The supervillain origin story has again squeezed out a clutch of much better films, but this isn’t the shabbiest shortlist I’ve seen
•Oscar nominations: full list for 2020
The Oscar nominations arrive, signalling almost the final iteration of that strange awardsthink consensus: at once exasperating and eerie, choices which somehow emerge as if from a single head. The raucous box-office smash Joker, the origins story for Batman’s arch-villain, leads the field with 11 nominations, and 10 each for Sam Mendes’s first world war spectacular 1917, Martin Scorsese’s wintry mob drama The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino’s LA black
comedy Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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