil) for supporting art against the attacks from a fascist government
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Julie Andrews
Roger Corman
Olivia de Havilland
Martin Scorsese
John Waters
Non-US Releases
And Then We Danced
Bacurau
Bait
Beanpole
A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
A Rainy Day in New York
The Truth
Vitalina Varela
The Whistlers
Zombi Child
Nontheatrical Releases
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Little Monsters
One Cut of the Dead
The Perfection
See You Yesterday
The Wind
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The Online Film Critics Society — of which I am a member — has announced the nominees of its 2019 awards. Links here go to my reviews, with reviews to come for most if not all those I haven’t yet reviewed. (I have a lot of writing to do!)
Winners will be announced on January 6, 2020.
And the nominees are:
Best Picture
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite WINNER
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Uncut Gems
Us
Best Animated Feature
Frozen II
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Missing Link
Toy Story 4 WINNER
Best Director
Bong Joon-ho – Parasite WINNER
Sam Mendes – 1917
Celine Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Best Actor
Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory
Robert De Niro – The Irishman
Adam Driver – Marriage Story WINNER
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems
Best Actress
Awkwafina – The Farewell
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story
Lupita Nyong’o – Us WINNER
Florence Pugh – Midsommar
Renée Zellweger – Judy
Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse
Al Pacino – The Irishman
Joe Pesci – The Irishman
Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood WINNER
Song Kang-ho – Parasite
Best Supporting Actress
Laura Dern – Marriage Story
Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers WINNER
Florence Pugh – Little Women
Margot Robbie – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Shuzhen Zhao – The Farewell
Best Original Screenplay
Knives Out – Rian Johnson
Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
Parasite – Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won WINNER
Us – Jordan Peele
Best Adapted Screenplay
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster
Hustlers – Lorene Scafaria
The Irishman – Steven Zaillian WINNER
Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi
Little Women – Greta Gerwig
Best Editing
Ford v Ferrari (aka Le Mans ’66) – Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker
The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker
1917 – Lee Smith
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Fred Raskin
Parasite – Jinmo Yang WINNER
Best Cinematography
The Irishman – Rodrigo Prieto
The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke
1917 – Roger Deakins WINNER
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Robert Richardson
Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Claire Mathon
Best Original Score
Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
Marriage Story – Randy Newman
1917 – Thomas Newman
Us – Michael Abels WINNER
Best Debut Feature
Mati Diop – Atlantics
Melina Matsoukas – Queen & Slim
Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz – The Peanut Butter Falcon
Joe Talbot – The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Olivia Wilde – Booksmart WINNER
Best Film Not in the English Language
Atlantics
Monos
Pain and Glory
Parasite WINNER
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Best Documentary
American Factory
Apollo 11 WINNER
For Sama
Honeyland
One Child Nation
Woohoo, Parasite and Booksmart! This was a lousy year for movies, but I did enjoy those. In the former’s case, it’s interesting to see a pessimistic analysis of capitalism celebrated so widely when packaged in the language and actors of another culture. I’ll be curious to see how the plot and characters will be watered down in the inevitable Hollywood remake.
Everything’s fine and dandy when we’re dissecting the desperate greed, calculated ignorance, and moral vaccum at the core of another country, but I doubt any major studio is bold enough to plunge the scalpel into America’s own zombified materialistic corpse, although I do think that far down the road, Us and Parasite will make a cool double feature.
Well, that didn’t take long:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/adam-mckay-bong-joon-ho-teaming-parasite-limited-series-hbo-1268397
I was too quick to leap to pessimism. Adam McKay is a good choice – he’ll be able to keep the fangs nice and sharp in his adaptation/remake/series.
While you’re tossing cash and flashing green lights at Bong Joon Ho HBO, I wouldn’t mind watching a trippy Snowpiercer/Le Transperceneige miniseries with a female protagonist too – Hunger Games meets The City of Lost Children meets The Wizard of Oz on The Polar Express.