Oscars 2021: Olivia Colman, Daniel Kaluuya and Sacha Baron Cohen among the Brits nominated

Olivia Colman, Daniel Kaluuya, Vanessa Kirby and Sacha Baron Cohen are among the British stars who have been nominated for an Oscar.

Riz Ahmed, Carey Mulligan, Gary Oldman and Sacha Baron Cohen also landed nods from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Emerald Fennell is the first British woman to compete in the Best Director category for her debut Promising Young Woman.

Colman picked up a supporting actress nomination for The Father, where she stars alongside Sir Anthony Hopkins, who was nominated for best actor. The movie is about a man slipping into dementia.

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Kaluuya has already won a Golden Globe and scored Bafta and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for his supporting role as Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Judas And The Black Messiah. It is his second nod in three years - as he was previously nominated for horror Get Out in 2018.

Baron Cohen was nominated for his performance in The Trial Of The Chicago 7.

Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman is considered to be the frontrunner in the best actor category and is tipped to receive a posthumous nod for his performance as an ambitious trumpeter in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

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In the best actor category, Ahmed is nominated for his role as a drummer who loses his hearing in Sound Of Metal, while Oldman is nominated for his role as the Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz in Mank.

Kirby and Mulligan will compete in the best actress category, for their turns in Pieces Of A Woman and Promising Young Woman respectively. Golden Globe winner Andra Day was nominated for The United States v. Billie Holliday.

They are joined by Frances McDormand for her turn as a van-dwelling nomad travelling through the American West in Nomadland, and the record-breaking Viola Davis for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

A tweet from one of Netflix’s official accounts said: “Viola Davis, Best Actress nominee for MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, just made Oscar® history with her 4th nomination. She is now the most-nominated Black actress ever, and the only Black woman with two Best Actress nominations”.

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The Oscars has significantly expanded its voting body over the past year, inviting more than 800 new members, after it once again faced criticism for the lack of diversity in its nominations for the 2020 ceremony.

There will also be interest in the directing category, where two female filmmakers are in the running for recognition.

In the past 92 ceremonies, only five women directors have made it on to the ballot and in 2020, no female directors were nominated.

There has only ever been one woman to win the prize – Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker.

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas announced the nominees
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Chloe Zhao is considered to be the frontrunner in the category this year, for her work on Nomadland, and would be the first Asian woman to be recognised.

Zhao said: “I’m so thrilled for our nominations! Thank you to the Academy. I’m grateful to have gone on this journey with our talented team of filmmakers and to have met so many wonderful people who generously shared their stories with us. Thank you so much to my academy peers for recognizing this film that is very close to my heart.”

Fennell was nominated for her directorial debut Promising Young Woman, and is the first British woman to compete in the category.

Fennell responded on Twitter: “So proud and grateful to every amazing person who worked on this film. Never going to stop crying.”

Husband and wife Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas announced this year’s Oscar nominations in a live, two-part presentation on Monday afternoon. The couple were broadcasting from London.

The Academy Awards were delayed by the pandemic and are now scheduled to take place on April 25.

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