Oscars Nominate Most Diverse Acting Slate Ever, Including First Asian American Best Actor

For the time being at least, the weirdness has its silver linings. Not least the fact that 2021 is shaping up to be an exceptional year in terms of diversity and representation.

2021 Oscars, and the race is heating up.The Producers Guild just named “Nomadland” best picture of the year, meaning it’s a shoo-in for the top Oscar. And the Screen Actors Guild Awards will air Sunday and cement the front-runners in the four acting categories.

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Chadwick Boseman has been nominated for best actor at this year’s Oscars, less than seven months after his death from cancer. The Black Panther star joins the likes of Anthony Hopkins and Riz Ahmed in the top category for his breathtaking performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

Riz Ahmed has made Oscars history as the first Muslim and first person of Pakistani descent to be recognised in the Best Actor category for his role in Sound of Metal. Ahmed, who hails from Wembley, told Deadline: "If there's a way in which people can find themselves in this moment, and can feel inspired and connected on a deeper level, I'm all for it.

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As the nominations were announced for the 93rd Academy Awards, actors like Steven Yeun and Riz Ahmed made history. 9 actors of colour received an Oscar nomination on Monday, this was certainly a big milestone for the Academy after its years of attempts to diversify the Award ceremony.

With the Motion Picture Academy introducing a new best sound category this year — combining the prior sound editing and sound mixing categories — itsOscar nominees are Greyhound, Mank, News of the World, Soul andSound of Metal.

The Walking Dead star Steven Yeun is among the nominees who have made history following the announcement of the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards today (March 15). Former TWD star Yeun picked up a nomination in the Best Actor category for his role as Jacob Yi in Lee Isaac Chung's Minari, which follows a family of South Korean immigrants who try to make it in rural America in the 1980s.

Mank is a gorgeously rendered monochrome fantasy about the genesis of Orson Welles’s classic 1941 movie Citizen Kane, and the role played by its co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, played by Gary Oldman; it is now the frontrunner, surging ahead with 10 nominations, notably in front of Chloé Zhao’s stunning docu-fictional road movie Nomadland, Sound of Metal, with Riz Ahmed as the drummer losing his hearing, Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah, about the FBI’s killing of Black Panther leader Fred

A pair of actors received historic best actor Oscar nominations on Monday.Riz Ahmed, nominated for his role in The Sound of Metal, became the first Muslim actor nominated in the category, whileMinari's Steven Yeun became the first Asian American actor to receive a best actor nomination. The nomination of Ahmed, the British Pakistani rapper and actor, follows two wins by Mahershala Ali in the supporting actor category for Moonlight (2016) and Greenbook (2018).

Riz Ahmed has become the first Muslim to be nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Oscars.He was nominated for his role as Ruben, a heavy metal drummer who grapples with his immediate and intermittent hearing loss in the movie Sound Of Metal.His girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) takes him to a rural community led by Joe (Paul Raci), a deaf Vietnam War vet who teaches Ruben a new way of life.The film, which is out in on  Amazon Prime Video in the UK on April 12, is deliberately subtitled

Oscars 2021 is bigger, better and diverse! The 93rd Academy Award nominations were announced on Monday, 15 March and presented by and Nick Jonas. While there are some hits and misses, there are also quite a few firsts.

Best Actor predictions included Riz Ahmed for Sound of Metal, Anthony Hopkins for The Father and Tahar Rahim The Mauritanian for Best Actor; and Judas and the Black Messiah's Daniel Kaluuya, and Sacha Baron Cohen for The Trial of the Chicago 7 for supporting actor. Meanwhile, Best Actress nominees include Mank's Amanda Seyfried, Pieces of a Woman's Vanessa Kirby, Nomadland's Frances McDormand, The Father's Olivia Colman, and Andra Day for The United States vs.

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Riz Ahmed has become the first Muslim nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards for Sound of Metal, not long after Mahershala Ali made his own history with two Best Supporting Actor wins in 2017 and 2019. And for the UK-born star, reflecting on his nomination this morning, it’s a humbling experience.