Oscar 2021, all the nominations: from “Nomadland” to “Mank” (and Laura Pausini)

A ceremony like never before. The promise to make history, to show inclusion and integration. The Oscars, which the United States will award on Sunday 25 April, with a direct hybrid, staged between different locations in Los Angeles, have brought with them various hopes. For the first time, two women received a nomination for best director, being guaranteed the possibility to change, forever, the film industry. Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell, who last year directed, respectively, Nomadland e Promising young woman, they are the sixth and seventh women to have been given a chance in the most coveted competition.

E i Golden Globes, dove Nomadland has won the favor of critics, they seem to have given them a good chance of victory.

Zhao, who at the 2021 Oscars, will present himself with a total of four nominations, a record figure for a woman, will compete among the favorites, clashing with Mank, the most nominated of the films. The Netflix film garnered a total of ten nominations, leading the platform to dominate the Oscar race, with thirty-five overall nominations. The big comeback of streaming, however, could be held back by Threatening, directed by the Korean Lee Isaac Chung. The title, the first to reopen Italian cinemas, was so successful – with audiences and critics – that it substantiated the idea of ​​a possible victory. But making predictions, in the most sudden and improvised edition of the Oscars, is not easy. Especially for Italy, which Covid-19 has prevented from seeing most of the films in the competition. The hope, to date, is that the country can make up for it with Laura Pausini, competing for the best original song.

All nominations:

Best film
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Threatening
Nomadland
A promising woman
Sound of Metal
The Chicago Trial 7

Best direction
Thomas Vinterberg – Another round
David Fincher – Mank
Lee Isaac Chung – Threatening
Chloe Zhao – Nomadland
Emerald Fennell – A promising woman

Best Lead Actor
Ahmed Rice – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Gary Oldman – Mank
Steven Yeun – Threatening

Best 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 – A promising woman

Best Supporting Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Chicago Trial 7
Daniel Kaluuyah – 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 2
Glenn Close – American Elegy
Olivia Colman – The Father
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Yuh-Jung Youn – Threatening

Best Original Screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah
Threatening
A promising woman
Sound of Metal
The Chicago Trial 7

Best Non-Original Screenplay
Borat 2
The Father
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
The White Tiger

Best International Film
Another round (Druk), directed by Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
Collective (Collective), region of Alenxander Nanau (Romania)
The Man Who Sold His Skin, directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia)
Where are you going, Aida?, region of Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Shàonián de nǐ, regia at Derek Tsang (Hong Kong)

Best Animated Film
Onward
Over the Moon
Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon – The Movie
Soul
Wolfwalkers

Best photography
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
News from the world
Nomadland
The Chicago Trial 7

Best scenography
The Father
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
News from the world
Tenet

Best editing
The Father
Nomadland
A promising woman
Sound of Metal
The Chicago Trial 7

Best soundtrack
Terence Blanchard – From 5 Bloods – Like Brothers
Emile Mosseri – Threatening
James Newton Howard – News from the world
Trent Reznor e Atticus Ross – Mank
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross e Jon Batiste – Soul

Best song
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Chicago Trial 7
Eurovision
Life ahead of him
One Night in Miami

Best visual effects
Love and monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet

Best sound
Greyhound
Mank
News from the world
Soul
Sound of Metal

Best Costumes
Emma
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Mulan
Pinocchio

Best makeup and hairstyle
Emma
American elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Pinocchio

Best Documentary
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
My Octopus Teacher
Time

Best Documentary Short Film
Colette
A concerto is a conversation
Do not split
Hunger ward
A love song for latasha

Best Short Film
Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
Two Distant Strangers
White Eye

Best Animated Short Film
Burrow
Genius Loci
If anything happens I love you
Opera
Yes-People