Rex’s First Oscar List
Rex Okpodu, LemonWade’s Oscar maven, has looked over the potential candidates for February’s Academy Awards and come up with these potential nominees to vie for the five slots in each category:
Best Picture:
Once Upon a time in Hollywood
The Irishman
JoJo Rabbit
Marriage Story
The Two Popes
Parasite
Little Women
Waves
The Farewell
Ford v Ferrari
Best Director:
Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story
Fernando Meirelles – The Two Popes
Bong Joon-Ho – Parasite
Best Actor:
Adam Driver – Marriage Story
Jonathan Price – The Two Popes
Robert De Niro – The Irishman
Joaquin Phoenix – The Joker
Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory
Michael B. Jordan – Just Mercy
Best Actress:
Renee Zelwegger – Judy
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story
Lupita Nwong’o – US
Charlize Theron – Bombshell
Cynthia Erivo – Harriet
Akwafina _ The Farewell
Best Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Tom Hanks – Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Al Pacino – The Irishman
Anthony Hopkins – Two Popes
Joe Pesci – The Irishman
Best Supporting Actress
Laura Dern – Marriage Story
Margot Robbie – Bombshell
Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers
Shuzhen Zhao – The Farewell
Maggie Smith – Downton Abbey
The Screenplays:
Original:
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho & Jin Won Han)
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodovar)
Adapted:
The Two Popes (Anthony McCarten)
The Irishman (Steven Zaillian)Joker (Todd Phillips & Scott Silver)
Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria)
Best International Feature: Five from this shortlist
Parasite (South Korea)
Pain and Glory (Spain)
Les Miserables (France)
Atlantics (Senegal)
Tel Aviv on Fire (Luxembourg)
Papicha (Algeria)
The Traitor (Italy)
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao (Brazil)
Our Mothers (Belgium)
It Must Be Heaven (Palestine)
