The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, is Hollywood’s most prestigious artistic award in the film industry. Since 1927, nominees and winners are selected by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). 17 branches are represented within the near 10,000-person membership.
The branches are actors, associates, casting directors, cinematographers, costume designers, directors, documentary, executives, film editors, makeup and hairstylists, marketing and public relations, members-at-large, members-at-large (artists’ representatives), music, producers, production design, short films and feature animation, sound, visual effects and writers.
The Oscars are scheduled for Sunday, April 25, 2021.
NOMINEES FOR OSCARS ACCORDING TO THEIR CATEGORY:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
RIZ AHMED (Sound of Metal)
CHADWICK BOSEMAN (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
ANTHONY HOPKINS (The Father)
GARY OLDMAN (Mank)
STEVEN YEUN (Minari)
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
SACHA BARON COHEN (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
DANIEL KALUUYA (Judas and the Black Messiah)
LESLIE ODOM, JR. (One Night in Miami…)
PAUL RACI (Sound of Metal)
LAKEITH STANFIELD (Judas and the Black Messiah)
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
VIOLA DAVIS (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
ANDRA DAY (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)
VANESSA KIRBY (Pieces of a Woman)
FRANCES MCDORMAND (Nomadland)
CAREY MULLIGAN (Promising Young Woman)
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
MARIA BAKALOVA (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)
GLENN CLOSE (Hillbilly Elegy)
OLIVIA COLMAN (The Father)
AMANDA SEYFRIED (Mank)
YUH-JUNG YOUN (Minari)
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
ONWARD (Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae)
OVER THE MOON (Glen Keane, Gennie Rim and Peilin Chou)
A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON (Richard Phelan, Will Becher and Paul Kewley)
SOUL (Pete Docter and Dana Murray)
WOLFWALKERS (Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young and Stéphan Roelants)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (Sean Bobbitt)
MANK (Erik Messerschmidt)
NEWS OF THE WORLD (Dariusz Wolski)
NOMADLAND (Joshua James Richards)
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (Phedon Papamichael)
COSTUME DESIGN
EMMA (Alexandra Byrne)
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (Ann Roth)
MANK (Trish Summerville)
MULAN (Bina Daigeler)
PINOCCHIO (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
DIRECTING
ANOTHER ROUND (Thomas Vinterberg)
MANK (David Fincher)
MINARI (Lee Isaac Chung)
NOMADLAND (Chloé Zhao)
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Emerald Fennell)
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
COLLECTIVE (Alexander Nanau and Bianca Oana)
CRIP CAMP (Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht and Sara Bolder)
THE MOLE AGENT (Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibáñez)
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER (Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster)
TIME (Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn)
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
COLETTE (Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard)
A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION (Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers)
DO NOT SPLIT (Anders Hammer and Charlotte Cook)
HUNGER WARD (Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Scheuerman)
A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA (Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice Duncan)
FILM EDITING
THE FATHER (Yorgos Lamprinos)
NOMADLAND (Chloé Zhao)
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Frédéric Thoraval)
SOUND OF METAL (Mikkel E. G. Nielsen)
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (Alan Baumgarten)
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
ANOTHER ROUND (Denmark)
BETTER DAYS (Hong Kong)
COLLECTIVE (Romania)
THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN (Tunisia)
QUO VADIS, AIDA? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
EMMA (Marese Langan, Laura Allen and Claudia Stolze)
HILLBILLY ELEGY (Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney)
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson)
MANK (Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spiteri and Colleen LaBaff)
PINOCCHIO (Mark Coulier, Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti)
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
DA 5 BLOODS (Terence Blanchard)
MANK (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
MINARI (Emile Mosseri)
NEWS OF THE WORLD (James Newton Howard)
SOUL (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste)
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
FIGHT FOR YOU (from Judas and the Black Messiah; Music by H.E.R. and Dernst Emile II; Lyric by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas)
HEAR MY VOICE (from The Trial of the Chicago 7; Music by Daniel Pemberton; Lyric by Daniel Pemberton and Celeste Waite)
HUSAVIK (from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga; Music and Lyric by Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus and Rickard Göransson)
IO SÌ (SEEN) (from The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se); Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Diane Warren and Laura Pausini)
SPEAK NOW (from One Night in Miami…; Music and Lyric by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam Ashworth)
BEST PICTURE
THE FATHER (David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi and Philippe Carcassonne, Producers)
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (Shaka King, Charles D. King and Ryan Coogler, Producers)
MANK (Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth and Douglas Urbanski, Producers)
MINARI (Christina Oh, Producer)
NOMADLAND (Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Chloé Zhao, Producers)
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell and Josey McNamara, Producers)
SOUND OF METAL (Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche, Producers)
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (Marc Platt and Stuart Besser, Producers)
PRODUCTION DESIGN
THE FATHER (Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone)
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton)
MANK (Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale)
NEWS OF THE WORLD (David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan)
TENET (Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas)
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
BURROW (Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat)
GENIUS LOCI (Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise)
IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU (Will McCormack and Michael Govier)
OPERA (Erick Oh)
YES-PEOPLE (Gísli Darri Halldórsson and Arnar Gunnarsson)
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
FEELING THROUGH (Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski)
THE LETTER ROOM (Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan)
THE PRESENT (Farah Nabulsi and Ossama Bawardi)
TWO DISTANT STRANGERS (Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe)
WHITE EYE (Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman)
SOUND
GREYHOUND
(Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman)
MANK (Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew) Kunin
NEWS OF THE WORLD (Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett)
SOUL (Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker)
SOUND OF METAL (Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh)
VISUAL EFFECTS
LOVE AND MONSTERS (Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox)
THE MIDNIGHT SKY (Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins)
MULAN (Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram)
THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN (Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez)
TENET (Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher)
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM: DELIVERY OF PRODIGIOUS BRIBE TO AMERICAN REGIME FOR MAKE BENEFIT ONCE GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN (Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad)
THE FATHER (Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller)
NOMADLAND (Written for the screen by Chloé Zhao)
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… (Screenplay by Kemp Powers)
THE WHITE TIGER (Written for the screen by Ramin Bahrani)
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King; Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas)
MINARI (Written by Lee Isaac Chung)
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Written by Emerald Fennell)
SOUND OF METAL (Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder; Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance)
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (Written by Aaron Sorkin)
