It was announced early on Tuesday that Joker has earned 11 BAFTA nominations, including Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Film.
Over the weekend, Joker won two impressive awards at the 2020 Golden Globes. Joaquin Phoenix took home Best Actor in a Drama while composer Hildur Guðnadóttir won Best Score. The awards season continues and it appears Joker isn’t going anywhere.
On Tuesday, the nominations for the 2020 BAFTAs were announced. Joker ended up leading the pack with 11 nominations. The Joaquin Phoenix-led Joker film is up for:
- Best Film
- Best Film Music
- Best Actor
- Best Editing
- Best Sound
- Best Cinematography
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Direction
- Best Production Design
- Best Make Up and Hair
- Best Casting
Joker director Todd Phillips celebrated the plethora of BAFTA nominations on Instagram. You can read what Todd Phillips had to say below.
“Wow. Big news this morning from ??. What an incredible honor (honour!?) for the significant recognition Joker received from @bafta across the board. Recently, when Joaquin and I were in the UK, the love we felt for Joker was palpable and I just want to thank my British colleagues for connecting with the film on a cellular level. A sincere “well done” to my wonderful cast and crew who worked tirelessly to bring this film to the big screen. I also want to congratulate my fellow nominees, it is an honour (I’m going with honour!) to be in their company.”
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Do you think Joker will win Best Film at the BAFTAs? Will Joaquin Phoenix take home Best Actor? Comment below!
Here is the official synopsis for Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker:
Director Todd Phillips’ Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Douglas Hodge, Marc Maron, Josh Pais, and Shea Whigham. The DC Films movie is not part of the DC Extended Universe, and seems to play into Warner Bros.’s interests of making creator-driven superhero movies over necessarily building a hyper-connected shared universe… At least for the time being.
Joker is now available on 4K UHD, Blu-Ray, DVD, and digital.
The BAFTAs take place February 2nd in the UK.
Source: Instagram
