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The 92nd Academy Awards were held Sunday, February  9, 2020, wherein the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will announce their picks for the best films and artists of 2019 during a hostless ceremony broadcast on ABC. Although Joker lead the pack with 11 nominations, it only took home two (for Best Actor and Original Score). No, Oscar night clearly belonged to Parasite, which became the first foreign language film to win Best Picture.

Parasite was also the first South Korean film to win Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, and Best Director (for Bong Joon-ho).

Our staff had overwhelmingly predicted that 1917 will win Best Picture, even though the majority of us stated their preference was that Parasite should win instead. (IGN named Parasite as the Best Movie of 2019, after all.) So needless to say there are a lot of happy IGN folks tonight!

The Oscar Winners 2020: The Complete List

We will be updating this list of nominees throughout the Oscars broadcast, with the winners marked in bold red.

The nominations in full are as follows:

Best Picture

• Parasite (WINNER)
• Ford V Ferrari
• The Irishman
• Jojo Rabbit
• Joker
• Little Women
• Marriage Story
• 1917
• Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood

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Directing

• Bong Joon-ho, Parasite (WINNER)
• Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
• Todd Phillips, Joker
• Sam Mendes, 1917
• Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood

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Actor in a Leading Role

• Joaquin Phoenix, Joker (WINNER)
• Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
• Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood
• Adam Driver, Marriage Story
• Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes

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Actress in a Leading Role

• Renée Zellweger, Judy (WINNER)
• Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
• Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
• Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
• Charlize Theron, Bombshell

 

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood (WINNER)
• Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
• Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
• Al Pacino, The Irishman
• Joe Pesci, The Irishman

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Laura Dern, Marriage Story (WINNER)
• Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
• Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
• Florence Pugh, Little Women
• Margot Robbie, Bombshell

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Adapted Screenplay

• Jojo Rabbit (WINNER)
• The Irishman
• Joker
• Little Women
• The Two Popes

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Original Screenplay

• Parasite (WINNER)
• Knives Out
• Marriage Story
• 1917
• Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood

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Cinematography

• 1917 (WINNER)
• The Irishman
• Joker
• The Lighthouse
• Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood

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Animated Feature Film

• Toy Story 4 (WINNER)
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
• I Lost My Body
• Klaus
• Missing Link

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Original Score

• Joker (WINNER)
• Little Women
• Marriage Story
• 1917
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Original Song

• “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again”, Rocketman (Winner)
• “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away”, Toy Story 4
• “I’m Standing With You”, Breakthrough
• “Into The Unknown”, Frozen II
• “Stand Up”, Harriet

Production Design

• Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood (WINNER)
• The Irishman
• Jojo Rabbit
• 1917
• Parasite

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Film Editing

• Ford v Ferrari (WINNER)
• The Irishman
• Jojo Rabbit
• Joker
• Parasite

Documentary Feature

• American Factory (WINNER)
• The Cave
• The Edge of Democracy
• For Sama
• Honeyland

Documentary Short Subject

• Learning To Skateboard In a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) (WINNER)
• In The Absence
• Life Overtakes Me
• St. Louis Superman
• Walk Run Cha-Cha

International Feature Film

• Parasite (South Korea) (WINNER)
• Corpus Christi (Poland)
• Holy Land (North Macedonia)
• Les Misérables (France)
• Pain and Glory (Spain)

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Makeup and Hairstyling

• Bombshell (WINNER)
• Joker
• Judy
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
• 1917

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Visual Effects

• 1917 (WINNER)
• Avengers: Endgame
• The Irishman
• The Lion King
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Costume Design

• Little Women (WINNER)
• The Irishman
• Jojo Rabbit
• Joker
• Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood

Animated Short Film

• Hair Love (WINNER)
• Dcera (Daughter)
• Kitbull
• Memorable
• Sister

Live Action Short Film

• The Neighbors’ Window (WINNER)
• Brotherhood
• Nefta Football Club
• Saria
• A Sister

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Sound Editing

• Ford V Ferrari (WINNER)
• Joker
• 1917
• Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Sound Mixing

• 1917 (WINNER)
• Ad Astra
• Ford v Ferrari
• Joker
• Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood

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Cats may have have been a critically-panned box office bust that caused Universal to lose a cool $100 million, but that doesn’t mean some of its stars can’t have a sense of humor about it.

At tonight’s Oscars ceremony, James Corden and Rebel Wilson presented an award together, walking out on stage dressed like their Cats characters Bustopher Jones and Jennyanydots, respectively.

“As cast members of the motion picture Cats,” Wilson opened, to hearty laughs from the crowd.

“Nobody more than us knows the importance of good visual effects,” Corden said.

That’s right, the two of them were there to present the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Yes, after Cats notoriously was rereleased, just a few days after its premiere, with an update to the film’s rushed, slapdash visuals

Watch their bit below…

.@JKCorden and @RebelWilson came to play at the #Oscars pic.twitter.com/k0UB5LpVaR

— ABC (@ABCNetwork) February 10, 2020

Also, check out why Eminem performing “Lose Yourself” at this year’s Oscars was so meaningful, and how Jojo Rabbit’s Taika Waititi made history by winning Best Adapted Screenplay.

Click here to see the full list of Oscar nominees and winners.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

Almost two decades ago, Eminem won an Oscar for the song “Lose Yourself,” from the Curtis Hanson movie he starred in, 8 Mile.

He didn’t, however, attend the 2003 Academy Awards ceremony after being nominated, and was reportedly asleep when Barbra Streisand read his name aloud on TV, as the winner of the Best Original Song award.

This year, after Hamilton creator/composer Lin-Manuel Miranda introduced a montage of famous movie songs (which featured Eminem’s movie character B-Rabbit walking out toward a stage), Eminem arrived live and in-person to perform “Lose Yourself.”

Here’s Eminem, Marshall Mathers himself, tweeting about his surprise performance…

Look, if you had another shot, another opportunity… Thanks for having me @TheAcademy. Sorry it took me 18 years to get here. pic.twitter.com/CmSw2hmcZo

— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) February 10, 2020

Earlier in the evening, Taika Waititi made history after winning an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit.

Click here to see the full list of Oscar nominees and winners.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

Warning: Full spoilers for The Outsider’s sixth episode follow…

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The Outsider’s sixth chapter, “The One About the Yiddish Vampire,” delivered the show’s first true chokepoint: A cliffhanger-style ending that felt like the thrilling culmination of Holly’s investigation so far. El Coco is forcing Jack to kill Holly. We don’t know how it plans to, possibly, cover up her murder, but the creature is desperate enough to actually pull the trigger, so to speak, on taking her off the game board. And we leave the episode with Holly driving off to a remote location with a severely busted-face Jack.

This episode also brought every major character up to speed. Everyone’s on the same page now, for better or worse. With her arrival in Georgia, Holly presented her findings and far-out theories and then we watched the others scatter and deal, emotionally, with her spooky “show and tell” session.

FALLOUT FROM HOLLY’S FINDINGS

We don’t have to sift through all of what Holly put forth and displayed to Ralph, Jeannie, Howard, and the rest (even Glory Maitland, who was there on Jeannie’s invite), since it’s everything we’ve learned over the past three episodes. Even the new information she discovered on her harrowing bus trip into town (thanks to El Coco trying to wreck the entire ride) about Dayton’s “Renfield,” Tracy Powell – Heath’s first cousin. Tracy was an active accomplice, capturing the girls and delivering them to the monster. He’d obviously been picked and controlled before the murders and not after the fact, like Jack. Unless Jack was picked to help the next murders, which Claude is supposed to be framed for.

Anyhow, the meeting wasn’t just interesting because everyone got to be in the same room as Holly, but everyone absorbed the information very differently. Ralph was frustrated and restless. Glory was infuriated. Jeannie, Yunis and Alec (as we’d find out later) were actually very open to the El Coco madness. Jeannie because of her own experiences, obviously. Yunis, because of his upbringing and natural belief in the supernatural. Alec too was someone who’s given a lot of thought to the unexplained and whether or not true demons were real. Much to the chagrin of Howard.

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And then there was Jack, listening to Holly describe most of everything he’s currently going through as El Coco’s servant. So the room of listeners itself was actually more fun to behold than Holly finally laying all the cards out on the table.

Then everyone retreated to their stations, acting on the new information. Glory — poor Glory — surrendered. She gave serious thought to the consideration that Terry was actually guilty. If not just so she could accept it and start to, maybe, move on with her life somehow. Yunis, in the meantime, started tailing Claude. Good for him. He’s probably going to end up dead, but at least he’s the only person on the right track at the moment. He heard Holly’s findings and took them to heart, knowing that the main goal was to stop El Coco from killing again (and escaping).

Jeannie and Holly (who’s staying with the Andersons), began to dig deeper into Jeannie’s visit, uncovering the creature’s residue on the chair it sat in when threatening Jeannie. It can project itself, in a very light physical form, it would seem. It’s visits are very real.

It’s how Ralph dealt with Holly and her theories that was the most fascinating here, however.

THE SON ALSO RISES

After Ralph finished talking to his department-mandated therapist, where he used the dream he had of his son as a distracting talking point, he was forced to actually consider the possibility that El Coco appeared to him as Derek. Whether it was a dream or not, Ralph’s now so buried under crazy evidence he can’t process that he’s wondering if he was targeted by the entity.

He sees the patterns. He’s studied the melty-face drawings, including new ones drafted by Glory’s daughter. He doesn’t know what to do. So he lashed out at Holly, who he bitterly dismissed as a hack charlatan akin to a phony psychic. Obviously, Ralph could have dreamed about Derek and it’s just a coincidence that El Coco can readily appear to people in other forms. We saw it happen this week when it was Tracy on the bus, and then with Jack seeing his dead mother – and getting the holy hell beaten out of him by her. El Coco, as Jack’s mom, could readily beat the s*** out of him! It couldn’t just be something happening in his mind, Fight Club-style, right? There was so much blood. And specific attacks to the face, like kicks.

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Anyhow, that brutal beatdown, aside from feeling very Stephen King (a monster taking the form of a loved one), felt a teensy bit incongruous with the rest of the show. Not just because former SNL star Denny Dillon, who played the mom, is usually in comedies, but because it was very violent. Sure, this show has violence, but not as much as you’d think. It’s rooted in violence and the story makes its nest there, but displays aren’t all that common. This beating went on for a while, and it messed Jack up so much that his face was overly suspicious the next day. I get that we want Holly to know something’s wrong, but it still took the neck boils to truly signal to her that something was off and she was in danger.

Regardless, my point is the show wants us to seriously consider that Ralph was visited by El Coco, because we’ve seen it use its powers similarly with other people, but it might not have. It’s enough that Ralph thinks it could have though. And, in the end, if Ralph finds out that El Coco did try to use Derek against him, it might be the realization that finally galvanizes his energies against the monster.

Director Taika Waititi took home his first Academy Award, as his satirical WWII movie Jojo Rabbit won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2020 Academy Awards.

This is Waititi’s first Oscar win out of three total nominations. In addition to being nominated for Best Short film for 2004’s Two Cars, One Road, Waititi is also in the running for Best Director for Jojo.

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Jojo Rabbit faced some stiff competition this year, ultimately triumphing over other contenders like The Irishman, Joker, Little Women and The Two Popes. The win is certainly well-deserved. In our review of Jojo Rabbit, we said Waititi “strikes just the right balance between comedy, tragedy, and drama, the result being a very funny WWII film that nevertheless carries an incredibly important message about the here and now.”

Waititi also makes history as the first person of Maori descent and the first indigenous person to win an Oscar. In his acceptance speech, Waititi said, “I want to dedicate this to all the indigenous kids in the world who want to do art and dance and write stories, original stories.”

An Oscar win should be a nice feather in Waititi’s cap as he prepares to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for Thor: Love and Thunder, a sequel he’ll both direct and reprise his role as Korg. We’re keeping an eye on social media to see how Waititi’s fellow MCU veterans react to this big win, so check back for updates soon.

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Waititi’s upcoming projects also include the live-action Akira adaptation, which Waititi promises is still coming despite having to be postponed in favor of Thor 4.

Click here to see the full list of Oscar nominees and winners. 

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Natalie Portman’s Oscars outfit drew a lot of attention this evening as it made a bold statement about the state of the Best Director category.

As a reminder, at the Academy Awards two years ago, while presenting the Best Director award with Ron Howard, Portman memorably pointed out the lack of female nominees.

Ron Howard: “We are honored … to be here to present the award for best director.”

Natalie Portman, done with this shit: “And here are the all-male nominees.” pic.twitter.com/8JboypiADo

— David Mack (@davidmackau) January 8, 2018

At tonight’s awards ceremony, Portman arrived in a black and gold dress, adorned by a black cape that featured the names of women directors who many felt should have been nominated for Best Director this year.

The names listed, in gold embroidery, were Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), Mati Diop (Atlantics), Melina Matsoukas (Queen & Slim), Alma Har’el (Honey Boy), and Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire).

Portman’s next projects include voicing her MCU character Jane Foster for Disney+’s animated Marvel’s What If? series and then bringing Jane back to the Thor franchise in 2021’s Thor: Love and Thunder – where Jane will be The Mighty Thor.

Check out all the winners of this year’s Oscars so far, including Brad Pitt and Toy Story 4.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

The fan campaign to get a sequel to 2019’s Alita: Battle Angel has expanded to the Oscars.

According to a tweet from writer and producer Steven Santos, a plane trailing the message #AlitaSequel and #AlitaArmy has been spotted flying around Hollywood during the Academy Awards red carpet.

A plane flying circles over Hollywood right now demanding a sequel to Alita: Battle Angel. pic.twitter.com/esEoWcn8ex

— Steven Santos (@stevensantos) February 9, 2020

This comes after fans brought the hashtags up to trending status on Twitter recently, as reported by ScreenRant. There were over 19k tweets which included images, fan art, memes, clips, and more from fans to celebrate the movie and help push for a sequel to be made.

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Alita: Battle Angel wasn’t as successful as many had hoped, especially in the US. Combined with James Cameron’s decision to focus on his Avatar sequels over this project, fans are concerned they won’t get a sequel to this film.

At IGN, we happened to think the movie was pretty great and it even made it into our best reviewed movies of 2019. For those who do want to see a sequel, a good move is to vote with your wallet and pick up the film which released on digital, Blu-Ray, and DVD last July.

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Halo Infinite is one of 2020’s most anticipated games, but information about it largely remains a mystery. Microsoft hasn’t shared many details about the story or multiplayer, but the company has been slowly revealing details about the process of recording the game’s sounds.

This continued recently, as developer 343 Industries posted another behind-the-scenes look at how the team captured some of the game’s weapon sounds. A new Instagram video from the Halo account shows members of the audio team firing a variety of weapons–including pistols, rifles, and shotguns. The video also shows the audio team capturing the sounds of various explosions.

A second video, which you can see further down the page, shows the Halo Infinite audio team capturing vehicle sounds using a 1972 Chevy El Camino SS.

Halo Infinite Weapon Sounds

These are just the latest behind-the-scenes videos from 343. In 2019, the developer shared a video of a cute little pug whose snuffs and scruff sounds will be put into Halo Infinite.

Halo Infinite releases in Holiday 2020 as a launch title for Microsoft’s next-generation console, Xbox Series X, as well as PC. The game will also be playable on Xbox One as well as the other variations of the next-generation Xbox that might be coming.

Halo Infinite Car Sounds