Academy Awards 2021 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Animated Feature Film	Best International Feature Film
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Best Sound	Best Production Design
Best Cinematography	Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Costume Design	Best Film Editing
Best Visual Effects

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Best Picture

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

Best Director

• Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
• Mank (David Fincher)
• Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
• Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
• Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Chadwick Boseman)
• Mank (Gary Oldman)
• Minari (Steven Yeun)
• Sound of Metal (Riz Ahmed)
• The Father (Anthony Hopkins)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Viola Davis)
• Nomadland (Frances McDormand)
• Pieces of a Woman (Vanessa Kirby)
• Promising Young Woman (Carey Mulligan)
• The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Andra Day)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Judas and the Black Messiah (LaKeith Stanfield)
• Judas and the Black Messiah (Daniel Kaluuya)
• One Night in Miami... (Leslie Odom Jr.)
• Sound of Metal (Paul Raci)
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Sacha Baron Cohen)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Maria Bakalova)
• Hillbilly Elegy (Glenn Close)
• Mank (Amanda Seyfried)
• Minari (Youn Yuh-jung)
• The Father (Olivia Colman)

Best Original Screenplay

• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Minari
• Promising Young Woman
• Sound of Metal
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Nomadland
• One Night in Miami...
• The Father
• The White Tiger

Best Animated Feature Film

• A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
• Onward
• Over the Moon
• Soul
• Wolfwalkers

Best International Feature Film

• Another Round (Denmark)
• Better Days (Hong Kong)
• Collective (Romania)
• Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia)

Best Documentary Feature

• Collective
• Crip Camp
• My Octopus Teacher
• The Mole Agent
• Time

Best Documentary Short

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

Best Live Action 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

Best Original Score

• Da 5 Bloods
• Mank
• Minari
• News of the World
• Soul

Best Original Song

• Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga ("Husavik")
• Judas and the Black Messiah ("Fight for You")
• One Night in Miami... ("Speak Now")
• The Life Ahead ("Io Sì (Seen)")
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 ("Hear My Voice")

Best Sound

• Greyhound
• Mank
• News of the World
• Soul
• Sound of Metal

Best Production Design

• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Mank
• News of the World
• Tenet
• The Father

Best Cinematography

• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Mank
• News of the World
• Nomadland
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Emma.
• Hillbilly Elegy
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Mank
• Pinocchio

Best Costume Design

• Emma.
• Hillbilly Elegy
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Mank
• Pinocchio

Best Film Editing

• Nomadland
• Promising Young Woman
• Sound of Metal
• The Father
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Visual Effects

• Love and Monsters
• Mulan
• Tenet
• The Midnight Sky
• The One and Only Ivan