We'll have a few days of post-mortems here at TFE to discuss everything about the 93rd Oscar ceremony, but due to second vaccine sickness (we barely made it through the ceremony and not finishing it would have been a first since like 1989 so barrelled through in bathrobe with tylenol and a jug of water close by). How'd you fare on your predictions? I've marked what we got wrong and right below. Nomadland was the big winner but it won just 3 Oscars (Picture, Director, Actress). Trial of the Chicago 7 was the only Best Picture nominee to go home emptyhanded so the mistakes you see in the results are mostly due to pessimistic predictions that it would win two Oscars.
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The winners are after the jump...
Best Picture “Nomadland” ✅
Best Director Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland” ✅
Best Actor Anthony Hopkins, “The Father” ❌
Best Actress Frances McDormand, “Nomadland” ✅
Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”✅
Best Supporting Actress Yuh-Jung Youn, “Minari” ✅
Original Screenplay Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman” ❌
Adapted Screenplay Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller, “The Father” ✅
Animated Feature “Soul” ✅
Production Design “Mank” ✅
Costume Design “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” ✅
Cinematography Erik Messerschmidt, “Mank” ❌
Editing “Sound of Metal” ❌
Makeup and Hairstyling “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” ✅
Sound “Sound of Metal” ✅
Visual Effects “Tenet” ✅
Score Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste, “Soul” ✅
Song “Fight for You” (“Judas and the Black Messiah”) ✅
Documentary Feature “My Octopus Teacher” ✅
International Feature “Another Round,” Denmark ✅
Animated Short “If Anything Happens I Love You” ✅
Documentary Short “Colette” ❌
Live-Action Short “Two Distant Strangers” ✅