The Last Five Oscars, A Timeline
2015 - The 87th Academy Awards
Best Actor
Eddy Redmayne, The Theory of Everything, and his portrayal of Stephen Hawking.
Other nominees: Steve Carell, Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Michael Keaton.
Best Actress
Julianne Moore, Still Alice, and her portrayal of Alice Howland, a woman suffering from Alzheimer's.
Other nominees: Marion Cotillard, Felicity Jones, Rosamund Pike and Reese Witherspoon.
Best Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), a film starring Michael Keaton as Birdman, a faded Hollywood Actor.
Other nominees: Richard Linklater, Bennett Miller, Wes Anderson and Morten Tyldum.
Aside from Alejandro, who is Mexican, in all five of these categories, none of the nominations have any people of color or black people. This was the year that #OscarsSoWhite trended.
Best Supporting Actor
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash, and his role as Terence Fletcher, an abusive college bandleader.
Other nominees: Robert Duvall, Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton and Mark Ruffalo.
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood, and her portrayal of Olivia Evans, a divorced mother in a coming of age film where filming spanned from 2001-2013.
Other nominees: Laura Dern, Keira Knightley, and Meryl Streep.
Selma is a historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay, a black woman and was the first black female director to have her film nominated for Best Picture.
Best Picture
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)- Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and james W. Skotchdopole.
Other nominees: American Sniper, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything and Whiplash.
American Sniper a biographical war drama, has been met with controversy as Chris Kyle, the real person the film, for nationalistic propaganda and glorification of murder.
2016 - The 88th Academy Awards
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant for his portrayal of Hugh Glass, an historical frontiersman and explorer.
Other nominees: Bryan Cranston, Matt Damon, Michael Fassbender and Eddie Redmayne.
Best Actress
Brie Larson, Room, as Joy "Ma" Newsome, a mother who has been held captive and raised a son born in captivity and escape.
Other nominees: Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlotte Rampling and Saoirse Ronan.
Best Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant, a Western action-adventure drama based around Hugo Glass' experience in 1823.
Other nominees: Adam McKay, George Miller, Lenny Abrahamson and Tom McCarthy.
Similarly to last year, Alejandro is the only POC to nominated across all these singular categories.
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies, and his portrayal of Rudolf Abel, a Soviet intelligence officer spy.
Other nominees: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Mark Ruffalo, and Sylvester Stallone.
Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl, and her portrayal of Gerda Wegener, a Danish painter.
Other nominees: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams and Kate Winslet.
Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road has been labeled as a feminist hero as her character leads a group women across the desert to safety.
Best Picture
Spotlight- Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust. This film is a biographical drama about The Boston Globe's newspaper "Spotlight" team and its' investigation into the cases of systemic child abuse in Boston by Roman Catholic priests.
Other nominees: The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant and Room.
Eddie Redmayne's role in The Danish Girl has received backlash as he, a cisgender man is playing a transgender woman. In 2013, Jared Leto played as a transwoman with HIV in Dallas Buyers Club and ended up winning Best Supporting Actor at the 86th Academy Awards.
2017 - The 89th Academy Awards
Best Actor
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea, as Lee Chandler, a loner who is chosen to care for his nephew after his brother dies.
Other nominees: Andrew Garfield, La La Land, Viggo Mortensen and Denzel Washington.
Best Actress
Emma Stone, La La Land, for her role as Mia Dolan, a struggling actress hoping to make it big in the industry.
Other nominees: Isabelle Huppert, Ruth Negga, Natalie Portman, and Meryl Streep.
Best Director
Damien Chazelle, for La La Land, a musical romantic drama focusing on the relationship between Sebastian and Mia who want to make it big in Hollywood.
Other nominees: Denis Villeneuve, Mel Gibson, Kenneth Lonergan and Barry Jenkins.
This was a better year in terms of representation, with Viola and Mahershala taking the Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Denzel's nomination for Best Actor, Ruth Negga (Ethiopian) for Best Actress, and Barry Jenkins for Best Director. Barry Jenkins also won for Best Adapted Screenplay. Dev Patel was the second Indian actor to be nominated for an Oscar.
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight, for his role as Juan, a drug dealer who becomes a father figure to Chiron.
Other nominees: Jeff Bridges, Lucas Hedges, Dev Patel, Michael and Shannon.
Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis, Fences, as Rose Maxson, a mother in 1950s who has to deal with growing tension between her husband and son over his football career.
Other nominees: naomie Harris, Nicole Kidman, Octavia Spencer, and Michelle Williams.
Winners: Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner.
Other nominees: Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion and Manchester by the Sea.
Best Picture
This year had one of the biggest snafus for an Oscars Ceremony! The Oscars made headlines as they mistakenly announced La La Land for winning Best Picture when instead Moonlight claimed this honor.
Moonlight is a coming of age film drama separated into three parts about the story of Chiron, a black gay youth growing up with an abusive mother in Miami. This film is semi-autobiographical and has been praised for its portrayal of identity, sexuality, and adolescence. This film is also the second lowest grossing film besides The Hurt Locker, to win Best Picture.
Arrival
Budget: 47 million
Box Office: 203.4 million
Hacksaw Ridge
Budget: 40 million
Box Office: 180.4 million
Fences
Budget: 24 million
Box Office: 64.4 million
Hell or High Water
Budget: 12 million
Box Office: 37.9 million
Moonlight had small budget of between 1.5-4 million against other Best Picture nominees, with only a Box Office gross of 65.3 million dollars.
Hidden Figures
Budget: 25 million
Box Office: 236 million
Lion
Budget: 12 million
Box Office: 140.3 million
La La Land
Budget: 30 million
Box Office: 446.1 million
Manchester by the Sea
Budget: 9 million
Box Office: 79 million
Moonlight is the first film by an all black cast and first LGBT+ film to win Best Picture.
To think about: Does the 'exception' make the rule?
2018 - The 90th Academy Awards
Best Actor
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour, as historical figure Winston Churchill during May 1940.
Other nominees: Timothée Chalamet, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Kaluuya and Denzel Washington.
Best Actress
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, where she plays Mildred Hayes who is trying to get attention for the rape and murder of her daughter.
Other nominees: Sally Hawkins, Margot Robbie, Saoirse Ronan and Meryl Streep.
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water, a romance fantasy drama set in 1962 surrounding the love between a mute cleaner and a captured humanoid creature at a government facility.
Other nominees: Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig, and Paul Thomas Anderson.
Guillermo Del Toro is a Mexican filmmaker, and Jordan Peele's Get Out earned him the honor of being the first African American winner for Best Original Screenplay. Rachel Morrison is the first woman to ever get nominated for Best Cinematography.
Best Supporting Actor
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, as Officer Jason Dixon, a racist, violent alcoholic.
Other nominees: Willem Dafoe, Woody Harrelson, Richard Jenkins and Christopher Plummer.
Best Supporting Actress
Allison Janney, I, Tonya as LaVona Golden, Tonya Harding's abusive mother.
Other nominees: Mary J. Blige, Lesley Manville, Laura Metcalf, and Octavia Spencer.
Best Picture
The Shape of Water, the winners being Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale.
Other nominees: Call Me by Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Phandom Thread, The Post and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Jordan Peele's Acceptance Speech for Get Out
Greta Gerwig become the 5th female woman director to get Best Director nomination
Mary J. Blige was the first person to ever be nominated for both acting and songwriting in the same year
Jordan Peele's Get Out is the first Black director and writer have his debut (first) film reach box office success of 100 million dollars
2019 - The 91st Academy Awards
Best Actor
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody, where he played the frontman of the band Queen, Freddie Mercury.
Other nominees: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Willem Dafoe, Viggo Mortensen.
Best Actress
Olivia Colman, The Favourite, where she played Queen Anne in a black comedy where two cousins are trying to gain her favor.
Other nominees: Yalitza Aparicio, Glenn Close, Lady Gaga and Melissa McCarthy.
Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón, for Roma, a Mexican-American drama set in 1970-71 following the life of a middle class family in Mexico City.
Other nominees: Spike Lee, Pawel Pawlikowski, Yorgos Lanthimos and Adam McKay.
Alfonso Cuarón's Roma became the first Mexican entry to win Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the first foreign language film to win Best Director. Yalitza Aparicio is the first indigenous American woman and second Mexican woman to receive a Best Actress nomination. Ali is the first black man to have two Oscars for the same category.
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali in Green Book, a biographical film where Ali playing Don Shirley, a jazz pianist and composer.
Other nominees: Adam Driver, Sam Elliott, Richard E. Grant, and Sam Rockwell.
Best Supporting Actress
Regina King in If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers, a woman trying to clear the name of her wrongfully convicted lover.
Other nominees: Amy Adams, Marina de Tavira, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz.
Best Picture
Green Book won Best Picture, the awards going to Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga. Green Book is a biographical film set in 1962, centered around Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a black pianist who is about to go on a tour in the Deep South and hires Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) as a protector and driver as they encounter instances of segregation.
Other Nominees: Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Roma, A Star is Born and Vice.
Green Book winning Best Picture has met controversy over tropes of being a "white savior" film, especially considering its fellow nominees, Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman.
Spike Lee (left), who won his first Oscar ever at this years Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman, and his earlier films such as Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, 4 Little Girls (a documentary) and She's Gotta Have It have been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry whose mission is to make sure that "works to ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America's film heritage".
2020 - The 92nd Academy Awards
Best Actor
Joaquin Phoenix in Joker, for his portrayal as Arthur Fleck/ The Joker, serving as an origin story to the famous comic book villain.
Other nominees: Antonio Banderas, Leonardo DiCaprio, Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce.
Best Actress
Renée Zellweger in Judy, a biographical film covering the last year of Judy Garland, a famous singer and actress.
Other nominees: Cynthia Erivo, Scarlett Johansson, Saoirse Ronan, and Charlize Theron.
Best Director
Bong Joon-ho for Parasite, a film about a poor family, the Kims, who infiltrate the rich Park family through lying about their credentials.
Other nominees: Martin Scorsese, Todd Phillips, Sam Mendes and Quentin Tarantino.
Bong Joon-ho's Parasite set records, for being the first non-English language film to win Best Picture. He is the second person to get 4 Oscars in a single ceremony since Walt Disney and the first to do it for a single film.
Best Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Cliff Booth, the driver and bodyguard of Rick Dalton, a waning Hollywood actor.
Other nominees: Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.
Best Supporting Actress
Laura Dern in Marriage Story, playing Nora Fanshaw, a cut throat lawyer serving as a divorce attorney.
Other nominees: Kathy Bates, Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh and Margot Robbie.
Despite Parasite breaking records for Asian representation and excellence, no actors or actresses were nominated individually for their performances. This is similar to Slumdog Millionaire (2008), a movie dominated by an Indian cast who took home Best Picture yet none of the actors or actresses received the same individual recognition.
Winners: Kwak Sin-ae and Bong Joon-ho.
Other nominees: Ford v Ferrari, the Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Little Women, Marriage Story, 1917, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
No female directors such as Lulu Wang's The Farewell and Greta Gerwig's Little Women, despite the critical acclaim received from other award shows. Cynthia Erivo was the only black actor nominated this year for her role as Harriet Tubman.
The Exclusion of The Farewell
Lulu Wang's The Farewell, is a family drama based off of Wang's personal life, with the plot centering around the news of Billi (Awkwafina), an Asian American woman, dealing with the cancer diagnosis her grandmother, Nai Nai who still resides in China. The film has been praised for its take on the Asian American immigrant experience and the contrast between values and cultures. Awkwafina became the first woman of Asian descent to win a Golden Globe in any lead actress film category, and expanding her range beyond her other comedic roles.
Lupita Ny'ongo in Us
Another performance that was considered a snub was Lupita's performance as Red/Adelaide Wilson in Jordan Peele's horror movie Us. Although horror films as a genre have been typically snubbed by The Academy, Lupita's commitment and ability to play two completely different characters felt deserving of her nomination. Funnily enough, in the Oscars opening performance by Janelle Monae, references to Us and Midsommar (another horror movie) were made.
People and Films that were left out in this years' awards
Greta Gerwig, Best Director, Little Women
Marielle Heller, Best Director, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Jennifer Lopez, Best Supporting Actress, Hustlers
Taron Egerton, Best Actor, Rocketman
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Source: https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/movies-snubs-oscars-2020/