2020 Oscar Winners

Joker kept genre from being shut out at the 2020 Academy Awards.

The Best Actor Award went to Joaquin Phoenix. In the process he became the second person to win an Oscar for playing comic book villain The Joker. Heath Ledger was the first, who posthumously won for playing Joker in The Dark Knight

The composer of Joker’s score, Hildur Gudnadóttir also won an Oscar. In accepting the award she said, “To the girls, to the women, to the mothers, to the daughters who hear the music bubbling within, please speak up. We need to hear your voices.”

The full list of winners follows the jump.

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2020 SAG Awards Winners

At the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony on January 19, genre standouts Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) won SAG Awards for their respective film and television performances.

Genre also dominated the stunt awards, with Avengers: Endgame receiving Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture, and Game of Thrones claiming Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series.

The full list of 2020 SAG Awards winners follows the jump:

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