Oscar Winners – RECAP 2020 92nd Annual Academy Awards

by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor

POST UPDATE: 2/10/20 – Award season is over and the Oscars have been Awarded – with the history making PARASITE the big winner of the night!

Originally this post was for predicting what would be nominated. Then I went back in and updated it as to what I got right and wrong in terms of nominations. And predicted the Oscar winners, adding in a few Academy Awards fun facts.

Now, I’ve updated it to show what I got right and indicate the winners of the ones I got wrong. Also, adding some favorite moments of the night and Best & Worst on the Oscar Red carpet!

I would so totally rock this look. I love a hood! Janelle Monae really brought it in this diamond studded gown by Ralph Lauren which featured 168,000 Swarovski Crystals. Then she brought the house down with the opening number!

If anyone is going to pull off this red lobster lasagna look it would be Kristen Wiig, you know she’d rather be memorable and off-center than truly glamorous, but I still have to give her my Worst Dressed label, although I love the hair. Actually, Billie Eilish was worse in oversized Channel, but kids will be kids. Ironically, Eilish judged too making meme-able faces during the Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph presentation for Best Costumes performance (see below).

Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig are having the most fun humanly possible. https://t.co/8kz7m5vtnF #Oscars pic.twitter.com/B01ZABKPKB
— ABC News (@ABC) February 10, 2020

Original post 1/14/2020

The 2nd Annual LAMB Oscar Nominee Prediction Contest 2020 – And 92nd Academy Awards Predictions – NOW UPDATED With Winners

The Oscar Nominees are in for the Academy Awards Ceremony on Sunday, February 9, 2020 on ABC. The night before the nominations were announced the Large Association of Movie Blogs (LAMB) had a contest to see how many nominations each member got correct. Below I’ve listed the actual Academy Nominations and highlighted my Predicted Oscar Winners. Underneath, in each category is my pre-announcement LAMB nomination predictions. I got pretty close with most categories but of course, it’s not that hard as by the time the Golden Globes (see recap) take place, we all know the front runners; but there in lies some of the trouble, as the Academy only chose front runners, where with things like Costumes and Visual Effects and Sound they should have widened the playing field to include more movies…

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

“When we use love and compassion as our guiding principals, we can create systems of change. … Not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes, but when we guide each other to grow, for redemption, that is the best of humanity.” —Joaquin Phoenix #Oscars pic.twitter.com/94nSZCqxsQ
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) February 10, 2020

I went back as far as 2012 and the SAG Male Actor in a Leading Role Winner has also been the Oscar Best Actor Winner every year except for 2017 when Denzel Washington (Fences) won SAG, but Casey Affleck (Manchester By the Sea) took the Oscar. So there’s always that off chance that Jonathan Pryce or Adam Driver could sneak in and take this from Joaquin Phoenix, but doubtful.

Oscars Fun Fact: Jonathan Pryce is Welsh – Five Welsh actors/actresses that have won Academy Awards:

Ray Milland, Best Actor, The Lost Weekend, 1945
Hugh Griffith, Best Supporting Actor, Ben-Hur, 1959
Anthony Hopkins, Best Actor, Silence of The Lambs, 1992
Catherine Zeta Jones, Best Supporting Actress, Chicago, 2003
Christian Bale, Best Supporting Actor, The Fighter, 2010

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Actor in A Leading Role

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

To Hollywood: Give two-time Oscar winner Renée Zellweger the roles she deserve. This comeback is just getting started. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/8tSWtDxC38
— Juan Carlos Ojano (@carlosojano) February 10, 2020

I really wish that Harriet had been a stronger contender, when I first saw it I thought it had Oscar possibilities. I got to interview writer/director Kasi Lemmons and was excited by the possibilities. But then the reviews were just lukewarm and the black audience, which should have championed it like they did SELMA, got side tracked by the black bounty hunter character Bigger Long who they found offensive. They were also upset that a British actress was portraying an American heroine, so unfortunately Cynthia Erivo doesn’t stand a chance.

Oscars Fun Fact: From 2015-2018 The Best Actress SAG winner was also the Oscar Winner until Last year when Glenn Close won the SAG for The Wife and Olivia Coleman won the Oscar for The Favorite so we could see a ScarJo upset, after all she’s the 12th Actor or Actress to be nominated in two categories in the same year and 7 of those 12 have one in one of their categories but never both.

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Actress in A Leading Role

Technically, got it right, per my correction to 1/14/2020 post

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

“I’ll ride on your coattails any day, man. The view is fantastic.” Brad Pitt thanks Leonardo DiCaprio during his #Oscars speech https://t.co/xIgMGObsBv pic.twitter.com/QCUscq4kG7
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 10, 2020

I was wrong to chose Hopkins in this category. Clearly Brad Pitt is the front runner since his Golden Globes win where he delivered a self-deprecating and humorous acceptance speech for his role as stuntman Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, joking “I wanted to bring my mom but I couldn’t, because any woman I stand next to, they say I’m dating, and it’d just be awkward.” He went on to accept the National Board of Review Award, sincerely thanking Bradley Cooper for helping him to get sober – He won the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Producing and started off: “Spielberg, Grazer, Zanuck, Kennedy. These are just a few of the names I’ve cheapened tonight by accepting this award.” – And then the SAG Award, joking “Let’s be honest, it was a difficult part — a guy who gets high, takes his shirt off and doesn’t get on with his wife.” He’s sure to get a chance to deliver another heartfelt zinger at the Oscars.

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Supporting Actor

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

“Some say, never meet your heroes. But, I say, if you are really blessed you get them as your parents.” @LauraDern dedicates her #Oscars win for #MarriageStory to her parents https://t.co/SKj2exF4dN pic.twitter.com/O6fjjM0Wv6
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 10, 2020

Still unhappy JLo was not nominated in this category for Hustlers, that would have shaken things up some. Laura Dern’s got this pretty much sewn up. I don’t really see what all the praise is about in terms of Florence Pugh’s Amy in Little Women, it’s fine but nothing to write home about. I actully thought she was just adequate in Midsommar too, but loved her in Fighting with My Family which got no attention last year, which didn’t make my top 10 favorites but is among my Top 20 Favorite Movies of 2019

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Supporting Actress

GOT IT WRONG – WINNER FORD V FERRARI – Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland

Oscars Fun Fact: For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar. Then in 2014 12 Years A Slave won Best Picture, but Gravity took Best Editing. The first Best Picture Winner not to be even nominated for Film Editing was Birdman in 2015 and that’s because the movie was one long tracking shot. I don’t even know if any editing was used.

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Film Edition

GOT IT WRONG – WINNER PARASITE – Bong Joon Ho
Happy to be wrong, when Bong Joon Ho won Best Director I tweeted this could mean best picture!

#Oscars Could this mean PARASITE Best Picture? 🙏🏿 https://t.co/258zWs3dwN
— Tinsel & Tine #Sundance2020 (@tinseltine) February 10, 2020

I’d be good if Bong Joon Ho won this category, but unless Parasite takes best picture too, then I would prefer Todd Philips win this category. But unfortunately, I feel it’s gonna go to Sam Mendes for 1917. Some categories I picked who I’d want to win rather than who I think will win.

Oscars Fun Fact: Only three films have won all five of the most coveted Oscars for Best Film, Actor, Actress, Director and Writing. They are: ‘It Happened One Night’ (1935), ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ (1976) and ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’ (1992).

Oscars Fun Fact: Of the 91 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 65 have also been awarded Best Director. So the odds seem good that they go hand and hand but not really because last year Alfonso Cuaron won for Roma, no director nom for Greenbook‘s Peter Farrelly, 2017 Damien Chazelle won for La La Land, not Barry Jenkins for Moonlight, 2016 Alejandro Inarritu won for The Revenant, instead of Tom McCarthy for Spotlight and in 2014 Alfonso Cuaron again for Gravity, instead of Steve McQueen for 12 Years A Slave.

Oscars Fun Fact: Only five films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: Wings (1927/28), Grand Hotel (1931/32), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Argo (2012), and Green Book (2018).

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Directing
Note: the Star is not for Scorsese, but that I guessed all the directors who would be nominated in this category

GOT IT WRONG – again, happier with who did win!
WINNER JOKER – Hildur Guðnadóttir

Hildur Guðnadóttir, accepting the award for Best Original Score: “To the girls, to the women, to the mothers, to the daughters who hear the music bubbling within—please speak up. We need to hear your voices.” https://t.co/8kz7m5vtnF #Oscars pic.twitter.com/OWifHA1W5B
— ABC News (@ABC) February 10, 2020

Oscars Fun Fact: John Williams has the 2nd most Oscar nominations 52 (only Walt Disney had more 59) and since Williams is still kicking he could surpass Disney. He’s won 5 times: Star Wars, Schindler’s List, E.T., Jaws and Fiddler On The Roof , and this is the 6th nomination for Star Wars. Despite all this, I feel the Academy has a special fondness for Randy Newman for some reason.

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Original Score

GOT IT WRONG – WINNER “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from ROCKETMAN – Music by Elton John Lyric by Bernie Taupin

#Oscars Love the song “Stand Up” hope it wins. – https://t.co/RPD6J5cQZ8 https://t.co/9TOZxBnuBG
— Tinsel & Tine #Sundance2020 (@tinseltine) February 10, 2020

It’s a long shot but like the song “Glory: for SELMA, this could win just in terms of balancing diversity, acknowledging Harriet Tubman and the fact that Cynthia Erivo has an amazing voice!

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Original Song

Favorite Moment Eminem doing 8- Mile!

#BREAKING: Eminem just performed “Lose Yourself” at the #Oscars 🚨🚨pic.twitter.com/igVkfXRY7p
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) February 10, 2020

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… Unprecedented!

If PARASITE doesn’t win this than it actually would have a chance of winning Best Picture, but just can’t see it sweeping both. It’s always hard to get a chance to see all the foreign films and documentaries, but I did see Les Miserables (written/directed Ladj Ly). I didn’t really want to, but it was part of a screening day set up for the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, yet it turned out to be very engrossing. It’s about Police Brutality in a poor arrondissement of Paris. A cop is transferred from a more civilized Province and finds himself appalled by the behavior of his fellow officers training him. You get to know several players adults and children in the neighborhood and a particular incident really heightens tensions between these groups and the police. Not typically my kinda thing, but I was pulled in and impressed with the direction.

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – International or Foreign Film

GOT IT WRONG – WINNER 1917 – Roger Deakins

I read a little interview with Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke where he talked about black & white photography being about what colors you extract, and the fact that early photography never picked up any red light. So he set about to find a filter that could just eliminate all red light, there wasn’t one readily available. Ultimately Schneider [the German lens company] made a custom filter for him that emulated what’s called orthochromatic film. It just sees blue and some green, so anything that’s red, like skin tone, it darkens intensely.

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Cinematography

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

“She was an inspiration to all of us.” Jacqueline Durran thanks #LittleWomen writer/director Greta Gerwig while accepting the award for best costume design at the #Oscars https://t.co/NSWKDV7euF pic.twitter.com/qz7DgdePTp
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 10, 2020

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Costume Design

I still can’t believe Rocketman, Dolemite is My Name, Downtown Abbey or Hustlers is not on this list. I Loved Scarlett Johansson’s Bavarian Fashion show in JoJo Rabbit, but I’m going with Little Women as a more traditional period costumes choice.

GOT IT WRONG – WINNER 1917 – Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy

I know it’s not going to happen, but seeing as my favorite movie of 2019 was Marvel’s Avengers Endgame – It had everything, nostalgia, high stakes, emotion, a perfect culmination to a 10 year journey! I would love to see this win. It was awarded in this category at the Critics Choice Awards, but the Oscar will probably go to 1917.

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Visual Effects

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Original Screenplay

GOT IT WRONG – WINNER PARASITE – Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin Won Story by Bong Joon Ho

Parasite is the most creative screenplay among this list, and I loved Knives Out, so I’m not really sure why I chose Marriage Story to win, when really it’s more than likely going to be Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, like it was at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards.

Oscars Fun Fact: Originally the Academy had a category of Best Story until 1940 when they added the Best Original Screenplay category and in 1957 they combined them. Woody Allen holds the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3 (Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Midnight in Paris (2011).

GOT IT WRONG –WINNER JOJO RABBIT – Screenplay by Taika Waititi

This one’s difficult because they may give it to Little Women since Greta Gerwig was snubbed for a directing nom. JoJo Rabbit does deserve something, but personally I think Joker would have been the more difficult script to adapt.

Oscars Fun Fact: Geoffrey S. Fletcher is the first African American to win in this category for Precious in 2010 and then John Ridley for 12 Years A Slave 2014. Spike Lee’s win for BlacKkKlansman last year is technically the 3rd, however, he had a white writing partner, so it wasn’t a solo win.

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Adapted Screenplay

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

I haven’t seen any of these. I really meant to see at least American Factory seeing as it’s produced by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, I’ll still try to see that one. I have a screener for Honeyland, just haven’t felt like watching it. For docs this year I saw – Aretha Franklin‘s Amazing Grace, One Child, One Nation which was thought-provoking and tragic; I should have written a review, still not too late. And I saw Apollo 11, which was nothing new after seeing First Man last year.

POST UPDATE: 2.8.20

#Oscars2020 For the first time decided to go see the Oscar Nominated Shorts (Live Action) at the theater. For $11.50 it should include short docs and animated too. Fortunately, all 5 films are worth seeing:

A SISTER – Delphine Girard’s thriller about an emergency dispatcher trying to help a kidnapped woman who’s pretending to be on the phone with her sister, giving clues that she hopes her assailant won’t catch on.

BROTHERHOOD – Tunisian-Canadian writer-director Meryam Joobeur depicts a son’s sudden return to his small Tunisian village, unwelcomed by his father who understandably disapproved of his son’s choice to join ISIS.

THE NEIGHBORS WINDOW – This was my favorite. Marshall Curry’s tale of a married couple with three kids who become obsessed with watching their new, beautiful, sexy, younger neighbors who live across the way with no blinds.

SARIA – This is the one I think will and should get the Oscar – by director Bryan Buckle, based on a devastating real life event which took the lives of 41 young girls at a Guatemalan Orphanage.

NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB – The only humorous short of the bunch by French writer-director Yves Piat about two young brothers who find contraband lost by smugglers who’ve musically trained a donkey to bring drugs over the border from Syria.

GOT IT WRONG WINNER TOY STORY 4 – Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera

I tried twice to see I Lost My Body during the Philadelphia Film Festival and I kept having a conflict. I’ve never seen any of the Train Your Dragon franchise, I think just because I don’t like the way they draw the dragons, although it’s the same goofy rounded style for Abominable and I saw and enjoyed that. I also didn’t care for the look of the animation on Klaus or the story for Missing Link so I skipped all of those. I only saw Toy Story 4 which I was amazed at how good it was considering it probably should have ended with 3. I’m a big fan of Forky!

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – Animated Feature

#Oscars CONGRATS @MatthewACherry Thanks for the #Sundance2020 contributions!
Everyone Loves HAIR LOVE Animated Short https://t.co/jpLxqNA5eK
— Tinsel & Tine #Sundance2020 (@tinseltine) February 10, 2020

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

#Oscar2020 HISTORIC WIN!!! First Foreign Film to take Best Picture in #Oscars history. PARASITE was @PhillyFilmSoc Philadelphia Film Festival Opening Night Film #PFF28 – https://t.co/ebqJCMdU78
Congrats @ParasiteMovie 🍾🎬 https://t.co/HO2k47Y1i4
— Tinsel & Tine #Sundance2020 (@tinseltine) February 10, 2020

I’d be happy seeing JOKER win, that film accomplished a lot, it’s artistically shot and written without being too weird, it’s a social commentary on loners and those on the fringe of society and how we treat them, it’s a tour de force for Joaquin Phoenix, it’s unpredictable and it’s a great comic book origin story.

Bon Joon Ho’s PARASITE is up for 6 categories Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Production Design. It really should have garnered some acting noms as well.

So I’d be happiest seeing PARASITE win! This would be historic, and so well deserved. Plus, it’s a safe choice as it doesn’t come with any baggage other than being a foreign language film. And, I think after Greenbook won over Roma last year and wasn’t very well received. They Academy may do a correction by voting for Parasite.

Tried to see if there were any correlations between Best Picture Winners during an Elections Year in the 21st Century, but found no common thread 2000 – American Beauty | 2004 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King | 2008 No Country for Old Men | 2012 The Artist | 2016 Spotlight

Oscars Fun Fact: List of Foreign Language Films Nominated for Best Picture:
1. Grand Illusion – French (1938)
2. Z – French (1969)
3. The Emigrants – Swedish (1972)
4. Cries And Whispers – Swedish (1973)
5. Il Postino – Italian (1994)
6. Life is Beautiful – Italian (1998)
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Chinese/US (2000)
8. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) – Japanese/US (2006)
9. Babel – (French, US, Mexican) (2006)
10. Amour – French (2012)
11. Roma – Mexican (2018)- Roma also became the first time a director won Best Cinematography when Cuaron accepted this honor, and the movie later became the first foreign-language film to win Best Director.
12. Parasite – South Korean (2019)

Oscars Fun Fact: The Hurt Locker (2010) is the lowest grossing movie to ever win at the Oscars. It won six out of a total of nine nominations – including of course, Best Picture, yet it earned only $21 million at the box office, that’s less than 2% of what it’s competitor ‘Avatar’ made in ticket sales in the same year.

Tinsel & Tine Predicted NOMINATION – BEST PICTURE