93rd Academy Awards: Oscar Winners 2021 Complete List
BEST PICTURE
NOMADLAND
Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, and Chloé Zhao, Producers
FILM SYNOPSIS
A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
ANTHONY HOPKINS
The Father
FILM SYNOPSIS
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind, and even the fabric of his reality.
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
DANIEL KALUUYA
Judas and the Black Messiah
FILM SYNOPSIS
Bill O’Neal infiltrates the Black Panther Party per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Party Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
FRANCES MCDORMAND
Nomadland
FILM SYNOPSIS
A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
YUH-JUNG YOUN
Minari
FILM SYNOPSIS
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
SOUL
Pete Docter and Dana Murray
FILM SYNOPSIS
A jazz musician, stuck in a mediocre job, finally gets his big break. However, when a wrong step takes him to the Great Before, he tries to help an infant soul in order to return to reality.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
MANK
Erik Messerschmidt
FILM SYNOPSIS
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish “Citizen Kane.”
COSTUME DESIGN
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Ann Roth
FILM SYNOPSIS
During a recording session, tensions rise between Ma Rainey, her ambitious horn player, and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable “Mother of the Blues”.
DIRECTING
NOMADLAND
Chloé Zhao
FILM SYNOPSIS
A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, and Craig Foster
FILM SYNOPSIS
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
COLETTE
Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard
FILM SYNOPSIS
Colette follows former French Resistance member Colette Marin-Catherine as she travels to Germany for the first time in 74 years. Her visit is inspired by a young history student who enters her life and convinces her to visit the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp where her brother died at the hands of the Nazis.
FILM EDITING
SOUND OF METAL
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
FILM SYNOPSIS
A heavy-metal drummer’s life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
ANOTHER ROUND
Denmark
FILM SYNOPSIS
Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal, and Jamika Wilson
FILM SYNOPSIS
Tensions arose when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gathered at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
SOUL
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
FILM SYNOPSIS
A jazz musician, stuck in a mediocre job, finally gets his big break. However, when a wrong step takes him to the Great Before, he tries to help an infant soul in order to return to reality.
MUSIC (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
PRODUCTION DESIGN
MANK
Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU
Will McCormack and Michael Govier
FILM SYNOPSIS
In the aftermath of tragedy, two grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child.
SHORT FILM (LIVE-ACTION)
TWO DISTANT STRANGERS
Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe
FILM SYNOPSIS
Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 American short science-fiction drama film written by Travon Free and directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe. The film examines the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death.
SOUND
SOUND OF METAL
Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh
VISUAL EFFECTS
TENET
Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley, and Scott Fisher
FILM SYNOPSIS
A secret agent is given a single word as his weapon and sent to prevent the onset of World War III. He must travel through time and bend the laws of nature in order to be successful in his mission.
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
THE FATHER
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Written by Emerald Fennell
FILM SYNOPSIS
Nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be — she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs from the past.
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