Award show nominations typically generate more talk around what didn’t happen than what did, and the 2021 Academy Award nominations are no exception to that rule, as actors and films snubbed by the Academy drew plenty of headlines.

This year’s nominations did include some important firsts, however, as efforts to make the awards more inclusive are more apparent after the #OscarsSoWhite era of only a few years ago. Here are a few of the more noteworthy stories from Monday’s nominations.

Netflix’s Mank led the fray with 10 nominations but the story of this lineup is Searchlight Pictures’ Nomadland and Focus Features’ Promising Young Woman were also top nominees, among the films garnering six nods each. The films locked in the important nominations that point to a best picture winner, including director, acting and editing. Also, for the first time two women were nominated for best director. Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell are up for Oscars.

The other films nabbing six nominations are Sony Pictures Classics’ The Father, Warner Bros.’ Judas, A24’s Minari, Amazon’s Sound of Metal and Netflix’s Chicago 7.

Other firsts: Riz Ahmed, nominated for his role in The Sound of Metal, became the first Muslim actor in the category, while Minari‘s Steven Yeun became the first Asian-American actor to receive a best actor nomination.

Streamers dominated, unsurprisingly in this pandemic year. Netflix was the only distributor that scored two nominations in the best picture category for Mank and Chicago 7 but Amazon also fared well with the performance of Sound of Metal, which earned nominations for Ahmed and Paul Raci (best supporting actor), among other mentions. Still, Amazon was denied a best picture nomination for both Regina King’s One Night in Miami and the comedy Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

Chadwick Boseman, whose best actor snub for Get On Up during spawned the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag, was nominated today for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a Netflix release that garnered five noms. Boseman, who died last August, could become the second posthumous best actor winner after Network’s Peter Finch. (Heath Ledger won supporting actor posthumously for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight).

Another unusual nomination story: Oscar contenders have been known to get a Razzie nomination in the same year (i.e. Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side and All About Steve,) but rarely is it for the same performance. Glenn Close might take home both trophies this year though, both for her portrayal of Mamaw in Hillbilly Elegy. The Netflix film was widely panned by critics, but Close didn’t take the heat for the movie’s poor performance. It probably doesn’t hurt that the 73-year-old has also never won an Oscar despite having been nominated eight times.

Now the snubs: first, while not actually an omission, it was curious that the Academy decided that in Judas and the Black Messiah neither Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya was the lead, as both received supporting actor nominations. Kaluuya played Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, and Stanfield played Bill O’Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated the organization in the late 60s in the Shaka King film.

In addition to the omission of the Stacey Abrams documentary All In‘s , the movie’s best song contender, Janelle Monáe’s “Turntables,” also failed to score a nod. Neither did Borat Subsequent Moviefilm‘s signature song “Wuhan Flu.”

And a mere two years after the Oscars recognized Spike Lee with best adapted screenplay for his work on BlacKKKlansman, one of six nominations for that film, his latest effort Da 5 Bloods only landed one nomination from the Academy in the category of best original score. The movie also did not garner best actor (Delroy Lindo) or supporting actor (Chadwick Boseman) nods Monday.

While Boseman and Viola Davis were nominated for their roles in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, that film also came up short in a few categories, including best picture, best director (George C. Wolfe) and adapted screenplay. Other films that failed to score a single nomination include Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Malcolm & Marie, The Mauritanian, Palm Springs and First Cow.

More oversights include News of the World, which only landed nods in technical categories; stars Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel both failed to land acting nominations. Other omissions include Ben Affleck (The Way Back), Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) and Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Night in Miami) who all failed to earn nods in the best actor category.

On the best actress side, Sophia Loren (The Life Ahead) failed to land the nomination some pundits had predicted, as did Michelle Pfeiffer for her celebrated turn in French Exit.

Besides Regina King’s best director omission, the helmers of other films that earned numerous other nominations from the Academy were overlooked: Shaka King (Judas and the Black Messiah), Florian Zeller (The Father) and Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7).

And in the best original screenplay category, Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old Version was a surprising omission.

Here is the complete list of nominations.

Best picture

• The Father
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Mank
• Minari
• Nomadland
• Promising Young Woman
• Sound of Metal
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best actor

• Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
• Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Anthony Hopkins, The Father
• Gary Oldman, Mank
• Steven Yeun, Minari

Best actress

• Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
• Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
• Frances McDormand, Nomadland
• Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best supporting actor

• Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
• Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
• Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
• Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best supporting actress

• Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
• Olivia Colman, The Father
• Amanda Seyfried, Mank
• Yuh-jung Youn, Minari

Best director

• Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
• Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
• David Fincher, Mank
• Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
• Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Original screenplay

• Judas and the Black Messiah, Shaka King and Will Berson
• Minari, Lee Isaac Chung
• Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell
• Sound of Metal, Darius Marder and Abraham Marder
• The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin

Adapted screenplay

• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman and Lee Kern
• The Father, Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
• Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
• One Night in Miami, Kemp Powers
• The White Tiger, Ramin Bahran

Animated feature

• Onward
• Over the Moon
• A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
• Soul
• Wolfwalkers

Original song

• “Husavik” from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
• “Fight for You” from Judas and the Black Messiah
• “Io Sì (Seen)” from The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)
• “Speak Now” from One Night in Miami
• “Hear My Voice” from The Trial of the Chicago 7

Original score

• Da 5 Bloods, Terence Blanchard
• Mank, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• Minari, Emile Mosseri
• News of the World, James Newton Howard
• Soul, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste

Cinematography

• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Mank
• News of the World
• Nomadland
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Costume design

• Alexandra Byrne, Emma
• Ann Roth, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Trish Summerville, Mank
• Bina Daigeler, Mulan
• Massimo Cantini Parrini, Pinocchio

Film editing

• The Father, Yorgos Lamprinos
• Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
• Promising Young Woman, Frédéric Thoraval
• Sound of Metal, Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
• The Trial of the Chicago 7, Alan Baumgarten

Makeup and hairstyling

• Emma
• Hillbilly Elegy
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Mank
• Pinocchio

Production design

• The Father
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Mank
• News of the World
• Tenet

Sound

• Greyhound
• Mank
• News of the World
• Soul
• Sound of Metal

Visual effects

• Love and Monsters
• The Midnight Sky
• Mulan
• The One and Only Ivan
• Tenet

Documentary feature

• Collective
• Crip Camp
• The Mole Agent
• My Octopus Teacher
• Time

Documentary short subject

• Colette
• A Concerto Is a Conversation
• Do Not Split
• Hunger Ward
• A Love Song for Latasha

Animated short film

• Burrow
• Genius Loci
• If Anything Happens I Love You
• Opera
• Yes-People

Live action short film

• Feeling Through
• The Letter Room
• The Present
• Two Distant Strangers
• White Eye

International film

• Quo Vadis, Aida?, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Another Round, Denmark,
• Better Days, Hong Kong
• Collective, Romania
• The Man Who Sold His Skin, Tunisia