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2021 Oscars Nominations: The Full List of This Year's Academy Award Nominees

  • Writer: Jessie Li
    Jessie Li
  • Mar 17, 2021
  • 4 min read

By Danica Lo


Chloe Zhao is the first woman to be nominated for Academy Awards in four categories in a single year.


Earlier today, Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas announced the nominations for this year's 93rd Academy Awards live from London. The 2021 Oscars ceremony will be held on April 25 at Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center.


Among this year's notable nominations: Beijing-born Chloe Zhao becomes the first woman in Oscars history to be nominated in four categories in a single year for her acclaimed film Nomadland. The most nominated film this year is Mank, with 10 nominations; The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, Sound of Metal, and The Trial of the Chicago 7 all tie for second-most nominations at six apiece.



Here is the full list of the 2021 Oscars Nominations:


Actor in a Leading Role


Riz Ahmed for Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Anthony Hopkins for The Father

Gary Oldman for Mank

Steven Yuen for Minari


Actor in a Supporting Role


Sacha Baron Cohen for The Trial of the Chicago 7

Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah

Leslie Odom Jr. for One Night in Miami

Paul Raci for Sound of Metal

Lakeith Stanfield for Judas and the Black Messiah


Actress in a Leading Role


Viola Davis for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Andra Day for The United States vs Billie Holiday

Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman

Frances McDormand for Nomadland

Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman


Actress in a Supporting Role


Maria Bakalova in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Glenn Close for Hillbilly Elegy

Olivia Colman for The Father

Amanda Seyfried for Mank

Yu-Jung Youn for Minari


Animated Feature Film


Onward

Over the Moon

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

Soul

Wolfwalkers


Cinematography


Sean Bobbitt for Judas and the Black Messiah

Erik Messerschmidt for Mank

Dariusz Wolski for News of the World

Joshua James Richards for Nomadland

Phedon Papamichael for The Trial of the Chicago 7


Costume Design


Alexandra Byrne for Emma

Ann Roth for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Trish Summerville for Mank

Bina Daigeler for Mulan

Massimo Cantini Parrini for Pinocchio


Directing


Thomas Vinterberg for Another Round

David Fincher for Mank

Lee Isaac Chung for Minari

Chloe Zhao for Nomadland

Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman


Documentary (Feature)


Collective

Crip Camp

The Mole Agent

My Octopus Teacher

Time


Documentary (Short Subject)


Colette

A Concerto is a Conversation

Do Not Split

Hunger Ward

A Love Song for Latasha


Film Editing


Yorgos Lamprinos for The Father

Chloe Zhao for Nomadland

Frederic Thoraval for Promising Young Woman

Mikkel E G Nielsen for Sound of Metal

Alan Baungarten for The Trial of the Chicago 7


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


Marese Langan, Laura Allen and Claudia Stolze for Emma

Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney for Hillbilly Elegy

Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spitery and Colleen LaBaff for Mank

Mark Coulier, Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti for Pinocchio


Music (Original Score)


Terence Blanchard for Da 5 Bloods

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Mank

Emile Mosserie for Minari

James Newton Howard for News of the World

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste for Soul


Music (Original Song)


"Fight For You" from Judas and the Black Messiah

"Hear My Voice" from The Trial of the Chicago 7

"Husavik" from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

"Io Si (Seen)" from The Life Ahead

"Speak Now" from One Night in Miami


Best Picture


The Father

Judas and the Black Messiah

Mank

Minari

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7


Production Design


Peter Francis (Production Design) and Cathy Featherstone (Set Decoration) for The Father

Mark Ricker (Production Design) and Karen O'Hara and Diana Stoughton (Set Decoration) for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Donald Graham Burt (Production Design) and Jan Pascale (Set Decoration) for Mank

David Crank (Production Design) and Elizabeth Keenan (Set Decoration) for News of the World

Nathan Crowley (Production Design) and Kathy Lucas (Set Decoration) for Tenet


Short Film (Animated)


Burrow

Genius Loci

If Anything Happens I Love You

Opera

Yes-People


Short Film (Live Action)


Feeling Through

The Letter Room

The Present

Two Distant Strangers

White Eye


Sound


Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman for Greyhound

Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin for Mank

Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett for News of the World

Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker for Soul

Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortes and Phillip Bladh for Sound of Metal


Visual Effects


Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox for Love and Monsters

Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins for The Midnight Sky

Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram for Mulan

Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez for The One and Only Ivan

Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher for Tenet


Writing (Adapted Screenplay)


Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, 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 Chloe 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 and Shaka King; Story by Will Berson, Shaka King, Kenny Lucas, Keith Lucas

Minari, written by Lee Isaac Chung

Promising Young Woman, written by Emerald Fennell

Sound of Metal, screenplay by Darius Marder and Abraham Marder; Story for Darius Marder and Derek Cianfrance

The Trial of the Chicago 7, written by Aaron Sorkin


Watch the 2021 Academy Awards live from Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center on Sunday, April 25, 2021.


 
 
 

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