The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released from January 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. The ceremony was held on April 25, 2021, rather than its usual late-February date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the ceremony, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh, and was directed by Glenn Weiss. For the third consecutive year, the ceremony had no official host. In related events, the Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host Nia DaCosta on February 13, 2021, in a virtual ceremony.
Nomadland won three awards at the main ceremony, including Best Picture. Other winners included The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mank, Soul and Sound of Metal with two awards each, and Another Round, Colette, If Anything Happens I Love You, Minari, My Octopus Teacher, Promising Young Woman, Tenet, and Two Distant Strangers with one. The telecast received mostly negative reviews, and it garnered 10.4 million viewers, making it the least-watched Oscar broadcast since viewership records began for the 46th ceremony in 1974.
Nomadland - Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears and Chloé Zhao (Searchlight Pictures)
The Father - Philippe Carcassonne, Jean-Louis Livi and David Parfitt (Sony Pictures Classics)
Judas and the Black Messiah - Ryan Coogler, Charles D. King and Shaka King (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Mank - Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth and Douglas Urbanski (Netflix)
Minari - Christina Oh (A24)
Promising Young Woman - Ben Browning, Emerald Fennell, Ashley Fox and Josey McNamara (Focus Features)
Sound of Metal - Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche (Amazon Studios)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Stuart Besser and Marc Platt (Paramount Pictures/Netflix)
Chloé Zhao - Nomadland
Thomas Vinterberg - Another Round
David Fincher - Mank
Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Best Actor
Best Actress
Anthony Hopkins - The Father as Anthony
Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone
Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green (posthumous nomination)
Gary Oldman - Mank as Herman J. Mankiewicz
Steven Yeun - Minari as Jacob Yi
Frances McDormand - Nomadland as Fern
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey
Andra Day - The United States vs. Billie Holiday as Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby - Pieces of a Woman as Martha Weiss
Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Daniel Kaluuya - Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton
Sacha Baron Cohen - The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Abbie Hoffman
Leslie Odom Jr. - One Night in Miami... as Sam Cooke
Paul Raci - Sound of Metal as Joe
LaKeith Stanfield - Judas and the Black Messiah as William "Bill" O'Neal
Youn Yuh-jung - Minari as Soon-ja
Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev
Glenn Close - Hillbilly Elegy as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
Olivia Colman - The Father as Anne
Amanda Seyfried - Mank as Marion Davies
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Will Berson and Shaka King (screenplay); Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas and Kenny Lucas (story) - Judas and the Black Messiah
Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
Abraham Marder and Darius Marder (screenplay); Derek Cianfrance and Darius Marder (story) - Sound of Metal
Aaron Sorkin - The Trial of the Chicago 7
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller - The Father (based on the play Le Père by Florian Zeller)
Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Erica Rivinoja and Dan Swimer (screenplay); Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Nina Pedrad and Dan Swimer (story) - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (based on the character Borat Sagdiyev from the TV series Da Ali G Show by Sacha Baron Cohen)
Chloé Zhao - Nomadland (based on the book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder)
Kemp Powers - One Night in Miami... (based on the play by Kemp Powers)
Ramin Bahrani - The White Tiger (based on the novel by Avarind Adiga)
Best Animated Feature
Best International Feature Film
Soul - Pete Docter and Dana Murray
Onward - Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae
Over the Moon - Peilin Chou, Glen Keane and Gennie Rin
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon - Will Becher, Paul Kewley and Richard Phelan
Wolfwalkers - Tomm Moore, Stéphan Roelants, Ross Stewart and Paul Young
Another Round - Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
Better Days - Derek Tsang (Hong Kong)
Collective - Alexander Nanau (Romania)
The Man Who Sold His Skin - Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia)
Quo Vadis, Aida? - Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Best Documentary Feature Film
Best Documentary Short Film
My Octopus Teacher - Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster
Collective - Alexander Nanau and Bianca Oana
Crip Camp - Sara Bolder, Jim LeBrecht, and Nicole Newnham
The Mole Agent - Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibáñez
Time - Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn
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 Shueuerman
A Love Song for Latasha - Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice Duncan
Best Live Action Short Film
Best Animated Short Film
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 - Ossama Bawardi and Farah Nabulsi
White Eye - Shira Hochman and Tomer Shushan
If Anything Happens I Love You - Michael Govier and Will McCormack
Burrow - Michael Capbarat and Madeline Sharafian
Genius Loci - Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise
Opera - Erick Oh
Yes-People - Arnar Gunnarsson and Gísli Darri Halldórsson
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Soul
Terrence Richard - Da 5 Bloods
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Mank
Emile Mosseri - Minari
James Newton Howard - News of the World
"Fight for You" by H.E.R. - Judas and the Black Messiah
"Hear My Voice" by Celeste - The Trial of the Chicago 7