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This is the longest awards season and the most divided between sessions in theaters and home theaters, and voting members of the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seem to have wanted to make this a landmark year for their elections as well. It is the first time that two women have been nominated for Best Achievement. Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell, both new to the nominations, are up for Best Director and Best Picture with Nomadland – Survive in America me Promising young woman:, respectively. Films still unreleased in Portugal in this infinite session of continuous blur that is the pandemic. These Oscars also tell a story about it. in the meantime MankDavid Fincher’s Netflix film about classic Hollywood is the most nominated with mentions in ten categories.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas, speaking from London, announced the nominations for 23 categories at the 93rd Academy Awards this Monday morning (Lisbon time). The president of the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles confirmed that the Oscars ceremony will take place on April 25 at two locations: at Union Station in Los Angeles, to allow for distance, and at the Dolby Theater. from the same city. .
These are the Oscars of the pandemic and his film tells the stories of America’s working class (Nomadland), emigration to America (Threatening), racism in America (Judas and the Black Messiah), the cultural revolution in America (The Chicago 7) and the construction of the pinnacle of cinema in America (Mank).
These nominees for the valuable Oscar for Best Picture are accompanied in that list of stories of our time or of all time: about the consequences of sexual violence (Promising young woman: a girl with potential), on addictions, love and hearing loss (I am metal) and a family duet (The father). However, they are interrupted movies.
Know that 70 women received 76 nominations (a record) or nominate Riz Ahmed for the first time (I am metal) and Chadwick Boseman (for Ma Rainey: the mother of blues – posthumously, the seventh actor in that situation) for Best Actor, to have Thomas Vinterberg double candidate in the realization and in the International Film with Another round o ensuring diversity in major categories is part of the American narrative. A few years ago, it was called #OscarsSoWhite. Until 2020, with a changing Academy, it was already possible to risk some #OscarsSoRight.
Chloe zhao
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But this year the Oscars are also a story that translates into so many other countries, that of the state of cinema. There was no doubt about Netflix’s dominance in these Oscars, not only as a producer feverish to fill catalog and mark a position in a market where it is the spearhead of change, but also because so many 2020/21 premieres have been postponed due to the pandemic. And so many cinemas have been and are closed. Many of the nominated films are accessible to viewers limited to Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV +, Disney +, and the like. In 2020, Netflix already had 24 nominations; this year it totaled 35, it is the most nominated study. Among these nominations are two for Best Picture (Mank me The Chicago 7), list where it also appears Som do Metal, also Amazon.
In Portuguese theaters, the Oscar season usually results in some premieres saved during the first two months of the year and, therefore, coincide with possible nominations or even awards. But 2021 is so unusual that in addition to the Oscars two months later than usual, the premiere scene is atypical and further conditions a ceremony that wants to be synonymous with the relevance of (North American) cinema but has also been one of the most important. the open wounds of tension between rooms and transmission.
Named as Minari, Nomadland, A Promising Girl, The Father, The Mauritanian or Another round They are bought for distribution in Portugal but have no release date yet (“the cinema is waiting for you”, promises the leading distributor of the market Nos Audioviuais hashtag) and movies like Mank, The 7 of Chicago, A Night in Miami, Sound of Metal, Pieces of a Woman, Borat, the next movie or Time They are Netflix or Amazon productions, in origin or due to covid-19 era embarrassment. Another sign of the times: that the director of Nomadland, a Searchlight production (a Disney subsidiary dedicated to the most authoritative cinema) and winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, has the Marvel film as its next project, Eternal.
She also makes history because she is the first non-white woman nominated for Best Achievement (she is also the first to obtain four nominations in the same year, also accumulating Adapted Screenplay and Editing). In the almost 100 years of the Oscars, only one woman has received the coveted Best Achievement statuette, Kathryn Bigelow, and a total of seven, including 2021, have been nominated. Zhao is seen this year alongside Emerald Fennell, who also debuts in Lee Isaac Chung’s Original Screenplay nomination (Threatening), by Fincher and Vinterberg (another newcomer to the category).
The story is also combined with the verb to do for Riz Ahmed and Steven Yeun, respectively the first Muslim and the first Asian-American to be nominated for Best Actor. There are nine non-white actors and actresses nominated, a year that, once again, is classified as historic.
Among the actors, Gary Oldman (Mank), Anthony Hopkins (THE Dad), Viola Davis (Ma rainey), Frances McDormand (Nomadic land) e Carey Mulligan (A promising girl) repeats nominations in the main category along with other newcomers such as Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a woman) and Andra Day (United States vs Billie Holiday). In high school, Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Kaluuya, Glenn Close, and Olivia Colman (The father) are also seen again among the nominees competing with the first nominations of Amanda Seyfried (Mank), Maria Bakalova (Borat), Yuh-Jung Youn (Threatening), Leslie Odom, Jr (One night in Miami), Paul Racci (I am metal) e LaKeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah).
Aaron Sorkin is nominated again in the category he knows well, Original Screenplay, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross double in Best Original Score nominations for Mank me Soul, and most of the films nominated for the main category concentrate six nominations – The Chicago 7, Sound of Metal, Nomadland, Minari, Judas and the Black Messiah me The father. The end of the story is known when the numbers translate into awards and cultural significance in April. In Portugal, cinemas reopen seven days before the Oscars.
Best film
Best achievement
- Lee Isaac Chung, Threatening
- David Fincher, Mank
- Chloe Zhao, Nomadland – Survive in America
- Fennell emerald, Promising young woman
- Thomas Vinterberg, Another round
best Actor
Best actress
- Viola Davis, Ma Rainey: the mother of blues
- Andra Day, United States vs Billie Holiday
- Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a woman
- Frances McDormand, Nomadland – Survive in America
- Carey Mulligan, Promising young woman
Best Supporting Actor
- Sacha Baron Cohen, The Chicago 7
- Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
- Leslie Odom Jr., One night in Miami …
- Paul Raci, I am metal
- LaKeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Borat, the next movie, Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Lee Kern and Nina Pedrad
- The father, Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton
- Nomadland – Survive in America, Chloe zhao
- One night in Miami …, Kemp Powers
- The White tiger, Ramin Bahran
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
- Another roundby Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
- Collectiveby Alexander Nanau (Romania)
- Quo Vadis, Aida?, by Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Deux, by Filippo Meneghetti (France)
- Better daysby Derek Kwok-cheung Tsang (Hong Kong)
- The man who sold his skin by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia)
BEST ANIMATION FILM
Best documentary
- Collective
- Time
- Crip Camp: a revolution in inclusion
- The mole agent
- The wisdom of the octopus
Best Original Soundtrack
- Mank, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
- threats Emile mosseri
- World News, James Newton Howard
- Soul: an adventure of the soul, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
- Da 5 Bloods – Brothers in Arms
Best Original Song
- Fight for you, Judas and the Black Messiah, her
- Hear My Voice, Chicago Os 7by Daniel Pemberton and Celeste Waite
- Io Sì (seen), Life ahead, by Diane Warren, Laura Pausini and Niccolò Agliardi
- Speak now, one night in Miami …by Leslie Odom Jr. and Sam Ashworth
- Húsavik (my hometown), Eurovision Song Contest: The Fire Story Saga, by Savan Kotecha, Rickard Göransson and Fat Max Gsus
The full list of nominees can be found here.
