Oscar Award Winners 2021

93rd Academy Awards ceremony was postponed due to Pandemic impact.

April 25th Academy awards was presented.

Netflix was the leading winner at the 2021 Oscars with seven awards but none of those wins came in any of the traditionally big categories.

In fact, again major Studios ruled major awards. Disney (five) which ruled that department, Nomadland picking three of the big four (Picture, Director, Actor and Actress). Warner Bros. (three for Tenet, and Judas and the Black Messiah) was next, with both Sony Pictures (The Father) and Amazon Studios (Sound of Metal) garnering two apiece. Netflix’s Mank had the most nominations (10) but it won for Best Cinematography.

2021 Oscar for Best Picture

Nomadland — WINNER
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

 Best Director

Chloe Zhao, Nomadland — WINNER
Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
David Fincher, Mank
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Best Actor

Anthony Hopkins, The Father — WINNER
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Gary Oldman, Mank
Steven Yeun, Minari

 Best Actress

Frances McDormand, Nomadland — WINNER
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

 Best Supporting Actor

Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah — WINNER
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami…
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
LaKeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black MessiahB

Best Supporting Actress

Yuh-jung Youn, Minari — WINNER
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank

Best Original Screenplay

Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman — WINNER
Will Berson & Shaka King, Judas and the Black Messiah
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Darius Marder & Abraham Marder, Sound of Metal
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay

Florian Zeller & Christopher Hampton, The Father — WINNER
Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman & Lee Kern, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Kemp Powers, One Night in Miami…
Ramin Bahrani, The White Tiger

 Best Animated Feature Film

Soul Onward – Winner
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

Wolf wakers

Best International Feature Film

Another Round, Denmark — WINNER
Better Days, Hong Kong
Collective, Romania
The Man Who Sold His Skin, Tunisia
Quo Vadis, Aida?, Bosnia

Documentary – Feature

My Octopus Teacher — WINNER
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
Time

 Best Documentary – Short Subject

Colette — WINNER
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
A Love Song for Latasha

Best Live Action Short Film

Two Distant Strangers — WINNER
Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
White Eye

Best Animated Short Film

Compiled by

CJ Rajkumar

Author/ Cinematographer