Oscars 2021: the winners revealed

Chloe Zhao wins 3 Oscars for Nomadland, with Frances McDormand and Anthony Hopkins taking the top acting prizes.

 Chloe Zhao’s drama Nomadland has triumphed at the 2021 Academy Awards, winning best picture, best director and best actress for Frances McDormand.

Zhao is the second woman to win the best director prize, and the first woman of colour.

Best actor went to  Anthony Hopkins for his role in The Father. At 83, he wins his third Oscar award and is the oldest actor to win the award. 

Best picture

Winner: Nomadland – producers: Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Chloé Zhao

The Father – producers: David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi and Philippe Carcassonne

Judas and the Black Messiah – producers: Shaka King, Charles D. King and Ryan Coogler

Mank – producers: Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth and Douglas Urbanski

Minari – producer: Christina Oh

Promising Young Woman – producers: Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell and Josey Mcnamara

Sound of Metal – producers: Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche

The Trial of the Chicago 7 – producers: Marc Platt and Stuart Besser

Directing

Winner: Nomadland – Chloé Zhao

Another Round – Thomas Vinterberg

Mank – David Fincher

Minari – Lee Isaac Chung

Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell

Actress in a leading role

Winner: Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Andra Day – The United States Vs. Billie Holiday

Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Actress in a supporting role

Winner: Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy

Olivia Colman – The Father

Amanda Seyfried – Mank

Actor in a leading role

Winner: Anthony Hopkins – The Father

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Gary Oldman – Mank

Steven Yeun – Minari

Actor in a supporting role

Winner: Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Leslie Odom, Jr – One Night in Miami…

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Lakeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah

Writing (adapted screenplay)

Winner: The Father – screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan – screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman and Lee Kern; story by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer and Nina Pedrad

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)

Winner: Promising Young Woman – written by Emerald Fennell

Judas and the Black Messiah – screenplay by Will Berson and Shaka King; Story by Will Berson, Shaka King, Kenny Lucas and Keith Lucas

Minari – written by Lee Isaac Chung

Sound of Metal – screenplay by Darius Marder and Abraham Marder; story by Darius Marder and Derek Cianfrance

The Trial of the Chicago 7 – written by Aaron Sorkin

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

Animated feature film

Winner: Soul – Pete Docter and Dana Murray

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

Wolfwalkers – Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young and Stéphan Roelants

Documentary (feature)

Winner: My Octopus Teacher – Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster

Collective – Alexander Nanau and Bianca Oana

Crip Camp – Nicole Newnham, Jim Lebrecht and Sara Bolder

The Mole Agent – Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibáñez

Time – Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn

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

Cinematography

Winner: Mank – Erik Messerschmidt

Judas and the Black Messiah – Sean Bobbitt

News of the World – Dariusz Wolski

Nomadland – Joshua James Richards

The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Phedon Papamichael

Costume design

Winner: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth

Emma – Alexandra Byrne

Mank – Trish Summerville

Mulan – Bina Daigeler

Pinocchio – Massimo Cantini Parrini

Film editing

Winner: Sound of Metal – Mikkel E. G. Nielsen

The Father – Yorgos Lamprinos

Nomadland – Chloé Zhao

Promising Young Woman – Frédéric Thoraval

The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten

Makeup and hairstyling

Winner: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson

Emma – Marese Langan, Laura Allen and Claudia Stolze

Hillbilly Elegy – Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney

Mank – Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spiteri and Colleen Labaff

Pinocchio – Mark Coulier, Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti

Music (original score)

Winner: Soul – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste

Da 5 Bloods – Terence Blanchard

Mank – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Minari – Emile Mosseri

News of the World – James Newton Howard

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

Production design

Winner: Mank – production design: Donald Graham Burt; set decoration: Jan Pascale

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

News of the World – production design: David Crank; set decoration: Elizabeth Keenan

Tenet – production design: Nathan Crowley; set decoration: Kathy Lucas

Short film (animated)

Winner: If Anything Happens I Love You – Will McCormack and Michael Govier

Burrow – Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat

Genius Loci – Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise

Opera – Erick Oh

Yes-People – Gísli Darri Halldórsson and Arnar Gunnarsson

Short film (live action)

Winner: Two Distant Strangers – Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe

Feeling Through – Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski

The Letter Room – Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan

The Present – Farah Nabulsi

White Eye – Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman

Sound

Winner: Sound of Metal – Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh

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

Visual effects

Winner: Tenet – Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher

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