The 2021 Oscar nominations are in, and even Hollywood’s biggest night looks a little different this year.
Mank leads the field with 10 nominations, including Best Picture, directing and acting recognition for Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried. The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, Sound of Metal and The Trial of the Chicago 7 follow with six nominations each.
The Best Picture field also includes Promising Young Woman, giving this year’s race stories about family, protest, revenge, journalism, displacement and the golden age of Hollywood. After a year when many theaters remained dark, the movies still found plenty to say.
The nominations also brought several historic firsts. Steven Yeun became the first Asian American nominated for best actor, while Riz Ahmed became the first Muslim nominated in the category. For the first time, two women, Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell, were nominated for directing in the same year.
Chadwick Boseman received a posthumous best actor nomination for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Viola Davis earned a leading actress nomination for the film, making her the most-nominated Black actress in Oscar history at the time.
Here is a look at the nominees in several of the ceremony’s biggest categories.
Best Picture
The Father
Producers David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi and Philippe Carcassonne
Judas and the Black Messiah
Producers Shaka King, Charles D. King and Ryan Coogler
Mank
Producers Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth and Douglas Urbanski
Minari
Producer Christina Oh
Nomadland
Producers Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Chloé Zhao
Promising Young Woman
Producers Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell and Josey McNamara
Sound of Metal
Producers Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Producers Marc Platt and Stuart Besser
Actor in a Leading Role
The leading actor field includes Riz Ahmed as a drummer confronting sudden hearing loss, Chadwick Boseman as an ambitious trumpeter, Anthony Hopkins as a man losing his grip on reality, Gary Oldman as screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and Steven Yeun as a father chasing the American dream in rural Arkansas.
Riz Ahmed
Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins
The Father
Gary Oldman
Mank
Steven Yeun
Minari
Actress in a Leading Role
The leading actress nominees include Viola Davis, Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, Frances McDormand and Carey Mulligan. Their performances span blues, grief, revenge, survival and the kind of cross-country living arrangement that makes even a cramped apartment look surprisingly luxurious.
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
Actor in a Supporting Role
Judas and the Black Messiah claimed two spots in the supporting actor category, with Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield both receiving nominations. They are joined by Sacha Baron Cohen, Leslie Odom Jr. and Paul Raci.
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
Actress in a Supporting Role
The supporting actress race includes Maria Bakalova’s breakout performance opposite Sacha Baron Cohen, Glenn Close’s transformation in Hillbilly Elegy and Yuh-Jung Youn’s scene-stealing turn as a grandmother who does not fit anyone’s expectations.
Maria Bakalova
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Glenn Close
Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman
The Father
Amanda Seyfried
Mank
Yuh-Jung Youn
Minari
Animated Feature Film
The animated feature nominees include two Pixar adventures, a journey to the moon, a return from Shaun the Sheep and a hand-drawn Irish fantasy. Between lost souls, magical wolves and extraterrestrial farm trouble, animation had a strange year too.
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 Roelants
The 93rd Academy Awards will be held April 25 at Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and broadcast live on ABC.