Nominations for the 92nd Annual Academy Awards were announced Monday morning, and once again, fighting movies didn’t make the cut. The closest thing martial arts fans probably have to a nominee to pull for this year is “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” The Quentin Tarantino gem set in 1969 Hollywood features a scene with Bruce Lee, who finds himself in a brief fight on a movie set with professional stunt double Cliff Booth, played by the nominated Brad Pitt. (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is nominated for 10 Oscars.) Or maybe the scene in “1917” in which Lance Corporal Schofield (George MacKay) gets full mount on a German soldier and chokes him out – literally, like, to death, to save his own life – counts? (“1917” is up for 10 Oscars, as well.) There’s a great fight scene between Ken Miles (Christian Bale) and Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) in “Ford v Ferrari,” and it even involves a loaf of Wonder bread.
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