5TH ANNUAL FISHER AWARDS NOMINEES (2021)

Hello, and welcome back to The Friendly Film Fan! The Fisher Awards (named for the late Carrie Fisher) are a staple of my awards season coverage, dating all the way back to 2016. By now, if you joined me on my Instagram live this morning, you already know who the nominees for the 5th Annual Fisher Awards are; this list is both to keep a record of those nominees and to inform those who do not know who they are…well, who they are.

A bit about how The Fishers work: each category reflects the same categories as the Oscars, with some combined (such as Sound Design as a mix of Sound Editing and Sound Mixing, which now is how the Oscars are awarding it as well) due to a lack of knowledge about different forms of said category and how they work or the lack of necessity for separation (see: Character Design), and some left off entirely (such as the short film categories), as I do not have the requisite knowledge to nominate what might actually have been the best over the course of a given year. The nominees are chosen based on what I believe were the best five (or in Best Picture’s case, ten) examples in their respective categories, and the winners are announced later in their own post with added sections explaining why said film or nominee was crowned the winner of that category.
 
Now, without further ado, here are your 5th Annual Fisher Award nominees in all 14 categories!

Best Picture:

• Another Round
• Boys State
• Dear Comrades!
• The Dissident
• i’m thinking of ending things
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Minari
• Nomadland
• Soul
• A Sun

Best Director:

• Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, Boys State
• Bryan Fogel, The Dissident
• Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

• Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
• Chung Mong-Hong, A Sun

Best Actor:

• Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
• Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Anthony Hopkins, The Father
• Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
• Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round

Best Actress:

• Jessie Buckley, i’m thinking of ending things
• Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• Yeri Han, Minari
• Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
• Yuliya Vyotskaya, Dear Comrades!

Best Supporting Actor:

• Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
• Kuan Ting-Liu, A Sun
• Kyle Marvin, The Climb
• Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress:

• Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Olivia Coleman, The Father
• Amanda Seyfried, Mank
• Letitia Wright, Mangrove
• Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

Best Cinematography:

• Andrey Naydenov, Dear Comrades!
• Sean Bobbitt, Judas and the Black Messiah
• Erik Messerschmidt, Mank
• Joshua James Richards, Nomadland
• Benjamin Kracun, Promising Young Woman

Best Film Editing:

• Jeff Seymann Gilbert and Michael Vollmann, Boys State
• Scott D. Hanson, James Leche, Wyatt Rogowski, and Avner Shiloah, The Dissident
• Yorgos Lamprinos, The Father
• Robert Frazen, i’m thinking of ending things
• Gabriel Rhodes, Time

Best Production Design:

• Donald Graham Burt, Mank
• Mark Ricker, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• David Crank, News of the World
• Barry Robison, One Night in Miami…
• Cristina Casali, The Personal History of David Copperfield

Best Character Design (Costumes + Makeup & Hairstyling):

• Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
• I’m No Longer Here
• One Night in Miami…
• The Personal History of David Copperfield
• Promising Young Woman

Best Original Score:

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Mank
• Emile Mosseri, Minari
• James Newton Howard, News of the World
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Soul
• Ludwig Göransson, Tenet

Best Screenplay:

• Charlie Kaufman, i’m thinking of ending things
• Will Berson and Shaka King, Judas and the Black Messiah
• Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
• Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
• Pete Doctor, Mike Jones, and Kemp Powers, Soul

Best Visual Effects:

• The Invisible Man
• The Midnight Sky
• Soul
• Tenet
• Welcome to Chechnya

Best Sound Design:

• I’m No Longer Here
• Mank
• News of the World
• Sound of Metal
• The Vast of Night

The winners of the 5th Annual Fisher Awards will be announced on Saturday, April 17! Stay tuned!
 
- The Friendly Film Fan