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He’s concerned that one actor isn’t seeing enough appreciation: Yeri Han, who plays Monica, the anxious wife of Steven Yeun’s idealistic Jacob. “In the editing room, she was the one who we were always centering our emotional story around,” Chung said of Han. “It’s her face, it’s her looks, and the way she picks at a bedspread because she’s upset. These little, subtle things that we knew: ‘This is making the film what it is.’” He paused. “And unfortunately, it’s invisible.”

InMinari, Han navigates tricky, emotionally nuanced territory without the sort of melodrama or outsize performances that Hollywood tends to reward. “There are no loud speeches or anything,” Chung told me. “It’s just her being.” That’s the work that all actors do: the very act of being, which can range from emphatic to muted, animated to lethargic, impassioned to impassive. Asian performers are certainly versatile enough to capture that range—and yet tropes such as the “inscrutable Asian” have caused some casting directors to think of Asians as “not very expressive.”

The pervasiveness of such casually racist myths—the inscrutable Asian, the perpetual foreigner, the racialized horde—is foundational to the invisibility of Asian actors during the Hollywood awards season. Given this backdrop, it’s little wonder when a quiet performance like Han’s is overlooked.

— Shirley Li: ‘Minari’ and the Invisible Stars of Asian-Led Movies

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93rd Academy Awards Nominees

BEST PICTURE

• The Father – David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, and Philippe Carcassonne
• Judas and the Black Messiah – Shaka King, Charles D. King, and Ryan Coogler
• Mank – Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, and Douglas Urbanski
• Minari – Christina Oh
• Nomadland – Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Javey, and Chloé Zhao
• Promising Young Woman – Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell, and Josey McNamara
• Sound of Metal – Bert Hamelinick and Sacha Ben Harroche
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Marc Platt and Stuart Besser

BEST DIRECTOR

• Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
• Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
• David Fincher – Mank
• Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round
• Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

BEST ACTOR

• Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone
• Chadwick Boseman (posthumous nominee) – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom as Levee Green
• Anthony Hopkins – The Father as Anthony
• Gary Oldman – Mank as Herman J. Mankiewicz
• Steven Yeun – Minari as Jacob Yi

BEST ACTRESS

• Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom as Ma Rainey
• Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday as Billie Holiday
• Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman as Martha Weiss
• Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern
• Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra “Cassie” Thomas

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Abbie Hoffman
• Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton
• Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami… as Sam Cooke
• Paul Raci – Sound of Metal as Joe
• Lakeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah as William “Bill” O'Neal

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan as Tutar Sagdiyev
• Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy as Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance
• Olivia Colman – The Father as Anne
• Amanda Seyfried – Mank as Marion Davies
• Youn Yuh-jung – Minari as Soon-ja

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Judas and the Black Messiah – Screenplay by Will Berson and Shaka King; Story by Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas, and Kenny Lucas
• Minari – Lee Isaac Chung
• Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell
• Sound of Metal – Screenplay by Darius Marder and Abraham Marder; Story by Darius Marder and Derek Cianfrance
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan – Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, and Lee Kern; Story by Baron Cohen, Hines, Swimer, and Nina Pedrad; Based on the character Borat Sagdiyev by Baron Cohen
• The Father – Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller, based on the play by Zeller
• Nomadland – Chloé Zhao, based on the book by Jessica Bruder
• One Night in Miami… – Kemp Powers, based on his play
• The White Tiger – Ramin Bahrani, based on the novel by Aravind Adiga

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

• Another Round (Denmark) in Danish – directed by Thomas Vinterberg
• Better Days (Hong Kong) in Mandarin – directed by Derek Tsang
• Collective (Romania) in Romanian – directed by Alexander Nanau
• The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia) in Arabic – directed by Kaouther Ben Hania
• Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in Bosnian – directed by Jasmila Žbanić

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

• Onward – Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae
• Over the Moon – Glen Keane, Gennie Rin, and Peilin Chou
• A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon – Richard Phelan, Will Becher, and Paul Kewley
• Soul – Pete Docter and Dana Murray
• Wolfwalkers – Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young, and Stéphan Roelants

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• Collective – Alexander Nanau and Bianca Oana
• Crip Camp – Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht and Sara Bolder
• The Mole Agent – Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibáñez
• My Octopus Teacher – Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, and Craig Foster
• Time – Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino, and Kellen Quinn

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Judas and the Black Messiah – Sean Bobbitt
• Mank – Erik Messerschmidt
• News of the World – Dariusz Wolski
• Nomadland – Joshua James Richards
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Phedon Papamichael

BEST FILM EDITING

• The Father – Yorgos Lamprinos
• Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
• Promising Young Woman – Frédéric Thoraval
• Sound of Metal – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• The Father – Production Design: Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Production Design: Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara and Diana Sroughton
• Mank – Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
• News of the World – Production Design: David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan
• Tenet – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Emma – Alexandra Byrne
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth
• Mank – Trish Summerville
• Mulan – Bina Daigeler
• Pinocchio – Massimo Cantini Parrini

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

• Emma – Marese Langan, Laura Allen, and Claudia Stolze
• Hillbilly Elegy – Eryn Krueger Mekash, Patricia Dehaney, and Matthew Mungle
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Matiki Anoff, Mia Neal, and Larry M. Cherry
• Mank – Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams
• Pinocchio – Dalia Colli, Mark Coulier, and Francesco Pegoretti

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• Love and Monsters – Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camailleri, Matt Everitt, and Brian Cox
• The Midnight Sky – Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawren, Max Solomon, and David Watkins
• Mulan – Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury, and Steven Ingram
• The One and Only Ivan – Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones, and Santiago Colomo Martinez
• Tenet – Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Da 5 Bloods – Terence Blanchard
• Mank – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• Minari – Emile Mosseri
• News of the World – James Newton Howard
• Soul – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• “Fight for You” from Judas and the Black Messiah – Music by H.E.R. and Dernst Emile II; Lyric by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas
• “Hear My Voice” from The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Music by Daniel Pemberton; Lyric by Daniel Pemberton and Celeste Waite
• “Husavik” from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga – Music and Lyric by Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus, and Rickard Göransson
• “Io Sì (Seen)” from The Life Ahead – Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Diane Warren and Laura Pausini
• “Speak Now” from One Night in Miami… – Music and Lyric by Leslie Odom Jr. and Sam Ashworth

BEST SOUND

• Greyhound – Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders, and David Wyman
• Mank – Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance, and Drew Kunin
• News of the World – Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller, and John Pritchett
• Soul – Ren Klyce, Coya Elliot, and David Parker
• Sound of Metal – Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortes, and Philip Bladh

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

• Feeling Through – Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski
• The Letter Room – Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan
• The Present – Farah Nabulsi
• Two Distant Strangers – Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe
• White Eye – Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

• Burrow – Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat
• Genius Loci – Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise
• If Anything Happens I Love You – Will McCormack and Michael Govier
• Opera – Eric Oh
• Yes-People – Gísli Darri Halldórsson and Arnar Gunnarsson

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

• Colette – Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard
• A Concerto Is a Conversation – Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
• Do Not Split – Anders Hammer and Charlotte Cook
• Hunger Ward – Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Shueuerman
• A Love Song for Latasha – Sophia Nahali Allison and Janice Duncan