David Fincher’s “Mank” has led nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards with 10 nods. For the first time, two women Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell were nominated for best director.
Actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas and singer, songwriter and actor Nick Jonas announced the 93rd Oscars
® nominations today (March 15), live from London, via a global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy’s digital platforms, an international satellite feed and broadcast media. We’re clearly over the moon about the Oscar nomination for South Africa’s My Octopus Teacher.
The 93rd Oscars will be held on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby
® Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center
® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. View the full list of nominations below.
In a year in which the pandemic shuttered movie theaters for months, Academy Awards nominations went to two female filmmakers for the first time and a historically diverse slate of actors Monday but, ultimately, David Fincher s "Mank" a very traditional contender about Hollywood itself took the lead.
Oscar nominations 2021: Mank leads with 10 nods including Best Leading Actor and Best Film - with a record number of nominees of color following push for diversity
Biographical drama Mank led nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards with 10 nods, including best leading actor and best film
A total of nine actors of color have been nominated this year, including Steven Yeun, who is now the first Asian American to receive a nod in the best actor category for his work in Minari
It is also the first time two female directors have ever been nominated in the best director category, with Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) and Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) both receiving nods