Here Are The 2021 Oscar Winners

Despite the common misconception, a crap-ton of new movies came out in 2020. A global pandemic can’t stop Hollywood, just delay things over and over again. And in that spirit, the 93rd Academy Awards were given out last year and here is a list of the winners.

 

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Some of these winners are great and historic, some I think are bad—both the choices and the movies. As usual, the ceremony was a mixed bag full of wonderful earnest displays of joy, alongside groan-inducing forced bits and banter. And the night ended with a weird decision to give out the acting awards after Best Picture, which led to the most anticlimactic moment of the night. (Also, they missed some big ones in the In Memoriam segment. Seriously, you couldn’t slide in a Monte Hellman photo?) 

 

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I like some of these choices, I dislike others. That’s the way this goes most years. It’s a spectacle for sure, but whatever value you put in the Oscars, that’s up to you. 

 

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So here they are, the winners of the 93rd Academy Awards.

 

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Promising Young Woman, Written by Emerald Fennell

 

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
The Father, Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller

 

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Another Round, Denmark

 

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

 

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson

 

COSTUME DESIGN
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Ann Roth

 

DIRECTING
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao

 

SOUND
Sound of Metal, Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc

 

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Two Distant Strangers, Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe

 

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
If Anything Happens I Love You , Will McCormack and Michael Govier

 

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Soul, Pete Docter and Dana Murray

 

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
Colete, Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard

 

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
My Octopus Teacher, Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster

 

VISUAL EFFECTS
Tenet, Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher

 

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

 

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Mank, Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mank, Erik Messerschmidt

 

FILM EDITING
Sound of Metal, Mikkel E. G. Nielsen

 

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Soul, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste

 

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

 

BEST PICTURE
Nomadland, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Chloé Zhao, Producers

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Frances McDormand, Nomadland

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Anthony Hopkins, The Father