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93rd Academy Awards
Date	April 25, 2021
Site	Dolby Theatre Union Station Los Angeles, California
Produced by	Jesse Collins Stacey Sher Steven Soderbergh
Directed by	Glenn Weiss
Highlights
Best Picture	Mank
Most awards	Mank (3)
Most nominations	Mank (10)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC

The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will honor the best films released between January 1, 2020, and February 28, 2021. It is scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, at both the Dolby Theatre and Union Station, on April 25, 2021, two months later than originally planned, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema. The nominations were announced on March 15, 2021.

Nominations

The nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards were announced on March 15, 2021, in a global livestream on the official website by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas.

Mank led the nominees with ten, and was the only Best Picture-nominated film lacking a nomination for its screenplay. This marked the first year since the expansion of the Best Picture field in 2009 that every Best Picture nominee received at least one acting nomination. Judas and the Black Messiah became the first Best Picture nominee with all Black producers. Collective became the second consecutive film to receive nomination for both Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature, following Honeyland.

For the first time in Academy history, the Best Director category included two women, Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell, who also became the second and third women to receive simultaneous nominations for producing, directing, and writing, after Sofia Coppola in 2003. Additionally, Zhao and Lee Isaac Chung also became the first pair of Asian directors nominated in the same year. With its nomination in the Best Director category, Another Round became the third film since the expansion to fail to also receive a nomination for Best Picture, following Foxcatcher and Cold War.

For their roles in Minari and Sound of Metal, Steven Yeun and Riz Ahmed became the first Asian-American and Muslim actors to be nominated for Best Actor. With their nominations for Best Actress, Viola Davis and Andra Day became the second pair of Black actresses nominated in the same year since Diana Ross and Cicely Tyson at the 45th Academy Awards. Coincidentally, Ross and Day were both nominated for playing Billie Holiday. Davis also became the most nominated Black actress with four nominations. Leslie Odom Jr. became the fourth consecutive person and first male to receive acting and songwriting nominations for the same film, following Mary J. Blige, Lady Gaga and Cynthia Erivo. For their roles in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and Minari, Maria Bakalova and Youn Yuh-jung became the first Bulgarian and Korean actresses to be nominated for an acting category.

Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for their roles in Judas and the Black Messiah. The two actors appearing in the supporting category proved unexpected and confusing to the public and awards pundits, due to Warner Bros. Pictures having campaigned Stanfield for Best Actor. Kyle Buchanan of the New York Times jokingly questioned, "If Stanfield and Kaluuya are both supporting actors, then who exactly is this movie supposed to be about?" This is also the second consecutive Academy Awards where two actors from the same film were nominated in that category. In the preceding year, (2020), Joe Pesci and Al Pacino received nominations in the same category for The Irishman.

Films directed by women received nominations in 17 categories, a record, including the first two nominations in the Best Visual Effects category, namely The One and Only Ivan and Mulan by Thea Sharrock and Niki Caro, respectively.

Awards

Best Picture Mank – Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, and Douglas Urbanski‡ The Father – David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, and Philippe Carcassonne Judas and the Black Messiah – Shaka King, Charles D. King, and Ryan Coogler Minari – Christina Oh Nomadland – Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, and Chloé Zhao Promising Young Woman – Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell, and Josey McNamara Sound of Metal – Bert Hamelinick and Sacha Ben Harroche The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Marc Platt and Stuart Besser	Best Director David Fincher – Mank ‡ Lee Isaac Chung – Minari Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Best Actor Anthony Hopkins – The Father as Anthony‡ Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green (posthumous nominee) Gary Oldman – Mank as Herman J. Mankiewicz Steven Yeun – Minari as Jacob Yi	Best Actress Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern‡ Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday as Billie Holiday Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman as Martha Weiss Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra “Cassie” Thomas
Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton‡ Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Abbie Hoffman Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami... as Sam Cooke Paul Raci – Sound of Metal as Joe Lakeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah as William "Bill" O'Neal	Best Supporting Actress Olivia Colman – The Father as Anne‡ Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance Amanda Seyfried – Mank as Marion Davies Youn Yuh-jung – Minari as Soon-ja
Best Original Screenplay Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell‡ Judas and the Black Messiah – Screenplay by Will Berson and Shaka King; Story by Berson, King, Keith Lucas and Kenny Lucas Minari – Lee Isaac Chung Sound of Metal – Screenplay by Darius Marder and Abraham Marder; Story by Darius Marder and Derek Cianfrance The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin	Best Adapted Screenplay Nomadland – Chloé Zhao, based on the book by Jessica Bruder ‡ Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, and Lee Kern; Story by Baron Cohen, Hines, Swimer, and Nina Pedrad; Based on the character Borat Sagdiyev by Baron Cohen The Father – Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller, based on the play by Zeller One Night in Miami... – Kemp Powers, based on his play The White Tiger – Ramin Bahrani, based on the novel by Aravind Adiga
Best International Feature Film Quo Vadis, Aida? ‡ (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in Bosnian – directed by Jasmila Žbanić Another Round (Denmark) in Danish – directed by Thomas Vinterberg Better Days (Hong Kong) in Mandarin – directed by Derek Tsang Collective (Romania) in Romanian – directed by Alexander Nanau The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia) in Arabic – directed by Kaouther Ben Hania	Best Cinematography Mank – Erik Messerschmidt ‡ Nomadland – Joshua James Richards Judas and the Black Messiah – Sean Bobbitt News of the World – Dariusz Wolski The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Phedon Papamichael
Best Costume Design Emma. – Alexandra Byrne ‡ Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth Mank – Trish Summerville Mulan – Bina Daigeler Pinocchio – Massimo Cantini Parrini	Best Production Design Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Production Design: Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara and Diana Sroughton ‡ The Father – Production Design: Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone Mank – Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale News of the World – Production Design: David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan Tenet – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal, and Jamika Wilson ‡ Emma. – Marese Langan, Laura Allen, and Claudia Stolze Hillbilly Elegy – Eryn Krueger Mekash, Patricia Dehaney, and Matthew Mungle Mank – Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spiteri and Colleen LaBaff Pinocchio – Dalia Colli, Mark Coulier, and Francesco Pegoretti	Best Sound Sound of Metal – Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortes, and Philip Bladh ‡ Greyhound – Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders, and David Wyman Mank – Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance, and Drew Kunin News of the World – Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller, and John Pritchett Soul – Ren Klyce, Coya Elliot, and David Parker
Best Original Score Soul – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste ‡ Da 5 Bloods – Terence Blanchard Mank – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Minari – Emile Mosseri News of the World – James Newton Howard	Best Original Song "Fight for You" from Judas and the Black Messiah – Music by D'Mile and H.E.R.; Lyric by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas ‡ "Hear My Voice" from The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Music by Daniel Pemberton; Lyric by Celeste and Pemberton "Husavik" from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga – Music and Lyric by Rickard Göransson, Fat Max Gsus and Savan Kotecha "Io sì (Seen)" from The Life Ahead – Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Laura Pausini and Warren "Speak Now" from One Night in Miami... – Music and Lyric by Sam Ashworth and Leslie Odom Jr.
Best Film Editing The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten The Father – Yorgos Lamprinos Nomadland – Chloé Zhao Promising Young Woman – Frédéric Thoraval Sound of Metal – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen	Best Visual Effects Tenet – Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher Love and Monsters – Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camailleri, Matt Everitt, and Brian Cox The Midnight Sky – Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawren, Max Solomon, and David Watkins Mulan – Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury, and Steven Ingram The One and Only Ivan – Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones, and Santiago Colomo Martinez
Best Animated Feature Film Soul – Pete Docter and Dana Murray Onward – Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae Over the Moon – Glen Keane, Gennie Rin, and Peilin Chou A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon – Richard Phelan, Will Becher, and Paul Kewley Wolfwalkers – Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young, and Stéphan Roelants	Best Animated Short Film If Anything Happens I Love You – Will McCormack and Michael Govier Burrow – Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat Genius Loci – Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise Opera – Erick Oh Yes-People – Gísli Darri Halldórsson and Arnar Gunnarsson
Best Documentary Feature My Octopus Teacher – Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, and Craig Foster ‡ Collective – Alexander Nanau and Bianca Oana Crip Camp – Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht and Sara Bolder The Mole Agent – Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibáñez Time – Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino, and Kellen Quinn	Best Documentary Short Subject A Love Song for Latasha – Sophia Nahali Allison and Janice Duncan ‡ Colette – Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard A Concerto Is a Conversation – Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers Do Not Split – Anders Hammer and Charlotte Cook Hunger Ward – Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Shueuerman
Best Live Action Short Film Feeling Through – Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski ‡ The Letter Room – Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan The Present – Farah Nabulsi Two Distant Strangers – Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe White Eye – Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman

Governors Awards

The Academy cancelled its annual Governors Awards ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has planned to incorporate the winners into the Oscar ceremony. This is the first year of the Governors Awards in which there have not been any official winners of the Academy Honorary Award.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Tyler Perry – for his active engagement with philanthropy and charitable endeavors in recent years, including efforts to address homelessness and economic difficulties faced by members of his community.
• Motion Picture & Television Fund – being honored for the emotional and financial relief services it offers to members of the entertainment industry.

Films with multiple nominations

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
10	Mank
6	The Father
	Judas and the Black Messiah
	Minari
	Nomadland
	Sound of Metal
	The Trial of the Chicago 7
5	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
	Promising Young Woman
4	News of the World
3	One Night in Miami...
	Soul
2	Another Round
	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
	Collective
	Emma.
	Hillbilly Elegy
	Mulan
	Pinocchio
	Tenet

Films with multiple nominations

Films that received multiple awards

Awards	Film
3	Mank
2	The Father
	Judas and the Black Messiah
	Nomadland

Background

The Academy announced in June 2020 that it was postponing the ceremony from its originally scheduled date of February 28, 2021, to April 25 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema, thereby extending the eligibility period for feature films through to February 28, 2021. The eligibility criteria had already been modified to account for films originally intended to have a theatrical release but which were ultimately released directly to video. It marks the fourth time that the Academy Awards have been postponed, and the first time since the 6th Academy Awards that films released in two different calendar years will be eligible for award consideration in the same ceremony.

Ceremony information

During its board of governors meeting on April 28, 2020, the Academy voted to consolidate the Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing category into a single Best Sound category (reducing the total number of categories to 23). The Sound branch had raised concerns that the two categories had too much overlap in scope. The rules for Best Original Score now require that a film's score include a minimum of 60% original music, and franchise films and sequels must have a minimum of 80% new music. For the first time, preliminary voting for Best International Feature Film will also be open to all voting members of the Academy.

As part of the Academy's environmental initiatives, the distribution of physical and hardcopy items such as screener copies, screenplays, and music CDs will be discontinued after the 93rd Academy Awards. Screeners will be served solely through the members-only "Academy Screening Room" streaming service going forward.

On December 8, 2020, Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh were named the producers of the ceremony. Glenn Weiss is slated to direct the ceremony.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the American film industry – including interruptions to film production and the nationwide closures of cinemas due to restrictions on commerce and public gatherings – is expected to have a major impact on the 93rd ceremony. In particular, the Academy Awards require films to have received a theatrical release in the previous calendar year, in at least one cinema in Los Angeles County for at least seven days with three screenings per-day, in order to be eligible. The Golden Globe Awards had changed its criteria for its 2021 edition to allow films originally scheduled to have a "bona fide theatrical release" in Los Angeles between March 15 and April 30 to be eligible if released direct-to-streaming. In regard to the Oscars, the Academy stated that it was "in the process of evaluating all aspects of this uncertain landscape and what changes may need to be made".

The AMPAS delayed its board of governors meeting to April 28, where it voted to temporarily allow films first released via password-protected (covering subscription streaming services) or transactional video on demand services to be eligible for nominations at the 93rd Academy Awards, if they were originally scheduled to have a theatrical release, and are uploaded to AMPAS's online screening service within 60 days of their public release. The previous requirement for a seven-day theatrical release will be reinstated once cinemas have sufficiently resumed operations. To allow ease of compliance with the criteria, eligible screenings will also be allowed to occur in other major cities besides LA, specifically Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

There were talks of postponing or even canceling the 93rd ceremony. On June 15, 2020, the Academy announced that the ceremony would be delayed by two months from February 28, 2021, to April 25, 2021, and the eligibility periods for feature films would be extended through February 28, 2021. In a joint statement, AMPAS president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson explained that "for over a century, movies have played an important role in comforting, inspiring, and entertaining us during the darkest of times. They certainly have this year. Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalized for something beyond anyone’s control." The Academy's Governors Awards and Scientific and Technical Awards have been postponed indefinitely. Following the postponement announcement, the British Academy Film Awards also moved from February to April, and the Golden Globe Awards took the Oscars' previous date by moving to February 28.

On October 7, 2020, the Academy issued a clarification of its eligibility criteria, stating that a week of nightly screenings at a drive-in theater within the aforementioned cities would also render films eligible for consideration in the 93rd ceremony.

On December 1, 2020, a representative of the Academy told Variety that an in-person ceremony "will happen", as opposed to a fully remote or hybrid format. A hybrid format was used by the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, where the host and award presenters were present on-site, but all nominees appeared from remote locations. On March 15, the Academy announced that the ceremony would take place at Los Angeles Union Station in addition to the Dolby Theater, although exact details over how the ceremony will be split between these venues has yet to be announced. All other in-person festivities associated with the Academy Awards have been canceled.

On March 19, 2021, the show's organizers announced that nominees would not be able to attend via video conference. In a letter sent out to all the nominees, the producers have said that they went to "great lengths to provide a safe and enjoyable evening for all of you in person" believing that a "virtual thing will diminish those efforts".

See also

• List of submissions to the 93rd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
• 41st Golden Raspberry Awards

External links

• Academy Awards official website
• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences official website
• Oscars channel at YouTube (run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

Other resources

• The Oscars (2021) at IMDb