Film Tourism: Greek connections at this year’s Oscar nominations

While Todd Phillips’ much-debated supervillain origin story and R-rated box-office smash Joker topped all films with 11 Academy Awards nominations, Martin Scorsese’s elegiac crime epic The Irishman, Quentin Tarantino’s 1960s Los Angeles fairy tale Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, and Sam Mendes’ World War I tale 1917 all trailed close behind with 10 nods apiece.

Those four were among the nine films nominated for best picture, in nominations announced on January 13 for the 92nd Academy Awards. The others were: Parasite, Little Women, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit, and Ford v Ferrari.

The 10 nominations for The Irishman tied the most for a Netflix film, following Roma last year. Scorsese (a one-time winner) was nominated for the best director for the ninth time. The film also won nods for Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and its de-aging special effects. Greek-American Ted Sarandos is the Chief Content Officer for Netflix.

Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood was also nominated in just about every category it was expected to, including Tarantino for directing and screenplay, best actor for Leonardo DiCaprio and best-supporting actor for Brad Pitt. One of the producers on the film, Georgia Kacandes, is of Greek descent.

Greek-French composer Alexandre Desplat was nominated for Best Original Score for Little Women. He has won two Academy Awards, for his musical scores to the films The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water, and received nine additional Academy Award nominations, including this year’s nod.

Honorary Greek citizen Tom Hanks also received a best-supporting actor nomination for his role as Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

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