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Oscars 2020 Wrap-Up

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History was made at the 92nd Academy Awards, as Bong Joon-Ho's became to first non-English film to win Best Picture, with the film also winning the awards for Best Director, Best International Film, and Best Original Screenplay. There were very few surprises in the rest of the major categories, as won Best Actor for , Renée Zellweger winning Best Actress for Judy, winning Best Supporting Actor for Upon a Time in Hollywood, and won Best Supporting Actress for . Rounding out the wins in the major categories was taking home Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit.

When it came to my predictions, I ended up correctly choosing 15 out of the 24 categories, which is a relatively average result for me. One thing that my choices was that this was the first year in a while I didn't get to see the nominated short films beforehand and I also never saw any of the nominated documentaries. There were also a few unexpected wins, such as 1917 winning Best Visual Effects over films such as and and there was a rare in the, soon to be merged, sound categories, with Ford v Ferrari winning for Sound Editing and 1917 winning for Sound Mixing.

The Oscars ceremony itself again decided to go hostless, save for an opening monologue by Steve Martin and . One notable surprise during the ceremony was Eminem appearing to perform his 2002 Oscar-winning song “Lose Yourself,” which seems to be him making up for the fact that he never showed up when the song was actually nominated. The ceremony also had a very upbeat opening number by singer Janelle Monae, which featured the disturbing image of dancing Jokers. This year's Best Song Oscar went to Elton John and Bernie Taupin for their song “I'm Going to Me Again,” from the biopic .

Well, that wraps up this wrap up of the 92nd Academy Awards. Until next year!

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