The 2020 Oscars winners have been officially announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2020's awards season was shorter than usual, with the Oscars and Golden Globes (the first major film and TV awards show in any given year) only taking place a month apart. This was also the second year in a row the Academy decided to go with a hostless show, after earning a warmer reception and an uptick in ratings from their previous Oscars ceremony in 2019.

Compared to the tumultous run-up to last year's ceremony (where the Academy kept making one faux pas after another), this year's lead-in was much calmer overall. Of course, it still had its fair share of issues, from the Academy's failure to nominate a single woman for Best Director to the general lack of diversity among the nominated films when it comes to race and gender. A number of the more prominent snubbed movies and artists would go on to garner recognition at last night's 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards instead, including The Farewell and Uncut Gems. In a sense, that served to balance the scales a little heading into the Oscars broadcast.

The full list of 2020 Oscars winners has now been unveiled. In a surprising but welcome turn, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho's Parasite took home the Oscars for Best Picture and Director (making it the first ever non-english language film to win Best Picture), in addition to winning for International Feature Film and Original Screenplay. Sam Mendes' WWI thriller 1917, which was favored to win Best Picture heading into Oscar night, also took home multiple trophies for Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, and Roger Deakins' Cinematography. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Ford v. Ferrari similarly landed a pair of wins, as did Joker, taking the prizes for Best Actor (marking Joaquin Phoenix's first win) and Score. Altogether, the Academy recognized several movies in both the technical and non-technical categories over the course of the Oscar broadcast.

Best Picture


  • Ford v. Ferrari
  • The Irishman
  • Jojo Rabbit
  • Joker
  • Little Women
  • Marriage Story
  • 1917
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  • WINNER: Parasite


Best Director


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


Best Actor


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


Best Actress


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