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Oscars 2020: Brad Pitt wins best supporting actor – live!

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Follow all the action from Hollywood as we find out who’s wearing what, who’s winning what and whose acceptance speech is dropping jaws


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Now for best animated feature. Beanie Feldstein just introduced Mindy Kaling. Is that how this is going to work without a host? A person announces a person who announces a winner? That seems like at least one step too many.

We already have a news story about Brad Pitt winning. Not that anyone was expecting it or anything.

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Oscars 2020: Joker leads pack – but Academy just trumps Baftas for diversity

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  • Joker nominated for 11 awards
  • 1917, The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood up for 10
  • Little Women and Parasite take six nominations
  • Cynthia Erivo sole non-white acting nominee
  • Oscar nominations: full list for 2020

Less than a week since Bafta’s strikingly white and male awards shortlist met with widespread criticism – including from the organisation’s own chief executive – the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released a set of nominations whose small concessions to diversity seem striking by contrast.

Cynthia Erivo is nominated for best actress for her role in a biopic of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, and Parasite – Bong Joon-ho’s acclaimed South Korean black comedy – is up for six awards, including best director and best picture.

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Golden Globes: who will win and who should win the film awards? | Peter Bradshaw

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Will The Irishman clean up? Or Marriage Story? And how will Once Upon a Time in Hollywood fare? Peter Bradshaw offers a lowdown of the main categories and his predictions and omissions

The best film category is dominated – just like everything else in the cultural conversation around movies – by Netflix, which has the majority of the nominees: Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story and Fernando Meirelles’s The Two Popes.

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