Best and worst moments of awkward Oscars 2021 including Brad Pitt s flirty 73-year-old admirer
Take a look at some of the best and worst moments at the 2021 Oscars, from fashion to speeches.
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Last night’s Oscars was filled with colourful frocks, smiling A-listers and also saw the first woman in 13 years win Best Director.
Nomadland wins best picture at a social distanced Oscars; Chloé Zhao wins best director
Associated Press
Updated on:Apr 26, 2021, 7:33am EDT
Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao became the first woman of color to win best director and a historically diverse group of winners took home awards.
In the biggest surprise of a socially distanced Oscar ceremony held during the pandemic, best actor went to Anthony Hopkins for his performance in the dementia drama “The Father. The award had been widely expected to go to Chadwick Boseman for his final performance in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” The night’s last award, it ended the ceremony on a down note, particularly since Hopkins wasn’t in attendance.
April 26, 2021 12:39 pm
New York-based designer David Rockwell returned as scenic designer for last night’s 93
rd Academy Awards ceremony.
After very few in-person awards events in the last 12 months, the Oscars welcomed nominees and their guests to Los Angeles’ Union Station for the event.
This is the third time Rockwell Group has designed the set for the Academy Awards, with the consultancy previously leading the design in 2009 and 2010. Design for this year’s event was inspired by the “intimacy and understated elegance” of the Academy’s very first ceremonies, with specific interventions to ensure the evening remained Covid-secure.
Image courtesy of Spencer Lowell for Rockwell Group
Rolling Stone Menu 12 Best, Worst, and Most WTF Moments of the 2021 Oscars
A sluggish ceremony delivers historic wins, precious few moments of levity Daniel Kaluuya shouts out his horny parents! Glenn Close does ‘da butt!’ and one stunningly weird ending
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It’s fitting that Steven Soderbergh, who directed 2011 pandemic thriller
Contagion, was the production brains behind the 2021 Oscars. Whereas the coronavirus-era Emmys and Golden Globes veered toward absurdist comedy in the face of our altered world, the 93rd Academy Awards went in a completely different direction. As helmed by Soderbergh, the pared-down ceremony opted for seriousness and austerity, ostensibly to reflect the times we’re living through. (Mercifully, no one delivered a glitchy living room speech over Zoom.)