2020 Nominees 93rd Ceremony: Sunday, April 25, 2021

To See Picture Actor Actress Sup Actor Sup Actress Director RESET
H Another Round         Thomas Vinterberg STREAM
a Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
GG-Comedy PGA
      Maria Bakalova
SAG CC GG-Comedy (actress)
  STREAM
$a The Father
GG-Drama
Anthony Hopkins
GG-Drama SAG CC BAFTA
    Olivia Colman
GG SAG CC
  2/26/21
$20
N Hillbilly Elegy       Glenn Close
GG SAG CC
  STREAM
X H Judas and the Black Messiah
NBR PGA
   
Daniel Kaluuya
GG SAG CC BAFTA

LaKeith Stanfield
    HBO MAX
N Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
CC PGA SAG
Chadwick Boseman
GG-Drama SAG CC
Viola Davis
GG-Drama SAG CC
      STREAM
N Mank
GG-Drama CC PGA
Gary Oldman
GG-Drama SAG CC
    Amanda Seyfried
GG CC
David Fincher
GG CC DGA
STREAM
a Minari
NBR CC PGA SAG
Steven Yeun
SAG CC
    Yuh-jung Youn
NBR SAG CC BAFTA
Lee Isaac Chung
CC DGA
2/26/21
Rent $20
X H Nomadland
NBR GG-Drama CC PGA BAFTA
  Frances McDormand
GG-Drama SAG CC BAFTA
    Chloé Zhao
GG CC DGA BAFTA
Hulu
X a One Night in Miami
CC PGA SAG
    Leslie Odom Jr.
GG SAG CC
    1/15/21
N Pieces of a Woman   Vanessa Kirby
GG-Drama SAG CC
      STREAM
X Promising Young Woman
NBR GG-Drama CC PGA BAFTA
  Carey Mulligan
NBR GG-Drama SAG CC
    Emerald Fennell
GG CC DGA
3/16/21
X a Sound of Metal
NBR CC PGA
Riz Ahmed
NBR GG-Drama SAG CC
  Paul Raci
NBR
    STREAM
N The Trial of the Chicago 7
GG-Drama CC PGA SAG
    Sacha Baron Cohen
GG SAG CC
    STREAM
X H The United States vs. Billie Holiday   Andra Day
GG-Drama CC
      Hulu
2/26/21
 
Other Contenders Not Nominated
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N Ammonite   Kate Winslet   Saoirse Ronan   DVD
X N Antebellum           DVD
N The Assistant   Julia Garner       DVD
N Babyteeth Ben Mendelsohn Eliza Scanlen   Essie Davis Shannon Murphy DVD
N Bacurau           DVD
SAVED
X N Bad Education Hugh Jackman     Allison Janney   DVD
X N Birds Of Prey And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn   Margot Robbie     Cathy Yan DVD
Xa Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
GG-Comedy PGA
Sacha Baron Cohen
GG-Comedy
(Nominee: S. Act)
Maria Bakalova
GG-Comedy
  (Nominee)
Maria Bakalova
SAG CC
  STREAM
N The Boys in the Band Jim Parsons         STREAM
X N The Call of the Wild           DVD
N Da 5 Bloods
NBR CC SAG
Delroy Lindo
CC
  Chadwick Boseman
SAG CC
  Spike Lee
NBR CC
STREAM
N The Devil All the Time Tom Holland         STREAM
N Dick Johnson is Dead         Kristen Johnson STREAM
N The Dig Ralph Fiennes Lily James, Carey Mulligan       STREAM
1/29/21
N Emma   Anya Taylor-Joy
GG-Comedy
    Autumn de Wilde DVD
X N Fantasy Island           DVD
$a (Nominee)
The Father
GG-Drama
(Nominee)
Anthony Hopkins
GG-Drama SAG CC
    (Nominee)
Olivia Colman
GG SAG CC
Florian Zeller 2/26/21
$20
X N First Cow
NBR
          DVD
N The Forty-Year-Old Version
NBR
  Radha Blank     Radha Blank STREAM
N French Exit   Michelle Pfeiffer
GG-Comedy
      No Date
DVD SAVED
X Hamilton* (not eligible)
GG-Musical
Lin-Manuel Miranda
GG-Musical
        Disney
N Hillbilly Elegy   Amy Adams
SAG
  (Nominee)
Glenn Close
GG SAG CC
Ron Howard STREAM
O N I Care A Lot   Rosamund Pike
GG-Comedy
       
X N I'm Thinking of Ending Things           STREAM
X N The Invisible Man   Elisabeth Moss       DVD
X H (Nominee)
Judas and the Black Messiah
NBR PGA
(Nom: Sup Actor)
LaKeith Stanfield
  (Nominee)
Daniel Kaluuya
GG SAG CC
Dominique Fishback Shaka King HBO MAX
X N The King of Staten Island           DVD
O H Let Them All Talk   Meryl Streep Lucas Hedges   Steven Soderbergh 12/10/20
HBOMAX
N The Life Ahead   Sophia Loren       STREAM
O H The Little Things     Jared Leto
GG SAG
    HBO MAX
N Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
CC PGA SAG
(Nominee)
Chadwick Boseman
GG-Drama SAG CC
(Nominee)
Viola Davis
GG-Drama SAG CC
    George C. Wolfe STREAM
N Malcolm & Marie John David Washington Zendaya
CC
      2/5/21
The Mauritanian Tahar Rahim
GG-Drama
    Jodie Foster
GG
  3/2 VOD
SAVED
N The Midnight Sky
NBR
  Felicity Jones     George Clooney STREAM
$a (Nominee)
Minari
NBR CC PGA SAG
(Nominee)
Steven Yeun
SAG CC
  Alan S. Kim (Nominee)
Yuh-jung Youn
NBR SAG CC
(Nominee)
Lee Isaac Chung
CC DGA
2/26/21
Rent $20
N Miss Juneteenth   Nicole Beharie       DVD
O Music
GG-Musical
  Kate Hudson
GG-Musical
      No Date
O a The Nest   Carrie Coon       RENT
N Never Rarely Sometimes Always   Sidney Flanigan
CC
    Eliza Hittman DVD
News of the World
NBR CC
Tom Hanks
CC
    Helena Zengel
GG SAG
Paul Greengrass 3/23/21
SAVED
X H (Nominee)
Nomadland
NBR GG-Drama CC PGA
  (Nominee)
Frances McDormand
GG-Drama SAG CC
David Strathairn Linda May (Nominee)
Chloé Zhao
GG CC DGA
Hulu
  On the Rocks     Bill Murray
GG CC
  Sofia Coppola No Date
SAVED
X a One Night in Miami
CC PGA SAG
    (Nominee)
Leslie Odom Jr.
GG SAG CC
  Regina King
GG CC
1/15/21
H Palm Springs
GG-Comedy
Andy Samberg
GG-Comedy
Cristin Milioti     Max Barbakow Hulu
  The Personal History of David Copperfield Dev Patel
GG-Comedy
         
X N The Photograph           DVD
N Pieces of a Woman Shia LaBeouf (Nominee)
Vanessa Kirby
GG-Drama SAG CC
  Ellen Burstyn
CC
  STREAM
N The Prom
GG-Musical
James Corden
GG-Musical
Meryl Streep   Nicole Kidman Ryan Murphy STREAM
N Rebecca   Lily James       STREAM
N Relic         Natalie Erika James DVD
X N The Rhythm Section           DVD
N Saint Frances   Kelly O’Sullivan       DVD
N She Dies Tomorrow   Kate Lyn Sheil     Amy Seimetz DVD
O H Shirley   Elisabeth Moss     Josephine Decker STREAM
a Soul
NBR
          3/23 or Disney+
O Supernova Colin Firth   Stanley Tucci     No Date
N Swallow   Haley Bennett       DVD
N Tenet         Christopher Nolan DVD
N (Nominee)
The Trial of the Chicago 7
GG-Drama CC PGA SAG
Jeremy Strong   (Nominee)
Sacha Baron Cohen
GG SAG CC
  Aaron Sorkin
GG CC DGA
STREAM
X a The Vast of Night           STREAM
O H The Way Back Ben Affleck
CC
       

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X = movies we've seen
O = need to see
P = saw post-Oscars
GG GG = Golden Globe Nom/Win
CC CC = Critics' Choice Nom/Win
NBR NBR = National Board of Review Top_10/Win
SAG SAG = Screen Actors Guild Nom/Win
DGA DGA = Directors Guild Nom/Win
PGA PGA = Producers Guild Nom/Win

Weirdest Award Season Ever

Your guess is as good as ours. Theatres closed most of the year. Some movies released directly to streaming. Advantage to streaming producers (esp Netflix)? Some releases postponed to 2022 or beyond. Few big holiday titles.

Precursors (as rescheduled)


The 2020 Oscars

  • Feb 28: nominee cutoff date
  • Mar 10: Nominations Voting Closes (was:Jan 7)
  • Mar 15: Oscar Nominations Announced (was:Jan 13)
  • Apr 15 – Apr 20: Final Voting (was: Jan 30 – Feb 4)
  • Apr 25 - Oscar Ceremony (ABC) (was:Feb 9)
  • Oscar News
  • Academy Rules 2020

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