The Awards Thread
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Kathy Bates (“Richard Jewell”)
Annette Bening (“The Report”)
Laura Dern (“Marriage Story”)
Jennifer Lopez (“Hustlers”)
Margot Robbie (“Bombshell”)Anna Paquin wuz ROBBED!!!
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The Hugo awards nominations period is open, and I’ve read sod all new stuff this year. Any recommendations for me to pick up and give a shot to?
Uh… is there a category for “Best short story from 70 years ago”?
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The Hugo awards nominations period is open, and I’ve read sod all new stuff this year. Any recommendations for me to pick up and give a shot to?
Uh… is there a category for “Best short story from 70 years ago”?
Almost, I can also nominate retro hugos for 1945
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Award Show Ratings Woes: Have Emmys, Oscars or Grammys Dropped Hardest in the Past 10 Years?
Make no mistake — for a broadcast network, hosting an award show is still a prize in the ratings department. But the numbers are less glittery than they were in days of yore.
When this month’s Oscars dropped 20 percent to its smallest audience ever (a still significant 23.6 million viewers), it continued a trend of waning numbers for star-studded kudoscasts. Last spring’s Tony Awards and September’s Emmy Awards also slipped to all-time lows, while last month’s Golden Globes hit an eight-year audience low and the Grammys dipped six percent after declining sharply the two years prior.
Looking back a full decade for each award show, the Primetime Emmy Awards are struggling the most, down 49 percent in audience over that span while dropping 61 percent in the coveted 18-49 demo. The Emmys’ most recent “high note” came in 2013, when Neil Patrick Harris hosted and the show scored its largest audience in eight years — 17.7 million total viewers. Modern Family was named Best Comedy for a fourth straight year, Breaking Bad won Best Drama and upstart-y Netflix collected three total trophies, including the first for an online-only series. In 2019, however, the Emmys didn’t even draw 7 million viewers.
The Academy Awards (or what you may call “the Oscars”) have sustained big hits as well, down 38 percent in audience over the past 10 years (while plunging 55 percent in the demo). Filmdom’s most recent apex came in 2014, when Ellen DeGeneres took a second turn as host and the ceremony delivered a whopping 43.7 million viewers aka the biggest crowd since 2000’s record-setting outing (which did 46.5 mil). That year, Gravity, 12 Years a Slave and Frozen were among the big winners. For the past two years, the Oscars have gone without a host; in 2019, the novel notion resulted in a tiny uptick, but this month the numbers took a plunge.
The Grammy Awards have fared not quite as horribly as their TV and film kin, down 30 percent in audience from 2011 while slipping 46 percent in the demo. That spike you see in 2012 came barely 24 hours after Whitney Houston’s tragic death. In a quickly planned tribute, Jennifer Hudson covered Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” while the ceremony’s other draw was Adele converting on all six of her nominations.
The Tony Awards tend to be quiet and stable, down “just” 23 and 33 percent from 10 years prior and enjoying a massive spike in 2016 when a little show called Hamilton amassed 11 total wins.
This year’s Ricky Gervais-hosted Golden Globes — despite hitting an eight-year audience low — actually drew a larger audience than the Gervais-hosted 2011 telecast. As the chart illustrated, the Hollywood Foreign Press’ mildly regarded gala enjoyed a serious shot in the arm when, in 2013, Tiny Fey and Amy Poehler began what would be a three-year reign as co-hosts. It’s been in decline since then, save for a small audience boost in 2017, when La La Land dominated.
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Oscars: Only diverse films will be considered for best picture
This is quite a poor news story from the BBC that doesn’t summarise the complexities of the new criteria very well, and makes it sound like a higher bar to clear than it actually is.
I think the new guidelines are more about making sure that the big movies aren’t all just based around (and made by) straight white males rather than pushing any specific diversity agenda.
You can argue the rights and wrongs of having forced criteria for that, but given the criticism that the Oscars have received in recent years I can see why they’ve handled it like this.
My feeling is that given that the Academy has been fairly clear about needing to reflect/encourage greater diversity, it’s probably better to have a clear set of public guidelines to see what the criteria are, rather than have people claim the process isn’t transparent and amounts to positive discrimination.
It’s worth checking out the original statement in full, here, for the complete set of criteria and how they apply.
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The Oscars have been criticized for not giving awards to more black/female/diverse people, but I don’t think it’s their fault. The pool of black/female/diverse people that they can give awards to is much smaller than the pool of white males because the movie industry isn’t giving those people the right prominence. It’s unfair to criticize the awards, when it’s the movie industry that chooses who to employ, and therefore who’s going to be eligible for awards. Once movie making is more diverse, the diversity in awards should naturally follow (and if it doesn’t, then criticize the Academy).
It’s like criticizing me for having very few black artists in my music collection. Yes, I freely admit that’s true, but as soon as more black artists start making prog rock I’ll be all over them. Until then, how is it actually me who is at fault?
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The Oscars have been criticized for not giving awards to more black/female/diverse people, but I don’t think it’s their fault. The pool of black/female/diverse people that they can give awards to is much smaller than the pool of white males because the movie industry isn’t giving those people the right prominence. It’s unfair to criticize the awards, when it’s the movie industry that chooses who to employ, and therefore who’s going to be eligible for awards. Once movie making is more diverse, the diversity in awards should naturally follow (and if it doesn’t, then criticize the Academy).
It’s a bit chicken-and-egg though isn’t it. Diversity in movie-making will be enhanced when the industry recognises that talent equally, and the Oscars are the ultimate recognition of that.
So while I understand the angle, I think that the Academy actively seeking to recognise diversity will hopefully contribute to wider employment of diverse creators in the industry, which will then generate a more representative industry as a whole, eventually requiring less active action on the part of the Academy to drive that.
Also, it’s worth bearing in mind that these criteria are only being put in place for one category at the moment, not across the board.
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The Oscars have been criticized for not giving awards to more black/female/diverse people
To be fair, a lot of Oscars have been awarded to people in the LGBTQ community. Probably because the Academy voters didn’t realize it at the time.
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Also, haven’t mexicans swept up the oscars for the past few years? =P
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Also, haven’t mexicans swept up the oscars for the past few years? =P
Well that’s just typical. There ought to be a damn wall or something.
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Rhea Seehorn and Bob Odenkirk not even being nominated for BCS seems like poor judgement. They’re doing fantastic stuff in that series.
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I mean, I know these awards are bs, but come the fuck on… the Mandalorian and Stranger Things??? Those got nominated whilethe Boys is nowhere to be found??? wow… and hey, forget about the Boys… the Mandalorian is very inferior to the rest of those shows in there… not worth an Emmy by any measure.
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Schitt’s Creek flew under my radar until they recently started advertising heavily for Netflix viewing. Looks like I may have to give it a try.
I have been hearing good things for some time about it but just haven’t gotten around to it.
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Seems like Succession must be a pretty good show, yeah?
(Just watched the trailer for the first season, it does look very good.)
Yeah, the first season is very good; the second season is fantastic. It’s from a lot of Iannucci alums, so it’s very much in that same space, just with a slightly different comedy/drama balance.
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Best Picture
“The Father” David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi and Philippe Carcassonne, Producers
“Judas and the Black Messiah” Shaka King, Charles D. King and Ryan Coogler, Producers
“Mank” Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth and Douglas Urbanski, Producers
“Minari” Christina Oh, Producer
“Nomadland” Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Chloé Zhao, Producers
“Promising Young Woman” Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell and Josey McNamara, Producers
“Sound of Metal” Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche, Producers
“The Trial of the Chicago 7” Marc Platt and Stuart Besser, ProducersActor in a Leading Role
Riz Ahmed in “Sound of Metal”
Chadwick Boseman in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Anthony Hopkins in “The Father”
Gary Oldman in “Mank”
Steven Yeun in “Minari”Actress in a Leading Role
Viola Davis in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Andra Day in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
Vanessa Kirby in “Pieces of a Woman”
Frances McDormand in “Nomadland”
Carey Mulligan in “Promising Young Woman”Actor in a Supporting Role
Sacha Baron Cohen in “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Daniel Kaluuya in “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Leslie Odom, Jr. in “One Night in Miami…”
Paul Raci in “Sound of Metal”
Lakeith Stanfield in “Judas and the Black Messiah”Actress in a Supporting Role
Maria Bakalova in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
Glenn Close in “Hillbilly Elegy”
Olivia Colman in “The Father”
Amanda Seyfried in “Mank”
Yuh-Jung Youn in “Minari”Directing
“Another Round” Thomas Vinterberg
“Mank” David Fincher
“Minari” Lee Isaac Chung
“Nomadland” Chloé Zhao
“Promising Young Woman” Emerald FennellWriting (Adapted Screenplay)
“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad
“The Father” Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
“Nomadland” Written for the screen by Chloé Zhao
“One Night in Miami…” Screenplay by Kemp Powers
“The White Tigers” Written for the screen by Ramin BahraniWriting (Original Screenplay)
“Judas and the Black Messiah” Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King; Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas
“Minari” Written by Lee Isaac Chung
“Promising Young Woman” Written by Emerald Fennell
“Sound of Metal” Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder; Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance
“The Trial of the Chicago 7” Written by Aaron SorkinCostume Design
“Emma” Alexandra Byrne
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Ann Roth
“Mank” Trish Summerville
“Mulan” Bina Daigeler
“Pinocchio” Massimo Cantini ParriniMusic (Original Score)
“Da 5 Bloods” Terence Blanchard
“Mank” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
“Minari” Emile Mosseri
“News of the World” James Newton Howard
“Soul” Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon BatisteMusic (Original Song)
“Fight For You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Music by H.E.R. and Dernst Emile II; Lyric by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas
“Hear My Voice” from “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Music by Daniel Pemberton; Lyric by Daniel Pemberton and Celeste Waite
“Husavik” from “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga”
Music and Lyric by Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus and Rickard Göransson
“Io Sì (Seen)” from “The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)”
Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Diane Warren and Laura Pausini
“Speak Now” from “One Night in Miami…”
Music and Lyric by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam AshworthDocumentary Feature
“Collective” Alexander Nanau and Bianca Oana
“Crip Camp” Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht and Sara Bolder
“The Mole Agent” Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibáñez
“My Octopus Teacher” Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster
“Time” Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino and Kellen QuinnDocumentary Short Subject
“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 Scheuerman
“A Love Song for Latasha” Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice DuncanAnimated Feature Film
“Onward” Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae
“Over the Moon” Glen Keane, Gennie Rim and Peilin Chou
“A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon” Richard Phelan, Will Becher and Paul Kewley
“Soul” Pete Docter and Dana Murray
“Wolfwalkers” Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young and Stéphan RoelantsAnimated Short Film
“Burrow” Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat
“Genius Loci” Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise
“If Anything Happens I Love You” Will McCormack and Michael Govier
“Opera” Erick Oh
“Yes-People” Gísli Darri Halldórsson and Arnar GunnarssonLive 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 HochmanInternational Feature Film
“Another Round” Denmark
“Better Days” Hong Kong
“Collective” Romania
“The Man Who Sold His Skin” Tunisia
“Quo Vadis, Aida?” Bosnia and HerzegovinaCinematography
“Judas and the Black Messiah” Sean Bobbitt
“Mank” Erik Messerschmidt
“News of the World” Dariusz Wolski
“Nomadland” Joshua James Richards
“The Trial of the Chicago 7” Phedon PapamichaelFilm Editing
“The Father” Yorgos Lamprinos
“Nomadland” Chloé Zhao
“Promising Young Woman” Frédéric Thoraval
“Sound of Metal” Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
“The Trial of the Chicago 7” Alan BaumgartenProduction Design
“The Father” Production Design: Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Production Design: Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton
“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 LucasMakeup and Hairstyling
“Emma” Marese Langan, Laura Allen and Claudia Stolze
“Hillbilly Elegy” Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson
“Mank” Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spiteri and Colleen LaBaff
“Pinocchio” Mark Coulier, Dalia Colli and Francesco PegorettiSound
“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 Elliott and David Parker
“Sound of Metal” Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip BladhVisual Effects
“Love and Monsters” Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox
“The Midnight Sky” Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins
“Mulan” Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram
“The One and Only Ivan” Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez
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I think it’s funny to see both Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya as Supporting Actors. Because they’re literally the two leads of that movie. I understand why they were probably pushed into that category since Boseman likely has best actor wrapped up, but it’s still funny the way these shows work.
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He’s got the post-humous factor, the biopic factor and the last-chance-to-get-one factor all in his favour, so it is pretty much a given he gets the win. Or we get an incredibly uncomfortable acceptance speech by one of the other nominees.
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Every sequel is adapted from the previous movie.
Borat would have counted as being adapted from Da Ali G Show too.
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The first movie franchise to get Best Screenplay nominations for its first two movies was The Godfather. The second was Borat.
Very nice.
This is one of those years where I’ve seen none of the best picture nominees, and might have no real interest in any of them.
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This is one of those years where I’ve seen none of the best picture nominees, and might have no real interest in any of them.
Sound Of Metal was amazing. I do recommend it!
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This is one of those years where I’ve seen none of the best picture nominees
That’s presumably going to be a common problem, as many of us have have little opportunity to go to the cinema. I watched exactly zero new movies last year.
This year streaming service debuts are eligible, though.
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That’s presumably going to be a common problem, as many of us have have little opportunity to go to the cinema. I watched exactly zero new movies last year.
And also every year between 1979 and last year.
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I do quite want to watch Trial Of The Chicago 7 but I’m worried I’m going to be lost without having seen the first six.
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I think at the moment it’s being positioned as a one-off, but to me it feels like something it might be hard to reverse. We’ll see.
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I just watched NOMADLAND last night. Three thoughts came to mind:
1. I hope it wins every Oscar for which it has been nominated; and
2. What made the MCU powers-that-be decide that Chloe Zhao would be the perfect choice to direct THE ETERNALS?
3. I’m reallllllllly looking forward to seeing THE ETERNALS now.
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Mank and Trial of the Chicago 7 are on Netflix, Sound of Metal is on Amazon Prime and Nomadland is on Hulu. Judas and the Black Messiah just left HBO Max. Some of the others are available to rent on demand. So if you have access to any of the major streaming services, the opportunity to watch some of the nominees certainly exists.
Mostly just in the US though.
In the UK/Ireland, Judas and the Black Messiah is available as a premium rental, and Mank and Chicago 7 are on Netflix, but those three are the only ones available.
Sound of Metal isn’t out until May, The Father isn’t out until June. Nomadland is on Disney+ at the end of April, Minari is out at the start of April (but only in cinemas). Promising Young Woman, despite having a British star and writer/director, has no UK release lined up at all yet.
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3. I’m reallllllllly looking forward to seeing THE ETERNALS now.
I heard Marvel are absolutely blown away by what Zhao has given them, so I’m just praying there are no more Covid-related delays to the MCU schedule – get your shit together, America!
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This is one of those years where I’ve seen none of the best picture nominees
That’s presumably going to be a common problem, as many of us have have little opportunity to go to the cinema. I watched exactly zero new movies last year.
Even aside from legal streaming (which even pre-Covid was a thing like with Roma where a limited theatrical release was carried out just to qualify, no?) often Oscar films will have left theatres by the time of the ceremony or been available via less than legal download. I knew that Mank and Chicago Seven were Netflix efforts, I assumed all of the films were available to stream almost exclusively since Tenet became such a disaster.
The Big Picture podcast (with my man-crush Sean Fennessey) made the same comment as Chris D – Boseman will almost certainly win Best Actor so the pair of supporting noms for Stanfield and Kaluya make sense.
Speculation that Glenn Close will win for her role is a widely panned film just as more of a cumulative/career nod (like Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman, or Scorsese for The Departed).
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I do quite want to watch Trial Of The Chicago 7 but I’m worried I’m going to be lost without having seen the first six.
did you also worry about not getting vaccinated against the first 18 Covids?
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Full list of Oscar winners in this weird year. Anthony Hopkins wins his 2nd best actor award which I like as I’m biased, he comes from my home town.
Best original screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman – WINNER
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7Best adapted screenplay
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
The Father – WINNER
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
The White TigerBest international feature film
Another Round – WINNER
Better Days
Collective
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Quo Vadis, Aida?Best actor in a supporting role
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah – WINNER
Leslie Odom, Jr, One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black MessiahBest makeup and hairstyling
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – WINNER
Mank
PinocchioBest costume design
Emma
Mank
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – WINNER
Mulan
PinocchioJean Hersholt humanitarian award
MPTF (Motion Picture & Television Fund)
Best director
Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
David Fincher, Mank
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland – WINNERBest sound
Greyhound
Mank
News of the World
Sound of Metal – WINNER
SoulBest live-action short film
Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
Two Distant Strangers – WINNER
White EyeBest animated short film
Burrow
Genius Loci
If Anything Happens I Love You – WINNER
Opera
Yes-PeopleBest animated feature film
Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul – WINNER
WolfwalkersBest documentary short
Colette – WINNER
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
A Love Song for LatashaBest documentary
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
My Octopus Teacher – WINNER
TimeBest visual effects
Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet – WINNERBest actress in a supporting role
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari – WINNERBest production design
The Father
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank – WINNER
News of the World
TenetBest cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank – WINNER
News of the World
Nomadland
The Trial of the Chicago 7Best film editing
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal – WINNER
The Trial of the Chicago 7Jean Hersholt humanitarian award
Tyler Perry
Best original score
Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Soul – WINNERBest original song
Husavik, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Fight For You, Judas and the Black Messiah – WINNER
Io Sì (Seen), The Life Ahead
Speak Now, One Night in Miami
Hear My Voice, The Trial of the Chicago 7Best picture
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Nomadland – WINNER
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7Best 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 – WINNER
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young WomanBest actor in a leading role
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins, The Father – WINNER
Gary Oldman, Mank
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Posh Kenneth won an Oscar? Awesome.
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