2020/21 Oscar shortlists announced
It's Oscar shortlist day, the third most (out of three) exciting announcement the Academy makes every awards season! Lists of either 10 or 15 contenders across nine categories have been revealed, whittling down the eligible titles for voters' consideration. Appearing in three of the lists is Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, the Netflix holiday title that's looking like a dark horse contender for several craft nominations next month. The Visual Effects shortlist finds space for several low-budget titles in a year short on blockbuster fare - even Welcome to Chechnya, the first documentary ever shortlisted in this category, makes the cut - all of which leapfrog major league effects projects like The Invisible Man and Wonder Woman 1984. Animated film Over the Moon is a shock absentee from both Original Score and Original Song (thus breaking my heart once and for all), Documentary Feature boasts the strongest lineup of any category today (the inclusion of both 76 Days and Gunda handily piecing my ravaged heart back together), while a recent change to the International Feature Film voting rules has resulted in a pathetically average slate in a longlist of submissions crammed with interesting fare (shutting out both This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection and Vitalina Varela thereby re-breaking my heart, this time surely definitively). Oscar voting opens on the 5th of March and closes on the 10th; nominations will be announced on the 15th.
Best Visual Effects
Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Bloodshot
Love and Monsters
Mank
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Soul
Tenet
Welcome to Chechnya
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Emma.
The Glorias
Hillbilly Elegy
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
The Little Things
Mank
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
One Night in Miami
Pinocchio
Best Original Score
Da 5 Bloods
Ammonite
The Invisible Man
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
The Life Ahead
The Little Things
Mank
The Midnight Sky
Minari
Mulan
News of the World
The Rifleman
Soul
Tenet
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Original Song
"Fight for You" (Judas and the Black Messiah)
"Free" (The One and Only Ivan)
"Green" (Sound of Metal)
"Hear My Voice" (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
"Husavik" (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga)
"Io Si" (The Life Ahead)
"Loyal Brave True" (Mulan)
"Make It Work" (Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey)
"Never Break" (Giving Voice)
"Rain Song" (Minari)
"See What You've Done" (Belly of the Beast)
"Show Me Your Soul" (Mr. Soul!)
"Speak Now" (One Night in Miami)
"Turntables" (All In: The Fight for Democracy)
"Wuhan Flu" (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Best Documentary Feature
76 Days
All In: The Fight for Democracy
Boys State
Collective
Crip Camp
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Gunda
MLK/FBI
The Mole Agent
My Octopus Teacher
Notturno
The Painter and the Thief
Time
The Truffle Hunters
Welcome to Chechnya
Best International Feature Film
Another Round - Denmark
Better Days - Hong Kong
Charlatan - Czech Republic
Collective - Romania
Dear Comrades! - Russia
Hope - Norway
I'm No Longer Here - Mexico
La Llorona - Guatemala
The Man Who Sold His Skin - Tunisia
The Mole Agent - Chile
Night of the Kings - Ivory Coast
Quo Vadis, Aida? - Bosnia and Herzegovina
A Sun - Taiwan
Sun Children - Iran
Two of Us - France
Best Live-Action Short
Bittu
Da Yie
Feeling Through
The Human Voice
The Kicksled Choir
The Letter Room
The Present
Two Distant Strangers
The Van
White Eye
Best Animated Short
Burrow
Genius Loci
If Anything Happens I Love You
Kapaemahu
Opera
Out
The Snaila nd the Whale
To Gerard
Traces
Yes-People
Best Documentary Short
Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa
Call Center Blues
Colette
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
Hysterical Girl
A Love Song for Latasha
The Speed Cubers
What Would Sophia Loren Do?