The Oscar nominations are out in what is probably the weirdest awards season in history, but all the buzz is not about the movie with the most nominations. That would be Mank, with 10, including best picture, a directing nod for David Fincher and recognition for stars Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried.
Joining Fincher on the directors list are two women, Chloe Zhao for Nomadland and Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman. That has NEVER happened before. You could probably count all the women ever nominated for an Academy Award for directing on one hand – and only one has ever taken the prize, Kathryn Bigelow. One, people, one!
For the record, Zhao and Fennell will also face off against Minari’s Lee Isaac Chung and Thomas Vinterberg for Another Round, the latter being rather a surprise nomination for which many thought the slot should’ve gone to Regina King.
Remember the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag? Well, it cannot be used this year—thankfully– as fully 9 of the 20 acting nominations for lead and supporting actor and actress went to people of color.
And within that group, Minari’s Steven Yeun makes history as the first Asian American to be nominated for best actor. His costar, Yuh-Jung Youn, who played the grandmother, also landed a supporting nomination.
The Sound of Metal’s Riz Ahmed becomes the first Pakistani and the first Muslim to be nominated in the lead actor category.
Two of the best supporting actor nominees, Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield, come from one of my favorite films of the year, Judas and the Black Messiah.
As expected, the late Chadwick Boseman received a posthumous not for his work in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. That film’s lead actress Viola Davis also made Oscar history for receiving her fourth career acting nomination which makes her the most-nominated Black actress ever.
Here are the nominees which were announced from London by Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas on Monday, March 15:
Best Picture
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Directing
Thomas Vinterberg, Another
Round
David Fincher, Mank
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Emerald Fennell, Promising
Young Woman
Best Actress in a
Leading Role
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black
Bottom
Andra Day, United States vs.
Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a
Woman
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Carey Mulligan, Promising
Young Woman
Best 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
Best Actress in a
Supporting Role
Maria Bakalova, Borat
Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
Best 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
Best Original
Screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Adapted Screenplay
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
The Father
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
The White Tiger
Best Cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
News of the World
Nomadland
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Film Editing
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Animated Feature
Film
Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie:
Farmageddon
Soul
Wolfwalkers
Best Animated Short
Film
Burrow
Genius Loci
If Anything Happens I Love You
Opera
Yes-People
Best Live-Action Short
Film
Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
Two Distant Strangers
White Eye
Best International
Feature Film
Another Round
Better Days
Collective
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Best Documentary
Feature
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
My Octopus Teacher
Time
Best Documentary Short
Subject
Colette
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
A Love Song for Latasha
Best Original Score
Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Soul
Best Original Song
“Fight For You,” Judas
and the Black Messiah
“Hear My Voice,” The
Trial of the Chicago 7
“Husavik,” Eurovision
Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
“Io Si (Seen),” The
Life Ahead
“Speak Now,” One
Night in Miami
Best Sound
Greyhound
Mank
News of the World
Soul
Sound of Metal
Best Costume Design
Emma
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Mulan
Pinocchio
Best Makeup and
Hairstyling
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Pinocchio
Best Production Design
The Father
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
News of the World
Tenet
Best Visual Effects
Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet
