Oscars 2021: Nomadland Wins Big
Nomadland, as expected, was the big winner at Sunday’s 93rd Academy Awards, picking up trophies for Best Picture, Best Director for Chloé Zhao (the first woman of color to snag that honor) and Best Actress for Frances McDormand. [pmc_inline_gallery]
In the night’s biggest upset, Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for The Father, prevailing over the late Chadwick Boseman (who received a posthumous nod for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom).
Scroll down for the complete list of winners…
Best Picture
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Nomadland — WINNER
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins, The Father — WINNER
Gary Oldman, Mank
Steven Yeun, Minari
Best Actress
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand, Nomadland — WINNER
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Supporting Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah — WINNER
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari — WINNER
Best Directing
Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
David Fincher, Mank
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland — WINNER
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Best Adapted Screenplay
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
The Father — WINNER
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
The White Tiger
Best Original Screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman — WINNER
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Animated Feature Film
Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul — WINNER
Wolfwalkers
Best Cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank — WINNER
News of the World
Nomadland
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Costume Design
Emma
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — WINNER
Mank
Mulan
Pinocchio
Best Documentary Feature
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
My Octopus Teacher — WINNER
Time
Best Documentary Short Subject
Colette — WINNER
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
A Love Song for Latasha
Best Film Editing
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal — WINNER
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best International Feature Film
Another Round (Denmark) — WINNER
Better Days (Hong Kong)
Collective (Romania)
The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia)
Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — WINNER
Mank
Pinocchio
Best Original Score
Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Soul — WINNER
Best Original Song
“Fight for You,” Judas and the Black Messiah — WINNER
“Hear My Voice,” The Trial of the Chicago 7
“Husavik,” Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
“Io sì (Seen),” The Life Ahead (La vita davanti a sé)
“Speak Now,” One Night in Miami
Best Production Design
The Father
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank — WINNER
News of the World
Tenet
Best Animated Short Film
Burrow
Genius Loci
If Anything Happens I Love You — WINNER
Opera
Yes-People
Best Live-Action Short Film
Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
Two Distant Strangers — WINNER
White Eye
Best Sound
Greyhound
Mank
News of the World
Soul
Sound of Metal — WINNER
Best Visual Effects
Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet — WINNER
I predict this will be the lowest rated Oscars telecast ever. By a lot.
I think the only people who care about the Oscars or other award shows right now are the people involved. This will probably be the least watched Oscars ever. I didn’t even know they were on tonight. Remember the days when award shows were fun & you actually watched the nominated movies? Those days are over!
I saw 5 of the 8 nominated films, but not the one that won!
I watched every movie nominated for the acting awards, best picture and director (minus Another Round), I do it every year. This year there was no film that was wow… and Nomadland was imo the worst. it was boring and pretentious at the same time.
Well, I am watching and I saw Glenn Close doing “Da Butt” and that was everything!!! 😂😂😂
I think this was the only Oscars ever that had Best Picture given before the two Lead Actor/Actress ones. What an odd choice!
The producers probably wanted to end on Best Actor so it can be a touching and emotional moment when Chadwick Boseman won. But for some strange reason that is beyond me, he didn’t win and the winner wasn’t anywhere to accept his award. A big mistake on the producers part that probably won’t happen again.
The Oscars officially are dead. It and all awards shows are going to end up on Disney+, Discovery+, ESPN+ or some other Obscure+, where all shows that get zero in the ratings end up.
The behind the scenes people probably thought that Chadwick Boseman would win and moved Actor to the end after Picture to ensure a gracious speech by his widow. That is a miscalculation I don’t think they will ever repeat.
Best Picture, why ? terrible .
Nomadland documented really the only time in the past couple of generations where many whites in America lost so much they experienced what blacks and minorities always encountered. That’s what the past 15 years has been about under Trump and the rise of domestic terrorism, resetting things so that even poor whites can have feeling superior the minorities as their psychological safety net.
Yeah, people question how Trump came to power. It’s not political at all but watch this movie and you’ll understand.
Donald Trump was only in office for 4 years. Best 4 years this country has had in many, many years. IMHO He did a lot for the black community during his term. But it doesn’t fit the narrative the MSM set, so it’s not talked about very much. FYI, BLM and Antifa are a much bigger threat than any so-called domestic terrorist group Trump supposedly inspired.
It was a thin field because so little was released last year. My pick would have been Judas, but Nomadland or Trial I think are deserving of nomination too in any year, not just the pandemic year. The others, well, not so much. Decent enough films, but they have no cultural currency, and no one will remember them in two years time, let alone a decade or more from now. Oh well, this year was what it was, in many, many senses, right?
The get the TV audience to watch, make it an entertaining show to enjoy. If future shows are going to be like this, then cancel the show.
I think this is the first year where I have not seen a single one of these films in any category.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 was robbed !
The only movies that I watched that were nominated this year were Onward and Soul. I really could not be bothered to watch anything else.
Oscar nights was a let down for me, think so for many people too. Had not seen none of the movies, just watched it to see who will win the main categories. The Oscar night magic is gone forever, Only thrilling moment for me was the surprising Spielberg’s West Side Story trailer. Awesome!
And I do not understand the hype about Nomadland. It was one of the worse movies I have ever watched.
Anthony Hopkins’ did an amazing job. Very well deserved.
I also knew it was not worth it, Did not see the movie, but by the trailers I knew it wasn’t worth it.
Respect to Frances McDormand, but I thought Carey Mulligan should have won Best Actress, she gave a phenomenal performance.