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Best Picture

Nomadland

The Father

Judas and the Black Messiah

Mank

Minari

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Actor

Anthony Hopkins – The Father

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Gary Oldman – Mank

Steven Yeun – Minari

Best Actress

Frances McDormand – Nomadland

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

Sacha Baron Cohen...

Two Distant Strangers directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe won their first Oscar for Best Live-Action Short tonight at the 93rd Academy Awards.

In his acceptance speech, Free exclaimed that “God is good,” before launching into a statement on policing in America. “Today, the police will kill three people, and tomorrow, the police will kill three people—and the day after that, police will kill three people,” he said, “because on average, the police in America everyday kill three people, which amounts to about 1,000 people per year.”

Noting that “those people happen to disproportionately be Black people,” he then went on to reference iconic writer James Baldwin, who once said, “The most despicable thing a person can be is indifferent to other peoples’ pain.”

“So, I just ask that you please not be indifferent,” Free pleaded, in closing. “Please don’t be indifferent to our pain.”

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Sunday was a big night for “Nomadland,” “Judas and the Black Messiah” and “The Father”

The 2021 Oscars were a celebration of Covid vaccines and “Nomadland,” which took home the Oscar for Best Picture. “Nomadland” also earned Academy Awards for director Chloé Zhao and star Frances McDormand.

In a surprise, Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for “The Father.” Sunday’s supporting awards went to Daniel Kaluuya (“Judas and the Black Messiah”) and Yuh-Jung Youn (“Minari”).

David Fincher’s “Mank” entered the evening with 10 Academy Award nominations, but exited with only two relatively minor wins. Find all of the nominees and winners below.

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Best Original Screenplay

“Judas and the Black Messiah”

“Minari”

“Promising Young Woman” *Winner

“Sound of Metal”

“The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Adapted Screenplay

“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”

“The Father” *Winner

“Nomadland”

“One Night in Miami...

Heavily slimmed-down show takes place at Los Angeles venues in Union Station, Dolby Theatre.

British talent has made a strong showing in the early awards at the 93rd Academy Awards.

Emerald Fennell won best original screenplay for Promising Young Woman, while Daniel Kaluuya was named best supporting actor for Judas And The Black Messiah.

Carey Mulligan and Vanessa Kirby are in the running for lead actress, while Anthony Hopkins, Riz Ahmed and Gary Oldman are contesting the lead actor category.

Chloe Zhao became only the second woman in history to win the directing Oscar and collected her statuettefor Nomadland on...

The current odds in our predictions center indicate that “The Letter Room” is out front to win this year’s Oscar for Best Live Action Short. These odds are calculated based on the forecasts made by our Expert film journalists, Gold Derby Editors, Top 24 Users and the thousands of regular Gold Derby readers making their predictions.

But is there a chance that one of the other nominees could upset this frontrunner? Let’s examine all five of this year’s nominees, in order by their current Gold Derby odds.

“The Letter Room” (odds of winning: 71/20)

Richard (Oscar Isaac) is a correctional officer who is transferred to a new position in the prison’s mail room. As he scans letters for prohibited content, he finds himself becoming drawn to the letters a death row prisoner receives from his girlfriend that are never replied to.

This marks the first Oscar nomination for Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan.

The complete list of nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards, which will be held at 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (PST) on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at various places in Los Angeles, including the Dolby Theater.

BEST PICTURE

Nomadland (Searchlight)

Minari (A24)

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)

Promising Young Woman (Focus)

Sound of Metal (Amazon)

Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)

Mank (Netflix)

The Father (Sony Classics)

BEST DIRECTOR

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)

David Fincher (Mank)

Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)

Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)

Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)

Anthony Hopkins (The Father)

Gary Oldman (Mank)

Steven Yeun (Minari)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Frances McDormand (Nomadland)

Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)

Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)

Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)

Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami)

Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah)

Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Olivia Colman (The Father)

Youn Yuh-jung (Minari)

Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)

Amanda Seyfried (Mank)

Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)

One Night in Miami (Kemp Powers)

The Father (Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller)

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Sacha Baron Cohen and Co-Writers)

The White Tiger (Ramin Bahrani)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)

Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)

Sound of Metal (Derek Cianfrance, Abraham Marder & Darius Marder)

Judas and the Black Messiah (Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas & Kenny Lucas)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Crip Camp (Netflix)

Time (Amazon)

Collective (Magnolia/Participant)

My Octopus Teacher (Netflix)

The Mole Agent (Gravitas)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

Another Round (Denmark)

Collective (Romania)

Better Days (Hong Kong)

Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

The Man Who Sold His Skin (Sweden)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Soul (Pixar)

Wolfwalkers (Apple TV+/GKIDS)

Over the Moon (Netflix)

Onward (Pixar)

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (Netflix)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Mank - Erik Messerschmidt

Nomadland - Joshua James Richards

News of the World -Dariusz Wolski

Judas and the Black Messiah - Sean Bobbitt

The Trial of the Chicago 7 -Phedon Papamichael

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Mank - Trish Summerville

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ann Roth

Emma - Alexandra Byrne

Mulan - Bina Daigeler

Pinocchio - Massimo Cantini Parrini

BEST FILM EDITING

Sound of Metal - Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

Nomadland - Chloé Zhao

The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Alan Baumgarten

The Father - Yorgos Lamprinos

Promising Young Woman - Frédéric Thoraval

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal, Jamika Wilson

Mank - Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams, Colleen LaBaff

Hillbilly Elegy - Eryn Krueger Mekash, Patricia Dehaney, Matthew Mungle

Emma - Marese Langan, Laura Allen, Claudia Stolze

Pinocchio - Dalia Colli, Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Soul - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste

Mank - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Minari - Emile Mosseri

News of the World - James Newton Howard

Da 5 Bloods - Terence Blanchard

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"Speak Now" (One Night in Miami)

"Io Si (Seen)" (The Life Ahead)

"Husavik" (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga)

"Hear My Voice" (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

"Fight For You" (Judas and the Black Messiah)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Mank - Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Production Design: Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton

News of the World - Production Design: David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan

The Father - Production Design: Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone

Tenet - Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas

BEST SOUND

Sound of Metal - Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh

News of the World - Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett

Soul - Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker

Mank - Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin

Greyhound - Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Tenet - Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher

The Midnight Sky - Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins

The One and Only Ivan - Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez

Mulan - Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram

Love and Monsters - Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

If Anything Happens I Love You

Burrow

Yes-People

Opera

Genius Loci

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

A Concerto Is a Conversation

A Love Song for Latasha

Colette

Do Not Split

Hunger Ward

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

Two Distant Strangers

Feeling Through

The Present

The Letter Room

White Eye...