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[Follow live coverage and analysis of the Oscar nominations.]

This time last year, the red carpets were already back in storage.

The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled to take place on April 25, more than two months later than last year’s ceremony. The awards will recognize films released during a year in which movie theaters were largely closed.

Streaming services, which were already on the rise as an awards-season presence, are poised to dominate in April, both with their own productions (like Netflix’s “Mank”) and with traditional studio films that were released through streaming platforms because of the pandemic (like Searchlight Pictures’s “Nomadland,” which is streaming on Hulu).

Nominations were announced on Monday morning. See below for the full list.

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
Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”
Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
David Fincher, “Mank”
Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
Thomas Vinterberg, “Another Round”

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

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 Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”
Olivia Colman, “The Father”
Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”
Yuh-Jung Youn, “Minari”

Original Screenplay
“Judas and the Black Messiah”
“Minari”
“Promising Young Woman”
“Sound of Metal”
“The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Adapted Screenplay
“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
“The Father”
“Nomadland”
“One Night in Miami”
“The White Tiger”

Animated Feature
“Onward”
“Over the Moon”
“A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon”
“Soul”
“Wolfwalkers”

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

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

Cinematography
Sean Bobbitt, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Erik Messerschmidt, “Mank”
Dariusz Wolski, “News of the World”
Joshua James Richards, “Nomadland”
Phedon Papamichael, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Editing
“The Father”
“Nomadland”
“Promising Young Woman”
“Sound of Metal”
“The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Makeup and Hairstyling
“Emma”
“Hillbilly Elegy”
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
“Mank”
“Pinocchio”

Sound
“Greyhound”
“Mank”
“News of the World”
“Soul”
“Sound of Metal”

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

Score
“Da 5 Bloods”
“Mank”
“Minari”
“News of the World”
“Soul”

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

Documentary Feature
“Collective”
“Crip Camp”
“The Mole Agent”
“My Octopus Teacher”
“Time”

International Feature
“Another Round,” Denmark
“Better Days,” Hong Kong
“Collective,” Romania
“The Man Who Sold His Skin,” Tunisia
“Quo Vadis, Aida?” Bosnia and Herzegovina

Animated Short
“Burrow”
“Genius Loci”
“If Anything Happens I Love You”
“Opera”
“Yes-People”

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

Live-Action Short
“Feeling Through”
“The Letter Room”
“The Present”
“Two Distant Strangers”
“White Eye”

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I have not heard of most of the movies that have been nominated, but I'm sure you have.
 
I have not heard of most of the movies that have been nominated, but I'm sure you have.
No, I'm in the same boat. Living under a rock has done me well because popular culture has become worse and worse. If anything I expect the Oscars to be a train wreck like the Grammy's was with awarding black and female talent, and how the media comes out like this is something revolutionary.
 
Wolf walkers or Shaun the Sheep for best animated. Shaun did way more without a single line of dialog than most recent Pixar films.

I really wanted to like Onward but it desperately needed more time in the oven . It could have been something really special and it’s frustrating to see that potential shining through all the jank.

Soul would have been better if they hadn’t tried to go so high concept with the afterlife shit and toned that part of the movie way down. Just too many rules about the world to keep track of, a lot of them introduced too late in the film, and too much conflict invented out of nowhere to build tension without any forewarning.

Over the Moon was a wild concept, but it’s nomination is basically a flex by the Chinese Communists so fuck it, it’s out.
 
Why are they even having the Oscars? Its not like many movies got released last year.

Seems like a waste of time for the Hollywood snobs to stroke their own egos and have a big party congratulating themselves...oh yeah, that's why they're doing it.

Seriously though, I have not heard of most of the movies nominated in most categories.
 
As usual I will not watch the actual show but will watch a select few movies, disregard the rest as trash, and then get mad when my favorites inevitably lose for not being the wokest option. I'm particularly looking forward to the inevitable Best Actor for Chadwick Boseman because he's black and dead.

Nomadland looks ok if a bit depressing. Wasn't a fan of Three Billboards, but I can't really blame the actress. I wonder if the director being Chinese will lend itself to a more sympathetic eye on the subject matter.
Minari looks good - definitely will give it a watch. I'm sure they will put plenty of attention on racist white people as usual but I think I'll be able to overlook it.
Another Round just looks great, I'm going to give it a watch sometime this week.

Maybe I'm overlooking one or two (The Sound of Metal, maybe?) but the rest looks like the usual selection of race politics and turgid dramas. I hate Hollywood and I'm sure the show will be garbage made even worse by celebrities calling in on Zoom.
 
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No, I'm in the same boat. Living under a rock has done me well because popular culture has become worse and worse. If anything I expect the Oscars to be a train wreck like the Grammy's was with awarding black and female talent, and how the media comes out like this is something revolutionary.
The French Cesars award said "hold my beer" when French "actress" Corinne Masiero goes further than Janet Jackson during the 2021 Cesars award. https://www.vulture.com/2021/03/corinne-masiero-strips-nude-at-frances-cesar-awards-protest.html
 
Minari looks good - definitely will give it a watch. I'm sure they will put plenty of attention on racist white people as usual but I think I'll be able to overlook it.

Actually, Minari has nothing like that, apart from some overly-friendly southern church types. Its focus is almost entirely on the internal family drama. I wasn't blown away by it or anything, but it's not wokebait. Everything in it felt really plausible for the time and place it's set in.
 
Actually, Minari has nothing like that, apart from some overly-friendly southern church types. Its focus is almost entirely on the internal family drama. I wasn't blown away by it or anything, but it's not wokebait. Everything in it felt really plausible for the time and place it's set in.
That's reassuring. I definitely got that vibe from the trailer but I was worried it would fall victim to those tropes. I guess it's an actual Korean director so that makes sense. Looking forward to checking it out then.
 
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Haven't seen any of these movies granted that's not becuase of Covid. Oscars always has movies that I have never seen
 
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Mulan being nominated for anything is bullshit. "Visual effects" maybe, but the shitty editing fucks all of that to pieces that you forget there were actual visual effects (which honestly means nothing anymore due to CGI). "Costume design" is proof they're blind and tone-deaf 'cause even the Chinese were harping on the costumes.

Outside of animated features, and that's barely, I haven't heard of any of these movies, and frankly don't care to. Yawn. Wake me when the Academy ratings come out and we see it hit a record new low.
 
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