With the 92nd Academy Awards taking place on Sunday, Feb. 9 — the earliest the awards show has ever aired — here is a look at this year’s nominees, and how they have changed.
Here are the Nominees for Best Picture in 92nd Academy Awards | Oscars 2020
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FORD V FERRARI
Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and James Mangold, Producers
FILM SYNOPSIS
Visionary auto designer Carroll Shelby and race car driver Ken Miles team up to build a high-performance race car for the Ford Motor Company, hoping to defy the odds and defeat the dominant Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans.
THE IRISHMAN
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers
FILM SYNOPSIS
As an old man, World War II vet Frank Sheeran reflects on his life as a hustler and mob hitman, working alongside many notorious figures, including Jimmy Hoffa, the subject of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history.
JOJO RABBIT
Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi and Chelsea Winstanley, Producers
FILM SYNOPSIS
During World War II, a lonely German boy’s world is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
JOKER
Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers
FILM SYNOPSIS
In Gotham’s fractured society, a young man longs to be a stand-up comic but finds the joke is always on him. Caught in a cycle of apathy, cruelty and ultimately, betrayal, the comedian makes one bad decision after another, bringing about a chain reaction of escalating events.
LITTLE WOMEN
Amy Pascal, Producer
FILM SYNOPSIS
In the late 1860s, burgeoning author Jo March looks back on her and her three sisters’ Massachusetts childhoods and the events and relationships that helped shape them as adults.
MARRIAGE STORY
Noah Baumbach and David Heyman, Producers
FILM SYNOPSIS
A young creative couple and their son navigate the tricky waters of bicoastal separation and impending divorce.
1917
Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall, Producers
FILM SYNOPSIS
During World War I, two British soldiers are sent on a dangerous mission to stop an attack by the British 7th Division that will result in a massacre by the Germans. Their assignment takes on extra urgency as one of the young soldiers’ brothers is fighting in that Division.
ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, and Quentin Tarantino, Producers
FILM SYNOPSIS
In Los Angeles in 1969, aging TV star Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth struggle to make their way around the industry and a city they hardly recognize anymore.
PARASITE
Kwak Sin Ae and Bong Joon Ho, Producers
FILM SYNOPSIS
Greed, class discrimination, and a mysterious interloper threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
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