The 93rd Annual Academy Awards Nominations gave us plenty of expected nominees, especially in Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Animated Feature. And it’s no shocker that “Mank” leads the Oscar Noms – it did quite well in the craft categories. So there are actually very few legitimate surprises.
The big ones: Lakeith Stanfield in Best Supporting Actor for “Judas and the Black Messiah” and Thomas Vinterberg (“Another Round”) in Best Director. My favorite movie of 2020, Amazon’s “Sound of Metal” did better than I expected (delivering in Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Sound and Editing). And “Pinocchio” scored TWO nominations: Costume Design and Makeup & Hairstyling.
There were still plenty of snubs:
“The Croods: A New Age” – Best Animated Feature
“Da 5 Bloods” – Best Picture
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” – Best Picture
“One Night in Miami” – Best Picture
Amy Adams, “Hillbilly Elegy” – Best Actress
Chadwick Boseman, “Da 5 Bloods” – Best Supporting Actor (He was still, posthumously, nominated in Lead Actor for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”)
Ellen Burstyn, “Pieces of a Woman” – Best Supporting Actress
Alexandre Desplat, “The Midnight Sky” – Best Original Score
Dominique Fishback, “Judas and the Black Messiah” – Best Supporting Actress
Jodie Foster, “The Mauritanian” – Best Supporting Actress
Ludwig Goransson, “TENET” – Best Original Score
Alan Kim, “Minari” – Best Supporting Actor
Regina King, “One Night in Miami” – Best Director
Spike Lee, “Da 5 Bloods” – Best Director
Jared Leto, “The Little Things” – Best Supporting Actor
Delroy Lindo, “Da 5 Bloods” – Best Actor
Mads Mikkelsen, “Another Round” – Best Actor
Bill Murray, “On the Rocks” – Best Supporting Actor
Rosamund Pike, “I Care a Lot” – Best Actress
Tahar Rahim, “The Mauritanian” – Best Actor
Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” – Best Director
Zendaya, “Malcolm & Marie” – Best Actress
Helena Zengel, “News of the World” – Best Supporting Actress
The 93rd Oscars air LIVE Sunday April 25th at 8pmET on ABC. No host has been named yet. We’ll see if there will actually be one. What do you think of the Oscar Noms? Let me know on social media.