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The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the
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(AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the
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in
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, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the AMPAS presented
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(commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by
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and
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and was directed by
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. Three months earlier in a ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood held on October 27, 2019, the Academy held its 11th Annual
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ceremony. ''
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'' won four awards including Best Picture, becoming the first non-English language film to win that award. Other winners include '' 1917'' with three awards, ''
Ford v Ferrari ''Ford v Ferrari'' (titled ''Le Mans '66'' in some European countries) is a 2019 American sports drama film directed by James Mangold and written by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, and Jason Keller. It stars Matt Damon and Christi ...
'', '' Joker'', and ''
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is ...
'' with two awards, and '' American Factory'', '' Bombshell'', ''
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'', '' Jojo Rabbit'', '' Judy'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Marriage Story'', ''
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'', '' Rocketman'', and '' Toy Story 4'' with one. The telecast garnered 23.64 million viewers, making it the third-least watched Oscar broadcast since
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when Nielsen began keeping records of viewership.


Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced on January 13, 2020, at the David Geffen Theater of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California, by actors John Cho and
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. '' Joker'' led all nominees with eleven nominations; ''
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'', '' 1917'', and ''
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is ...
'' tied for second with ten nominations each. This marked the first time in Oscars' history that four films each earned ten or more nominations. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 9, 2020. ''
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'' became the first non-English language film to win Best Picture. It was also the sixth film nominated for both Best Picture and Best International Feature in the same year. Furthermore, its four wins tied it with '' Fanny and Alexander'' and ''
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'' as the most-awarded foreign language films in Academy Awards history. With his wins in Best Picture, Director, and Original Screenplay, as well as his accepting of the award for International Feature Film on behalf of
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,
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was the second person to collect four statuettes in a single ceremony since
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at the
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held in 1954 and the first to do so for a single film. As a result of
Joaquin Phoenix Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (; né Bottom; born October 28, 1974) is an American actor. He is known for playing dark and unconventional characters in independent films. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academ ...
winning Best Actor for his performance as the
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in the film ''Joker'', he and
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, who previously won for playing the same character in 2008's '' The Dark Knight'', became the second pair of actors to win for portraying the same character in two different films.
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was the twelfth actor to receive double acting nominations in the same year. With her nominations in Best Actress and Best Original Song for '' Harriet'', Cynthia Erivo became the third consecutive person to earn acting and songwriting nominations for the same film after Mary J. Blige for 2017's '' Mudbound'' and
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for 2018's '' A Star Is Born''. Best Original Score winner Hildur Guðnadóttir was the third woman to win for composing a musical score and the first one to do so for a dramatic musical score. '' Honeyland'' became the first film to be nominated for both Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature.


Awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().


Governors Awards

The Academy held its 11th annual Governors Awards ceremony on October 27, 2019, during which the following awards were presented:


Honorary Academy Awards

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"For fearlessly breaking boundaries in pursuit of his singular cinematic vision." * Wes Studi "In recognition of the power and craft he brings to his indelible film portrayals and for his steadfast support of the Native American community." *
Lina Wertmüller Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich (14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021), known as Lina Wertmüller (), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art house films '' Seven Beauti ...
"For her provocative disruption of political and social norms delivered with bravery through her weapon of choice: the camera lens."


Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

* Geena Davis For her work fighting for gender-parity in media through her
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.


Films with multiple nominations and awards


Presenters and performers

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.


Presenters


Performers


Ceremony

Originally in April 2017, the Academy had scheduled the 92nd ceremony for February 23, 2020. However, due to record low television viewership and ratings attained by recent Oscar broadcasts, the AMPAS Board of Governors decided to move the date for the 2020 gala by two weeks to February 9 in hopes of combating film awards season fatigue. This marked the earliest date on which the ceremony has been held. Furthermore, in light of the recent success of last year's hostless ceremony that resulted in an improvement in ratings, ABC entertainment president Karey Burke announced the event would proceed without a host for the second consecutive year. Burke stated the ceremony would feature "huge entertainment values, big musical numbers, comedy, and star power". Several other people participated in the production of the ceremony. Production designer Jason Sherwood designed an ambitiously technological stage design for the ceremony which prominently featured a sculptural shell that protruded toward the audience and 1,100
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crystals. Furthermore, the stage itself was used to display movie clips and nominations graphics packages instead of projecting those images onto a regular rectangular screen. Rickey Minor served as musical director and conductor for the ceremony. Musician
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served as an in-house DJ during the gala. Rapper
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made a surprise appearance during the ceremony to perform his Oscar-winning song " Lose Yourself" from the 2002 film '' 8 Mile'' after being absent from the 75th ceremony in 2003 to perform the song. During the performance of excerpts from the Best Original Score nominees, Eímear Noone became the first woman to conduct the orchestra during an Oscar ceremony.


Category renaming and rule changes

During its Board of Directors meeting in April 2019, the Academy voted to rename the Best Foreign Language Film category to Best International Feature Film. In a press release justifying the name change, International Feature Film Committee co-chairs Larry Karaszewski and Diane Weyermann stated, "We have noted that the reference to 'foreign' is outdated within the global filmmaking community. We believe that international feature film better represents this category, and promotes a positive and inclusive view of filmmaking, and the art of film as a universal experience." However, the requirement for nominees to have the majority of their dialogue be in a language other than
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remained in force. Rule changes were also approved by the AMPAS Board of Directors. The category of Best Makeup and Hairstyling was expanded from a roster consisting of three nominees to five nominees, with the pre-nominations shortlist also expanded from seven films to ten. In addition, the Academy voted to drop the requirement of eight theatrically-released animated feature films in a calendar year in order for the category of
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to be activated, and nominations voting in that category would be open to all active Short Films and Animation Branch members. Finally, prospective nominees for
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and Best Live Action Short Film could now premiere theatrically in either
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or
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in order to be eligible for consideration.


Box office performance of Best Picture nominees

When the nominations were announced, seven of the nine films nominated for Best Picture had earned a combined gross of $747.2 million at the American and Canadian box offices at the time. ''Joker'' was the highest-grossing film among the Best Picture nominees with $334 million in domestic box office receipts. ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' came in second with $141.1 million; this was followed by ''Ford v. Ferrari'' ($111 million), ''Little Women'' ($74 million), ''1917'' ($39.2 million), ''Parasite'' ($25.4 million), and ''Jojo Rabbit'' ($22 million). Box office grosses for ''The Irishman'' and ''Marriage Story'' were unavailable due to their distributor
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's policy of refusing to release such figures.


Critical reviews

The show received a mixed reception from media publications. Some media outlets received the broadcast positively. Television critic James Poniewozik of ''
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'' wrote, "The ceremony was most effective when it simply got out of the way of its stars' shine." He added, "At its absolute best, this Oscars succeeded with what you can't script: great artists being recognized, and recognizing others." Matthew Gilbert from ''
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'' commented, "Sometimes, a few good moments are enough to get you there. And there were a few good ones throughout the Oscarcast Sunday night, which, like every Oscarcast ever, hosted or host-free, predictable or filled with surprises, jubilant or downbeat, was longer than it needed to be." ''
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'' columnist Darren Franlch remarked, "The 2020 Oscars were a bit of a shambles, and we can definitely lose all the introducers next year. But the last hour had the quality of a well-deserved coronation. Four wins for ''Parasite''? I was so happy that I lost myself." Others were more critical of the show. Columnist Kristin Turnquist of ''
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'' quipped, "If the 2020 Oscars broadcast was competing for a 'Most Confusing Mess of an Awards Show' trophy, it really hit the mark. But that’s the best that can be said for the 92nd Annual Academy Awards, which, despite a few surprises, was mostly predictable and seemed to go on forever." Television critic Lorraine Ali from the ''
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'' wrote, "This year's Oscars ceremony showed an art form in dire need of a relevancy check. Instead we got the biggest rap act of 2002 and a whole lot of jokes about the industry’s inability to see its own stasis." Entertainment editor Bruce Miller of the ''
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'' noted, "Because it lacked focus (a host was needed), this year's Academy Awards rambled as much as Zellweger and Phoenix. Someone like Jimmy Kimmel or Ellen DeGeneres could have prevented some of the train wrecks and made more of its wins.


Ratings and reception

The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 23.64 million people over its length, which was a 20% decrease from the previous year's ceremony. The show also earned lower
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compared to the previous ceremony with 13.6% of households watching the ceremony. In addition, it garnered a lower rating among viewers between ages 18-49 with a 5.3 rating among viewers in that demographic. Furthermore, some media outlets pointed out that the
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that were broadcast on CBS two weeks earlier earned a higher 18-49 demographic rating with a 5.4 figure. It earned the lowest viewership for an Academy Award telecast since figures were compiled beginning with the 46th ceremony in 1974. In July 2020, the show received nine nominations at the 72nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmys. Two months later, the ceremony won two of those nominations for Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special (Jason Sherwood and Alana Billingsley) and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special (Paul Sandweiss, Tommy Vicari, Biff Dawes, Pablo Munguia, Kristian Pedregon, Patrick Baltzell, Michael Parker, Christian Schrader, John Perez, Marc Repp, and Thomas Pesa).


"In Memoriam"

The annual "In Memoriam" segment was presented by
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. Singers
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and Finneas O'Connell performed
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song " Yesterday" during the tribute. *
Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant ( ; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely r ...
– athlete, producer *
Rip Torn Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019) was an American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his part as Marsh Turner in '' Cross Creek'' ...
– actor *
Barbara Hammer Barbara Jean Hammer (May 15, 1939 – March 16, 2019) was an American feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. She is known for being one of the pioneers of the lesbian film genre, and her career spanned over 50 years. Hamm ...
– filmmaker * Patricia Blau – visual effects * Bernie Pollack – costume designer * Steve Golin – producer, executive * Paul LeBlanc – hairstylist *
John Briley Richard John Briley (June 25, 1925 – December 14, 2019) was an American writer best known for screenplays of biographical films. He won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar at the 55th Academy Awards for ''Gandhi'' (1982). As well as film ...
– writer *
Diahann Carroll Diahann Carroll (; born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. She rose to prominence in some of the earliest major film studio, major studio films to feature black cas ...
– actress, singer *
Terry Jones Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh comedian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy team. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and ...
– writer, director, actor * Catherine Burns – actress *
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– director, writer * Wayne Fitzgerald – title designer *
David Foster David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian musician, composer, arranger, record producer and music executive who chaired Verve Records from 2012 to 2016. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His music career spans mor ...
– producer *
Danny Aiello Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. () (June 20, 1933 – December 12, 2019) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous motion pictures, including '' The Godfather Part II'' (1974), '' The Front'' (1976), ''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984), ''Hide ...
– actor * Buck Henry – writer, actor, director * Stanley Donen – director, choreographer *
David V. Picker David Victor Picker (May 14, 1931 – April 20, 2019) was an American motion picture executive and producer, working in the film industry for more than forty years. He served as president and chief executive officer for United Artists, Paramount, ...
– producer, executive * Barry Malkin – film editor *
Robert Forster Robert Wallace Forster Jr. (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019) was an American actor, known for his roles as John Cassellis in '' Medium Cool'' (1969), Captain Dan Holland in ''The Black Hole'' (1979), Abdul Rafai in '' The Delta Force'' (1986 ...
– actor * Robert Evans – producer, executive, actor * Richard Williams – animator * Machiko Kyō – actress * James R. Alexander – sound mixer * Anna Karina – actress *
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– documentarian * Leonard Goldberg – producer, executive *
Fernando Luján Fernando Luján (born Fernando Ciangherotti Díaz; August 23, 1938 – January 11, 2019) was a Mexican actor. He was a star of the silver screen in classic mexican films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. His father; Alejandro Ciangherotti ...
– actor *
André Previn André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved ...
– composer, conductor * Peter Mayhew – actor * Sylvia Miles – actress * William J. Creber – production designer * Godfrey Gao – actor *
Bibi Andersson Berit Elisabet Andersson (11 November 1935 – 14 April 2019), known professionally as Bibi Andersson (), was a Swedish actress who was best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Early life and career Anders ...
– actress *
Michael Lynne Michael Lynne (April 23, 1941 – March 24, 2019) was an American film executive. Biography Michael Lynne graduated from Brooklyn College (1961) and held a Juris Doctor from Columbia University. After a chance encounter with law-school acquain ...
– executive, producer *
Gene Warren Jr. Gene Francis Warren Jr. (July 22, 1941 – November 28, 2019) was an American visual effects artist. He was best known for his work in the first two ''Terminator'' film series, and he won an Academy Award in the category Best Visual Effects f ...
– special effects, visual effects *
Alvin Sargent Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927 – May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, for ''Julia'' (1977), and ''Ordinary People'' (1980). Sargent's other prominent works include screenplays of th ...
– writer *
Doris Day Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, " Sent ...
– actress *
Anna Udvardy Anna Udvardy (; 1949 – 23 May 2019) was a Hungarian film producer and production manager. Best known for her work on '' Sing'' as producer, which earned her critical appraisal and recognition including an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short ...
– producer * Sid Ramin – composer, arranger * Michelle Guish – casting director * Sidney Sheinberg – executive, producer * Ben Barenholtz – distributor, executive, producer * Joss Williams – special effects * Piero Tosi – costume designer * Kenneth Walker – hairstylist * Rutger Hauer – actor *
Syd Mead Sydney Jay Mead (July 18, 1933 – December 30, 2019) was an American industrial designer and neo-futurist concept artist, widely known for his designs for science-fiction films such as ''Blade Runner'', ''Aliens'' and ''Tron''. Mead has been d ...
– designer, concept artist *
Harriet Frank Jr. Harriet Frank Jr. (born Harriet Goldstein; March 2, 1923 – January 28, 2020) was an American screenwriter and producer. Working with her husband Irving Ravetch, Frank received many awards during her career, including the New York Film Critics ...
– writer *
Franco Zeffirelli Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post-World War II era, ...
– director *
John Witherspoon John Witherspoon (February 5, 1723 – November 15, 1794) was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister, educator, farmer, slaveholder, and a Founding Father of the United States. Witherspoon embraced the concepts of Scottish common sense real ...
– actor * Bernard Chevry – producer *
Seymour Cassel Seymour Joseph Cassel (January 22, 1935 – April 7, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 movies and television shows, and had a career that spanned over 50 years. Cassel first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering in ...
– actor *
Peter Fonda Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor. He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget Fonda. He was a prominent figure in the counterculture of the 1960s. Fond ...
– actor, director, writer *
Branko Lustig Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for ''Schindler's List'' and '' Gladiator''. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia ...
– producer * Gerry Smith – marketing executive *
John Singleton John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 April 28, 2019) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film debut writing and directing ''Boyz n the Hood'' (1991), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for B ...
– director, writer, producer *
Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in '' The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'' (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. D ...
– actor, producer


See also

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List of submissions to the 92nd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film This is a list of submissions to the 92nd Academy Awards for the Best International Feature Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Acade ...
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Autograph suit of Sandy Powell During the film awards season in early 2020, costume designer Sandy Powell wore a cream calico toile (a tailor's mock-up) two-piece suit of her own design, and collected celebrities' autographs on it in permanent marker. The suit was then auction ...


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