The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Stephanie Allain and Lynette Howell Taylor and was directed by Glenn Weiss. 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 Governors Awards ceremony.
Parasite won four awards including Best Picture, becoming the first non-English language film to win that award. Other winners included 1917 with three awards, Ford v Ferrari, Joker, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with two awards, and American Factory, Bombshell, Hair Love, Jojo Rabbit, Judy, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl), Little Women, Marriage Story, The Neighbors' Window, Rocketman, and Toy Story 4 with one. The telecast garnered 23.64 million viewers.
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 Issa Rae. Joker led all nominees with eleven nominations; The Irishman, 1917, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 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. Parasite 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. Its four wins tied it with Fanny and Alexander and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the most-awarded foreign language films in Academy Awards history. Parasite became the 12th film to win Best Picture without an acting nomination. 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 South Korea, Bong Joon Ho was the second person to collect four statuettes in a single ceremony since Walt Disney at the 26th Academy Awards held in 1954 and the first to do so for a single film.
As a result of Joaquin Phoenix winning Best Actor for his performance as the titular character in the film Joker, he and Heath Ledger, 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. Scarlett Johansson 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 and overall person to earn acting and songwriting nominations for the same film after Mary J. Blige for 2017's Mudbound and Lady Gaga for 2018's A Star Is Born, and the second consecutive and overall person (and the first person of color ever) to do so in a leading role. 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. John Williams became the first person to receive Oscar nominations in seven different decades (he was nominated in each decade from the 1960s to the 2020s).
Awards
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
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Parasite – Kwak Sin Ae and Bong Joon Ho, producers Ford v Ferrari – Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and James Mangold, producers The Irishman – Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, producers Jojo Rabbit – Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi and Chelsea Winstanley, producers Joker – Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, producers Little Women – Amy Pascal, producer Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach and David Heyman, producers 1917 – Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall, producers Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh and Quentin Tarantino, producers | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Bong Joon Ho – Parasite Martin Scorsese – The Irishman Todd Phillips – Joker Sam Mendes – 1917 Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker as Arthur Fleck / Joker Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory as Salvador Mallo Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Rick Dalton Adam Driver – Marriage Story as Charlie Barber Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Renée Zellweger – Judy as Judy Garland Cynthia Erivo – Harriet as Harriet Tubman Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story as Nicole Barber Saoirse Ronan – Little Women as Josephine "Jo" March Charlize Theron – Bombshell as Megyn Kelly |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Cliff Booth Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Fred Rogers Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes as Pope Benedict XVI Al Pacino – The Irishman as Jimmy Hoffa Joe Pesci – The Irishman as Russell Bufalino | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Laura Dern – Marriage Story as Nora Fanshaw Kathy Bates – Richard Jewell as Barbara "Bobi" Jewell Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit as Rosie Betzler Florence Pugh – Little Women as Amy March Margot Robbie – Bombshell as Kayla Pospisil |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Parasite – Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won; story by Bong Joon Ho Knives Out – Rian Johnson Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach 1917 – Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi; The Irishman – Steven Zaillian; Joker – Todd Phillips and Scott Silver; Little Women – Greta Gerwig; The Two Popes – Anthony McCarten; |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Toy Story 4 – Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – Dean DeBlois, Bradford Lewis and Bonnie Arnold I Lost My Body – Jérémy Clapin and Marc du Pontavice Klaus – Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh and Marisa Román Missing Link – Chris Butler, Arianne Sutner and Travis Knight | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Parasite (South Korea) in Korean – directed by Bong Joon Ho Corpus Christi (Poland) in Polish – directed by Jan Komasa Honeyland (North Macedonia) in Turkish and Macedonian – directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov Les Misérables (France) in French – directed by Ladj Ly Pain and Glory (Spain) in Spanish – directed by Pedro Almodóvar |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
American Factory – Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert The Cave – Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær The Edge of Democracy – Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris and Tiago Pavan For Sama – Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts Honeyland – Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska and Atanas Georgiev | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) – Carol Dysinger and Elena Andreicheva In the Absence – Yi Seung-Jun and Gary Byung-Seok Kam Life Overtakes Me – John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson St. Louis Superman – Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan Walk Run Cha-Cha – Laura Nix and Colette Sandstedt |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
The Neighbors' Window – Marshall Curry Brotherhood – Meryam Joobeur and Maria Gracia Turgeon Nefta Football Club – Yves Piat and Damien Megherbi Saria – Bryan Buckley and Matt Lefebvre A Sister – Delphine Girard | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Hair Love – Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver Dcera (Daughter) – Daria Kashcheeva Kitbull – Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson Mémorable – Bruno Collet and Jean-François Le Corre Sister – Siqi Song |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir Little Women – Alexandre Desplat Marriage Story – Randy Newman 1917 – Thomas Newman Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
"(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from Rocketman – Music by Elton John; lyrics by Bernie Taupin "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" from Toy Story 4 – Music and lyrics by Randy Newman "I'm Standing with You" from Breakthrough – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren "Into the Unknown" from Frozen 2 – Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez "Stand Up" from Harriet – Music and lyrics by Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Ford v Ferrari – Donald Sylvester Joker – Alan Robert Murray 1917 – Oliver Tarney and Rachael Tate Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Wylie Stateman Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Matthew Wood and David Acord | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
1917 – Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson Ad Astra – Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson and Mark Ulano Ford v Ferrari – Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow Joker – Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod Maitland Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler and Mark Ulano |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Production Design: Barbara Ling; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh The Irishman – Production Design: Bob Shaw; Set Decoration: Regina Graves Jojo Rabbit – Production Design: Ra Vincent; Set Decoration: Nora Sopková 1917 – Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales Parasite – Production Design: Lee Ha Jun; Set Decoration: Cho Won Woo | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
1917 – Roger Deakins The Irishman – Rodrigo Prieto Joker – Lawrence Sher The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Robert Richardson |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Bombshell – Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker Joker – Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou Judy – Jeremy Woodhead Maleficent: Mistress of Evil – Paul Gooch, Arjen Tuiten and David White 1917 – Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis and Rebecca Cole | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Little Women – Jacqueline Durran The Irishman – Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson Jojo Rabbit – Mayes C. Rubeo Joker – Mark Bridges Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Arianne Phillips |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
Ford v Ferrari – Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker Jojo Rabbit – Tom Eagles Joker – Jeff Groth Parasite – Yang Jin-mo | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|
1917'' – Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy Avengers: Endgame – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Matt Aitken and Dan Sudick The Irishman – Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser and Stephane Grabli The Lion King – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Elliot Newman Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach and Dominic Tuohy
Governors Awards The Academy held its 11th annual Governors Awards ceremony on October 27, 2019, during which the following awards were presented:
Honorary Awards David Lynch "For fearlessly breaking boundaries in pursuit of his singular cinematic vision."