It’s hard to quibble too much with the recognition given to Minari, which, after being deemed too “foreign” to compete for the top honors at the Golden Globes, is now a six-time Oscar nominee, including for Best Picture. Surprise: Women directors break the glass ceiling It’s far too early to raise the “Mission Accomplished” banner-but this crop of nominees certainly looks a bit more like the world-and their performances were sublime. Just four white Americans were nominated meanwhile, the U.K., perhaps unsurprisingly, sent a strong contingent that includes Ahmed, Carrie Mulligan, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Kaluuya, Sacha Baron Cohen, Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins. (The previous record was seven.) Steven Yeun became the first Asian-American actor to be nominated for best actor Riz Ahmed became the first Muslim actor to do so, as well as the first person of Pakistani descent nominated for an Academy Award for acting. Five years after the second straight nominee pool was announced in which all 20 acting nominations went to white actors, a record nine nonwhite actors were nominated today. We hope #OscarsSoWhite creator April Reign, wherever she is, is having a great day. Photo Credit: Takashi Seida-© 2020 Paramount Pictures Corporation. Who did the Academy think the lead of the film was-Jesse Plemons? Meanwhile, Dominique Fishback, who delivers a quietly wrenching performance as activist Deborah Johnson, was snubbed. However, it is odd that for a two-handed movie, both Kaluuya and Stanfield were somehow nominated for supporting actor. King and Ryan Coogler-to be nominated for best picture.
Judas also became the first movie with an all-Black producing team-Shaka King, Charles D. Daniel Kaluuya became the youngest Black actor to reach two acting nominations (following Get Out) his and LaKeith Stanfield’s joint nominations mark the first time the Academy has recognized two Black male actors from the same film. While some prognosticators were skittish about its chances, the film was recognized up and down the ballot, setting plenty of precedents along the way. It’s become a recent tradition for Black ensemble movies to receive plenty of Oscar hype and then fail to be rewarded-but history did not repeat itself with Judas and the Black Messiah, which follows the life and death of Chicago Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton. Overall, streamers had a strong showing, proving how they have tightened their grip over the industry, especially during a year when people largely watched from home.
Six films scored six nominations- The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, Sound of Metal, and The Trial of the Chicago 7. This is the most racially and ethnically diverse set of acting nominees in Oscars history and prior to Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell’s directing nominations, never before have two female directors been nominated in the same year. The most-nominated film of the 93rd Annual Academy Awards, which were announced Monday morning by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas, shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who follows Oscars history: Mank, a celebratory Hollywood-movie-about-Hollywood, scooped up 10 nominations, including one for Best Picture.īut there were plenty of surprises and firsts among the nominations to match a bizarre year of change for the movie industry, in which theaters shuttered their doors across the country and productions were filmed in secret or with strict safety protocols, if at all.