Oscars 2021: Nomadland, Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand win top honours
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Los Angeles, April 26 : The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony will go down in history as one that celebrated inclusivity as never before.
From an all-black producing team being nominated for Best Picture, to Asian origin actors taking home the trophy, to deaf and mute presenter Marlee Matlin the Oscars this year made space for life in all its diversity.
The awards themselves held little surprise. Chloe Zhao expectedly won the Best Director honour and her film Nomadland won the Best Picture award.
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HOLLYWOOD It has finally come to an end, and if I’m being honest I am happy. Awards season is over as the 2021 Oscars were held from two locations, the famed Dolby Digital Theatre and a train station (yes a train station people) for the first time in its history. Yes, it is a pandemic taking place America, so Hollywood’s elite gathering in one location just was not feasible.
With that said, “Mank” walked into the ceremony with 10 nominations and barely made a hiccup in the ceremony, because the night’s big winner was “Nomadland” who won a total of 3 prizes including Best Picture.
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
Rolling Stone Oscars 2021: ‘Nomadland’ Takes Home Three Top Prizes in Unique Ceremony
Chloé Zhao makes history as first woman of color to win Best Director, while Frances McDormand takes home third Best Actress Oscar
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Nomadlandwon three top prizes, including Best Picture, at an extremely unique 93rd Academy Awards Sunday, April 25th.
Along with the night’s biggest prize, the film made history when director Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color to win Best Director, and the first woman to win the prize since Kathryn Bigelow in 2009 for
Zero Dark Thirty. The film’s star Frances McDormand also won her third Best Actress trophy (she previously won for