Amazon Prime won two Oscars for sound, as well as film editing for “Sound of Metal.”
Chloe Zhao won the best director award for “Nomadland,” becoming the first woman of color and also only the second woman to win the award. “Nomadland” also won the top prize of the night, for the best picture.
Anthony Hopkins won the best actor award for his performance in “The Father.” The late Chadwick Boseman had been heavily favored to win the award for his role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Frances McDormand won a third best-actress Oscar for her role in “Nomadland.”
When Respawn Entertainment and Oculus Studio created 2020’s
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond it wasn’t just a wall-to-wall WWII first-person shooter, the studios wanted to honour those that fought by helping to create several short documentaries. One of those was Colette, which has received an Oscar nomination. If you’ve not played the videogame, this week sees the arrival of
Colette on Oculus TV so you don’t need to.
Directed by filmmaker Anthony Giacchino and producer Alice Doyard,
Colette follows one of the last surviving members of the French resistance, 92-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine. “As a young girl, Colette Marin-Catherine fought the Nazis as a member of the French Resistance. Since 1945, she has refused to set foot in Germany. That changes when a history student named Lucie enters her life and encourages her to visit the concentration camp where the Nazis killed her brother,” explains the synopsis.