Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins win top acting trophies
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Producers Frances McDormand, left, and Chloe Zhao, winners of the award for best picture for Nomadland, pose in the press room at the Oscars in Los Angeles Sunday, April 25, 2021. McDormand also won Best Actress for the film and Zhao won Best Director, making her the first Asian woman and only the second woman to take home the trophy. Chris Pizzello / Pool via REUTERS
LOS ANGELES, April 25 (Reuters) - Nomadland won best picture while its star Frances McDormand took home the lead actress Oscar on Sunday on a night of several firsts and a return to Hollywood glamour after a long pandemic shutdown.
Tears, howls and blackouts at the train station: key Oscar moments
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26/04/2021 - 08:00 The Oscars provided some exciting wins, including the first for a South Korean actress, Youn Yuh-jung (L); British actor Daniel Kaluuya (C) and Frances McDormand (R) were also winners Chris Pizzello POOL/AFP 4 min
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An Oscars like no other crowned Nomadland best picture, experimented with the ceremony s traditional format and shone a spotlight on diversity while also honoring more established stars.
Here are five takeaways from Hollywood s biggest night on Sunday:
- Train wreck? -
Shifting the Oscars from Hollywood s Dolby Theatre to a train station in downtown Los Angeles provided for more social distancing and outdoor space but also gave the whole ceremony an odd cabaret lounge vibe.
Two Distant Strangers and If Anything Happens I Love You collect Academy Awards.
Two Netflix shorts that address gun violence were honored Sunday at the Oscars.
If Anything Happens I Love You which follows two parents grieving the loss of their child in a school shooting won the Oscar for best animated short, while
Two Distant Strangers collected the Academy Award for a live-action short.
Writer/director Travon Free and director Martin Desmond Roe accepted the award for
Two Distant Strangers, which addresses the topic with the story of a Black man who is in a time loop in which he keeps dying at the hands of a police officer.