The Oscars this year saw Netflix stamping authority in the entertainment world as it gave Hollywood studios a run as a full-blown Oscars force in the entertainment world.
On Tuesday at the Oscars, Netflix docked fifteen (15) Academy Award Nominations. Netflix stamped its authority by receiving ten (10) nominations with Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, Coen Brothers’ The Battle of Buster Scruggs gave Netflix three (3) nominations while other short documentaries gave Netflix two (2) other nominations which gives rise to the fifteen (15) nominations recorded at the Oscars this year.
The fifteen (15) nominations raked in by Netflix this year is equal to the total nominations that had ever been received previously at the Oscars. The fact that the online streamer got nominations which are equal with all its previous lifetime nominations in just one year shows how far they had gone in the entertainment world.
In terms of distributorship, Netflix 2019 equals the records of Fox Searchlight with each having fifteen (15) Nominations each. Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Isle of Dogs and The Favourite boosted the distributions of Netflix in 2019.
The Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Picture closely followed Netflix and Fox Searchlight by bagging eleven (11) Nominations, eight from Vice and three (3) from If Baale Street Could Talk. They were the big winners among indie distributors which are not affiliated with a studio.
The nominations received in terms of distributorship when combine with it main studio Bohemians Rhapsody bring Fox to a total nominations as an independent company to twenty (20).
Seventeen (17) Nominations goes to Disney and its various labels and Universal. These nominations are combined efforts of all its studios and its specialty division Focus.
The position of Fox and Disney at the Oscars this year will bring them to total nominations of 37 by the time of the Academy Awards Ceremony, if their expected merger talks are concluded in the next few weeks as expected.
A breakdown of the nominations received by Disney goes thus; seven (7) nominations for Marvel’s Black Panther, the first superhero in history to become a best-picture contender and four (4) nominations for Mary Poppins Returns.
In the animation picture competition, Disney’s Pixar Incredible 2 and Walt Disney Animation’s Ralph Breaks the Internet are great animation movies to watch out for at the Oscars.
The nine (9) nominations received by Universal came from Green Book and FiIrst Man which bagged five (5) and four (4) respectively. Also BlacKkKlansman and Mary Queen gave Specialty division Focus Feature six (6) and Two (2) nominations respectively.
Warner Bros got their nine (9) nominations from A Star Is Born who bagged eight (8) nominations while Ready Player One got one (1) nomination.
Sony films received five (5) nominations in total, by getting four (4) from The Wife, Capernaum and Never Look Away and one (1) nomination from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
A24, Neon and CBS Films gave one (1) nomination each to Amazon Studios to receive a total of three (3) nominations.
