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Chloe Zhao. Photo: Reuters
China native Chloe Zhao was named best director at the Oscars on Sunday in a historic win that made her the first Asian woman and only the second woman ever to take home the trophy.
Youn Yuh-jung won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as a cantankerous grandmother in immigrant tale Minari.
Youn, 73, was the first South Korean actor or actress to win an Oscar in what was shaping up to be a milestone night for people of color, as well as a return to glamour and in-person celebrations after a year of virtual ceremonies.
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Chloe Zhao has been named Best Director at the Oscars in a historic win that made her the first Asian woman and only the second woman ever to take home the trophy.
Zhao, 39, won for
Nomadland, about the traveling van community in modern America. She called making the film a crazy, once-in-a-lifetime journey .
It has been 11 years since Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the director Oscar, for Iraq war drama
The Hurt Locker.
Zhao s win added momentum to an expected Best Picture win for
The Trial of the Chicago 7, 1930s Hollywood drama
Mank, #MeToo revenge tale
Minari, civil rights biopic
The Father, for which Anthony Hopkins won best actor, and
Sound of Metal, about a deaf drummer.
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Anthony Hopkins wins the Oscar for best actor for The Father. China native Chloe Zhao was earlier named best director in a historic win making her the first Asian woman and only the second woman to take home the trophy. Youn Yuh-jung won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as a cantankerous grandmother in immigrant tale
Minari. Youn, 73, is the first South Korean actor or actress to win an Oscar in what is shaping as a milestone night for people of colour, as well as a return to glamour and in-person celebrations after a year of virtual ceremonies.
Apr 26, 2021
LOS ANGELES – “Nomadland” was named best picture at Sunday night’s sleepy and surreal 93rd Academy Awards, a stage show broadcast on television about films mostly distributed on the internet.
As expected, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences embraced diversity. Daniel Kaluuya was named best supporting actor for playing the Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
“Bro, we out here!” Kaluuya shouted in joy before changing gears and crediting Hampton (“what a man, what a man”) and ending with the cri de coeur, “When they played divide and conquer, we say unite and ascend.”
Reuters
Published: 26 Apr 2021 09:30 AM BdST
Updated: 26 Apr 2021 09:30 AM BdST Chloe Zhao arrives at the 93rd Academy Awards, at Union Station, in Los Angeles, US, April 25, 2021. REUTERS
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Youn Yuh-jung won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as a cantankerous grandmother in immigrant tale Minari.
Youn, 73, was the first South Korean actor or actress to win an Oscar in what was shaping up to be a milestone night for people of color, as well as a return to glamour and in-person celebrations after a year of virtual ceremonies.