April 25, 2021 at Los Angeles Union Station www.oscar.com/
part of Hollywood reporter coverage (web article)
David Fincher's Mank led the pack with 10 nominations as the 93rd Oscars were announced Monday morning.
The 1930s-set film, which centers on alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish Citizen Kane, will compete against The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal and The Trial of the Chicago 7 for best picture.
Husband and wife Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas announced the nominations in all 23 Oscar categories from a remote feed in London. In addition to the nominations, it was revealed that the April 25 Oscar ceremony will take place at both L.A.'s Union Station and the Dolby Theatre, the dual locations marking a first for the Academy. Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh are producing the telecast.
There were few surprises in a year in which the film industry was rocked by the global coronavirus pandemic, which has disrupted moviegoing worldwide and thrown into question the future of the theatrical experience. The most notable shocker was the inclusion of Another Round helmer Thomas Vinterberg in the best director category. The category also made history with the inclusion of two female directors — Nomadland's Chloé Zhao and Promising Young Woman’s Emerald Fennell. They became only the sixth and seventh women to compete in the category, with Zhao becoming the first woman of color. Fincher and Minari’s Lee Isaac Chung also will vie for the directing honors. Chung and Zhao's nominations also marked the first time two Asian directors will compete for the statue in the same year.
Six films tied for the second-most nominations — six — including Searchlight's Nomadland, which has been named best picture by a number of bellwether groups heading into Monday's nominations and is seen as the frontrunner. The other films nabbing six nominations are Sony Pictures Classics' The Father, Warner Bros.' Judas, A24’s Minari, Amazon's Sound of Metal and Netflix's Chicago 7.
Given that the pandemic has resulted in theatergoers being largely relegated to their couches for much of the year, it should come as no surprise that the streamers dominated. Netflix was the only distributor that scored two nominations in the best picture category for Mank and Chicago 7. Amazon also fared well with the performance of Sound of Metal, which earned nominations for Riz Ahmed (best actor) and Paul Raci (supporting actor), among other mentions.
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