Academy Award for Best Cinematography: Film: Mank Year: 2020 Director: David Fincher Cinematographer: Erik Messerschmidt Aspect Ratio: 2.21:1
With having failed, you must accept yourself as fallible in order to love others and life. Another Round (Druk - Denmark - 2020, dir. Thomas Vinterberg)
Minari is truly the best. It grows anywhere, like weeds. So anyone can pick and eat it. Rich or poor, anyone can enjoy it and be healthy. Minari can be put in kimchi, put in stew, put in soup. It can be medicine if you are sick. Minari is wonderful, wonderful!
Youn Yuh-jung as Soonja in Minari (2020, dir. Lee Isaac Chung)
I believe that I'm going to be able to die doing the things I was born for. I believe that I'm going to be able to die high off the people. I believe that I will be able to die as a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle. And I hope that each one of you will be able to die in the international proletarian struggle or you'll be able to live in it. And I think that struggle's going to come. Why don't you live for the people? Why don't you struggle for the people? Why don't you die for the people?
Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah (2020, dir. Shaka King)
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? Don't cha? Don't cha?
I am worried. It's very worrying. I mean... Losing all my things, everyone's just helping themselves, and... If this goes on much longer, um, I'll be stark naked. And, um, I... I won't be able to tell what time it is.
Anthony Hopkins as Anthony Evans in The Father (2020, dir. Florian Zeller)
Bo never knew his parents, and we never had kids. If I didn't stay, if I left, it would be like he never existed. I couldn't pack up and move on. He loved Empire. He loved his work so much. He loved being there, everybody loved him. So I stayed. Same town, same house. Just like my dad used to say: "What's remembered, lives." I maybe spent too much of my life just remembering, Bob.
Frances McDormand as Fern in Nomadland (2020, dir. Chloé Zhao)
Film: Nomadland
Year: 2020
Director: Chloé Zhao
Cinematographer: Joshua James Richards
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Nominated for Best Cinematography
One of the thigns I love most about this life is that there's no final goodbye. You know, I've met hundreds of people out here and I don't ever say a final goodbye. I always just say, "I'll see you down the road." And I do. And whether it's a month, or a year, or sometimes years, I see them again. Nomadland (2020, dir. Chloé Zhao)
Those who survive keep thinking about the dead. In one way or another, that will continue. You and I must keep living like that. We must keep on living. It'll be okay. I'm sure we'll be okay. Drive My Car (Doraibu Mai Kā - Japan - 2021, dir. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi)
You want to know where my home is? It's where I pay rent. Right here, where I work my fingers raw, mending pants and hemming neckties so I can earn enough money to pay other girls to sew for me, so that someday I can rent a shop of my own in this great, big, beautiful Nueva York. Ah. And if you think that I'm going back home to Puerto Rico with six kids that I put to bed hungry every night, amor de mi vida, you are dreaming.
Ariana DeBose as Anita in West Side Story (2021, dir. Steven Spielberg)
POV: You're the random crew member who wanders through the background of a shot in Joss Whedon's Justice League
Film: Dune: Part One
Year: 2021
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1
That song you sang tonight. What was it about?
Troy Kotsur as Frank Rossi in CODA (2021, dir. Siân Heder)
You know thank God for a mom and dad who will stand with a young person. I think that's so important, because no matter what happens to a young person in their lives, they're still your boy, they're still your girl, no matter what happens in their life, and I think it's very important that we as mom and dads, love through anything. And that's the way with Jesus, you know. Jesus loves us through anything.
Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021, dir. Michael Showalter)
Film: CODA
Year: 2021
Director: Siân Hedar
Cinematographer: Paula Huidobro
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role:
When I was a little boy, I grew up in Shreveport. One day, my father took me to town. He give me this money to pay this White man for something. Back in them days, Black folks weren't allowed to touch White peoples. So I went to give the man this money, and I accidently touched his hand. And he start beating on me. He knocked me down, his friends come over, they all start stomping on me and beating on me. And I look up and I see my father in the crowd, and he took off running. Left me there with these grown men beating on me. Now, I haven't been no great daddy... but I've never done nothing but try to protect you. This next step you about to take, it would... It would be hard for anybody. But for you, you not gonna just be representing you, you gonna be representing every little Black girl on Earth. And you gonna be the one gotta go through that gate. And I just never wanted you to look up... and see your daddy running away.
Will Smith as Richard Williams in King Richard (2021, dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green)