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This wasn t your normal Oscars backstage situation, even before best supporting actor winner Daniel Kaluuya was quizzed about mentioning his parents sex life during his best supporting actor acceptance speech.
Oscar winners at Los Angeles Union Station ventured backstage at the 93rd Academy Awards where they were met by over 600 virtual journalists and the awkward technical issues that come with Zoom calls such as, I think you re muted.
Still, the Oscars backstage rocked, especially with Kaluuya dealing with his awkward mom fall-out and Minari winner Yuh-Jung Youn being asked everything about meeting presenter Brad Pitt (actual journalist question: What did he smell like? ).
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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer
April 25, 2021
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Director/Producer Chloe Zhao, winner of the award for best picture for Nomadland, poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, Pool)
Chloe 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 also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color.
The “Nomadland” victory, while widely expected, nevertheless capped the extraordinary rise of Zhao, a lyrical filmmaker whose winning film is just her third, and which – with a budget less than $5 million and featuring a cast populated by non-professional actors ranks as one of the most modest-sized movies to win Hollywood’s top honor. Zhao’s next film, Marvel’s “Eternals,” has