The 93rd Oscar Nominations

The Oscar noms have came in rolling on a silver platter. So here I’m breaking down the following categories: Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress. I’d like to make it clear that I’ve only actually seen a handful of these films.

Best Picture ( with Cast )

The Father – Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell

Judas and the Black Messhiah – Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Domique Flashback, Jesse Plemons

Minari – Steven Yeun, Han Ye-Ri, Yoon Yeo-Jeong, Alan S. Kim

Proising Young Woman – Carey Mulligan, Emerald Fennell, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie

Sound of Metal – Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cook, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff

The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Carroll Lynch

Original Screenplay

To be honest, I’ve always considered original screenplay a greater award than adapted screenplay. Not only because I personally prefer writing original materials, I also consider original works a greater challenge, whereas an adapted screenplay could theoretically be taken word for word from any given source material.

Judas and the Black Messiah – Will Berson and Shaka King, story: Will Berson, Shaka King, Kenny Lucas and Keith Lucas

Minari – Lee Isaac Chung

Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennelll

Sound of Metal – Darius Marder & Abraham Marder, story: Darius Marder and Derek Cianfrance

The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin

I’m pretty sure this is actually the only movie I’ve seen on here

Best Director

David Fincher – Mank

The longish awaited return of David Fincher sees Gary Oldman writing Citizen Kane.

Minari – Lee Isaac Chung

The sotry of Korean farmers moving to Arkansas to change their lives

Nomadland – Chloe Zhao

Far as I can tell it’s about farming in Nevada?

Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell

The Margot Robbie produced thriller is the story of a psychopath with split personality disorder casuing her to seek vengeance on men.

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal

A punk-drummer loses his ability to hear.

Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Black Panther costars along Viola Davis in 1920s Chicago.

Anthony Hopkins – The Father

An old non-insane Hannibal Lector loses his sight of reality.

Gary Oldman – Mank

The David Fincher directed film stars Gary Oldman as Orson Wells, who’s currently writing the screenplay for Mank.

Steven Yeun – Minari

A Korean family moves to Arkansas in hope of a new life. Honestly was not expecting to see my boy Glenn get an OScar nomination. He’s come a long way from being a pizza boy in Atlanta!

Best Actress

Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Viola Davis portrays Ma Rainey in this 1920s biopic.

Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Singer Billie Holiday is tasked by the governmont to go on a top-secret spy mission.

Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman

A pregnant Woman and her husband, Shia LaBeouf are awaiting the arrival of their daughter. It doesn’t work out, causing her down a path of grief

Frances McDormand – Nomadland

From chasing Steve Buscemi in fargo, North Dakota ot farming in Veada, I still don’t really know what this movie’s about.

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Imagine if two-face were a woman, didn’t lose her face and hated men, and then tried to repair everything.

Best Supporting Actor

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah

Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

LaKeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm

Glenn Close – Hillybilly Elegy

Olivia Colman – The Father

Amanda Seyfried – Mank

Yuh Jung Youn – Minari

So what do you think of the 93rd Oscar nominations? Anybody you think should have made the cut? Anybody that doesn’t deserve to be here?If so, lemme’ lnow in the comments below.

-The Screenwriter

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