THE 93rd Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, April 25 in Los Angeles.
The award show will honor the best films of 2020 and early 2021.
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What are the Oscars 2021 predictions?
Media outlets have turned in their final predictions for all 23 categories for this year’s Oscars.
Best Picture
The nominees for Best Picture are:
- The Father
- Judas and the Black Messiah
- Mank
- Minari
- Nomadland
- Promising Young Woman
- Sound of Metal
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
Nomadland is predicted to take home the award for Best Picture.
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Best Director
The nominees for Best Director are:
- Lee Isaac Chung: Minari
- Emerald Fennell: Promising Young Woman
- David Fincher: Mank
- Chloé Zhao: Nomadland
- Thomas Vinterberg: Another Round
Zhao is predicted to take stage and claim her award for Best Director for her work in Nomadland.
Best Actor
The nominees for Best Actor are:
- Riz Ahmed: Sound of Metal
- Chadwick Boseman: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Anthony Hopkins: The Father
- Gary Oldman: Mank
- Steven Yeun: Minari
Late actor Boseman is predicted win the award for Best Actor.
Best Actress
The nominees for Best Actress are:
- 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
Davis is expected to win the award for Best Actress, however, some may argue Mulligan has as much of a chance to with with her performance as Cassie Thomas in Promising Young Woman
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Best Supporting Actor
The nominees for Best Supporting Actor are:
- 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
Kaluuya is expected to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Best Supporting Actress
The nominees for Best Supporting Actress are:
- Maria Bakalova: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
- Glenn Close: Hillbilly Elegy
- Olivia Colman: The Father
- Amanda Seyfried: Mank
- Yuh-Jung Youn: Minari
Youn performance in Minari are predicted to win her the award for Best Supporting Actress.
Original Screenplay
The nominees for Original Screenplay are:
- Judas and the Black Messiah: screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King; story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas
- Minari: Lee Isaac Chung
- Promising Young Woman: Emerald Fennell
- Sound of Metal: screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder; story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance
- The Trial of the Chicago 7: Aaron Sorkin
This category is filled with first-time nominees, however, Fennell is expected to walk away with the award after beating out Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 for the Writers Guild Award.
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Adapted Screenplay
The nominees for Adapted Screenplay are:
- Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad
- The Father: Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
- Nomadland: Chloé Zhao
- One Night in Miami …: Kemp Powers
- The White Tiger: Ramin Bahrani
The best picture winner almost always wins a screenplay award, so the safe bet here would be Nomadland.
Animated Feature
The nominees for Animated Feature are:
- Onward
- Over the Moon
- A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
- Soul
- Wolfwalkers
Pixar’s Soul is expected to win the award for Animate Feature.
Production Design
The nominees for Production Design are:
- The Father: Peter Francis and Cathy Featherstone
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: Mark Ricker, Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton
- Mank: Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale
- News of the World: David Crank and Elizabeth Keenan
- Tenet: Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas
Films set in the modern day or the future very rarely take this award, therefore, The Father, the day-after-tomorrow sci-fi film Tenet and Mank are among those contenders.
Nonetheless, The Father is predicted to walk away with the Production Design award at this years Oscars.
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Makeup and Hairstyling
The nominees for Makeup and Hairstyling are:
- Emma: Marese Langan, Laura Allen and Claudia Stolze
- Hillbilly Elegy: Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson
- Mank: Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spiteri and Colleen LaBaff
- Pinocchio: Mark Coulier, Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti
The Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling is predicted to go to the folks behind Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Cinematography
The nominees for Cinematography are:
- Judas and the Black Messiah: Sean Bobbitt
- Mank: Erik Messerschmidt
- News of the World: Dariusz Wolski
- Nomadland: Joshua James Richards
- The Trial of the Chicago 7: Phedon Papamichael
Nomadland is the front-runner to win this year’s Cinematography award.
Costume Design
The nominees for Costume Design are:
- Emma: Alexandra Byrne
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: Ann Roth
- Mank: Trish Summerville
- Mulan: Bina Daigeler
- Pinocchio: Massimo Cantini Parrini
When the costumes become a character in the film, you have won the Oscar, especially when those costumes are designed by an 89-year-old master in Ann Roth.
Editing
The nominees for Editing are:
- The Father: Yorgos Lamprinos
- Nomadland: Chloé Zhao
- Promising Young Woman: Frédéric Thoraval
- Sound of Metal: Mikkel E. G. Nielsen’
- The Trial of the Chicago 7: Alan Baumgarten
The award for film Editing is a toss up between Nielsen’s South of Metal and Baumgarten’s The Trial of the Chicago 7.
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Sound
The nominees for Sound are:
- Greyhound: Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman
- Mank: Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin
- News of the World: Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett
- Soul: Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker
- Sound of Metal: Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh
Sound of Metal is all about the main character’s relationship to sound, from the aural assault of the heavy metal he plays to the more subtle sonic vibrations picked up as his hearing begins to fade.
Sound of Heavy metal will walk away with the Oscar for Sound.
Visual Effects
The nominees for Visual Effects are:
- Love and Monsters: Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox
- The Midnight Sky: Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins
- Mulan: Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram
- The One and Only Ivan: Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez
- Tenet: Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher
Christopher Nolan’s action packed movie Tenet is predicted to take home the Oscar for Visual Effects at this years award show.
Original Score
The nominees for Original Score are:
- Da 5 Bloods: Terence Blanchard
- Mank: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
- Minari: Emile Mosseri
- News of the World: James Newton Howard
- Soul: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
The fact that Soul is about a musician will give the Pixar film the edge for this award.
Original Song
The nominees for Original Song are:
- Fight For You (Judas and the Black Messiah): music by H.E.R. and Dernst Emile II, lyric by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas
- Hear My Voice (The Trial of the Chicago 7): music by Daniel Pemberton, lyric by Daniel Pemberton and Celeste Waite
- Husavik (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga): music and lyric by Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus and Rickard Göransson
- Io Sì (Seen) (The Life Ahead): music by Diane Warren; lyric by Diane Warren and Laura Pausin
The safe bet for best original song is for Speak Now from One Night in Miami, performed by the supporting-actor nominee Leslie Odom Jr.
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Documentary Feature
The nominees for Documentary Feature are:
- Collective
- Crip Camp
- The Mole Agent
- My Octopus Teacher
- Time
My Octopus Teacher is predicted to take home the award for Documentary Feature.
International Feature
The nominees for International Feature are:
- Another Round: Denmark
- Better Days: Hong Kong
- Collective: Romania
- The Man Who Sold His Skin: Tunisia
- Quo Vadis, Aida?: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Another Round, the film about an openhearted man reconnecting with life, at first through booze and then self-reflection is expected to walk away with the Oscar for International Feature.
Animated Short
The nominees for Animated Short are:
- Burrow
- Genius Loci
- If Anything Happens I Love You
- Opera
- Yes-People
In a field that’s mostly dominated by wordless, whimsical shorts, If Anything Happens I Love You stands out from the rest.
Documentary Short
The nominees for Documentary Short are:
- Colette
- A Concerto Is a Conversation
- Do Not Split
- Hunger Ward
- A Love Song for Latasha
Sophia Nahli Allison’s approach to celebrating the life of Latasha Harlins – the 15-year-old Black girl killed in a South-Central Los Angeles liquor store in 1992 – in A Love Song For Latasha is surely the clear cut winner for this Oscar.
Live-Action Short
The nominees for Live-Action Short are:
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- Feeling Through
- The Letter Room
- The Present
- Two Distant Strangers
- White Eye
The thoughtful Feeling Through and The Letter Room are potential winners in this category, however, Two Distant Strangers – a time loop treatment of a Black man’s many encounters with a murderous police officer, seems to have the edge.
