2021 OSCARS: The Winners

Here are the winners of the 2021 Oscars (93rd annual Academy Awards). I correctly predicted 5 of the Top 8 categories. Like everyone else, I was completely blindsided by Frances McDormand's Best Actress win. I actually thought that Anthony Hopkins should win for Best Actor but like everyone else, expected Chadwick Boseman to do so. Similarly, I thought The Father should win for Adapted Screenplay but expected Nomadland to do so. It was great to see a woman win Best Director (for only the second time ever!) and now two Asians have won this award in consecutive years.

Best Picture
Nomadland

Best Actor
Anthony Hopkins, The Father

Best Actress
Frances McDormand, Nomadland

Best Director
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Supporting Actress
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best International Feature
Another Round

Best Animated Feature 
Soul

Best Documentary Feature
My Octopus Teacher

Best Original Score
Soul

Best Original Song
“Fight for You,” Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Original Screenplay
Promising Young Woman

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Father

Best Cinematography
Mank

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Costume Design
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Film Editing
Sound of Metal

Best Sound
Sound of Metal

Best Live-Action Short
Two Distant Strangers

Best Animated Short
If Anything Happens I Love You

Best Documentary Short
Colette

Best Visual Effects
Tenet

Best Production Design
Mank

2021 OSCARS: My Predictions in the Top 8 Categories

Here is my annual prediction post for the 2021 Oscars, i.e. the 93nd Academy Awards. I really just consider the Top 8 categories on the blog but I often play the Oscar prediction game like lots of other people (on other websites) where I think about all 24 categories.  In 2019 I predicted 4 of 8 categories correctly and in 2020 I predicted 6 of 8 correctly.  This year I have seen all of the Best Picture nominees.

Best Picture:

• “The Father” 
• “Judas and the Black Messiah”
  
• "Mank"
• “Minari” 
• “Nomadland” 
• “Promising Young Woman” 
• “Sound of Metal” 
• “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
  

SHOULD WIN: Minari.
WILL WIN: Nomadland.

Director:

• Thomas Vinterberg (“Another Round”)
• David Fincher (“Mank”)
• Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”)
• Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”)
  
• Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”)

SHOULD WIN: David Fincher, Mank.

WILL WIN: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland.

Lead Actor:

• Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”)
• Chadwick Boseman (“Ma Rainey's Black Bottom”)
• Anthony Hopkins (“The Father")
• Gary Oldman (“Mank”)
• Steven Yeun  (“Minari”)

SHOULD WIN: Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal.

WILL WIN: Chadwick  Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

Lead Actress:

• Viola Davis (“Ma Rainey's Black Bottom”)
• Andra Day (“The United States v. Billie Holiday”)
• Vanessa Kirby (“Pieces of a Woman”)
• Frances McDormand  (“Nomadland”)
• Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”)
  

SHOULD WIN: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

WILL WIN: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman.

Supporting Actor:

• 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”)

SHOULD WIN: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah.

WILL WIN: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah.

Supporting Actress:

• Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”)
• Glenn Close (“Hillbilly Elegy”)
• Olivia Colman (“The Father”)
• Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”)
• Yuh-jung Youn (“Minari”)

SHOULD WIN: Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy.

WILL WIN: Yuh-jung Youn, Minari.

Original Screenplay:

• Will Berson and Shaka King (“Judas and the Black Messiah”)
• Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”)
• Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”)
• Darius Marder and Abraham Marder (“Sound of Metal”)
• Aaron Sorkin (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”)
  

SHOULD WIN: Minari.

WILL WIN: Promising Young Woman.

Adapted Screenplay:

• Sacha Baron Cohen et alia (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”)
• Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (“The Father”)
• Chloe Zhao (“Nomadland”)
• Kemp Powers (“One Night in Miami”)
• Ramin Bahrani (“The White Tiger”)
  

SHOULD WIN: The Father.

WILL WIN: Nomadland.