![]() ![]() ![]() Whereas De Niro’s performance is deliberately indebted to Brando’s, the whole point of Phoenix’s Joker is that he’s a completely different entity from Heath Ledger’s Dark Knight villain, which earned the actor a posthumous Oscar for best supporting actor in 2009. Marlon Brando won best actor in 1973 for playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather, and Robert De Niro was named best supporting actor two years later for playing a younger Vito in The Godfather, Part II. If Phoenix wins, which he almost certainly will, it will mark the second time two actors have won Oscars for playing the same character. Todd Phillips’s dark, gritty origin story for the comic-book villain pulled a total of 11 nominations, including best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, best original score, best film editing and the inevitable best actor nod for Joaquin Phoenix. Laugh, clown, laugh: the nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced on Monday (January 13), and Joker leads the pack. ![]()
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