Oscars 2020 The race is on for this year’s Academy Awards. Enjoy our glittering round-up of interviews, features and reviews South Korea’s Parasite takes top honours at OscarsDirector Bong Joon-ho triumphs in field that included Scorsese and Tarantino Celebrity with a cause: how Oscars dressing became a moral statementJoaquin Phoenix rewore his suit and Natalie Portman’s Dior cape was embroidered with names of female directors The Oscars diversity problem in chartsHow the Academy Awards fail to reflect the gender and racial balance of the US population Can the Oscars break the diversity deadlock?Sunday’s awards will again be dominated by male directors and white actors — and change is proving painfully slow The financiers who struck it rich on ‘Joker’Oscar-nominated movie was wildly profitable, but studio Warner Bros had to share spoils Alternative Oscars 2020: the films you think should winFT readers choose their own Academy Award winners — and review their favourites More from this Series Culture Call, the FT’s culture podcast, kicks off a new seasonGuests include film-maker Noah Baumbach, This American Life host Ira Glass, novelist Eimear McBride and podcaster Kaitlin Prest Why Hollywood still prefers the little womanDoes Greta Gerwig’s film really challenge the gender narrative? ‘Joker’ leads the pack in Oscar nominationsTarantino, Scorsese and Mendes among familiar names but women directors are snubbed once again Sam Mendes on the family story behind his war epic ‘1917’Made to look like one continuous shot, the film presented formidable challenges and has emerged as an Oscars frontrunner Scorsese, De Niro and a quartet of mob masterpiecesSome four decades on from Mean Streets, the incendiary pairing are still lighting up the screen in The Irishman Quentin Tarantino on seismic changes in Hollywood in 1969 and nowThe director’s starry new movie Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is a hit but he’s almost ready to quit film-making Antonio Banderas on playing Almodóvar, Pain and Glory and leaving HollywoodThe actor opens up about his relationship with the director, their new collaboration — and how a heart attack changed him Greta Gerwig, making her own way in the world‘Little Women’ completes the transformation of this actor turned director 1917 — Sam Mendes’ film is wildly cinematic but also deeply humanThe quagmire of northern France is the setting for this first world war epic Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is vibrant, sardonic and outrageously gorgeousSaoirse Ronan shines as the tomboyish lead sister in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel — with sly feminist subtexts Joaquin Phoenix gives his Joker a frightening intensityTodd Phillips’s triumphant film explores the origin story of the comic-book character Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver fractiously uncouple in Marriage StoryNoah Baumbach’s divorce drama also features scene-stealing turns from lawyers Laura Dern, Ray Liotta and Alan Alda Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood is Tarantino’s best and bravest movie since Pulp FictionLeonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star in a film that somehow transcends charges of tastelessness The Irishman — a Hoffa you can’t refuse from Scorsese, De Niro and PacinoReturn to the territory of Goodfellas and Casino is an epic and profound dance of good, evil and death Jojo Rabbit — oh, what a wacky warTaika Waititi’s larks-and-swastikas comedy aims to shatter taboos, but does so too politely Christian Bale is a hoot in the racing drama Le Mans ’66A fizzing account of Henry Ford Jr’s moment in motorsports history also starring Matt Damon FT readers: what film do you think should win an Oscar?Ahead of the Academy Awards 2020, we are gathering your own nominations and mini film reviews Renée Zellweger captures the voice and vim of Judy Garland in JudyRupert Goold’s film focuses on the singer’s run of London shows towards the end of her life
