{"id":52934,"date":"2020-01-13T16:13:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=52934"},"modified":"2020-01-13T16:13:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:13:18","slug":"oscars-2020-nominations-scarlett-johansson-enters-elite-company-adam-sandler-snubbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/oscars-2020-nominations-scarlett-johansson-enters-elite-company-adam-sandler-snubbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2020 nominations: Scarlett Johansson enters elite company, Adam Sandler snubbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By GABE FRIEDMAN<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 The 2020 Oscar nominations are out, and unsurprisingly, they\u2019re already causing a firestorm on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The list, announced early Monday morning, didn\u2019t do much to quell longstanding concerns that the awards have issues with race and gender equality. Only one actor of color was nominated \u2014 Cyntha Erivo, for her role in \u201cHarriet\u201d \u2014 and the best director category is once again all male, despite the fact that Greta Gerwig\u2019s adaptation of \u201cLittle Women\u201d was a massive critical and commercial success.<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish snub of the year goes to \u201cUncut Gems\u201d \u2014 the Diamond District thriller by the Jewish Safdie brothers, starring Adam Sandler, which earned rave reviews. The film, one of the most Jewish mainstream flicks in years, earned no nominations, not even for Sandler, who some critics had picked to win the best actor award.<\/p>\n<p>The full nominations list does include other Jewish names who have a decent chance of bringing home some hardware. <strong>Scarlett Johansson<\/strong> is the first actress in over a decade to be nominated in two different categories, and only the 11th ever. Sam Mendes, who already won big at the Golden Globes, is a strong contender in the director category for \u201c1917,\u201d which garnered several other nominations as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the rest of the Jewish nominees:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Mendes<\/strong><br \/>\nBest Director, \u201c1917\u201d<br \/>\nThe renowned director\u2019s latest is set in World War I and has been lauded for its cinematography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joaquin Phoenix<\/strong><br \/>\nBest Actor, \u201cJoker\u201d<br \/>\nThe acclaimed actor, born to a Jewish mother, is likely a favorite to win for his gritty, dark performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scarlett Johansson<\/strong><br \/>\nBest Actress, \u201cMarriage Story\u201d; Best Supporting Actress, \u201cJojo Rabbit\u201d<br \/>\nIn Taika Waititi\u2019s anti-Nazi satire \u201cJojo Rabbit,\u201d Johansson plays a German mother who hides a Jewish child in her home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taika Waititi<\/strong><br \/>\nBest Adapted Screenplay, \u201cJojo Rabbit\u201d<br \/>\nWaititi, a Maori Jew from New Zealand, said in the film\u2019s production notes that he experienced prejudice growing up for his dual identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noah Baumbach<\/strong><br \/>\nBest Original Screenplay, \u201cMarriage Story\u201d<br \/>\nBaumbach partly based the film on his real-life divorce from Jewish actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Oscars%202020%20nominations%3A%20Scarlett%20Johansson%20enters%20elite%20company%2C%20Adam%20Sandler%20snubbed\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7139],"tags":[1574,8790,8795,8788,749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52935,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52934\/revisions\/52935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}