Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins win top acting trophies
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Producers Frances McDormand, left, and Chloe Zhao, winners of the award for best picture for Nomadland, pose in the press room at the Oscars in Los Angeles Sunday, April 25, 2021. McDormand also won Best Actress for the film and Zhao won Best Director, making her the first Asian woman and only the second woman to take home the trophy. Chris Pizzello / Pool via REUTERS
LOS ANGELES, April 25 (Reuters) - Nomadland won best picture while its star Frances McDormand took home the lead actress Oscar on Sunday on a night of several firsts and a return to Hollywood glamour after a long pandemic shutdown.
Korea Celebrates Yuh-Jung Youn Oscar Win, China Quiet on Chloe Zhao Variety 3 hrs ago
South Korean media were quick to celebrate the Oscar win, as best supporting actress in “Minari,” for veteran Yuh-jung Youn. It was a first ever acting win for a Korean actor. Official Chinese media, on the other hand, were much quieter about the triple triumph for “Nomadland” by Chloe Zhao.
The Korea Herald newspaper ran a splash story and picture as the lead in its English language edition on Monday morning local time. The Korea Times did the same and included a Yonhap news agency follow-up story titled “Korean Film Industry People Shine At Oscars For Second Year In A Row.”
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Could what transpired in Sunday night’s Academy Awards be more lasting?
In an unfamiliar pandemic staging of Hollywood’s most familiar awards ceremony, Oscar voters honored a diverse group of actors and filmmakers. And the evening’s best picture winner, “Nomadland,” fittingly tells the story of the disenfranchised trying to keep a toehold in society.
Just a year after just one non-white performer was nominated for an acting trophy, two of the four acting winners were people of color: Daniel Kuluuya was named best supporting actor for “Judas and the Black Messiah”; and “Minari’s” Yuh-Jung Youn won the supporting actress trophy, the first Korean performer to win an acting Oscar.