The Oscars 2021

[aprout]

Despite everything, they're still going ahead. We're getting a later show this year on April 25.


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

Best Actor
Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins - The Father
Gary Oldman - Mank
Steven Yeun - Minari

Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close - Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman - The Father
Amanda Seyfried - Mank
Youn Yuh-jung - Minari

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 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

Best Costume Design
Emma
Mank
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mulan
Pinocchio

Best Original Score
Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Soul

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

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

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

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

Best Film Editing
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best 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 Makeup and Hairstyling
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank, Kimberley Spiteri
Pinocchio

Best Original Song
Fight for You - Judas and the Black Messiah
Hear My Voice - The Trial of the Chicago 7
Húsavík - Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga
Io Si - Seen - The Life Ahead
Speak Now - One Night in Miami

Best Production Design
The Father
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
News of the World
Tenet

Best Visual Effects
Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet

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

Best Documentary Short Subject
Colette
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
A Love Song for Latasha

Best Animated Short Film
Burrow
Genius Loci
If Anything Happens I Love You
Opera
Yes-People


Yep, Borat 2 is now an Oscar-nominated movie. Wow. Just. Wow.

I fully expect Chadwick Boseman to get a posthumous win, Chloé Zhao to get best director, & Spike Lee to go on many rants about how Da 5 Bloods has been largely ignored again.

[Ono]

Not watched any of the Best Picture films although I did start the first 5 minutes of Minari.

Trump will go mental if another South Korean based film sweeps the board

[HitmanKelly]

Borat? Oscars?

Am I missing something??

[AdamBrunt]

Originally Posted by Ono

Not watched any of the Best Picture films although I did start the first 5 minutes of Minari.

Trump will go mental if another South Korean based film sweeps the board

I don't think The Father is even out yet ? If that is the Alzheimer's one with Hopkins and Coleman.

[malcy]

Originally Posted by AdamBrunt

I don't think The Father is even out yet ? If that is the Alzheimer's one with Hopkins and Coleman.

Current date is 11th June.

[Shingster]

To be fair to Maria Bakalova, she's very good in Borat and the quality of the film really doesn't have any bearing on the talent of the performers much of the time. You can be brilliant in a stupid bit of fluff or even something truly woeful. I think Borat's nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay though is probably more of a **** take than much of what goes down in the film itself (and I actually enjoyed Borat 2 for the most part!).

Gotta say, 2020 has been a real struggle for me to keep up to date on news rekeases and this is the first Oscars ceremony in decades where I've not seen about 90% of the films nominated. The pandemic has proven the film industry doesn't need cinemas, but got damn if spreading out the distribution of films across the various different streaming services out there has made it a real ******* pain in the arse for viewerrs to keep track and keep up with what's coming out and where. It also feels like to me that this year has been particularly bad for overlooking movies released earlier in the Oscars year, most of what I see in the nominations list seems to have come out in the last three months or so.

Nomadland is the only oscars-favourite that I've seen and it's excellent. The thread over on Blu-ray.com is quite amusing as well, infested with the usual comic book fanboys moaning about how boring it is (one person even said Frances McDormand is the worst actor to ever have won an oscar ). One member said something along the lines of "I've watched it three times now and it bores me to tears"! which pretty much sums up how some people are completely incapable of trusting their own taste in film, who the hell watches a film they don't enjoy three times hoping to reach the critical consensus?

[dvdphile]

At least we’ve got over a month to try and watch them all! It would be great if Minari got best picture but I doubt it after Parasite last year.
Farmageddon though? Didn’t that come out in 2019?

[cliff homewood]

Saw my octopus teacher recently. Good film, recommended. Wonder if itll win.

Trial of the CHicago 7 is one of the best films I saw last year, Sorkin pull si tout of the bag yet again. Didn't like Mank though, found that a bit dull

[Jez]

Mank a film designed for and only really enjoyed by film makers and their critics.

Love Fincher as well.

[shteve]

Only got round to watching The Trial of the Chicago 7 last weekend and thought it was very good. Not seen any of the others.

[cliff homewood]

Originally Posted by Jez

Mank a film designed for and only really enjoyed by film makers and their critics.

Love Fincher as well.

I also love Fincher, for me he peaked with Fight Club, one of my favourite films

[AdamBrunt]

Saw The Father today - thought it was very good and if the judges are in the right mood it may well sneak it IMHO.

Good performances from Hopkins and Colman though if you have had a parent(s) with dementia some of it might be upsetting viewing.

[cliff homewood]

Saw The Dissident yesterday which really should be up for best documentary oscar but having trouble getting distribution as it critiques Saudi Arabia and is an uncomfortable truth as we are all allies with the country (oil and arms deals).

[Tob]

I don't really like Sorkin, but I watched 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' last night and enjoyed it. I'm surprised Mark Rylance didn't pick up a nomination, although I'm really behind in seeing the other contenders this year.

[dvdphile]

We watched The Dissident at the weekend and found it very interesting but also quite disturbing too!
We also watched Minari which was OK but I found it to be a bit slow really. It was well filmed and the family dynamics were good, but I just felt like it didn’t really go anywhere. It wasn’t as good as Parasite in my opinion anyway.

[Shingster]

I wasn't all that impressed with The Dissident, it offers no more information than reading a relatively short news article would provide and is mostly bogged down by flashy direction. More substance, less style, or at least a shorter runtime would have done this doc the world of good.

[dvdphile]

Originally Posted by cliff homewood

Saw The Dissident yesterday which really should be up for best documentary oscar but having trouble getting distribution as it critiques Saudi Arabia and is an uncomfortable truth as we are all allies with the country (oil and arms deals).

Isn’t it strange that most of the categories have at least 5 options, whereas the documentaries only has 4?

[dvdphile]

Just watched My Octopus Teacher and loved it! I now hope it wins the Oscar! The underwater filming was incredible, and the relationship with the octopus was very moving! My eyes were watering at one point too! Must’ve had an allergic reaction or something?

[AdamBrunt]

Good to see Hopkins got Best Actor BAFTA. It really is a brilliant performance in The Father