Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, which shot on locations in and around Prague in the summer of 2018, has been nominated for a total of six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, and Supporting Actress (Scarlett Johansson) as nominations were revealed in a ceremony broadcast live from Los Angeles this morning.
Waititi’s film, which opened to rather lukewarm reviews stateside back in October, will hit cinemas across the Czech Republic from next Thursday, January 23.
Jojo Rabbit also received nominations for Best Editing (Tom Eagles), Best Costume Design (Mayes C. Rubeo), and Best Production Design.
The Production Design nomination in particular is a huge score for the Czech team behind Jojo Rabbit’s sets in Prague, with Set Decorator Nora Sopková officially listed as an Oscar nominee alongside head Production Designer Ra Vincent.
With acting nominations for both Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story, Johansson becomes the first actor or actress since Cate Blanchett in 2007 (Elizabeth: The Golden Age and I’m Not There) with multiple Oscar nominations in the same year.
Though not a favorite to win, Jojo Rabbit will compete against 1917, Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, Parasite, Marriage Story, Little Women, and Joker for Best Picture.
Waititi stands a better chance of winning for his screenplay for Jojo Rabbit, adapted from Christine Leunens’s book Caging Skies, competing against The Irishman (Steven Zallian), Joker (Todd Phillips & Scott Silver), Little Women (Greta Gerwig), and The Two Popes (Anthony McCarten).
Jojo Rabbit isn’t the only film with roots in the Czech Republic to be nominated for an Academy Award today.
The Czech short Dcera (Daughter), made by Daria Kashcheeva while a student at Prague’s FAMU, has also scored a 2020 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film.
The Czech feature The Painted Bird, however – which was shortlisted as one of ten finalists for the Best International Feature Oscar last month – didn’t make the final cut, as Poland’s Corpus Christi, France’s Les Miserables, North Macedonia’s Honeyland, Spain’s Pain and Glory, and South Korea’s Parasite (the presumed favorite) came out as the final nominees.
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One of the most overrated movies I have seen. If your going to take such a cavalier attitude towards the Holocaust you should make sure you’re movie is funny. Waititi seems in director jail anyway these days.