>>> WE’RE BACK.
COMING UP ON 8:49.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE AWARD
NOMINATIONS HAPPENED A COUPLE
MINUTES AGO.
>> ALMOST NO ONE WENT TO THE
THEATERS LAST YEAR, THERE WERE
INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCES IN
FILMS.
WE ALL GOT TO SEE THEM FROM THE
COMFORT OF OUR COUCHES.
>> YES.
IMDB’S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
DAVE CARTER IS HERE WITH HOT
TAKES ON THE OSCAR RACES.
LET’S GO THROUGH IT.
JUST GOT THE NOMINATIONS.
DAVE, WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>> WELL, THIS WAS THE YEAR WE
WERE ALL SITTING AT HOME
WATCHING MOVIES, STREAMING.
A LOT OF THE MOVIES NOMINATED
THIS MORNING WERE MOVIES ON
NETFLIX, AMAZON, HBO MAX BEFORE
THEY WERE ANYWHERE ELSE.
NEXT YEAR, TEN BEST PICTURE
NOMINATIONS.
THE CURRENT SYSTEM ALLOWS FIVE
TO TEN.
USUALLY, IT IS EIGHT OR NINE.
SO YOU HAVE MOVIES LIKE "MANK,"
NETFLIX, "THE SOUND OF METAL,"
AMAZON, "JUDAS AND THE MESSIAH,"
HBO MAX, "NOMAD LAND" ON HULU.
THESE WERE MOVIES PEOPLE WERE
WATCHING AT HOME.
THEN A COUPLE SNUCK IN LIKE
"MINARI" AND "THE FATHER" WITH
ANTHONY HOPKINS, AVAILABLE
MOSTLY IN THEATERS RIGHT NOW.
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT
BEFORE THEY CAN STREAM THOSE AT
HOME.
BY AND LARGE, A GROUP OF MOVIES
THAT WERE AVAILABLE ON STREAMING
SERVICES.
>> ANY SNUBS IN THE PICTURE
CATEGORY?
>> THE TWO I THINK WERE LEFT OUT
THERE THAT HAD GOTTEN ACCLAIM
OVER THE SEASON SO FAR WERE
"MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM,"
WHICH BOSEMAN HAD A NOMINATION
FOR, AND "ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI,"
DIRECTED BY REGINA KING.
SHE’D GOTTEN A GOLDEN GLOBE
NOMINATION FOR BEST DIRECTOR,
BUT THE MOVIE ONLY GOT BEST
SUPPORTING ACTOR FOR LESLIE ODOM
JR. AND BEST SONG AND THE SCREEN
SCREENPLAY.
IT WAS OUT OF THE BEST PICTURE
CATEGORY.
>> DAVE, GIVE US A FEW OF YOUR
PICKS.
WHO DO YOU THINK WINS BEST
ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS, BEST FILM?
>> SURE.
BEST ACTOR SEEMS TO BE CHADWICK
BOSEMAN, WHICH IS SO
BITTERSWEET.
IT IS A POSTHUMOUS NOMINATION
FOR HIM.
HE IS SO SPECTACULAR IN "MA
"MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM."
ONE OF NINE PERFORMERS OF COLOR
OUT OF THE 20 ACTING SLOTS THIS
YEAR.
>> WOW.
>> DEFINITELY NOT BE AN OSCARS
SO WHITE CONTROVERSY.
AHMED IN THERE.
HOPKINS FOR "THE FATHER."
GARY FOR "MANK."
IF ANYONE WAS LEFT OUT, LINDO
FOR "THE FIVE BLOODS," WHICH HAS
BEEN OVERLOOKED THROUGHOUT THE
SEASON.
>> ARE YOU SURPRISED, DAVE,
"JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH"
SEEMED TO DO FAIRLY WELL?
>> THEY DID
>> IT’S A MOVIE COMING ON STRONG
IN THE LATER PART OF THE SEASON.
IT PREMIERED IN THEATERS AND HBO
MAX IN FEBRUARY.
THIS IS THE MOVIE RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE BIGGEST SURPRISE IN THE
ACTING CATEGORY.
YOU HAVE DANIEL KALUUYA, PLAYING
HAMPTON FROM THE "BLACK
PANTHERS," AND HAS BEEN WINNING
ALL THE AWARDS.
HIS CO-STAR, STANFIELD, WHO
PLAYS THE FBI INFORMANT WHO
INFILTRATES THE BLACK PANTHERS,
HE WAS ALSO NOMINATED.
HE WAS THE BIG SURPRISE.
PEOPLE WERE THINKING BEST
SUPPORTING ACTOR WAS RIPE FOR A
SURPRISE NOMINEE, AND WHO WOULD IT BE.
IT BE.
I’M HAPPY FOR PAUL RAY SEECIE IN
"SOUND OF METAL."
PEOPLE LEFT OUT WAS BILL MURRAY
FOR "ON THE ROCKS."
LITTLE ALAN KIM FROM "MINARI,"
WHO WON THE CRITICS CHOICE
AWARD.
HE WAS ON THE BUBBLE, AND I
THOUGHT HE COULD SNEAK IN THERE.
>> SO CUTE.
REAL QUICK, THE LADIES.
I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME WE
HAVE.
>> FOR BEST ACTRESS, I THINK
VIOLA DAVIS FOR "MA RAINEY’S
BLACK BOTTOM."
THE FIVE WOMEN HERE, THEY WERE
THE FIVE NOMINEES FOR BEST
ACTRESS IN A DRAMA AT THE GOLDEN
GLOBES.
DAY WON, BUT CAREY MULLIGAN HAS
A SHOT.
"PROMISING WOMAN" DID WELL.
TWO WOMEN NOMINATED IN THE BEST
DIRECTOR CATEGORY.
INCLUDING THE DIRECTOR FOR
"PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN."
"NOMAD LAND" IS THE ONE TO BEAT,
I THINK.
>> DAVE CARTER, THANK YOU.
THIS WAS DAVE’S 200th APPEARANCE
ON THE "TODAY" SHOW.