Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Todd Phillips. It stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker and provides an alternative origin story for the character. Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Bill Camp, Shea Whigham, and Marc Maron appear in supporting roles. The movie was released to mixed reviews, with many critics criticizing the film’s dark tone and portrayal of mentally ill people. It earned over $1 billion at the U.S. box office, making it the 6th highest-grosser of the year so far.
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Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Todd Phillips, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Silver. It stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker and provides an alternative origin story for the character. Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Bill Camp, Shea Whigham, and Marc Maron appear in supporting roles. Joker premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2019, where it won the Golden Lion. It was released in the United States on October 4, 2019. It grossed over USD 1 billion, the first and only R-rated film to do so, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2019. At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film earned a leading 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning Best Actor for Phoenix and Best Original Score for Hildur Guðnadóttir. The film polarized critics, with the dark tone, portrayal of mental illness, and handling of violence divided opinion and generated concerns of inspiring real-world violence; the movie theater where the 2012 Aurora, Colorado mass shooting occurred during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises refused to show it. Joker is the first live-action theatrical Batman film to receive an R-rating from the Motion Picture Association. It is the 31st- Highest-grossed film of all time during its theatrical run. It has received numerous accolades, including the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award ceremonies. It also won at the Golden Globes and the BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Soundtrack for a Motion Picture.
The movie was released to mixed reviews, with many critics criticizing the film’s dark tone and portrayal of mentally ill people. It became a major box office success and set records for an October release. It earned over $1 billion at the U.S. box office, making it the 6th highest-grosser of the year so far and the 11th-highest grossing Batman film ever. It received a BAFTA award for Best Picture and Best Director, as well as a Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Todd Phillips and Best Screenplay for Scott Silver, and two BAFTAs for Phillips and Silver for their work on the screenplay. The plot loosely adapts plot elements from Batman: The Killing Joke and TheDark Knight Returns. In 1981, party clown and aspiring stand-up comedian Arthur Fleck lives with his mother, Penny, in Gotham City. Arthur suffers from a medical disorder that causes him to laugh at inappropriate times, depending on social services for medication. Arthur pursues a relationship with his neighbor, single mother Sophie Dumond. Arthur is beaten by three drunken Wayne Enterprises businessmen; he shoots two in self-defense and wounds the third before pursuing him off the train and executing him on the stairs. The killings are condemned by billionaire mayoral candidate Thomas Wayne, who calls those envious of more successful people “clowns”
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