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Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson became the first black women to win for best hair and make-up at the Oscars, for their work on Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
“I stand here, as Jamika and I break this glass ceiling, with so much excitement for the future,” said Neal in accepting the award, along with their fellow stylist Sergio Lopez-Rivera.
Neal, the department head, and Wilson, Viola Davis’s personal hair stylist, won for their work on the film about one of the few openly lesbian, black performers in America in the 1920s.
Academy Awards 2021: ‘Nomadland’ claims the coveted best director prize at an in-person Oscars
The 93rd Academy Awards kicked off an in-person ceremony with a long tracking shot, serving notice that the Oscars presented under Covid protocols would be constructed like a movie.
After the nominations made history on a variety of fronts, the awards did early on as well, Breaking with tradition, the producers chose to hand out best director early, with Chinese-born Chloé Zhao of “Nomadland” becoming only the second woman ever to claim that prize, following Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker” in 2010.
“Minari” co-star Yuh-jung Youn also became the first Korean actress to win an Oscar, in the process adding a more dubious footnote to Glenn Close’s illustrious career: With her eighth bid for “Hillbilly Elegy,” she ties Peter O’Toole as the actor with the most nominations without ever having won.
Frances McDormand is best actress, Anthony Hopkins named best actor Look, they didn t ask me, but I would have said karaoke, says McDormand, who thought that the Oscars should have had a karaoke bar. She did remember the award: Thanks for this. But the biggest shock happens in best actor, where The Father star Anthony Hopkins upsets Chadwick Boseman. Nomadland takes best picture
So the Oscars pulled a fast one and didn t have the top prize at ceremony s end, but odds-on favorite Nomadland does take best picture. Please watch our movie on the largest screen possible, says star Frances McDormand. We give this one to our wolf, she adds, with a howl as a tribute to the movie s late sound mixer Michael Wolf Snyder.
Frances McDormand is best actress, Anthony Hopkins named best actor Look, they didn t ask me, but I would have said karaoke, says McDormand, who thought that the Oscars should have had a karaoke bar. She did remember the award: Thanks for this. But the biggest shock happens in best actor, where The Father star Anthony Hopkins upsets Chadwick Boseman. Nomadland takes best picture
So the Oscars pulled a fast one and didn t have the top prize at ceremony s end, but odds-on favorite Nomadland does take best picture. Please watch our movie on the largest screen possible, says star Frances McDormand. We give this one to our wolf, she adds, with a howl as a tribute to the movie s late sound mixer Michael Wolf Snyder.
Director Pete Docter and producer Dana Murray accepted the Best Animated Feature award, with Docter thanking “music teachers and art teachers everywhere” for doing the real-life work of
Soul protagonist Joe (Jamie Foxx). “This film started as a love letter to jazz, but we had no idea how much jazz would teach us about life,” Docter said. “…I wish we could follow the wish of jazz musicians: that, wherever we are, whatever we have, we could turn it into something beautiful.”
Nominated in three categories,
Soul ended up winning in two, also earning the Oscar for Best Original Score (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste). Clad in an atypical attire of bow-tied tuxedoes, Reznor and Ross quietly backdropped Batiste as he accepted