Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker was awarded Best Picture from the Phoenix Film Critics Society 2019 Awards.
The current awards season leading up to the 92nd Oscars ceremony is in full swing, and Joker continues to pick up some more trophies. Now, PFCS has awarded Todd Phillips’ film their Best Picture honor. Joker won against nine other films nominated for PFCS’ Best Picture category. Those nine other Best Picture nominees include 1917, Avengers: Endgame, JoJo Rabbit, Knives Out, Marriage Story, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, The Irishman and The Two Popes.
Joaquin Phoenix also won PFCS’ Best Actor in a Leading Role award, continuing his momentum as a frontrunner in the category alongside the likes of Adam Driver in Marriage Story and Antonio Banderas in Pain and Glory among other performances.
Joker continues to build momentum throughout this awards season following its release back in October. The film already made the Oscars’ shortlists in two categories and is widely considered a contender for a Best Picture nomination while Joaquin Phoenix is also expected by many awards prognosticators to receive a nomination and perhaps win in this year’s highly-competitive Best Actor race.
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Here is the 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.
Joker is now available to own on Digital HD and will be available to own on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD on January 7, 2020.
Source: Phoenix Film Critics Society
