Oscars 2021: Complete List of Academy Award Winners

That was a bit of a long engagement wasn’t it? In most years, the Oscars are a distant memory by mid-March, but here we are approaching the end of April, and only now are we learning who the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences really think is the best.

Oscars 2021 are done, and with them we realize the strange year that was 2020 is perhaps finally in the rearview. Still, it doesn’t mean that year will leave without a few bitter surprises. Likely more than a few folks were disappointed by the shocking final moment of the night when Anthony Hopkins upset the late Chadwick Boseman in the Best Actor category. Unusually, the award was even presented as the final of the evening, and we’ve unpacked some of the implications of that here.

However, it should be said Hopkins is devastating in The Father, and there are plenty of other wins from the evening that felt downright euphoric. From Emerald Fennell earning a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Promising Young Woman to Chloé Zhao becoming the first Asian-American woman, and only second woman period, to win Best Director, it was a celebration of a new generation of voices, and the kind that have historically been ignored by the Academy. And we doubt few didn’t smile when Daniel Kaluuya won Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah.

Below is the full and complete list of Oscar winners in 2021. Winners will be bolded and italicized.

Complete List of 2021 Oscar Winners

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Anthony Hopkins, The Father

Gary Oldman, Mank

Steven Yeun, Minari

Best Actress

Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman

Frances McDormand, Nomadland

Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Picture

The Father

Judas and the Black Messiah

Mank

Minari

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Original Song

“Fight for You,” Judas and the Black Messiah

“Hear My Voice,” The Trial of the Chicago 7

“Husavik,” EuroVision

“Io Sì (Seen),” The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti A Se)

“Speak Now,” One Night in Miami

Best Original Score

Da 5 Bloods

Mank

Minari

News of the World

Soul

Best Film Editing

The Father

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Cinematography

Judas and the Black Messiah

Mank

News of the World

Nomadland

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Production Design

The Father

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mank

News of the World

Tenet

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova, Borat

Glenn Close, Hillbilly Eleg

Olivia Colman, The Father

Amanda Seyfried, Mank

Youn, Yuh-jung, Minari

Best Visual Effects

Love and Monsters

The Midnight Sky

Mulan

The One and Only Ivan

Tenet

Best Documentary Feature

Collective

Crip Camp

The Mole Agent

My Octopus Teacher

Time

Best Animated Feature Film

Onward

Over the Moon

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

Soul

Wolfwalkers

Best Sound

Greyhound

Mank

News of the World

Soul

Sound of Metal

Best Director

Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round

David Fincher, Mank

Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Best Costume Design

Emma.

Mank

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mulan

Pinocchio

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Emma

Hillbilly Elegy

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mank

Pinocchio

Best Supporting Actor

Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7

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 International Feature Film

Another Round

Better Day

Collective

The Man Who Sold His Skin

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Best Adapted Screenplay

Borat 2

The Father

Nomadland

One Night in Miami…

The White Tiger

Best Original Screenplay

Judas and the Black Messia

Minari

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Documentary Short

Colette

A Concerto is a Conversation

Do Not Split

Hunger Ward

A Love Song for Natasha

Best Live Action Short Film

Feeling Through

The Letter Room

The Present

Two Distant Strangers

White Eye

Best Animated Short Film

Burrow

Genius Loci

If Anything Happens I Love You

Opera

Yes-People