Oscars Latest: Chloé Zhao has made history with Nomadland
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1of12Chloe Zhao arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles.Chris Pizzello/APShow MoreShow Less
2of12Daniel Kaluuya arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles.Chris Pizzello/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of12Emerald Fennell arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles.Chris Pizzello/APShow MoreShow Less
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7of12FILE - Laura Pausini performs Lado Derecho del Corazon at the 17th annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on Nov. 17, 2016. Pausini will perform the Oscar nominated song Io Si, (Seen) which she co-wrote with Diane Warren for the film The Life Ahead. The Oscars will be broadcast on Sunday. (Photo by Chri
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Paul Raci, left, and Liz Hanley Raci arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark Terrill, Pool)
LOS ANGELES – The Latest on the Oscars (all times local):
8:15 p.m.
“Nomadland” has wandered straight into the Academy Award for best picture.
It’s an unprecedented triumph in the awards show’s most prestigious category for a film with a woman as both director and lead.
In a radical departure from previous decades, the best picture Oscar was not the last handed out. Best actress and best actor have yet to be awarded.
Photo by Chris Pizzello-Pool/Getty Images The 2021 Oscars could have been a disaster. Maybe they
should have been a disaster.
Even at the tail end of the Covid-19 pandemic and its associated quarantines, much of the world remains locked down. Holding an awards show in a Los Angeles train station, even at limited capacity and with socially distanced stars, could have come off as tasteless at best.
Yet the awards were actually pretty darn memorable at least until a last-second upset in a major category ended the night on a downer note. They moved along beautifully, and a team led by head producer Steven Soderbergh (an Oscar-winning director) and director Glenn Weiss (an Emmy winner) came up with a show that looked a little bit like a movie that was being made about the very awards show you were watching. At its best, the telecast had a pizzazz and effortless cool to it that the Oscars rarely achieve. And even at its worst, it was still interesting.