Mank Leads 93rd Annual Academy Award Nominations With 10

The nominations are in for the 93rd annual Academy Awards, with David Fincher’s Mank leading the way in total nods. The Fincher-directed biographical drama earned 10 nominations as was announced on Monday morning to lead the way, beating out six films which all earned six nominations. Mank was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Fincher), Best Actor (Gary Oldman), Best Supporting Actress (Amanda Seyfried), Best Original Score (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross), Best Sound, Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Production Design.

Tied for second with most nominees were a host of films in The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, Sound of Metal, and The Trial of the Chicago 7. All of those films joined Mank in the Best Picture Race, as did Promising Young Woman which earned five nominations.

Notable among the other nominees, 2021 marks the first year that two women were nominated for Best Director in Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) and Chloé Zhao (Nomadland>). Additionally, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross find themselves in self-competition as they were both nominated not only for Mank, but also Soul alongside Jon Batiste. Chadwick Boseman is a post-mortem nominee, being nominated for Best Actor for his work in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Boseman won the Golden Globe for that performance.

You can see the full list of nominees below. The 93rd Academy Awards will take place in person from several different locations on April 25th, including the traditional Dolby Theatre. It will air on ABC.

Best Picture

* The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)
* Mank (Netflix)
* Minari (A24)
* Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
* Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)
* Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)
* The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)

Best Director

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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

* Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
* Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
* Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
* Gary Oldman (Mank)
* Steven Yeun (Minari)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

* 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)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

* 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)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

* Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Nina Pedrad, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Swimer
* The Father – Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
* Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
* One Night in Miami – Kemp Powers
* The White Tiger – Ramin Bahrani

Best Original Screenplay

* Judas and the Black Messiah – Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas, Kenneth Lucas
* Minari – Lee Isaac Chung
* Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell
* Sound of Metal – Abraham Marder, Darius Marder, Derek Cianfrance
* The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin

Best Original Song

* “Fight for You,” (Judas and the Black Messiah)
* “Hear My Voice,” (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
* “Húsavík,” (Eurovision Song Contest)
* “Io Si (Seen),” (The Life Ahead)
* “Speak Now,” (One Night in Miami)

Best Original Score

* Da 5 Bloods – Terence Blanchard
* Mank – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
* Minari – Emile Mosseri
* News of the World – James Newton Howard
* Soul – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste

Best Sound

* Greyhound – Odin Benitez, Jason King, Christian P. Minkler, Michael Minkler, Jeff Sawyer
* Mank – Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance, Drew Kunin
* News of the World – John Pritchett, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller, Oliver Tarney, Michael Fentum
* Soul – Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Vince Caro
* Sound of Metal – Phillip Bladh, Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés, Carolina Santana

Best Costume Design

* Emma – Alexandra Byrne
* Mank – Trish Summerville
* Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth
* Mulan – Bina Daigeler
* Pinocchio – Massimo Cantini Parrini

Best Animated Short Film

* Burrow (Disney Plus/Pixar)
* Genius Loci (Kazak Productions)
* If Anything Happens I Love You (Netflix)
* Opera (Beasts and Natives Alike)
* Yes-People (CAOZ hf. Hólamói)

Best Live Action Short Film

* Feeling Through
* The Letter Room
* The Present
* Two Distant Strangers
* White Eye

Best Animated Feature Film

* Onward (Pixar)
* Over the Moon (Netflix)
* Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (Netflix)
* Soul (Pixar)
* Wolfwalkers (Apple TV Plus/GKIDS)

Best Cinematography

* 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

Best Documentary Feature

* Collective (Magnolia Pictures and Participant)
* Crip Camp (Netflix)
* The Mole Agent (Gravitas Ventures)
* My Octopus Teacher (Netflix)
* Time (Amazon Studios)

Best Documentary Short Subject

* Colette (Time Travel Unlimited)
* A Concerto Is a Conversation (Breakwater Studios)
* Do Not Split (Field of Vision)
* Hunger Ward (MTV Documentary Films)
* A Love Song for Latasha (Netflix)

Best Film Editing

* 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

Best International Feature Film

* Another Round (Denmark)
* Better Days (Hong Kong)
* Collective (Romania)
* The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia)
* Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

* Emma – Marese Langan
* Hillbilly Elegy – Eryn Krueger Mekash, Patricia Dehaney, Matthew Mungle
* Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Matiki Anoff, Mia Neal, Larry M. Cherry
* Mank – Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams
* Pinocchio – Dalia Colli, Anna Kieber, Sebastian Lochmann, Stephen Murphy

Best Production Design

* The Father – Peter Francis, Cathy Featherstone
* Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Mark Ricker, Karen O’Hara, Diana Stoughton
* Mank – Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale
* News of the World – David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan
* Tenet – Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas

Best Visual Effects

* Love and Monsters
* The Midnight Sky
* Mulan
* The One and Only Ivan
* Tenet