The Oscars, the highest honours in the movie industry, will be handed out at a ceremony on April 25 that will take place at both the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and, for the first time, at Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday.
The form of the ceremony has not yet been announced.
Director Chloe Zhao, who was born in China, nabbed one of the five best director nods for Nomadland, the Searchlight Pictures release about modern van dwellers in the United States.
British director Emerald Fennell was also nominated for Promising Young Woman.
Only one woman, Kathryn Bigelow, has ever won a best director Oscar.
A record 76 nominations went to women, the academy said.
Other best picture nods went to dementia drama The Father, Black Panther story Judas and the Black Messiah, Korean-language drama Minari, Nomadland, #MeToo revenge tale Promising Young Woman, deaf drama Sound of Metal and and 1960s Vietnam War courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 - all of which got six nods in total.
Netflix led all studios with 35 nods after a year in which the coronavirus pandemic led movie studios to delay scores of new releases or send them to streaming platforms.
Lead actors picking up nominations included a first Oscar nod for the late Chadwick Boseman for his last film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, previous winners Frances McDormand and Viola Davis and Britons Carey Mulligan, Vanessa Kirby, Riz Ahmed and Anthony Hopkins.
South Korean actress Yuh-Jung Youn, who plays a supporting role as a cantankerous grandmother in Minari, became the first South Korean actress to get an Oscar nod.
Fellow cast member Steven Yeun and director Lee Isaac Chung also got nods for the moving story of an immigrant Korean family trying to make a living in the United States in the 1980s.
"Never in my dreams did I ever think a Korean actress would be nominated for an Oscar, and I can't believe it's me!" Youn said in a statement.
One notable omission from the top Oscar races was director Spike Lee's Vietnam war drama Da 5 Bloods.
The nominations, however, were diverse, with several going to stories featuring non-white actors or about black culture, including One Night in Miami which got three nods, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
BEST PICTURE
Nomadland
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Mank
Promising Young Woman
Minari
The Father
Sound of Metal
Judas and the Black Messiah
BEST ACTOR
Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins - The Father
Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal
Gary Oldman - Mank
Steven Yeun - Minari
BEST ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman
Frances McDormand - Nomadland
Vanessa Kirby - Pieces of a Woman
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Andra Day - The United States vs. Billie Holiday
BEST DIRECTOR
Chloé Zhao - Nomadland
David Fincher - Mank
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
Thomas Vinterberg - Another Round
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya - Judas and the Black Messiah
Sacha Baron Cohen - The Trial of the Chicago 7
Leslie Odom Jr - One Night in Miami
Paul Raci - Sound of Metal
LaKeith Stanfield - Judas and the Black Messiah
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Olivia Colman - The Father
Amanda Seyfried - Mank
Glenn Close - Hillbilly Elegy
Yuh-Jung Youn - Minari
Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
The Father
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
The White Tiger
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Onward
Over the Moon
Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul
Wolfwalkers
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
My Octopus Teacher
Time
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Another Round (Denmark)
Better Days (Hong Kong)
Collective (Romania)
The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia)
Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Husavik (My Hometown), Eurovision Song Contest
Fight for You - Judas and the Black Messiah
Hear My Voice - The Trial of the Chicago 7
Io Si (Seen) - The Life Ahead
Speak Now - One Night in Miami
AAP.
