"Nomadland," the gritty yet life-affirming tale of wandering van-dwellers, scored a triple crown at the 93rd Oscars Sunday night, winning for best picture while Chloe Zhao became the first woman of color to win best director and Frances McDormand took home her third career-best actress prize.
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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.
In a major upset, Britain’s Anthony Hopkins won the best actor trophy for his role as a man battling dementia in
The Father. The Oscar had been widely expected to go to the late Chadwick Boseman for his final film,
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
China native Chloe Zhao was named best director for Searchlight Pictures’
Nomadland, making her the first Asian woman and only the second woman ever to take home the trophy. She described making the film about the traveling van community in modern America a “crazy, once-in-a-lifetime journey.”
Apr 26, 2021
LOS ANGELES – “Nomadland” was named best picture at Sunday night’s sleepy and surreal 93rd Academy Awards, a stage show broadcast on television about films mostly distributed on the internet.
As expected, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences embraced diversity. Daniel Kaluuya was named best supporting actor for playing the Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
“Bro, we out here!” Kaluuya shouted in joy before changing gears and crediting Hampton (“what a man, what a man”) and ending with the cri de coeur, “When they played divide and conquer, we say unite and ascend.”
Video game industry wins first Oscar with documentary short Colette Apr 26, 2021, 1:38am EDT
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Colette, a short film featured in the Oculus VR game
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, has won this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Presented by Oculus Studios and Electronic Arts’ Respawn Entertainment, and later acquired and distributed by
The Guardian, it’s the first time a video game industry project has won an Oscar.
Directed by Anthony Giacchino,
Colette features a French Resistance survivor, Colette Marin-Catherine, returning to Germany for the first time since the end of World War II to visit a slave labor camp where her brother was killed. The documentary is presented in a traditional 2D format whether you watch it in the Oculus TV app or elsewhere.
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Oscar 2021: Riz Ahmed with wife Fatima Farheen Mirza. (Image courtesy: AFP)
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Riz Ahmed was on the red carpet with his wife
The actor chose a black Prada suit for the big day
New Delhi:
Riz Ahmed nominated for his performance in the film
Metal sound, Made his first grand public appearance with wife Fatima Farheen Mirza 93rd Academy Awards And in their brief time, they set key doubles goals in a permanent carpet moment. The couple complemented each other perfectly – Riz Ahmed looked eternally attractive in a black Prada suit, while Fatima picked up a flowing turquoise gown. Posing for the camera, Ridge took a moment and styled his wife’s hair on the red carpet. “I’m the official groom,” he joked. Twitter, of course, was quick to notice the moment and flooded the micro-blogging site with posts from the right moment.