2021 Oscars: The Academy Reveals the Nominees
The Oscars are finally here!
It’s that time of the year. Even though this year it was a couple of months delayed, the Academy Awards have finally announced their nominees for this year’s edition, the 93rd. Like every year, this list is full of surprises, both good and bad. As expected, Nomadland is the one scoring nominations in all main categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, etc.
Like every year, there are movies that start the Awards season as potential candidates for the 10th slot in the Best Picture category, and maybe one or two nominations here and there and end up very high on everybody’s lists. This year, this was the case for both Minari and Promising Young Woman, and it was very much deserved. Films like Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom or Da 5 Bloods enjoyed a couple of months in which they were considered the favorites for many categories, and have now lost a lot of steam. This is not surprising for a season that has lasted (and actually has not ended) half a year. However, Da 5 Bloods did manage to sneak into the Best Score category, something I personally was not expecting.
Movies like Cherry or Malcolm & Marie were considered as potential candidates months ago, but poor reception was fatal for the two of them and ended up out of the main categories. One of the big stories for me is Mank, a movie that came out three months ago and was very divisive. Ultimately, I think the movie was forgotten… to everybody but the Academy. They love themselves some movies about moviemaking, especially if it’s about the making of a classic (Citizen Kane in this case), and they are also looking for an excuse to finally give David Fincher an award. However, Fincher’s late father did not manage to get his nomination for writing the script, which was one of the big upsets today. Oddly enough, one of the categories Mank was also favorite in was Best Visual Effects, for which it was not nominated.
The big upset today was Aaron Sorkin not getting nominated as a director for Trial of the Chicago 7, with Another Round director Thomas Vinterberg stealing his spot. One Night in Miami also was prived from many nominations today, including one of the locks (besides Leslie Odom, Jr. for Best Supporting Actor), Best Picture. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom surprisingly didn’t land a nomination there either. The Father, on the other hand, received a lot of nominations, at least many more than what was expected a few months ago.
One final note. Today, Chloé Zhao has become the most nominated woman in a single ceremony with four nominations (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing), surpassing Fran Walsh back in 2003 for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Song).
Here are the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards (you can also check out here our predictions for this list, to see how many we got wrong!):
Best Picture
Nomadland
Mank
Trial of the Chicago 7
Promising Young Woman
Minari
Judas and the Black Messiah
Sound of Metal
The Father
Best Director
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
David Fincher (Mank)
Lee Isaac-Young (Minari)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)
Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)
Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)
Best Actor
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Gary Oldman (Mank)
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Steven Yeun (Minari)
Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Movie Film)
Olivia Colman (The Father)
Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari)
Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy)
Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Sacha Baron Cohen (Trial of the Chicago 7)
Leslie Odom, Jr. (One Night in Miami)
Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
One Night in Miami (Kemp Powers)
The Father (Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller)
The White Tiger (Ramin Bahrani)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Nina Pedrad, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Swimer)
Best Original Screenplay
Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
Judas and the Black Messiah (Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas, Kenneth Lucas)
Sound of Metal (Abraham Marder, Darius Marder, Derek Cianfrance)
Best Cinematography
Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)
Erik Messerschmidt (Mank)
Dariusz Wolski (News of the World)
Phedon Papamichael (Trial of the Chicago 7)
Sean Bobbitt (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Best Editing
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen (Sound of Metal)
Alan Baumgarten (Trial of the Chicago 7)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Yorgos Lamprinos (The Father)
Frédéric Thoraval (Promising Young Woman)
Best Score
Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Soul)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Mank)
James Newton Howard (News of the World)
Emile Mosseri (Minari)
Terence Blanchard (Da 5 Bloods)
Best Visual Effects
Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Tenet
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Best Sound
Sound of Metal
News of the World
Greyhound
Mank
Soul
Best Production Design
Donald Graham Burt (production designer), Jan Pascale (set decorator): Mank
David Crank (production designer), Elizabeth Keenan (set decorator): News of the World
Mark Ricker (production designer), Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton (set decorator): Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Nathan Crowley (production designer), Kathy Lucas (set decorator): Tenet
Peter Francis, (production designer), Cathy Featherstone (set decorator): The Father
Best Costume Design
Ann Roth (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Alexandra Byrne (Emma)
Trish Summerville (Mank)
Bina Daigeler (Mulan)
Massimo Cantini Parrini (Pinocchio)
Best Makeup & Hairstyle
Mia Neal (hair and wig designer, makeup department head), Sergio Lopez-Rivera (personal makeup artist for Viola Davis), Jamika Wilson (personal hair stylist for Viola Davis) from Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Eryn Krueger Mekash (makeup department head), Patricia Dehaney (hair department head), Matthew Mungle (prosthetic designer) from Hillbilly Elegy
Mark Coulier (prosthetic designer), Dalia Colli (makeup artist), Francesco Pegoretti (hair designer) from Pinocchio
Marese Langan (hair and makeup designer) from Emma
Gigi Williams (makeup department head), Kimberley Spiteri (hair department head), and Colleen LaBaff (assistant head hairstylist) from Mank
Best Animated Feature
Soul
Wolfwalkers
Onward
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Over the Moon
Best Original Song
Speak Now (Written by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam Ashworth) from One Night in Miami
Io Si (Seen) (Written by Diane Warren, Laura Pausini, Niccolò Agliardi) from The Life Ahead
Fight for You (written by H.E.R., Dernst Emile II, Tiara Thomas.) from Judas and the Black Messiah
Húsavík (Savan Kotecha, Rickard Goransson, fat max Gsus) from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Hear My Voice (Written by Daniel Pemberton and Celeste) from The Trial of Chicago 7
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
