The 93rd Academy Awards will be closing the extra-long awards season of 2021 with a live ceremony on April 25, 2021. The 2021 Oscars will be taking place two months later than originally planned due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 15, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas announced the nominations for the Oscars 2021.
The couple announced the nominations of all 23 categories in a live presentation from London. Some of the films with the leading number of nominations are Mank (10) Judas And The Black Messiah (6), Nomadland (6), Minari (6), and The Trial Of The Chicago 7 (6). Other films nominated for Best Picture include The Father, Promising Young Woman and Sound Of Metal. The Academy also made history with his year's nominations with the most female directors nominated in the best director category. Here is the full list of nominees: 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 Director Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) David Fincher (Mank) Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) Best Actor Anthony Hopkins (The Father) Gary Oldman (Mank) Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) Steven Yeun (Minari) Best Actress Frances McDormand (Nomadland) Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) Andra Day (The United States v. Billie Holiday) Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) Best Supporting Actor 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 Supporting Actress Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy) Olivia Colman (The Father) Amanda Seyfried (Mank) Youn Yuh-jung (Minari) Adapted Screenplay Borat Subsequent Moviefilm- Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Nina Pedrad, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Swimer The Father- Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller Nomadland- Chloé Zhao One Night in Miami- Kemp Powers The White Tiger- Ramin Bahrani Best Original Screenplay Judas and the Black Messiah- Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas, Kenneth Lucas Minari- Lee Isaac Chung Promising Young Woman- Emerald Fennell Sound of Metal- Abraham Marder, Darius Marder, Derek Cianfrance The Trial of the Chicago 7- Aaron Sorkin Animated Feature Onward (Pixar) Over the Moon (Netflix) Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (Netflix) Soul (Pixar) Wolfwalkers (Apple TV Plus/GKIDS) 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) Best Documentary Collective (Magnolia Pictures and Participant) Crip Camp (Netflix) The Mole Agent (Gravitas Ventures) My Octopus Teacher (Netflix) Time (Amazon Studios) Best 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 Best Costume Design Emma- Alexandra Byrne Mank- Trish Summerville Ma Rainey's Black Bottom- Ann Roth Mulan- Bina Daigeler Pinocchio- Massimo Cantini Parrini Film Editing The Father- Yorgos Lamprinos Nomadland- Chloé Zhao Promising Young Woman- Frédéric Thoraval Sound of Metal- Mikkel EG Nielsen The Trial of the Chicago 7- Alan Baumgarten Makeup and Hairstyling Emma- Marese Langan Hillbilly Elegy- Eryn Krueger Mekash, Patricia Dehaney, Matthew Mungle Ma Rainey's Black Bottom- Matiki Anoff, Mia Neal, Larry M. Cherry Mank- Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams Pinocchio- Dalia Colli, Anna Kieber, Sebastian Lochmann, Stephen Murphy Original Score Da 5 Bloods- Terence Blanchard Mank- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross Minari- Emile Mosseri News of the World- James Newton Howard Soul- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste Original Song 'Fight for You', (Judas and the Black Messiah) 'Hear My Voice', (The Trial of the Chicago 7) 'Húsavík', (Eurovision Song Contest) 'Io Si' (Seen), (The Life Ahead) 'Speak Now', (One Night in Miami) Production Design The Father- Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone Ma Rainey's Black Bottom- Mark Ricker, Karen O'Hara, Diana Stoughton Mank- Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale News of the World- David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan Tenet- Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas Best Sound Greyhound- Odin Benitez, Jason King, Christian P. Minkler, Michael Minkler, Jeff Sawyer Mank- Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance, Drew Kunin News of the World-, John Pritchett, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller, Oliver Tarney, Michael Fentum Soul- Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Vince Caro Sound of Metal- Phillip Bladh, Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés, Carolina Santana Visual Effects Tenet- Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Scott R. Fisher, Mike Chambers Love and Monsters- Matt Solan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt, Brain Cox The Midnight Sky- Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, Dave Watkins, Max Solomon Mulan- Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury, Steve Ingram The One and Only Ivan- Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones, Santiago Colomo Martinez Documentary (Short Subject) Colette (Time Travel Unlimited) A Concerto Is a Conversation (Breakwater Studios) Do Not Split (Field of Vision) Hunger Ward (MTV Documentary Films) A Love Song for Latasha (Netflix) Short Film (Animated) Burrow (Disney Plus/Pixar) Genius Loci (Kazak Productions) If Anything Happens I Love You (Netflix) Opera (Beasts and Natives Alike) Yes-People (CAOZ hf. Hólamói) Short Film (Live Action) Feeling Through The Letter Room The Present Two Distant Strangers White Eye According to reports, the Academy Award producers- Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh, revealed that the ceremony set to be held on April 25, 2021, will take place at the Dolby Theatre and Los Angeles' railway hub, Union Station. For the audience in India, the ceremony will air on April 26, at 5.30 am IST.