Oscars 2021 winners: Complete list of this year’s Academy awards
The red carpet was back Sunday, minus the throngs of onlookers and with socially distanced interviews. Only a handful of media outlets were allowed on site, behind a velvet rope and some distance from the nominees.
Casual wear, the academy warned nominees early on, was a no-no. During the Oscar pre-show, nominees gathered at an outdoor set at Union Station that resembled an open-air lounge.
The Oscars ceremony certainly looked different this year, and not just because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Academy Awards were handed out in a new venue: the open, airy Union Station, located in downtown Los Angeles. As with last year’s ceremony, there was no defined host, but instead a lineup of celebrities presenting and announcing awards.
Going into the ceremony, David Fincher’s Mank leads the nominations with 10 nods, and for the first time, two women, Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell, were nominated for best director.
Zhao ended up taking home the Best Director Oscar for Nomadland, only the second woman to ever win the award, and the first woman of colour. She is the first woman of Asian descent to be nominated and to win.
Eight films were nominated for best picture. Mank was joined by Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, Zhao’s Nomadland, as well as Judas and the Black Messiah, Sound of Metal, Minari and The Trial of the Chicago 7.
A record nine of the 20 acting nominees are non-white. If Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari) and Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) all win, as they did at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, it would be the first time people of colour swept the acting awards, and a dramatic reversal from the recent years of #OscarsSoWhite.
Kaluuya won his first Oscar for playing one of the two title roles in Judas and the Black Messiah.
“I’d like to thank my mom,” Kaluuya said, as his mother teared up while watching. “You gave me everything. You gave me your factory settings. So I could stand at my fullest height.”
Yuh-Jung Youn, 73, took home the best supporting actress award for her turn in Minari. Her acceptance speech was one of the more animated moments of the night.
Award show viewership has cratered during the pandemic, and this year’s Oscar nominees, while widely streamed and more diverse than ever, lacked the kind of buzz generated in a normal year.
a complete list of the nominees and awards below;
Best Picture
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago Seven.
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.
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.
Actor in a Supporting Role
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago Seven
WINNER: 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 Supporting Role
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
WINNER: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
Directing
Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
David Fincher, Mank
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
WINNER: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman.
Cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
News of the World
Nomadland
The Trial of the Chicago Seven
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
WINNER: The Father (Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller)
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
The White Tiger
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
WINNER: Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago Seven
Film Editing
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago Seven.
International Feature Film
WINNER: Another Round
Better Days
Collective
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Animated Feature Film
Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
WINNER: Soul
Wolfwalkers
Animated Short Film
Burrow
Genius Loci
WINNER: If Anything Happens I Love You
Opera
Yes People
Music (Original Song)
“Fight For You,” Judas and the Black Messiah
“Hear My Voice,” The Trial of the Chicago Seven
“Husavik,” Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
“Io Si,” The Life Ahead
“Speak Now,” One Night in Miami
Music (Original Score)
Da Five Bloods
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Soul
Sound
Greyhound
WINNER: Sound of Metal
Mank
News of the World
Soul.
Documentary Feature
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
WINNER: My Octopus Teacher
Time
Documentary Short Subject
WINNER: Colette
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
A Love Song For Latasha.
Makeup and Hairstyling
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
WINNER: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Pinocchio
Costume Design
Emma
WINNER: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Mulan
Pinocchio
Live Action Short Film
Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
WINNER: Two Distant Strangers
White Eye
Production Design
The Father
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
News of the World
Tenet
Visual Effects
Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
WINNER: Tenet.
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