The Oscar nominations 2021 are in – as announced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas – and if we're honest, they aren't all that surprising given that the same names have been popping up at every awards show so far. What is exciting is the race for Best Picture in this unconventional year is still wide open.
Here's where you can watch these Best Picture nominees:
The Father
The Father is a drama film co-written and directed by Florian Zeller, based on his 2012 play Le Père. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, and Olivia Williams, and follows an aging man who must deal with his progressing memory loss.
The film is tied for the second-most Oscar nominations with six – Best Picture, Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Best Supporting Actress (Oivia Colman), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design and Best Film Editing.
Watch The Father when it opens in cinemas on April 18.
Judas and the Black Messiah
Judas and the Black Messiah is biographical drama film about the betrayal of Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in late-1960s Chicago, at the hands of William O'Neal (played by Lakeith Stanfield), an FBI informant. Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lil Rel Howery, Algee Smith, Dominique Thorne, and Martin Sheen also star. The film is directed and produced by Shaka King, who wrote the screenplay with Will Berson, based on a story by the pair and Kenny and Keith Lucas.
It is tied for the second-most Oscar nominations with six – Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Song.
Watch Judas and the Black Messiah when it opens in cinemas on April 8.
Mank
Mank is a biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Directed by David Fincher, based on a screenplay by his late father Jack Fincher, the film was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossmann, and Charles Dance.
The film has 10 Oscar nominations, making it the most nominated film of the year – Best Picture, Best Director (David Fincher), Best Actor (Gary Oldman), Best Supporting Actress (Amanda Seyfried), Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Sound.
Stream Mank on Netflix now.
Minari
Minari is drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and Will Patton. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung's upbringing, the plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who try to make it in rural America during the 1980s.
The film is tied for the second-most Oscar nominations with six – Best Picture, Best Director (Lee Isaac Chung), Best Actor (Steven Yuen), Best Supporting Actress (Yuh-jung Youn), Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score.
Minari is now showing in cinemas.
Nomadland
Nomadland is an American neo-Western drama film directed, written, edited, and produced by Chloé Zhao. It is based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, and stars Frances McDormand as a woman who leaves her small town to travel around the American West. It also features David Strathairn, as well as real-life nomads Linda May, Swankie, Bob Wells, and Peter Spears as fictionalized versions of themselves.
The film is tied for the second-most Oscar nominations with six – Best Picture, Best Director (Chloé Zhao), Best Actress (Frances McDormand), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing.
Nomadland is now showing in cinemas.
Promising Young Woman
Promising Young Woman is a black comedy thriller film written, produced, and directed by Emerald Fennell in her feature directorial debut. Carey Mulligan stars as a woman who seeks to avenge her best friend, who was a victim of rape. Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, and Connie Britton co-star.
The film has 5 Oscar nominations and is one of only two movies this year to have the full set of an Oscar front-runner (nominations in Picture, Director, Screenplay, Editing, and Acting) – Best Picture, Best Director (Emerald Fennell), Best Actress (Carey Mulligan), Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing.
Promising Young Woman is now showing in cinemas.
Sound of Metal
Sound of Metal is a drama film directed and co-written by Darius Marder and starring Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, and Mathieu Amalric. It tells the story of a heavy metal drummer who loses his hearing.
The film is tied for the second-most Oscar nominations with six – Best Picture, Best Actor (Riz Ahmed), Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Paul Raci), Best Film Editing and Best Sound.
Sound of Metal is screening exclusively at The Projector from April 1.
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a historical legal drama film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. The film follows the Chicago Seven, a group of anti–Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intention of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It features an ensemble cast that includes Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Flaherty, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Noah Robbins, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, and Jeremy Strong.
The film is tied for the second-most Oscar nominations with six – Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Sacha Baron Cohen), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing.
Stream The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix now.
The 93rd Academy Awards will take place on April 25.