There’s now just a single Best Sound category, instead of the confusing Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing categories of decades past. But he didn’t get a Best Director nomination, an omission that is usually fatal to Best Picture prospects. The night’s numerical big winner might well be “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” even though it was overlooked for Best Picture consideration. Count on Disney/Pixar’s popular “Soul” to win Best Animated Film, another historical milestone since it features Pixar’s first Black lead character, voiced by Jamie Foxx. For similar reasons, “Two Distant Strangers” by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe seems destined to win Best Live Action Short.

Source: thestar April 21, 2021 12:00 UTC