The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association has announced the nominations for its 2020/21 awards, with Ma Rainey's Black Bottom coming out on top. It claims 10 nods including Best Picture, though misses out on one of the six Best Director slots. Promisingly, though few expect this to be replicated at this month's upcoming Oscar nominations, all of the directors nominated here are either women and/or directors of colour, including Guatemalan Jayro Bustamante for La Llorona. But my personal favourite mention from the LEJA is the double Best Song nods for Over the Moon, both of which ("Rocket to the Moon" and "Ultraluminary") have been pretty much daily plays on my Spotify for the past several months. Winners will be announced on the 7th of March.
Best Picture
I Carry You with Me (Edher Campos, Heidi Ewing, Mynette Louie and Gabriela Maire)
Judas and the Black Messiah (Ryan Coogler, Charles D. King and Shaka King)
La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante and Gustavo Matheu)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Todd Black, Denzel Washington and Dany Wolf)
Minari (Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Christina Oh)
Nomadland (Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears and Chloé Zhao)
One Night in Miami (Keith Calder, Jess Wu Calder and Jody Klein)
Promising Young Woman (Tom Ackerley, Ben Browning, Emerald Fennell, Ashley Fox, Josey McNamara and Margot Robbie)
Soul (Dana Murray)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Stuart M. Besser, Matt Jackson, Marc Platt and Tyler Thompson)
Best Director
Jayro Bustamante (La Llorona)
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Regina King (One Night in Miami)
Kelly Reichardt (First Cow)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Best Actress
Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth)
Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)
Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)
Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)
Aubrey Plaza (Black Bear)
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Armando Espitia (I Carry You With Me)
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods)
Steven Yeun (Minari)
Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Sônia Braga (Bacurau)
Ellen Burstyn (Pieces of a Woman)
Olivia Colman (The Father)
Dominique Fishback (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Youn Yuh Jung (Minari)
Best Supporting Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Night in Miami)
Colman Domingo (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami)
Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
Best Original Screenplay
Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas and Kenneth Lucas (Judas and the Black Messiah) Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version)
Jayro Bustamante (La Llorona)
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (The Father)
Charlie Kaufman (I’m Thinking of Ending Things)
Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami) Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt (First Cow)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Best Cinematography
First Cow
I’m No Longer Here
La Llorona
Mank
Minari
Nomadland
Best Editing
The Father
Mank
The Mole Agent
Nomadland
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Production & Set Design
Emma.
The Father
Mank
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mulan
Promising Young Woman
Best Costume Design
Emma.
Mank
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mulan
One Night in Miami
Promising Young Woman
Best Sound
La Llorona
Mank
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Soul
Sound of Metal
Tenet
Best Visual Effects
The Invisible Man
Mank
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
Tenet
Wonder Woman 1984
Best Hair & Makeup
Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Emma.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mulan
Promising Young Woman
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Best Musical Score
Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Soul)
Terence Blanchard (Da 5 Bloods)
Ludwig Göransson (Tenet)
Emile Mosseri (Minari)
James Newton Howard (News of the World)
David Schweitzer and Isobel Waller-Bridge (Emma.)
Best Song
“Husavik” (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga)
“Fight for You” (Judas and the Black Messiah)
“Io Si” (The Life Ahead)
“Speak Now” (One Night in Miami)
“Rocket to the Moon” (Over the Moon)
“Ultraluminary” (Over the Moon)
Best Ensemble Casting
Da 5 Bloods
Hamilton
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Minari
One Night in Miami
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Stunt Design
Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
The Invisible Man
Mulan
The Old Guard
Tenet
Wonder Woman 1984
Best Voice or Motion Capture Performance
Cathy Ang (Over the Moon)
Alice Braga (Soul)
Tina Fey (Soul)
Jamie Foxx (Soul)
Tom Holland (Onward)
Phillipa Soo (Over the Moon)
Best Animated Feature
On-Gaku: Our Sound (Iwaisawa Kenji)
Onward (Dan Scanlon)
Over the Moon (John Kahrs and Glen Keane)
Soul (Pete Docter and Kemp Powers)
The Wolf House (Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León)
Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart)
Best Documentary Feature
Boys State (Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss)
Crip Camp (James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham)
Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson)
MLK/FBI (Sam Pollard)
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch)
Time (Garrett Bradley)
Best International Feature
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg) - Denmark
Bacurau (Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho) - Brazil
I Carry You with Me (Heidi Ewing) - Mexico
I’m No Longer Here (Fernando Frias de la Parra) - Mexico
La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante) - Guatemala
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung) - USA