‘Mank’ leads Oscar race...
NOMINATIONS for the 93rd Academy Awards, the highest honours in the film industry, were announced on Monday.
The awards will be presented on April 25. Netflix’s 1930s Hollywood drama Mank led Oscar nominations with 10 nods, including best picture.
Other best picture nods went to dementia drama The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Koreanlanguage drama Minari, Nomadland, #MeToo revenge tale Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal and The Trial of the Chicago 7. South African documentary My Octopus Teacher also grabbed a nomination in the Best Documentary category.
Other best documentary nods include Collective, Crip Camp, The Mole Agent and Time. Director Chloe Zhao, who was born in China, nabbed one of the five best director nods for Nomadland, the Searchlight Pictures release about modern van dwellers in the US.
British director Emerald Fennell was nominated for Promising Young Woman. Only one woman, Kathryn Bigelow, has won for best director.
Lead actors picking up nominations included a first Oscar nod for the late Chadwick Boseman, previous winners Frances McDormand and Viola Davis, and Britons Carey Mulligan, Vanessa Kirby, Riz Ahmed and Gary Oldman. Key film nominations: Best Picture
Nomadland”
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Mank
Promising Young Woman Minari
The Father
Sound of Metal
Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Actor
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s
Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Gary Oldman – Mank
Steven Yeun – Minari
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young
Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Andra Day – The United States vs Billie
Holiday
Best Director Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
David Fincher – Mank
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the
Chicago 7
Leslie Odom jr – One Night in Miami Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
LaKeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Supporting Actress
Olivia Colman – The Father Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.