Even after recent dramas – #OscarsSoWhite controversies and the fiasco when
La La Land was wrongly named best picture – an Academy Award remains the ultimate prize in the movie industry.
It’s a validation of excellence that comes with more than 90 years of history, celebrity and glamour – as emotional as winning an Olympic gold medal for everyone from famous directors and actors to unknown visual effects technicians, make-up artists and the creators of animated shorts.
How do you win one of these?
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Part of the cachet is mixing with the movie elite at a ceremony in Los Angeles every February or March (moved to April this year because of the pandemic). But Oscars are also famously hard to win. Some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa – have never won best director. And while it might change this year, American director Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to have won
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It may be hard to believe that there are still many “firsts” left to check off after 93 years of the Academy Awards, and yet this year there were a handful for Asian actors and filmmakers.
Steven Yeun (“Minari”) became the first Asian American actor to be nominated for best actor. Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”) is the first Muslim to be nominated for best actor. It’s the first time that there are two best actor candidates of Asian heritage. Youn Yuh-jung (“Minari”) is the first Korean woman to be nominated for any acting award. “Nomandland’s” Chloé Zhao is the first Asian woman to be nominated for best director. And, with director Lee Issac Chung ‘s directing nomination for “Minari,” it’s also the first time there are two Asian nominees in that race.
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All 92 Best Picture Oscar Winners, Ranked
Nearly a century of Academy darlings, from worst to best. And no,
Crash isn t at number 92 23/04/2021
Since the first Academy Awards, back in 1927, the best picture gong has been awarded to 92 different films. And do you know what? Congrats. Well done all round. Leaving aside any palaver over the rights and wrongs of each win, it s the ultimate, historic achievement that any film can notch up. At the time that they won, they were at the forefront of what cinema could do.