And with that, the awards season that just would never end, has drawn to a close. The 93rd Academy Awards were held tonight in a subdued, intimate ceremony that sped along at a pretty decent clip, even though winners were basically allowed to talk for as long as they wanted. Even without all of the bells and whistles, there was still a lot that went on tonight, including a little bit of history.
Nomadland took the top prize of the night, Best Picture, on its way to winning three awards in total, including Best Director for Chloe Zhao and Best Actress for Frances McDormand. The win marks McDormand’s third Oscar, while Zhao becomes only the second woman to win for director.
In a slightly unusual move, the night actually ended on the acting categories, which led some (including myself) to assume it meant we were in for a splash. The McDormand win was expected by most analysts, and the final win for Best Actor went to Anthony Hopkins for The Father. He had been coming on strong late, but since he wasn’t even there to accept it felt like a whimper to close the show.
There was a lot of history to be made in the Best Supporting field, where Minari‘s Youn Yuh-jung became the first Asian woman to win an Oscar in 63 years, not since Miyoshi Umeki won in the same category for 1958’s Sayonara. And in Best Supporting Actor, Daniel Kaluuya won his first Oscar for his charismatic performance in Judas and the Black Messiah.
The full list of winners is below:
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King; Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas
MINARI, Written by Lee Isaac Chung
[WINNER] PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, Written by Emerald Fennell
SOUND OF METAL, Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder; Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7, Written by Aaron Sorkin
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM, Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad
[WINNER] THE FATHER, Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
NOMADLAND, Written for the screen by Chloé Zhao
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…, Screenplay by Kemp Powers
THE WHITE TIGER, Written for the screen by Ramin Bahrani
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
[WINNER] ANOTHER ROUND, Denmark
BETTER DAYS, Hong Kong
COLLECTIVE, Romania
THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN, Tunisia
QUO VADIS, AIDA?, Bosnia and Herzegovina
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
SACHA BARON COHEN, The Trial of the Chicago 7
[WINNER] 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
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
EMMA, Marese Langan, Laura Allen and Claudia Stolze
HILLBILLY ELEGY, Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney
[WINNER] MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson
MANK, Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spiteri and Colleen LaBaff
PINOCCHIO, Mark Coulier, Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti
COSTUME DESIGN
EMMA, Alexandra Byrne
[WINNER] MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, Ann Roth
MANK, Trish Summerville
MULAN, Bina Daigeler
PINOCCHIO, Massimo Cantini Parrini
DIRECTING
ANOTHER ROUND, Thomas Vinterberg
MANK, David Fincher
MINARI, Lee Isaac Chung
[WINNER] NOMADLAND, Chloé Zhao
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, Emerald Fennell
SOUND
GREYHOUND, Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman
MANK, Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin
NEWS OF THE WORLD, Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett
SOUL, Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker
[WINNER] SOUND OF METAL, Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
FEELING THROUGH, Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski
THE LETTER ROOM, Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan
THE PRESENT, Farah Nabulsi and Ossama Bawardi
[WINNER] TWO DISTANT STRANGERS, Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe
WHITE EYE, Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
BURROW, Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat
GENIUS LOCI, Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise
[WINNER] IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU, Will McCormack and Michael Govier
OPERA, Erick Oh
YES-PEOPLE, Gísli Darri Halldórsson and Arnar Gunnarsson
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
ONWARD, Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae
OVER THE MOON, Glen Keane, Gennie Rim and Peilin Chou
A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON, Richard Phelan, Will Becher and Paul Kewley
[WINNER] SOUL, Pete Docter and Dana Murray
WOLFWALKERS, Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young and Stéphan Roelants
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
[WINNER] COLETTE, Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard
A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION, Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
DO NOT SPLIT, Anders Hammer and Charlotte Cook
HUNGER WARD, Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Scheuerman
A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA, Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice Duncan
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
COLLECTIVE, Alexander Nanau and Bianca Oana
CRIP CAMP, Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht and Sara Bolder
THE MOLE AGENT, Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibáñez
[WINNER] MY OCTOPUS TEACHER, Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster
TIME, Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn
VISUAL EFFECTS
LOVE AND MONSTERS, Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox
THE MIDNIGHT SKY, Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins
MULAN, Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram
THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez
[WINNER] TENET, Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
MARIA BAKALOVA, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
GLENN CLOSE, Hillbilly Elegy
OLIVIA COLMAN, The Father
AMANDA SEYFRIED, Mank
[WINNER] YUH-JUNG YOUN, Minari
PRODUCTION DESIGN
THE FATHER, Production Design: Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, Production Design: Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton
[WINNER] MANK, Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
NEWS OF THE WORLD, Production Design: David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan
TENET, Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas
CINEMATOGRAPHY
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, Sean Bobbitt
[WINNER] MANK, Erik Messerschmidt
NEWS OF THE WORLD, Dariusz Wolski
NOMADLAND, Joshua James Richards
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7, Phedon Papamichael
FILM EDITING
THE FATHER, Yorgos Lamprinos
NOMADLAND, Chloé Zhao
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, Frédéric Thoraval
[WINNER] SOUND OF METAL, Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7, Alan Baumgarten
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
DA 5 BLOODS, Terence Blanchard
MANK, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
MINARI, Emile Mosseri
NEWS OF THE WORLD, James Newton Howard
[WINNER] SOUL, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
[WINNER] 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
HEAR MY VOICE, from The Trial of the Chicago 7; Music by Daniel Pemberton; Lyric by Daniel Pemberton and Celeste Waite
HUSAVIK, from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga; Music and Lyric by Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus and Rickard Göransson
IO SÌ (SEEN), from The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se); Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Diane Warren and Laura Pausini
SPEAK NOW, from One Night in Miami…; Music and Lyric by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam Ashworth
BEST PICTURE
THE FATHER, David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi and Philippe Carcassonne, Producers
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, Shaka King, Charles D. King and Ryan Coogler, Producers
MANK, Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth and Douglas Urbanski, Producers
MINARI, Christina Oh, Producer
[WINNER] NOMADLAND, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Chloé Zhao, Producers
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell and Josey McNamara, Producers
SOUND OF METAL, Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche, Producers
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7, Marc Platt and Stuart Besser, Producers
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
VIOLA DAVIS, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
ANDRA DAY, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
VANESSA KIRBY, Pieces of a Woman
[WINNER] FRANCES MCDORMAND, Nomadland
CAREY MULLIGAN, Promising Young Woman
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
RIZ AHMED, Sound of Metal
CHADWICK BOSEMAN, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
[WINNER] ANTHONY HOPKINS, The Father
GARY OLDMAN, Mank
STEVEN YEUN, Minari
