Four DC Movies Have Won Oscars: The Joker Is In All Of Them

Todd Phillips’ Joker movie is now an Oscar winner – and it’s also now the fourth live-action DC movie to win an Oscar and the fourth one to have the Joker in it. Joker’s long road to the Oscars was an interesting one. Its place among the movies releasing within the DC Extended Universe was questionable at first (since it’s entirely separate from that franchise), and then later it spawned a controversy that resulted in increased security at movie theaters upon its release.

In the end, despite Joker receiving such divided reviews, it became much more successful than people thought it would. On an approximate budget of $55 million, Joker grossed over $1 billion worldwide, thus becoming not only the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time but also the first R-rated movie to cross that threshold. On top of that, Joker was nominated for 11 Oscars, in addition to being nominated (and winning) at various other awards shows. Although that didn’t tie for the 14-nomination record, it was the leading film of the year at the ceremony.

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Joker has now won an Oscar for Best Original Score (by composer Hildur Guðnadóttir) and Best Actor (for Joaquin Phoenix) at the 92nd Academy Awards, thereby making it the fourth DC movie to ever win an Oscar in a competitive category.

Joker is now the fourth DC movie to win an Oscar; the other three being Tim Burton’s Batman (Best Art Direction), Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (Best Sound Editing, Best Supporting Actor), and David Ayer’s Suicide Squad (Best Makeup and Hairstyling). What’s interesting about all these movies, aside from the fact that they’re all DC movies, is that they all had the Joker in them. Jack Nicholson starred in Batman, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (which he won posthumously for), and Jared Leto in Suicide Squad. While Nicholson and Leto’s performances didn’t contribute to their movies’ Oscar wins, it’s still interesting that the only movies to win at the ceremonies all had the same villain in them.

It’s certainly worth noting that Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie did receive a Special Achievement Award at the Oscars for visual effects in 1979, but that wouldn’t necessarily count to the Oscar wins because it was a non-competitive category, unlike the rest. At the moment, only seven superhero movies have won at the Oscars. In addition to the aforementioned four, the other three are Spider-Man 2 (Best Visual Effects), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Best Animated Film), and Black Panther (Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design).

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