Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines india has recorded its highest number of coronavirus deaths in a single day since the start of the pandemic. As the surge continues through the country, the foreign secretary, dominic raab, says the uk is sending extra 1,000 ventilators to india. Throughout this crisis, weve said we need to keep supply chains, particularly critical supply chains, open and we ought to resolve these kind of issues through collaboration. And that is certainly what were doing with the indians. People in england may not need to self isolate if they have been in close contact with someone with covid. Daily rapid covid tests will be offered as an alternative to ten days quarantine. If they test positive, then theyre required to isolate, and they have to take a confirmatory pcr test. So, again, its a really important time for us to collect these data. So, hopefully, this may be more of a normal situation, so that we can move away from this very, very costly, long isolation. A national day of mourning in israel, after 45 people were killed a crush at a jewish festival early on friday. North korea has accused President Biden of pursuing a hostile policy towards it, and has warned that the United States will get hurt if it provokes pyongyang. Nasas first night time splashdown since apollo 8. Four astronauts have returned to earth from the International Space station. Now on bbc news, a look back on the Academy Awards, which is experimenting with a new format that includes an in person ceremony that will take contributions from multiple locations its talking movies. Hello from los angeles and welcome to our talking movies 0scars review special. Im tom brook. In todays programme, we are going to look back at hollywoods biggest night of the year. Nomadland took the top prize, and it was a good night for diversity. Not quite as great as some might have hoped, and a very unusual 0scars Ceremony in these pandemic times. I would like to thank to my two boys, who make me go out and work. Laughter. So all credit should go to the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences for mounting an in person 0scar ceremony, despite the pandemic. And nomadland, an incredibly well observed portrait of itinerant people in the american west, emerged as the big win of the night, taking home the top best picture prize. And for chloe zhao, she made history by becoming the first woman of colour to win for Best Director and only the second woman in that category ever to do so. So, news of nomadlands victories travelled rapidly around the world. Watching the Oscars Ceremony for talking movies in london was emma jones. From the moment nomadland was first shown, 0scar watchers predicted this moment. The story of fern, played by frances mcdormand, who heals from her own tragedies by living life on the road in her van, spoke of freedom, new horizons and wide open skies. An alternative america to an Audience Suffering in a pandemic year. And it was made by chloe zhao, a chinese film maker who becomes the second ever woman to be named Best Director. Her win as an asian woman is also historic. Its pretty fabulous to be a woman in 2021. Frances mcdormand took the best actress award, her third, while nomadland, which both zhao and mcdormand co produced, was also named best picture. But its the Directing Victory thats the trophy for women in the film industry. 0nly kathryn bigelow� s The Hurt Locker has won before. Leaving bigelow as a lonely role model. If this win helps more people like me get to live their dreams, im so grateful for this. I have had a group dinner with kathryn once and definitely fan girled big time. Chloe zhao was born in china, before coming to school here in the uk and then moving to the us to finish her studies. She says that shes always felt like a bit of an outsider and shes certainly brilliant at telling the stories of other outsiders and of different kinds of communities. Songs my brothers taught me, about a brother and sister living on an native american reservation, and the rider, about an injured rodeo cowboy were both micro budget films. Nomadland also offers up an altogether different version of the American Dream. To me, that American Dream isnt a glamorous, you know, achieving, winning the big game and become. Have a gold aeroplane or something. That is not i think the American Dream is really. The american broken dream, almost. You know, they kept going, they keep going once their dreams are broken. That is the true american spirit. We not only accept the tyranny of the dollar, the tyranny of the marketplace, we embrace it. The film features many real nomads, rather than actors, nonprofessionals being another Signature Feature of chloe zhaos film making. They brought, she reports, her own van to immerse herself in the lifestyle. It was very instinctive. She isjust. Almost a chameleon, she takes on the people she is with, it seems like, based on her history and past life. Yeah, it was amazing to watch. But zhaos new film will be nothing like these. She was given marvel� s eternals, starring Angelina Jolie as her next project and a 200 million budget to go with it. This is an extermination. Women may have waited 11 years for another Best Director to come along, but 0scar night also delivered emerald fennell� s victory in best original screenplay for promising young woman, a category a woman hasnt won in 13 years. The wait for the next female winners should never be as long again. When the Oscar Nominations were announced, the academy was applauded for fielding the most Diverse Group of Oscar Nominees in history. More than 70 women scored nominations and nine people of colour were represented in the acting categories. Women and people of colour did do well, but some commentators rather caustically remarked that the two top acting prizes were taken home by white people. Well, lets take a look at all of this in a bit more detail. Whoo the finely wrought unpretentious minari, an Immigrant Story Set in arkansas, certainly certainly brought diversity to 0scars night, when Youn Yuh Jung became south koreas first oscar winning actress actress and certainly actress actress and only the seond asian woman to win an acting 0scar. In minari, she played a quirky, doting grandmother, her relationship with her grandson providing audiences with some beautifully tender moments. A refreshingly unguarded personality backstage, just after winning for best supporting actress, she made it clear she is all for diversity. I think its very nice to understand each other and we should embarrass. Embrace each other. Embrace each other laughter. Just we are equally human beings, who have the same warm heart. The black panther party. Best supporting actor 0scar went to britains daniel kahl a for his role injudas and the black messiah, playing chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party at hamilton, brought down by an fbi informant in 1969. It was a brilliant portrayal of the young black activist. I think more people are going to watch about chairman reds story. To watch about chairman freds story. That is what this was about, telling the truth and getting it out there and making sure people see who this man was and what this man did and what he continues to do, the fact that i can even stand on the stage with the statues because of what he did. On the stage with the statue is because of what he did. Another nod to diversity was soul, which won for best animated feature and score. It was a first Pixar Animation to have a black protagonist. A very touching story of a School Music Teacher trying to reunite his body with his soul. They dont care nothing about me. Ma rainey� s black bottom starred as a singer, who didnt win, but the film picked up oscars for make up, Costume Design and hair styling. I think everybody benefits from diversity. Everyone does. Yes and so, i think. Just. And i also think everybody wants it, to be honest. I feel like that has been the thing. We was alljust having fun of course, ma rainey� s black bottoms leading man, the late chadwick boseman, who died from cancer last year, didnt, as was widely expected, win for best actor. Win for best actor. The producers had positioned, unusually, best actor as the last award, hoping to deliver a teary sendoff for the show for boseman� s posthumus win. Instead it went to anthony hopkins, who rather awkwardly wasnt there, but a few hours later he did appear by social media to accept his Second Oscar For Playing A Man Suffering from dementia for the father. That film also won for best adapted screenplay. So i am here in my homeland in wales and at 83 years of age i did not expect to get this award, i really didnt, and. Very grateful to the academy and thank you. And i want to pay tribute to chadwick boseman, who was taken from us far too early. Why do you keep looking at me as if something is wrong, everything is fine much praise went to sir anthony for his winning portrayal, but looking at the evening overall, there was a sense that the academy hadnt quite lived up totally to its promise of awarding more fully black performance. In terms of best actor and best actress, it did not. We got a lot of really good nominees in there, we got a lot of really good wins, but i dont think it was the most inclusive that it could have been. The academy is actually doing a great deal to continue to push diversity. They are moving in the right direction, we know progress in this country and hollywood has been exceptionally slow. It was a great night for the danish at the oscars, with danish movie, another round, which follows teenagers who engage in experiments with alcohol, won the best International Feature film. A big victory for its director and co writer, thomas winterberg, and the films Production Team still celebrating hours after the event. The 0scars win bought denmark a day of celebration. I feel like the whole country is standing celebrating us now at home, especially this year. Its overwhelming, actually, because i think not that many things have been happening in denmark throughout the last year because of the covid 19. Now, finally, something positive is happening, so i feel that at home, the whole country is celebrating. 0ther 0scars handed out included best Documentary Feature going to my 0ctopus teacher, a much liked portail of a south african� s love affair with an octopus. We went into the oscars believing that steven soderbergh, a film maker who was one of the producers of the oscars show, was going to reinvent the Oscars Ceremony and use the restrictions imposed by covid 19 to create something quite wondrous. Well, it didnt quite work. The evening started on a promising note, with actor and director regina king strutting through Union Station, while theatrical credits appeared on the screen. Steven soderbergh had said the oscars would unfold like a movie. It didnt totally deliver that way. There was a nice intimate supper club atmosphere, but acceptance speeches dragged on. There was not much humour, although glenn close did do a little dance, which was quite funny. But there was no overarching concept that bound everything together that shone through. I think there are just some hindrances, just given the pandemic that obviously had and what it has wreaked on hollywood and the precautions that obviously had to go into effect in orderfor it to even take place in person. I do think that they really successfully pulled off the whole no mask thing. I think it was really exciting for everyone watching, obviously, to see talent without masks, all dressed up, showing off their famous faces. And it kind of brought a sense of normalcy to the whole night. For those tuning in to watch the ceremony at home, there was a range of opinion. Certainly some disappointment. It did seem rather not relevant any more tonight, unfortunately, but. It used to feel relevant. That was a bit sad, really, to watch and. They were celebrating so much and it really didnt feel like we were celebrating current culture, really. It just felt a bit distant from the media and things that i have seen over the past last year. I enjoyed it. It was good to see howl they transformed Union Station into an intimate. Atmosphere, it had tables and the way they were sat in tiers on top of each other. When the ratings came in the day after the oscars, it was a disastrous showing. Less than 10 million tuned in to watch the us, a low record. Just last year, the telecast pulling in more than 23 million viewers. One of the problems is the potential audience for this years 0scars Ceremony shown on abc tv had little awareness of the crop of best picture nominees. The extent to which this is an asterisk year, i think they get a pass. It is amazingly pulled off a show, at all. I think it was incredibly logistically challenging and we shouldnt be too harsh on them. I think that the people at abc know full well that the movies that were in contention are what make ratings and the movies were not well known. The movie business is shaky. Its not sure where its heading and theres this terrible precipice that could just. People. The exhibition could just disappear. And there could be no movies, and we could be watching everything on tv. I dont think thats going to happen, but that is the backdrop for a grimmer, sadder 0scars. And we have to pull out and recover and bring people back to the cinemas. And one day, very, very soon, take everyone you know into a theatre, shoulder to shoulder in that dark space and watch every film thats represented here tonight. A big part of the traditional 0scars Ceremony is the humongous red carpet. This year, there was a red carpet, but much more modest. But the organisers were keen on fashion. They issued a Dress Code Instruction to nominees, that they should dress in a way that was inspirational and aspirational, whatever that means. But stylists did work with Hollywood Stars to get them to express themselves through fashion, as triston daily reports. At the oscars this year, was a small step towards normalcy. Some of hollywoods most recognisable faces walked the socially distanced red carpet. This years 0scar Fashion was really strong and i think that added onto the enthusiasm ofjust the public being excited to watch the red carpet before the ceremony. We saw a lot of the midriff trends happening on the red carpet. Andrea day looked amazing in her gown and that dress, vera wang went to a welder to create because it is totally made out of metal. Laurie thys, stylist to best actress nominee and 0scar� s best songwriter has felt the pressure of working with clients through this pandemic. There are moments where i am yelling with them, there are moments where i am a person, but it has been a little bit of both. Fittings via zoom and you know| sitting close in and making sure that things are there. Trying to get a good gauge| and vision and making sure the cameras in the right place so you can see everything, you know . It has been a bit of a challenge in that way, but we are pushing through, so it is a good thing. Fashion photographers were also faced with the challenges of adjusting to working in the midst of a pandemic. Without red carpets for a good portion of award season, the fanfare in the form of endless Flash Photography and press yelling out stars� names was missing. But in place of the carpet was a more intimate venue for celebrities to display fashion. Weve been in all these peoples homes and in their backyards. Ive had to bring gear. I would say it has made photographing a bit more intimate. The second you step. Into someones home, everything is sort of stripped down, you know . Iand i feel like there is a level. Of personability and connectivity that you get from being inside these i peoples homes, it is really cool. I some agree there is an upside of seeing celebrities in their homes, but the red carpet is unmatched in terms of glamour. This awards season, the oscars was able to set itself apart when it comes to spectacle. I think people are tired of zooms and these virtual events. In my opinion, we need physical award shows, we need physicalfashion shows in order for these things to survive because fashion and film, they need to be seen in order to survive. Well, with oscars 2021 behind us, where will we be, one year hence . Wholl be the possible Academy Award winners in 2022 . Talking movies has been trying to find out. I thinkjennifer has a good chance of getting the nomination for best actress in respect. She was hand picked by Aretha Franklin herself to play her in the biopic and we have seen her do her magic in dream girls as effie and her singing and acting won her the oscar that year. And if she did that, it would be the icing on the cake. I really like ana de armas, who is coming off brilliantly in 2019 with knives 0ut. You can see her may be in a year being best actress for her role in blonde, which is a Fictionalised Take On marilyn monroe, based on the novel by carol oates, i think it is going to be talked about a lot for best actress. One of my big picks for best actor in 2022 is denzel washington. He is in oscars favourite, he has already won two oscars over the course of his illustrious career and in his next film he is playing i none other than the role of macbeth. You cant ask for a better role than macbeth. If the film is as good as everybody hopes, i think denzel stands a really, really good chance. I think that in 2022, it is going to be 0scar isaacs� s year. He has a role coming up in the card counter, a new movie that involves a gambler and a revenge plot. It just sounds cutesy and fun, but also a meaty role and ijust cant to see what 0scar isaac does with it. A huge contender for getting the oscar for Best Director at the 2022 Academy Awards is. Nia da costa for candyman. She is talking about socialjustice and racial relations in america in the history of Black Americans in this country. It would be awesome if she was recognised for that work. My pick for Best Director next year, actually someone who is really in the conversation this year. And that is director chloe zhao, ith her next film, eternals, which really stepped up to the plate of directing a hollywood blockbuster. It is a marvel film and early buzz on the film says she really hits it out of the park, but also stays true to who she is as a film maker. It is hard for me to imagine best picture going to anything other than west side story. You know, it is Steven Spielbergs first musical. We are coming into a year when all i think people will want our big entertainment that reminds you of what movies can do, so it seems like a shoe in for best picture. I suspect we will have dune winning the oscar for best picture in 2022. People will be engrossed by the cinematic magnitude of this film. It is starring oscar isaacs and timoth e charlemagne. I think it is one of those stories that has been called unfilmable because it is so expensive, but overall i think this will be a Fan Favourite at the oscars. My pick for best picture is actually a film i thought was going to win i best picture this year and that the film in the heights. It was delayed due to the pandemic, but now its finally being released this summer. Millions of people are clamouring to see this beloved musical by. Lin Manuel Miranda brought to life by the director. I think it could go all the way. What a strange year for the oscars, a very unusual ceremony, record low ratings, at least in the United States, and clearly theres a lot of thinking that needs to be done. But what does bring reassurance is that of the eight pictures up for best picture, all were very fine films. I was very pleased that nomadland won for best picture, but personally id have liked to see sound of metal get the best prize. So for me, tom brook, the rest of the Talking Movies Team here at los angeles, new york and london, it is goodbye, as we leave you with the song that won for best original song at this years 0scars. Always fight for you i will always fight for you see it through. You i will always fight for you hello, a familiar tale today. Cooler air across the uk and it will be a mixture of sunshine and showers through the rest of the day. This was happening this morning, 9am. This is the radar and satellite, not much rain or cloud. Move things onto lunchtime and the cloud has bubbled up lunchtime and the cloud has bubbled up with more showers. The focus will be heavy and thundery showers with some hail across the eastern side of scotland and eastern england. Further west, scotland and eastern england. Furtherwest, heavier scotland and eastern england. Further west, heavier showers in wales but they should become fewer later in the afternoon and more sunshine. Top temperature of 13 or 14. In sunshine. Top temperature of 13 or 1a. In the evening, lots of those showers we are seeing popping off now will fade away with clearer skies for a while. To the west, the cloud will increase and rain will come in from the atlantic as the breeze picks up. Frost tonight will be more limited to Eastern Scotland and the north east of england. The weather is changing in the west. This is heading our way. Deepening area of low pressure approaching the uk. The winds will be strengthening with the rain from the west. It will be late before we see The Rain Arriving in east anglia and the south east of the far north of scotland should be largely dry. Rain moving elsewhere through the day, quite heavy at times. And out towards the west, the weather turns more showery. That is the centre of the low pressure and we will find the low pressure and we will find the strongest winds picking up in the strongest winds picking up in the south across southern parts of england and wales. Gusts of 50, 60 miles an hour near coastal areas. With the cloud, wind and rain, it will be cold for this time of year. Stays windy into the evening and overnight southern areas especially. Rain moves across the east. We are left with windy conditions on north sea coasts on tuesday possibly winds will ease through the day, lots of showers and longer spells of rain turning more wintry 0ban high ground in scotland. Temperatures in northern scotland, 7 degrees at the far south of england and wales, 12 or 13, a bit far south of england and wales, 12 or13, a bit drier. Far south of england and wales, 12 or 13, a bit drier. That low pressure is moving away and taking away the bulk of the showers. We are still left with the winds from the north. That means colder air. That colder air will be with us throughout next week. We have a cold start on wednesday with some sunshine and the odd touch of frost with more showers breaking out in scotland. Wintry over the hills and down eastern side of england. Further west, fewer showers, more sunshine but still cold for this time of year. Highs of 10 or 11 celsius. This is bbc news with ben mundy, the latest headlines. People in england may not need to self isolate if theyve been in close contact with someone with covid. Daily rapid covid tests will be offered as an alternative to ten days quarantine. Its been particularly difficult for children, often self isolating from a contact in their year group they have never actually seen or met, and they are off school for an extra ten days. So, ithink they are off school for an extra ten days. So, i think this is a really positive step. India has recorded its highest number of coronavirus deaths in a single day since the start of the pandemic. A national day of mourning in israel, after 45 people were killed by a crush at a jewish festival early on friday. 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