2021 Oscar Picks

📺 marks a film I have seen.
✅ sits beside my category pick, if I have one.
👀 you may catch me watching something right now, even. Tentative schedule here.
🐴 & this is a horse.

Best Picture | Actor in a Leading Role | Actor in a Supporting Role | Actress in a Leading Role |
Actress in a Supporting Role | Animated Feature Film | Cinematography | Costume Design |
Directing | Documentary Feature | Documentary Short Subject | Film Editing |
International Feature Film | Makeup and Hairstyling | Music: Original Score | Music: Original Song |
Production Design | Animated Short Film | Live Action Short Film | Sound |
Visual Effects | Writing: Adapted Screenplay | Writing: Original Screenplay |

Updated 2021–04–25 19:19
* It is Oscar Night. Picks are final. No further updates.
* Nominations were announced 2021–03–15. 41 days to watch 41 films. Let’s go!

Best Picture
🐴 📺 The Father
🐴 📺 Judas and the Black Messiah
🐴 📺 Mank
🐴 📺 Minari
🐴 📺 Nomadland
🐴 📺 Promising Young Woman
🐴 📺 ✅ Sound of Metal
🐴 📺 The Trial of the Chicago 7

Actor in a Leading Role
🐴 📺 ✅ Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal
🐴 📺 Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
🐴 📺 Anthony Hopkins in The Father
🐴 📺 Gary Oldman in Mank
🐴 📺 Steven Yeun in Minari

Actor in a Supporting Role
🐴 📺 Sacha Baron Cohen in The Trial of the Chicago 7
🐴 📺 ✅ Daniel Kaluuya in Judas and the Black Messiah
🐴 📺 Leslie Odom, Jr. in One Night in Miami…
🐴 📺 Paul Raci in Sound of Metal
🐴 📺 Lakeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah

Actress in a Leading Role
🐴 📺 Viola Davis in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
🐴 📺 Andra Day in The United States vs. Billie Holiday
🐴 📺 Vanessa Kirby in Pieces of a Woman
🐴 📺 ✅ Frances McDormand in Nomadland
🐴 📺 Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman

Actress in a Supporting Role
🐴 📺 ✅ Maria Bakalova in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
🐴 📺 Glenn Close in Hillbilly Elegy
🐴 📺 Olivia Colman in The Father
🐴 📺 Amanda Seyfried in Mank
🐴 📺 Yuh-Jung Youn in Minari

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
🐴 📺 Soul Pete Docter and Dana Murray
🐴 📺 ✅ Wolfwalkers Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young and Stéphan Roelants

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

Costume Design
🐴 📺 Emma Alexandra Byrne
🐴 📺 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
🐴 📺 ✅ Nomadland Chloé Zhao
🐴 📺 Promising Young Woman Emerald Fennell

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
🐴 📺 My Octopus Teacher Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster
🐴 📺 Time Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn

Documentary (Short Subject)
🐴 📺 ✅ 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

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

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

Makeup and Hairstyling
🐴 📺 Emma Marese Langan, Laura Allen and Claudia Stolze
🐴 📺 Hillbilly Elegy Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney
🐴 📺 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

Music (Original Score)
🐴 📺 Da 5 Bloods Terence Blanchard
🐴 📺 Mank Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
🐴 📺 Minari Emile Mosseri
🐴 📺 News of the World James Newton Howard
🐴 📺 ✅ Soul Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste

Music (Original Song)
🐴 📺 “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

Production Design
🐴 📺 ✅ The Father Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone
🐴 📺 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton
🐴 📺 Mank Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
🐴 📺 News of the World David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan
🐴 📺 Tenet Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas

Short Film (Animated)
🐴 📺 Burrow Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat
🐴 📺 Genius Loci Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise
🐴 📺 If Anything Happens I Love You Will McCormack and Michael Govier
🐴 📺 ✅ Opera Erick Oh
🐴 📺 Yes-People Gísli Darri Halldórsson and Arnar Gunnarsson

Short Film (Live Action)
🐴 📺 Feeling Through Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski
🐴 📺 The Letter Room Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan
🐴 📺 ✅ The Present Farah Nabulsi
🐴 📺 Two Distant Strangers Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe
🐴 📺 White Eye Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman

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
🐴 📺 ✅ Sound of Metal Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh

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
🐴 📺 Tenet Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
🐴 📺 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, et. al.
🐴 📺 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

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
🐴 📺 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

The 93rd annual Academy Awards Oscars ceremony will be held on Sunday, April 25, 2021, and will be televised live on ABC.



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Previously:
- 2020 Oscar Picks
- 2019 Oscar Picks
- 2018 Oscar Picks
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