Daniel Kaluuya, Sacha Baron Cohen, Olivia Colman and Riz Ahmed are among the British stars who have been nominated for an Academy Award at this year’s Oscars. 

Daniel has scored a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance as Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Judas And The Black Messiah.

He is nominated alongside Sacha Baron Cohen for his turn as social activist Abbie Hoffman in The Trial Of The Chicago 7.

Olivia Colman received a nod in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in The Father.

Riz Ahmed is nominated for Best Actor for his role in The Sound of Metal alongside fellow Brits Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins, who have received  nods for Mank and The Father. 

Vanessa Kirby and Carey Mulligan are nominated for Best Actress for Pieces of a Woman and Promising Young Woman respectively. 

Emerald Fennell has also been nominated for helming Promising Young Woman in the Best Director category. 

Last year’s male-dominated Best Director category was widely criticised, and 2021 has seen Emerald nominated alongside Nomadland director Chloé Zhao, following her wins at both the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Award. 

Chloé’s nomination has made Oscars history, as she is the first woman of colour to ever be honoured in the category. 

It is also the first time that more than one woman has been nominated for Best Director in a single year. 

The Oscars has significantly expanded its voting body over the past year, inviting more than 800 new members, after it once again faced criticism for the lack of diversity in its nominations for the 2020 ceremony.

Other nods include a posthumous nomination in the Best Actor category for Chadwick Boseman and his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. 

The actor died aged 43 last August from colon cancer. 

The contenders for best picture are The Father, Judas And The Black Messiah, Mank, Minari, Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, Sound Of Metal and The Trial Of The Chicago 7.

The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced by husband and wife Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas live from London.

The Academy Awards were delayed by the pandemic and are now scheduled to take place on 25 April.

Check out the full list of nominees below….

Minari

News of the World

Soul

Best Original Song

Fight for You, (Judas and the Black Messiah) 

Hear My Voice, (The Trial of the Chicago 7) 

Húsavík, (Eurovision Song Contest) 

Io Si (Seen), (The Life Ahead) 

Speak Now, (One Night in Miami) 

Best Animated Feature Film

Onward

Over the Moon

Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

Soul

Wolfwalkers

Best Animated Short Film

Burrow

Genius Loci

If Anything Happens I Love You

Opera

Yes-People

Best Live Action Short Film

Feeling Through

The Letter Room

The Present

Two Distant Strangers

White Eye

Best Documentary Feature

Collective

Crip Camp

The Mole Agent

My Octopus Teacher

Time

Best Documentary Short Film

Colette

A Concerto Is a Conversation

Do Not Split

Hunger Ward

A Love Song for Latasha 

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 Sound

Greyhound

Mank

News of the World

Soul

Sound of Metal

Best Production Design

The Father

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mank

News of the World

Tenet

Best Film Editing

The Father

NomadlandPromising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Visual Effects

Love and Monsters

The Midnight Sky

Mulan

The One and Only Ivan

Tenet

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Emma

Hillbilly Elegy

Ma Rainey’s Black BottomMank 

Pinocchio

Best Costume Design

Emma

Mank

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mulan

Pinocchio