Joker scores 11 Oscar Nominations including Best Actor & Best Picture

January 13th 2020, 4:15pm

Last week, Joaquin Phoenix snagged Best Actor at the Golden Globes for his role in THE HANGOVER director Todd Phillips' JOKER. Small potatoes. Today we learned that not only was Phoenix nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards, but the movie scored 11 nods including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and more!

Here's the list of all JOKER's nominations:

Best Picture

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Film Editing

Best Cinematography

Best Costume Design

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Best Original Score

Best Sound Editing

Best Sound Mixing

Phoenix said via a statement:

I feel honored and humbled to have been nominated by my fellow actors. The Academy's encouragement helped ignite and sustain my career and I am incredibly grateful for that support. I'd like to also congratulate my fellow nominees for being recognized for their inspiring performances that have enriched our art form.

The film was slapped with an R rating for "strong bloody violence, disturbing behavior, language, and brief sexual images." Here's the synopsis:

Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks — the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker.

You can check out the SCRIPT HERE.

Phoenix's co-stars include Robert De Niro as Murray Franklin, Zazie Beetz as Sophie Dumond, Frances Conroy as Penny Fleck, Brett Cullen as Thomas Wayne, Douglas Hodge as Alfred Pennyworth, and Dante Pereira-Olson as young Bruce Wayne. JOKER is now available on Blu-ray