Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/February 9 to 15, 2020

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (February 9 to 15, 2020)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga

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The official data is still down, so through other tools we compiled a list heavily shaped by the Academy Awards.

Rank	Article	Views	About
1	Parasite (2019 film)	5,196,541	February 8 was a particularly busy night for Sharon Choi, an aspiring filmmaker who acted during the Academy Awards as the translator for the crew of Parasite, a Korean dark comedy about class warfare that made history by becoming the first Best Picture winner not in English, while also gathering prizes for Director, Original Screenplay and International Film. The only thing missing from their night was Park So-dam stepping up to the microphone to sing this.
2	92nd Academy Awards	2,211,751	Speaking of the Oscars, which along with again being without a host this time also felt without direction - including Eminem performing "Lose Yourself" 17 years late - there were three awards for 1917 (one of them not very deserving), two for Ford v Ferrari, and prizes for Elton John, Toy Story 4, and the costumes of Little Women, while The Irishman got shut out in a bad night for Netflix (and director Martin Scorsese, caught napping during the aforementioned performance).
3	2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak	1,769,680	China is doing all it can to contain this disease, which with 1,775 deaths out of over 70 thousand cases, has already killed more people than SARS back in 2003-04.
4	Joaquin Phoenix	1,602,528	What do you get when you cross an actor nominated for playing Emperor Commodus, Johnny Cash and a man who fell in love with his phone with the role of a psycho that already provided an Oscar to one of his friends? He gets WHAT HE FUCKING DESERVES! And while thanking for his Best Actor prize, Phoenix had a heartfelt if a bit scattershot speech (apparently the cancel culture is as bad as the dairy industry...).
5	Renée Zellweger	1,300,910	In the 16 years after winning Best Supporting Actress for a hammy, rooster-killing and hilarious role in Cold Mountain, the once and future Bridget Jones had a very uneven career. But by playing Judy Garland (who narrowly missed the list at #26) in Judy, Zellweger got her second Oscar, this time for Best Actress.
6	XFL (2020)	1,175,197	February 8 marked the return of Vince McMahon's attempt to fill in the American football offseason with a league of his own. And go figure why this time he only chose one city without an NFL team, which received the St. Louis BattleHawks.
7	Caroline Flack	1,155,548	The big death of the week, a British television and radio host who committed suicide at the age of 40, a month prior to a scheduled trial hearing for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend.
8	Valentine's Day	1,105,343	The annual greeting-card and chocolate consumption holiday had never fallen out of the top 5 even in its worst years. But the entries pushed by our #2 proved too much.
9	Coronavirus	1,104,459	A type of viruses that cause respiratory infections, ranging from the common cold to the one causing panic in China (#3).
10	Birds of Prey (2020 film)	1,084,302	While she attended #2 given Bombshell got her a nomination, Margot Robbie was also starring in the top-grossing movie in the country, her return to the role of Harley Quinn in the well-received Birds of Prey. Even if said box office intake has been sluggish, which can be attributed to high content ratings, #3 closing theaters in Asia, and the last Harley Quinn flick making viewers wary.
11	River Phoenix	1,042,070	#4's speech ended with a citation to his late brother who cut his promising career short with an overdose: "When he was 17, my brother wrote this lyric. He said: 'run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.'"
12	Bong Joon-ho	986,263	The director of #1, whose previous movies include monster film The Host, English language sci-fi actioner Snowpiercer, and Netflix original Okja. While winning Best Director, Bong made sure to give a shout out to fellow nominees Martin Scorsese (who he studied at film school), Quentin Tarantino (who always promoted Bong's films), Todd Phillips and Sam Mendes ("Great directors that I admire. If the Academy allows, I would like to get a Texas chainsaw, split the award into five and share it with all of you.").
13	Pete Buttigieg	947,708	The Republicans have given up on trying to support anyone other than Trump. So the Democrats still search on who to face the Tweeter-In-Chief, currently led by Pete Buttigieg of Indiana and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Meanwhile, Trump has said he'd prefer to run against former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has skipped the first four primaries while campaigning heavily everywhere else, and had a problematic audio leaked.
14	2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries	924,630
15	Michael Bloomberg	891,620
16	Laura Dern	883,134	The daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, whose storied career has featured blockbusters (Jurassic Park, Star Wars: The Last Jedi), alternative fare (Blue Velvet, Rambling Rose), TV (Enlightened, Big Little Lies) and two of #2's Best Picture nominees, with her role as a ruthless lawyer in Marriage Story earning Dern the Best Supporting Actress award.
17	Bigg Boss (Hindi season 13)	878,176	The latest Indian Celebrity Big Brother had its finale after a five week extension, being won by actor Siddharth Shukla.
18	Billie Eilish	789,967	After a remarkable night at #2, where she was baffled at unfunny banter and also sung "Yesterday" during the yearly death montage, the young singer had another movie-related thing during the week, releasing her James Bond theme "No Time to Die".
19	Locke & Key (TV series)	750,178	Netflix adapted a horror comic book miniseries about a family who discovers some keys which can open doors to unusual places.
20	Deaths in 2020	728,723	Our version of the Oscar's In memoriam segment. Ours is longer. But you need to provide your own music.
21	Jojo Rabbit	693,444	One of the least orthodox Best Picture nominees ever : a comedy set in Nazi Germany, starring a Hitler Youth kid who discovers a hidden Jew in his house! Given it's based on Christine Leunens's novel Caging Skies, the Best Adapted Screenplay award also made Taika Waititi (who had previously done Thor: Ragnarok) the first Oscar winner of indigenous (namely, Māori) descent.
22	Taika Waititi	675,336
23	Brad Pitt	673,988	Already owner of an Oscar statuette for producing 12 Years a Slave, Brad Pitt now also got the proper recognition for his acting career once his role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood earned him Best Supporting Actor.
24	Sonic the Hedgehog (film)	651,881	After a badly received trailer that even forced a delayed release so the visual effects could be reworked, the live-action adaptation of Sega's mascot who has been a gaming icon since 1991 hit theaters... and instead of being yet another disastrous video game adaptation, surprised many by being simply fun (helped by having Jim Carrey in full manic mode as the hedgehog's nemesis Doctor Robotnik), and followed two movies in receiving mostly positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, while also taking the top of the box office from #10.
25	Joker (2019 film)	648,068	While the haters of the lead nominee at #2 celebrated whenever the 11 nominations were misses, the film still won Best Actor (#4) and Best Original Score. Not counting Batman: The Movie, all live-action movies with the Joker earned Oscars - '89 Batman got Art Direction, The Dark Knight recognized both Heath Ledger's performance and the Sound Editing, and the derided Suicide Squad still managed to get Best Make-Up and Hairstyling.

Other Best Picture nominees (and another Oscar winner)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (won Art Direction alongside the prize for #23) - 608,283
1917 (2019 film) (won Cinematography, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects) - 585,056
Elton John (Best Song, for his biopic Rocketman) - 402,624
Ford v Ferrari (won Editing and Sound Editing) - 326,205, though main character Ken Miles easily beat the film itself with 642,222
Marriage Story (for which #16 was awarded) - 298,559
Little Women (2019 film) (won Costume Design) - 296,135
The Irishman (won nothing) - 290,343

Exclusions

This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.