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A movie produced by Margot Robbie’s production company has won the first Academy Award handed out at the scaled back ceremony.

Entertainment by Nadia Salemme, Tiffany Bakker 26th Apr 2021 10:46 AM Premium Content Subscriber only A movie produced by Margot Robbie has claimed its first Oscar, with writer/director Emerald Fennell has winning Best Original Screenplay. The film, which was produced by Robbies LuckyChap Entertainment, could also win Fennell Best Director. Fennell said she didnt prepare a speech "because I didnt expect this to happen". "Hes very...

April 26, 2021 / 6:45 AM / CBS NEWS The 93rd Academy Awards held Sunday offered a few historic moments, as Chloé Zhao became the first Chinese woman and the first woman of color to be awarded Best Director for her work on "Nomadland," which also took Best Picture. Zhao beat out Emerald Fennell, nominated for "Promising Young Woman," marking the first time two women were nominated in the directing category. "Nomadland" was only the second film directed by a woman to be named Best Picture....

Oscar® Winners Yuh-Jung Youn, Daniel Kaluuya and Frances McDormand backstage during the live ABC Telecast of The 93rd Oscars® at Union Station in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, April 25, 2021. (Photo courtesy Matt Petit / A.M.P.A.S. via Sipa USA) *** Mandatory Credit *** Editorial Use Only *** New York, NY (WABC-77)-  The 2021 Academy Awards was a memorable night for all the wrong reasons.  After postponing the show by two months due to COVID-19, one would have thought the Academy had a theme ...

An Oscars like no other: Nomadland the film to beat on a night of firsts Published  City of Los Angeles accused of moving the homeless in order to prepare for the Oscars For the first time in its history, the 93rd Academy Awards is being held at Union Station, an area plagued by homelessness. But there are reports the city is forcing the homeless to move out of sight for the event. LOS ANGELES - An awards season like no other will culminate Sunday night with an Oscars like no other, as the 93r...

The dazzling visual effects that make Andrew Jackson Australia’s best hope for an Oscar We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Crashing a plane into an airport terminal, a high-speed car chase in reverse and an epic battle that had soldiers moving both forwards and backwards in time. The audacity of Christopher Nolan’s time-bending Hollywood blockbuster Tenet has made visual effects supervisor Andre...

c/o soompi.com With the 93rd Academy Awards airing this Sunday, April 25, I wanted to take this opportunity to share my favorites among this year’s nominees. I’m going to be giving my picks for eight major categories: the four categories for acting, the two for screenplay, Best Director, and, of course, Best Picture. In the interest of keeping things positive, I’ll also share an additional nominee I think should’ve been added to each category. Starting things off, the nominees for Best ...

Minari Who Should Win? Its quite a feat to go from literal unknown to Oscar nominee, all while fending off Rudy Giulianis advances, but thats where we are with Bakalova. Holding your own alongside Sacha Baron Cohen is no mean feat, either. Who Will Win? However, all the momentum at this point favors Youn Yuh-jung, which is doubly hilarious considering how little the lifelong performer apparently cares. Who *Really* Wins? Not Glenn Close. Maybe next time dont hitch the wagon to a dude who su...

Multimedia Journalist With trademark cool, Bruce Dern gave the best summation of the Oscars experience when he received his second nod - 35 years on from his first - for Nebraska in 2014. Being nominated, Dern contended, was like being selected for an all-star team - it just meant people thought you could play. The 2020/21 all-star team played a blinder in helping us escape from the worst of years, however temporarily, and its fitting that so many of the films and performances celebrated the h...

Prediction: One year after Parasite’s historic victory, will the Academy have another uncommon spell of good taste? The stars appear to be aligning for Nomadland, which has won the top prize from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the British Academy, the Producers Guild, and the Directors Guild (the last three of which share lots of members with the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences). But don’t pop the bubbly for last year’s most critically acclaimed movie just yet. After all, 191...