2020-01-23 The Hollywood Reporter

Aw ar d s S p e c i a l

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 2 JANUARY 2020 AWARDS 1

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Best Picture

12 Echoing a Madman’s

State of Mind

For Todd Phillips’ Joker, supervising

sound editor Alan Robert Murray

based his choices on the unraveling

of Arthur Fleck.

17 Best Picture

What does it take to become a best

picture nominee? The producers

behind the nine films vying for the

top prize reveal untold stories

from their sets, their biggest hurdles

and thoughts on the season’s most

controversial events.

36 Living on The Edge

Brazilian director Petra Costa,

earning her first career Oscar

nomination, explains why Americans

should view her Netflix documen-

tary The Edge of Democracy as a

warning shot.

38 Personal Conflict on a

Global Scale

Class warfare and culture clashes

fuel the emotional fires at the center

of the international film race, with

five films telling universal and explo-

sive stories.

Simply the best!

Top row, from left:

1917 , Ford v Ferrari

and The Irishman;

middle row, from left:

Jojo Rabbit, Joker

and Little Women;

bottom row, from

left: Marriage

Story, Once Upon a

Time in Hollywood

and Parasite.

17

8 Female Artists and the
‘Club of Geniuses’
With Little Women, one of two
films capturing artistic gender bias
onscreen, Greta Gerwig, like author
Louisa May Alcott before her, “seeks
to expand our notions of which sto-
ries deserve to be told.”

10 A Post-Nomination Boost
for Some, Blues for Others
While the snubbed lick their wounds
after the noms, THR’s awards analyst
surveys the latest moves affecting
contenders’ fates.